12/08/2020

DatashareNetwork: A Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Search Engine for Investigative Journalists

Kasra Edalatnejad, Wouter Lueks, Julien Pierre Martin; Soline Ledésert, Anne L'Hôte, Bruno Thomas, Laurent Girod, Carmela Troncoso

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Abstract: Investigative journalists collect large numbers of digital documents during their investigations. These documents can greatly benefit other journalists' work. However, many of these documents contain sensitive information. Hence, possessing such documents can endanger reporters, their stories, and their sources. Consequently, many documents are used only for single, local, investigations. We present DatashareNetwork, a decentralized and privacy-preserving search system that enables journalists worldwide to find documents via a dedicated network of peers. DatashareNetwork combines well-known anonymous authentication mechanisms and anonymous communication primitives, a novel asynchronous messaging system, and a novel multi-set private set intersection protocol (MS-PSI) into a . Using a prototype implementation, we show that DatashareNetwork is secure and scales to thousands of users and millions of documents.

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