Paper 2020/489
Pandemic Contact Tracing Apps: DP-3T, PEPP-PT NTK, and ROBERT from a Privacy Perspective
Fraunhofer AISEC
Abstract
In this paper, we review different approaches on proximity tracing apps which are supposed to automate the current labor-intensive contact tracing approach conducted by national health officials. The purpose of these apps is to automatically notify people who are at risk of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 to interrupt infection chains as early as possible. However, a privacy-preserving and yet functional and scalable design of such apps is not trivial and in some parts leads to counter-intuitive properties. This paper reviews the most prominent European approaches, DP-3T, the German variant "NTK"' of PEPP-PT, and its closely related concept ROBERT. We discuss their design decisions from a privacy perspective and point out the fundamentally different adversary models assumed by the approaches. In addition, we touch on practical aspects such as scalability and ease of implementation.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- privacyproximity tracing
- Contact author(s)
- julian schuette @ aisec fraunhofer de
- History
- 2020-05-08: last of 2 revisions
- 2020-04-28: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2020/489
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/489,
author = {Fraunhofer AISEC},
title = {Pandemic Contact Tracing Apps: {DP}-{3T}, {PEPP}-{PT} {NTK}, and {ROBERT} from a Privacy Perspective},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/489},
year = {2020},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/489}
}
