Paper 2016/781

Privately Matching $k$-mers

Justin Bed{ő}, Thomas Conway, Kim Ramchen, and Vanessa Teague

Abstract

We construct the first noninteractive protocols for several tasks related to private set intersection. We provide efficient protocols for three related problems, each motivated by a particular kind of genomic testing. Set intersection with labelling hides the intersecting set itself and returns only the labels of the common elements, thus allowing a genomics company to return diagnoses without exposing the IP of its database. Fuzzy matching with labelling extends this to allow matching at a particular Hamming distance, which solves the same problem but incorporates the possibility of genetic variation. Closest matching returns the item in the server's database closest to the client's query - this can be used for taxonomic classification. Our protocols are optimised for the matching of $k$-mers (sets of $k$-length strings) rather than individual nucleotides, which is particularly useful for representing the short reads produced by next generation sequencing technologies.

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Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
homomorphic encryptionprivacy preserving protocols
Contact author(s)
kim ramchen @ unimelb edu au
History
2017-02-18: last of 2 revisions
2016-08-17: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2016/781
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/781,
      author = {Justin Bed{ő} and Thomas Conway and Kim Ramchen and Vanessa Teague},
      title = {Privately Matching $k$-mers},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/781},
      year = {2016},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/781}
}
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