Efficient Cloud-based Secret Shuffling via Homomorphic Encryption

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Abstract

When working with joint collections of confidential data from multiple sources, e.g., in cloud-based multi-party computation scenarios, the ownership relation between data providers and their inputs itself is confidential information. Protecting data providers' privacy desires a function for secretly shuffling the data collection. We present the first efficient secure multi-party computation protocol for secret shuffling in scenarios with a central server. Based on a novel approach to random index distribution, our solution enables the randomization of the order of a sequence of encrypted data such that no observer can map between elements of the original sequence and the shuffled sequence with probability better than guessing. It allows for shuffling data encrypted under an additively homomorphic cryptosystem with constant round complexity and linear computational complexity. Being a general-purpose protocol, it is of relevance for a variety of practical use cases.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (electronic)978-1-7281-8086-1
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Volume2020-July
ISSN1530-1346

Conference

Title2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2020
Duration7 - 10 July 2020
CityRennes
CountryFrance

External IDs

Scopus 85094123617

Keywords

Keywords

  • homomorphic encryption, Privacy-preserving computation, secret shuffling, secure multiparty computation