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Secure Distributed Constraint Satisfaction: Reaching Agreement without Revealing Private Information

Makoto YokooContact Information, Koutarou SuzukiContact Information and Katsutoshi HirayamaContact Information

(5)  NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0237, Japan
(6)  NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 1-1 Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 239-0847, Japan
(7)  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.

Contact Information Makoto Yokoo
Email: yokoo@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp
URL: http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/csl/ccrg/members/yokoo/

Contact Information Koutarou Suzuki
Email: koutarou@isl.ntt.co.jp
URL: http://info.isl.ntt.co.jp/~koutarou/

Contact Information Katsutoshi Hirayama
Email: hirayama@ti.kshosen.ac.jp
URL: http://www-jo.ti.kshosen.ac.jp/~hirayama/
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