Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies have put ubiquitous availability of fully sequenced human genomes within reach. It is no longer hard to imagine the day when everyone will have the means to obtain and store one’s own DNA sequence. Widespread and affordable availability of fully sequenced genomes immediately opens up important opportunities in a number of health-related fields. In ...

In many scenarios it is beneficial to share private data among parties without mutual trust. One such scenario is the use of capture-recapture (CR) techniques to estimate population sizes from multiple private data sources of observed individuals. With Private Set Intersection Cardinality (PSIC) techniques, we can use CR with datasets from multiple parties while ensuring the privacy of the data...

Secure set-intersection computation is one of important problems in secure multiparty computation with various applications. We propose a general construction for secure 2-party set-intersection computation based-on anonymous IBE (identity-based encryption) scheme and its user private-keys blind generation techniques. Compared with related works, this construction is provably GUC(generalized un...

Oblivious Transfer (OT) is one of the most fundamental cryptographic primitives with wide-spread application in general secure multi-party computation (MPC) as well as in a number of tailored and special-purpose problems of interest such as private set intersection (PSI), private information retrieval (PIR), contract signing to name a few. Often the instantiations of OT require prohibitive comm...

Private set operations allow correlation of sensitive data from multiple data owners. Although intensely researched, current solutions still exhibit limited scalability in terms of the supported maximum set size and number of sets. To address these issues, we propose a new approach to private set operations based on a combination of efficient secure multiparty computation and bloom filters, a s...

A protocol for private proximity testing allows two mobile users communicating through an untrusted third party to test whether they are in close physical proximity without revealing any additional information about their locations. At NDSS 2011, Narayanan and others introduced the use of unpredictable sets of “location tags” to secure these schemes against attacks based on guessing another use...

In the recent years an incredible amount of data has been leaked from major websites such as Adobe, Snapchat and LinkedIn. There are hundreds of millions of usernames, email addresses, passwords, telephone numbers and credit card details in the wild. The aftermath of these breaches is the rise of alerting websites such as haveibeenpwned.com, which let users verify if their accounts have been co...