Enhancing the performance of spatial queries on encrypted data through graph embedding

Sina Shaham, Gabriel Ghinita*, Cyrus Shahabi

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Most online mobile services make use of location data to improve customer experience. Mobile users can locate points of interest near them, or can receive recommendations tailored to their whereabouts. However, serious privacy concerns arise when location data is revealed in clear to service providers. Several solutions employ Searchable Encryption (SE) to evaluate spatial predicates directly on location ciphertexts. While doing so preserves privacy, the performance overhead incurred is high. We focus on a prominent SE technique in the public-key setting – Hidden Vector Encryption (HVE), and propose a graph embedding technique to encode location data in a way that significantly boosts the performance of processing on ciphertexts. We show that finding the optimal encoding is NP-hard, and provide several heuristics that are fast and obtain significant performance gains. Our extensive experimental evaluation shows that our solutions can improve computational overhead by a factor of two compared to the baseline.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationData and Applications Security and Privacy - 34th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference, DBSec 2020, Proceedings
EditorsAnoop Singhal, Jaideep Vaidya
PublisherSpringer
Pages289-309
Number of pages21
ISBN (Print)9783030496685
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event34th Annual IFIP WG11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2020 - Regensburg, Germany
Duration: 25 Jun 202026 Jun 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12122 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference34th Annual IFIP WG11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2020
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityRegensburg
Period25/06/2026/06/20

Keywords

  • Graph embedding
  • Hidden Vector Encryption

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