ANONIZE: A large-scale anonymous survey system

  • Susan Hohenberger
  • , Steven Myers
  • , Rafael Pass
  • , Abhi Shelat

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Abstract

A secure ad-hoc survey scheme enables a survey authority to independently (without any interaction) select an ad-hoc group of registered users based only on their identities (e.g., their email addresses), and create a survey where only selected users can anonymously submit exactly one response. We present a formalization of secure ad-hoc surveys and a provably-secure implementation in the random oracle model, called ANONIZE. Our performance analysis shows that ANONIZE enables securely implementing million-person anonymous surveys using a single modern workstation. As far as we know, ANONIZE constitutes the first implementation of a large-scale secure computation protocol (of non-trivial functionalities) that scales to millions of users.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages375-389
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9781479946860
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Nov 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event35th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2014 - San Jose, United States
Duration: 18 May 201421 May 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
ISSN (Print)1081-6011

Conference

Conference35th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose
Period18/05/1421/05/14

Keywords

  • ANONIZE
  • secure anonymous survey system

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