완전동형암호기반 프라이버시 보호 TOP-K 위치정보서비스

We propose a privacy-preserving location-based service (LBS) which supports top-k search service. The previous schemes hurt the privacy of either the user and the location of the objects because they are sent to the LBS server in a plaintext form. In the proposed method, by encrypting them with the fully-homomorphic encryption, we achieved the top-k search is possible while the information on them is not given to the LBS server. We performed a simulation on the proposed scheme with 16 locations where k is 3. The required time is 270 hours in a conventional desktop machine, which seems infeasible to be used in practice. However, as the progress of the hardware, the performance will be improved.