OBSCURE: Information-Theoretic Oblivious and Verifiable Aggregation Queries

Summary: OBSCURE delivers communication-efficient, information-theoretically secure MPC for oblivious aggregation over secret-shared data, hiding queries, results, and databases from clouds and networks. Optional privacy-preserving verification detects malicious behavior, with experiments demonstrating scalability to large datasets. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hcce61b43b8856960
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.1891183e-05
Overall Rank: 9,345 | 37.20%
DOI: 10.14778/3329772.3329779
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Authors

1. Peeyush Gupta (University of California Irvine)
2. Yin Li (Henan Key Laboratory of Analysis and Application of Educating Big Data; Xinyang Normal University)
3. Sharad Mehrotra (University of California Irvine)
4. Nisha Panwar (University of California Irvine)
5. Shantanu Sharma (University of California Irvine)
6. Sumaya Almanee (University of California Irvine)

BibTeX Citation

@article{gupta_vldb19,
        title = {{OBSCURE: Information-Theoretic Oblivious and Verifiable Aggregation Queries}},
        author = {Gupta, Peeyush and Li, Yin and Mehrotra, Sharad and Panwar, Nisha and Sharma, Shantanu and Almanee, Sumaya},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {9},
        pages = {1030--1043},
        doi = {10.14778/3329772.3329779},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3329772.3329779},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,352	Prism: Private Verifiable Set Computation over Multi-Owner Outsourced Databases	2021	SIGMOD	5.1881785e-05
10,031	Sypse: Privacy-first Data Management through Pseudonymization and Partitioning	2021	CIDR	5.0910473e-05
13,710	Information-Theoretically Secure and Highly Efficient Search and Row Retrieval	2023	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
115	Executing SQL over Encrypted Data in the Database-Service-Provider Model	2002	SIGMOD	0.00031727517
311	Order Preserving Encryption for Numeric Data	2004	SIGMOD	0.00021317851
420	Processing Analytical Queries over Encrypted Data	2013	VLDB	0.00018531799
1,723	CorrectDB: SQL Engine with Practical Query Authentication	2013	VLDB	9.7913024e-05

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