Privacy-preserving planarity testing of distributed graphs

Guy Barshap, Tamir Tassa

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Abstract

We study the problem of privacy-preserving planarity testing of distributed graphs. The setting involves several parties that hold private graphs on the same set of vertices, and an external mediator that helps with performing the computations. Their goal is to test whether the union of their private graphs is planar, but in doing so each party wishes to deny from his peers any information on his own private edge set beyond what is implied by the final output of the computation. We present a privacy-preserving protocol for that purpose which is based on the Hanani-Tutte Theorem. That theorem enables translating the planarity question into the question of whether a specific system of linear equations over the field F2 is solvable. Our protocol uses a diverse cryptographic toolkit which includes techniques such as homomorphic encryption, oblivious Gaussian elimination, and private set intersection. This is the first time that a solution to this problem is presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationData and Applications Security and Privacy XXXII - 32nd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference, DBSec 2018, Proceedings
EditorsStefano Paraboschi, Florian Kerschbaum
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages131-147
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783319957289
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event32nd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2018 - Bergamo, Italy
Duration: 16 Jul 201818 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10980 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference32nd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2018
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityBergamo
Period16/07/1818/07/18

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2018.

Keywords

  • Distributed graphs
  • Graph planarity
  • Privacy-preserving distributed computations
  • Secure multiparty computation

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