Private Eyes: Zero-Leakage Iris Searchable Encryption

ePrint Report: Private Eyes: Zero-Leakage Iris Searchable Encryption

Julie Ha, Chloe Cachet, Luke Demarest, Sohaib Ahmad, Benjamin Fuller

Biometric databases are being deployed with few cryptographic protections. Because of the nature of biometrics, privacy breaches affect users for their entire life.
This work introduces Private Eyes, the first zero-leakage biometric database. The only leakage of the system is unavoidable: 1) the log of the dataset size and 2) the fact that a query occurred. Private Eyes is built from symmetric …

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