Paper 2022/713

More Efficient (Reusable) Private Set Union

Dov Gordon, George Mason University
Carmit Hazay, Bar-Ilan University
Phi Hung Le, George Mason University
Mingyu Liang, George Mason University
Abstract

We study the problem of private set union in the two-party setting, providing several new constructions. We consider the case where one party is designated to receive output. In the semi-honest setting, we provide two protocols. Our four-round protocol out-performs the state-ofthe-art in both communication and computation, and has a runtime that is 1.3X-2X faster than existing protocols. Our two-round protocol is only slightly more expensive, but it is still faster than existing protocols and has the property that the receiver message can be re-used across multiple executions. All our semi-honest protocols are post-quantum secure. In the setting where the sender is malicious, we provide the first protocols that avoid the use of expensive zero-knowledge proofs. We estimate (conservatively) that our constructions are less than 2X more expensive than the best known semi-honest constructions. As in the semi-honest setting, we describe two protocols: a faster one that requires four rounds of communication, and a slightly more expensive protocol that allows the receiver message to be re-used. Our work draws on several techniques from the literature on private set intersection, and helps clarify how these techniques generalize (and don’t generalize) to the problem of PSU.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
Keywords
Private Set Union Secure Two-Party Computation Reusability
Contact author(s)
gordon @ gmu edu
carmit hazay @ biu ac il
ple13 @ gmu edu
mliang5 @ gmu edu
History
2022-06-06: revised
2022-06-04: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2022/713
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/713,
      author = {Dov Gordon and Carmit Hazay and Phi Hung Le and Mingyu Liang},
      title = {More Efficient (Reusable) Private Set Union},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/713},
      year = {2022},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/713}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/713}
}
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