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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.65
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-112803
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/11280/
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Beimel, Amos ; Nissim, Kobbi ; Zaheri, Mohammad

Exploring Differential Obliviousness

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Abstract

In a recent paper, Chan et al. [SODA '19] proposed a relaxation of the notion of (full) memory obliviousness, which was introduced by Goldreich and Ostrovsky [J. ACM '96] and extensively researched by cryptographers. The new notion, differential obliviousness, requires that any two neighboring inputs exhibit similar memory access patterns, where the similarity requirement is that of differential privacy. Chan et al. demonstrated that differential obliviousness allows achieving improved efficiency for several algorithmic tasks, including sorting, merging of sorted lists, and range query data structures.
In this work, we continue the exploration of differential obliviousness, focusing on algorithms that do not necessarily examine all their input. This choice is motivated by the fact that the existence of logarithmic overhead ORAM protocols implies that differential obliviousness can yield at most a logarithmic improvement in efficiency for computations that need to examine all their input. In particular, we explore property testing, where we show that differential obliviousness yields an almost linear improvement in overhead in the dense graph model, and at most quadratic improvement in the bounded degree model. We also explore tasks where a non-oblivious algorithm would need to explore different portions of the input, where the latter would depend on the input itself, and where we show that such a behavior can be maintained under differential obliviousness, but not under full obliviousness. Our examples suggest that there would be benefits in further exploring which class of computational tasks are amenable to differential obliviousness.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{beimel_et_al:LIPIcs:2019:11280,
  author =	{Amos Beimel and Kobbi Nissim and Mohammad Zaheri},
  title =	{{Exploring Differential Obliviousness}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2019)},
  pages =	{65:1--65:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-125-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{145},
  editor =	{Dimitris Achlioptas and L{\'a}szl{\'o} A. V{\'e}gh},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/11280},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-112803},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.65},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential Obliviousness, Differential Privacy, Oblivious RAM, Graph Property Testing}
}

Keywords: Differential Obliviousness, Differential Privacy, Oblivious RAM, Graph Property Testing
Collection: Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2019)
Issue Date: 2019
Date of publication: 17.09.2019


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