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Collusion-resistant protocols for private processing of aggregated queries in distributed databases

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Private processing of database queries protects the confidentiality of sensitive data when queries are answered. It is important to design collusion-resistant protocols ensuring that privacy remains protected even when a certain number of honest-but-curious participants collude to share their knowledge in order to gain unauthorised access to sensitive information. A novel setting arises when aggregated queries need to be answered for a large distributed database, but legal requirements or commercial interests forbid making access to records in each subdatabase available to other counterparts. For example, a very large number of medical records may be stored in a distributed database, which is a union of several separate databases from different hospitals, or even from different countries. The present article introduces and investigates two protocols for collusion-resistant private processing of aggregated queries in this novel setting: Accelerated Multi-round Iterative Protocol (AMIP) and Restricted Multi-round Iterative Protocol (RMIP). We define a large collection of query functions and show that AMIP and RMIP protocols can answer all queries in this collection. Our experiments demonstrate that the AMIP protocol outperforms all other applicable algorithms, and this achievement is especially significant in terms of the communication complexity.

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This work has been supported by the Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant DP160100913.

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  1. Centre for Research in Mathematics and Data Science, Western Sydney University, Locked Bay 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia

    Leanne Rylands

  2. School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia

    Jennifer Seberry

  3. School of Science, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC, 3001, Australia

    Xun Yi & Andrei Kelarev

  4. School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia

    Joe Ryan & Yuqing Lin

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Rylands, L., Seberry, J., Yi, X. et al. Collusion-resistant protocols for private processing of aggregated queries in distributed databases. Distrib Parallel Databases 39, 97–127 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-020-07293-z

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