inria-00492201, version 1
Computing in Social Networks
N° RR-7295 (2010)
Abstract: This paper defines the problem of Scalable Secure Computing in a Social network: we call it the S3 problem. In short, nodes, directly reflecting on associated users, need to compute a function f : V -> U of their inputs in a scalable and secure way. Scalability means that the message and computational complexity of the distributed computation is at most O(sqrt(n) · polylog n), which forbids asymmetric cryptography. Security encompasses (1) accuracy and (2) privacy: accuracy holds when the distance from the output to the ideal result is negligible with respect to the maximum distance between any two possible results; privacy is characterized by how the information disclosed by the computation helps faulty nodes infer inputs of non-faulty nodes. We present AG-S3, a protocol that S3-computes a class of aggregation functions, that is that can be expressed as a commutative monoid operation on U: f(x1, . . . , xn) = x1\oplus ...\oplus xn, assuming the number of faulty participants is at most sqrt(n) / log^2(n). Key to our protocol is a dedicated overlay structure that enables secret sharing and distributed verifications which leverage the social aspect of the network: nodes care about their reputation and do not want to be tagged as misbehaving.
- a – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- b – Université de Rennes I
- c – INRIA
- 1:
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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- CNRS : UMR6074 – INRIA – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) - Rennes – Université de Rennes 1
- Domain : Computer Science/Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
- Keywords : Social networks – Privacy – Scalability – Security – Accountability
- Internal note : RR-7295
- Available versions : v1 (2010-06-15) v2 (2010-07-15)
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