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Secure Distributed Constraint Satisfaction: Reaching Agreement without Revealing Private Information
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Secure Distributed Constraint Satisfaction: Reaching Agreement without Revealing Private Information
Makoto Yokoo5 , Koutarou Suzuki6 and Katsutoshi Hirayama7 
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NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0237, Japan |
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NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 1-1 Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 239-0847, Japan |
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Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, 5-1-1 Fukae-minami-machi, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-0022, Japan |
Abstract
This paper develops a secure distributed Constraint Satisfaction algorithm. A Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem
(DisCSP) is a CSP in which variables and constraints are distributed among multiple agents. A major motivation for solving
a DisCSP without gathering all information in one server is the concern about privacy/security. However, existing DisCSP algorithms
leak some information during the search process and privacy/security issues are not dealt with formally. Our newly developed
algorithm utilizes a public key encryption scheme. In this algorithm, multiple servers, which receive encrypted information
from agents, cooperatively perform a search process that is equivalent to a standard chronological backtracking. This algorithm
does not leak any private information, i.e., neither agents nor servers can obtain any additional information on the value
assignment of variables that belong to other agents.
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