An Information-Theoretic Scheme for Multi-Party Private Set Intersection

摘要

We investigate the problem of multi-party private set intersection (MP-PSI). In MP-PSI, there are $M$ parties, each storing a data set $mathcal{P}_{i}$ over $N_{i}$ replicated and non-colluding databases, and we want to calculate the intersection of the data sets $cap_{i=1}^{M}mathcal{P}_{i}$ without leaking any information beyond the set intersection to any of the parties. For a specific communication protocol, we propose an information-theoretic scheme for MP-PSI based on the connection between the PSI problem and the multi-message symmetric private information retrieval (MM-SPIR) problem. Our scheme is a non-trivial generalization of the 2-party PSI scheme as it needs an intricate design of the shared common randomness. Interestingly, our scheme does not incur any penalty due to the more stringent privacy constraints in the MP-PSI problem compared to the 2-party PSI problem.