Conference Papers Year : 2024

Practical Single-Round Secure Wildcard Pattern Matching

Abstract

Secure pattern matching allows a client who holds a substring (pattern) to find all the substring’s locations appearing in the long string (text) stored in a server. Meanwhile, the server should not learn any information about the pattern or the matching results. Wildcard pattern matching (WPM) problem, a specific variant with more realistic significance, defines that the pattern contains wildcards that can match any character in the text.Previous studies introduce various approaches for the WPM problem but requires at least a two-round protocol or computation cost linear to input length. Oriented to applications in the client-server mode, however, existing solutions are not practical and efficient enough. Therefore we focus on the round and computation complexity of the WPM. In this paper, under the semi-honest model, we propose a single-round secure WPM protocol based on oblivious transfer (OT) and secret sharing schemes. The insight of our proposed protocol is the reduction from the WPM to the process of secret sharing and reconstruction in a novel way. We provide a customized OT construction and apply the OT extension technique to the protocol, where the client and the server need merely a constant number of public key operations in a round of communication. In addition, we prove the security of the protocol in the ideal/real simulation paradigm and evaluate the performance. Compared to existing secure WPM protocols, both theoretical and experimental results show that our protocol is more practical.
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hal-04953444 , version 1 (18-02-2025)

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Jun Xu, Shengnan Zhao, Chuan Zhao, Zhenxiang Chen, Zhe Liu, et al.. Practical Single-Round Secure Wildcard Pattern Matching. 38th IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (SEC), Jun 2023, Poznan, Poland. pp.87-101, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-56326-3_7⟩. ⟨hal-04953444⟩
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