Abstract. Disclosure of the original data sets is not acceptable due to privacy concerns in many distributed data mining settings. To address such concerns, privacy-preserving data mining has been an active research area in recent years. All the recent works on privacy-preserving data mining have considered either semi-honest or malicious adversarial models, whereby an adversary is assumed to follow or arbitrarily deviate from the protocol, respectively. While semi-honest model provides weak security requiring small amount of computation and malicious model provides strong security requiring expensive computations like Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge proofs, we envisage the need for 'covert' adversarial model that performs in between the semi-honest and malicious models, both in terms of security guarantee and computational cost. In this paper, for the first time in data-mining area, we build efficient and secure dot product and set-intersection protocols in covert adversarial model. We use homomorphic property of Paillier encryption scheme and two-party computation of Aumann et al. to construct our protocols. Furthermore, our protocols are secure in Universal Composability framework.
Recently, Miyaji et al. presented a new adversarial model named covert adversaries REF for performing data mining algorithms.
Privacy-preserving data mining in presence of covert adversaries
ADMA
Computer Science