Glass-Vault: A Generic Transparent Privacy-preserving Exposure Notification Analytics Platform

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09525v1
• Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 19:19:34 GMT
• Title: Glass-Vault: A Generic Transparent Privacy-preserving Exposure Notification Analytics Platform
• Authors: Lorenzo Martinico and Aydin Abadi and Thomas Zacharias and Thomas Win
• Abstract summary: We present Glass-Vault, a protocol that addresses both limitations simultaneously. It allows an analyst to run authorised programs over the collected data of infectious users, without learning the input data. Glass-Vault is the first UC-secure protocol that allows analysing the data of Exposure Notification users in a privacy-preserving manner.
• Score: 0.20072624123275526
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The highly transmissible COVID-19 disease is a serious threat to people's health and life. To automate tracing those who have been in close physical contact with newly infected people and/or to analyse tracing-related data, researchers have proposed various ad-hoc programs that require being executed on users' smartphones. Nevertheless, the existing solutions have two primary limitations: (1) lack of generality: for each type of analytic task, a certain kind of data needs to be sent to an analyst; (2) lack of transparency: parties who provide data to an analyst are not necessarily infected individuals; therefore, infected individuals' data can be shared with others (e.g., the analyst) without their fine-grained and direct consent. In this work, we present Glass-Vault, a protocol that addresses both limitations simultaneously. It allows an analyst to run authorised programs over the collected data of infectious users, without learning the input data. Glass-Vault relies on a new variant of generic Functional Encryption that we propose in this work. This new variant, called DD-Steel, offers these two additional properties: dynamic and decentralised. We illustrate the security of both Glass-Vault and DD-Steel in the Universal Composability setting. Glass-Vault is the first UC-secure protocol that allows analysing the data of Exposure Notification users in a privacy-preserving manner. As a sample application, we indicate how it can be used to generate "infection heatmaps".

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