CatNap: Leveraging Generic MPC for Actively Secure Privacy-enhancing Proximity Testing with a Napping Party

Ivan Oleynikov, Elena Pagnin, Andrei Sabelfeld

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Abstract

Proximity testing is at the core of several Location-Based Services (LBS). Despite a series of reported and confirmed abuses, modern LBSs still demand their clients to disclose their locations in plain in order to preform location proximity testing. This works aims at enhancing proximity testing with privacy. We design CatNap a novel protocol that (1) implements precise Euclidean distance matching; (2) allows matching even if the clients are not online at the same time (the “napping party” feature); (3) is secure against active adversaries (malicious actors that corrupt up to one party); (4) makes black-box use of generic Multi-Party Computation techniques (any future improvement of the underlying building blocks will also boost CatNap); and (5) is efficient: servers run with about 0.03 seconds of CPU time and 5.6MB of communication, while clients perform only a small number of Boolean operations and need just 51 bytes of communication.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSECRYPT 2022 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography
EditorsSabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Pierangela Samarati
PublisherScience and Technology Publications, Lda
Pages237-248
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9789897585906
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2022 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 2022 Jul 112022 Jul 13

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography
Volume1
ISSN (Print)2184-7711

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2022
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period2022/07/112022/07/13

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Computer Engineering

Free keywords

  • Active Security
  • Multi-Party Computation
  • Privacy
  • Proximity-Testing

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