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Janus: Safe Biometric Deduplication for Humanitarian Aid Distribution

Edalatnejad, Kasra  
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Lueks, Wouter
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Sukaitis, Justinas
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2024
Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
45 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Humanitarian organizations provide aid to people in need. To use their limited budget efficiently, their distribution processes must ensure that legitimate recipients cannot receive more aid than they are entitled to. Thus, it is essential that recipients can register at most once per aid program.Taking the International Committee of the Red Cross's aid distribution registration process as a use case, we identify the requirements to detect double registration without creating new risks for aid recipients. We then design Janus, which combines privacy-enhancing technologies with biometrics to prevent double registration in a safe manner. Janus does not create plaintext biometric databases and reveals only one bit of information at registration time (whether the user registering is present in the database or not). We implement and evaluate three instantiations of Janus based on secure multiparty computation (SMC) alone, a hybrid of somewhat homomorphic encryption and SMC, and trusted execution environments. We demonstrate that they support the privacy, accuracy, and performance needs of humanitarian organizations. We compare Janus with existing alternatives and show it is the first system that provides the accuracy our scenario requires while providing strong protection.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/SP54263.2024.00116
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85204047254

Author(s)
Edalatnejad, Kasra  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Lueks, Wouter

CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Sukaitis, Justinas

International Committee of the Red Cross

Narbel, Vincent Graf

International Committee of the Red Cross

Marelli, Massimo

International Committee of the Red Cross

Troncoso, Carmela  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2024

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Published in
Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
ISBN of the book

9798350331301

Start page

655

End page

672

Subjects

boimetric deduplication

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humanitarian aid distribution

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privacy enhancing technologies

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privacy-preserving biometric deduplication

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secure multiparty computation

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somewhat homomorphic encryption

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trusted execution environment

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REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
45 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

San Francisco, United States

2024-05-20 - 2024-05-23

FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

HAC

ICRC

ETHZ

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January 26, 2025
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