Scientific Reports (Aug 2021)

Quantum private set intersection cardinality based on bloom filter

  • Bai Liu,
  • Ou Ruan,
  • Runhua Shi,
  • Mingwu Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96770-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Abstract Private Set Intersection Cardinality that enable Multi-party to privately compute the cardinality of the set intersection without disclosing their own information. It is equivalent to a secure, distributed database query and has many practical applications in privacy preserving and data sharing. In this paper, we propose a novel quantum private set intersection cardinality based on Bloom filter, which can resist the quantum attack. It is a completely novel constructive protocol for computing the intersection cardinality by using Bloom filter. The protocol uses single photons, so it only need to do some simple single-photon operations and tests. Thus it is more likely to realize through the present technologies. The validity of the protocol is verified by comparing with other protocols. The protocol implements privacy protection without increasing the computational complexity and communication complexity, which are independent with data scale. Therefore, the protocol has a good prospects in dealing with big data, privacy-protection and information-sharing, such as the patient contact for COVID-19.