Functional encryption based approaches for practical privacy-preserving machine learning

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in a wide variety of application domains. However, deploying ML solutions poses a significant challenge because of increasing privacy concerns, and requirements imposed by privacy-related regulations. To tackle serious privacy concerns in ML-based applications, significant recent research efforts have focused on developing privacy-preserving ML (PPML) approaches by integrating into ML pipeline existing anonymization mechanisms or emerging privacy protection approaches such as differential privacy, secure computation, and other architectural frameworks. While promising, existing secure computation based approaches, however, have significant computational efficiency issues and hence, are not practical. In this dissertation, we address several challenges related to PPML and propose practical secure computation based approaches to solve them. We consider both two-tier cloud-based and three-tier hybrid cloud-edge based PPML architectures and address both emerging deep learning models and federated learning approaches. The proposed approaches enable us to outsource data or update a locally trained model in a privacy-preserving manner by employing computation over encrypted datasets or local models. Our proposed secure computation solutions are based on functional encryption (FE) techniques. Evaluation of the proposed approaches shows that they are efficient and more practical than existing approaches, and provide strong privacy guarantees. We also address issues related to the trustworthiness of various entities within the proposed PPML infrastructures. This includes a third-party authority (TPA) which plays a critical role in the proposed FE-based PPML solutions, and cloud service providers. To ensure that such entities can be trusted, we propose a transparency and accountability framework using blockchain. We show that the proposed transparency framework is effective and guarantees security properties. Experimental evaluation shows that the proposed framework is efficient

A Hybrid Multi-user Cloud Access Control based Block Chain Framework for Privacy Preserving Distributed Databases

Most of the traditional medical applications are insecure and difficult to compute the data integrity with variable hash size. Traditional medical data security systems are insecure and it depend on static parameters for data security. Also, distributed based cloud storage systems are independent of integrity computational and data security due to unstructured data and computational memory. As the size of the data and its dimensions are increasing in the public and private cloud servers, it is difficult to provide the machine learning based privacy preserving in cloud computing environment. Block-chain technology plays a vital role for large cloud databases. Most of the conventional block-chain frameworks are based on the existing integrity and confidentiality models. Also, these models are based on the data size and file format. In this model, a novel integrity verification and encryption framework is designed and implemented in cloud environment.  In order to overcome these problems in the cloud computing environment, a hybrid integrity and security-based block-chain framework is designed and implemented on the large distributed databases. In this framework,a novel decision tree classifier is used along with non-linear mathematical hash algorithm and advanced attribute-based encryption models are used to improve the privacy of multiple users on the large cloud datasets. Experimental results proved that the proposed advanced privacy preserving based block-chain technology has better efficiency than the traditional block-chain based privacy preserving systems on large distributed databases

ARPA Whitepaper

We propose a secure computation solution for blockchain networks. The correctness of computation is verifiable even under malicious majority condition using information-theoretic Message Authentication Code (MAC), and the privacy is preserved using Secret-Sharing. With state-of-the-art multiparty computation protocol and a layer2 solution, our privacy-preserving computation guarantees data security on blockchain, cryptographically, while reducing the heavy-lifting computation job to a few nodes. This breakthrough has several implications on the future of decentralized networks. First, secure computation can be used to support Private Smart Contracts, where consensus is reached without exposing the information in the public contract. Second, it enables data to be shared and used in trustless network, without disclosing the raw data during data-at-use, where data ownership and data usage is safely separated. Last but not least, computation and verification processes are separated, which can be perceived as computational sharding, this effectively makes the transaction processing speed linear to the number of participating nodes. Our objective is to deploy our secure computation network as an layer2 solution to any blockchain system. Smart Contracts\cite{smartcontract} will be used as bridge to link the blockchain and computation networks. Additionally, they will be used as verifier to ensure that outsourced computation is completed correctly. In order to achieve this, we first develop a general MPC network with advanced features, such as: 1) Secure Computation, 2) Off-chain Computation, 3) Verifiable Computation, and 4)Support dApps' needs like privacy-preserving data exchange

A survey of machine and deep learning methods for privacy protection in the Internet of things

Recent advances in hardware and information technology have accelerated the proliferation of smart and interconnected devices facilitating the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT applications and services are widely adopted in environments such as smart cities, smart industry, autonomous vehicles, and eHealth. As such, IoT devices are ubiquitously connected, transferring sensitive and personal data without requiring human interaction. Consequently, it is crucial to preserve data privacy. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of recent Machine Learning (ML)- and Deep Learning (DL)-based solutions for privacy in IoT. First, we present an in depth analysis of current privacy threats and attacks. Then, for each ML architecture proposed, we present the implementations, details, and the published results. Finally, we identify the most effective solutions for the different threats and attacks.This work is partially supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya under grant 2017 SGR 962 and the HORIZON-GPHOENIX (101070586) and HORIZON-EUVITAMIN-V (101093062) projects.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version