Paper 2023/1407

Fully Homomorphic Encryption-Based Protocols for Enhanced Private Set Intersection Functionalities

Abstract

This study delves into secure computations for set intersections using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) within the semi-honest setting. Our protocols facilitate joint computations between two parties, each holding a set of inputs denoted as $N_s$ and $N_r$ in size, respectively. The primary objective is to determine various functionalities, such as intersection size and sum, while maintaining data confidentiality. These functionalities extend the classic private set intersection (PSI) and have practical applications in contact tracing, ad conversion analysis, and online dating, each abstracted into specialized PSI protocols. Our work demonstrates that these extended PSI functionalities are interconnected, with the PSI-cardinality protocol serving as the foundation. By adapting this protocol, we naturally arrive at PSI-sum-cardinality. Additionally, PSI-token-threshold is achieved by augmenting PSI-cardinality with FHE-based oblivious polynomial evaluation (OPE). The tPSI protocol combines PSI-token-threshold and standard PSI, allowing information sharing when the intersection size exceeds a threshold. Our protocols excel in simplicity, enhancing ease of understanding, implementation, optimization, and long-term maintenance. They also exhibit sublinear communication complexity concerning the larger sender's set, rendering them well-suited for scenarios involving substantial data. Various optimization techniques further bolster their practical efficiency.