Privacy-Aware White and Black List Searching for Fraud Analysis
William J Buchanan, Jamie Gilchrist, Zakwan Jaroucheh, Dmitri Timosenko, Nanik Ramchandani, Hisham Ali

TL;DR
This paper explores privacy-preserving blacklisting of IP addresses using homomorphic encryption, comparing the performance of BFV with other schemes to enable secure fraud analysis without exposing PII.
Contribution
It implements and evaluates a homomorphic encryption-based IP blacklist matching method using OpenFHE, highlighting BFV's advantages over partial schemes.
Findings
BFV outperforms partial homomorphic schemes in most cases
Homomorphic encryption enables privacy-preserving blacklist matching
OpenFHE library facilitates practical implementation of encrypted IP matching
Abstract
In many areas of cybersecurity, we require access to Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as names, postal addresses and email addresses. Unfortunately, this can lead to data breaches, especially in relation to data compliance regulations such as GDPR. An Internet Protocol (IP) address is an identifier that is assigned to a networked device to enable it to communicate over networks that use IP. Thus, in applications which are privacy-aware, we may aim to hide the IP address while aiming to determine if the address comes from a blacklist. One solution to this is to use homomorphic encryption to match an encrypted version of an IP address to a blacklisted network list. This matching allows us to encrypt the IP address and match it to an encrypted version of a blacklist. In this paper, we use the OpenFHE library [1] to encrypt network addresses with the BFV homomorphic…
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Taxonomy
TopicsImbalanced Data Classification Techniques · Spam and Phishing Detection · Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
