Paper 2021/207
Secure Fast Evaluation of Iterative Methods: With an Application to Secure PageRank
Daniele Cozzo, Nigel P. Smart, and Younes Talibi Alaoui
Abstract
Iterative methods are a standard technique in many areas of scientific computing. The key idea is that a function is applied repeatedly until the resulting sequence converges to the correct answer. When applying such methods in a secure computation methodology (for example using MPC, FHE, or SGX) one either needs to perform enough steps to ensure convergence irrespective of the input data, or one needs to perform a convergence test within the algorithm, and this itself leads to a leakage of data. Using the Banach Fixed Point theorem, and its extensions, we show that this data-leakage can be quantified. We then apply this to a secure (via MPC) implementation of the PageRank methodology. For PageRank we show that allowing this small amount of data-leakage produces a much more efficient secure implementation, and that for many underlying graphs this `leakage' is already known to any attacker.
Metadata
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PDF
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Contact author(s)
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daniele cozzo @ kuleuven be
nigel smart @ kuleuven be
younes talibialaoui @ kuleuven be - History
- 2021-03-01: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2021/207
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/207,
author = {Daniele Cozzo and Nigel P. Smart and Younes Talibi Alaoui},
title = {Secure Fast Evaluation of Iterative Methods: With an Application to Secure {PageRank}},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/207},
year = {2021},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/207}
}
