[Resource Topic] 2022/750: The Ideal Functionalities for Private Set Union, Revisited

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Title:
The Ideal Functionalities for Private Set Union, Revisited

Authors: Yanxue Jia, Shi-Feng Sun, Hong-Sheng Zhou, and Dawu Gu

Abstract:

A Private Set Union (PSU) protocol allows parties, each holding an input set, to jointly compute the union of the sets without revealing anything else. In the literature, when we design scalable two-party PSU protocols, we follow the so-called split-execute-assemble'' paradigm, and also use Oblivious Transfer as a building block. Recently, Kolesnikov et al. (ASIACRYPT 2019) pointed out that security issues could be introduced when we design PSU protocols following the split-execute-assemble’’ paradigm. Surprisingly, we observe that the typical way of invoking Oblivious Transfer also causes unnecessary leakage. In this work, to enable a better understanding of the security for PSU, we provide a systematic treatment of the typical PSU protocols, which may shed light on the design of practical and secure PSU protocols in the future. More specifically, we define different versions of PSU functionalities to properly capture the subtle security issues arising from protocols following the ``split-execute-assemble’’ paradigm and using Oblivious Transfer as subroutines. Then, we survey the typical PSU protocols, and categorize these protocols into three design frameworks, and prove what PSU functionality the protocols under each framework can achieve at best, in the semi-honest setting.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/750

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