Scalable and Updatable Attribute-based Privacy Protection Scheme for Big Data Publishing

Abstract

To ensure data security and privacy during big data publishing, it is challenging to design a security and privacy protection scheme for the big data environment with a large scale of users. At the same time, due to the users’ dynamically joining and exiting, it is also very important to design a user’s dynamic update mechanism. To address such challenges, we design a novel scalable and updatable attribute-based privacy protection scheme (SUAPP) for big data publishing. The proposed scheme can realize users’ hierarchical management, which can reduce the overhead on key generation and management caused by the large scale of data users in the big data center (BDC). We set a user group for each attribute, then adapt the Chinese remaining theorem to dynamically assist the big data center to generate and update group keys for the attribute users group. Analyses and experiments show that while ensuring the privacy protection of big data publishing, our scheme also has low communication and computation overhead and higher efficiency compared with two state peer schemes.