Paper 2011/655 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2011/655 ↗

Privacy-Preserving Stream Aggregation with Fault Tolerance

T-H. Hubert Chan
Elaine Shi
Dawn Song
Abstract

We consider applications where an untrusted aggregator would like to collect privacy sensitive data from users, and compute aggregate statistics periodically. For example, imagine a smart grid operator who wishes to aggregate the total power consumption of a neighborhood every ten minutes; or a market researcher who wishes to track the fraction of population watching ESPN on an hourly basis. We design novel mechanisms that allow an aggregator to accurately estimate such statistics, while offering provable guarantees of user privacy against the untrusted aggregator. Our constructions are resilient to user failure and compromise, and can efficiently support dynamic joins and leaves. Our constructions also exemplify the clear advantage of combining applied cryptography and differential privacy techniques.

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Applications
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2011-12-11: last updated
2011-12-09: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2011/655
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2011/655,
      author = {T-H.  Hubert Chan and Elaine Shi and Dawn Song},
      title = {Privacy-Preserving Stream Aggregation with Fault Tolerance},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2011/655},
      year = {2011},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/655}
}
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