研究成果

Currently, wearable devices, which are known as one of the Internet of things (IoT) devices, have been widely used for healthcare systems. Most of the healthcare systems store users’ healthcare data, which is encrypted by ordinary symmetric-key en- cryption and/or public-key encryption schemes, in a (cloud) server. However, the encrypted data needs to be decrypted for data analysis, and it means that sensitive information is leaked to the server. One promising solution is to use fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), which enables ones to perform any computation among encrypted data while keep- ing it encrypted. Although FHE generally requires high computational and communication costs in the theoretical sense, several researchers have imple- mented FHE schemes to measure their practical efficiency. In this paper, we consider a privacy- preserving protocol for healthcare systems employ- ing wearable devices, and implement this proto- col over Raspberry Pi, which is a popular single- board computer, to measure the actual efficiency of FHE over wearable devices. Specifically, we implemented the protocol by using two FHE li- braries, HElib and SEAL, on Raspberry Pi and net- work simulator to measure both computational and communication costs in wireless body area network (WBAN). In terms of the communication overhead, our result shows that the protocol with SEAL is bet- ter than that with HElib. In particular, the proto- col with SEAL has almost the same communication costs as the trivial protocol, which is the same pro- tocol without encryption. On the other hand, HE- lib is better than SEAL regarding the running time, while SEAL can perform more homomorphic op- erations than HElib for the almost same plaintext- size. Therefore, HElib is suitable for applications which require small time complexity, and SEAL is suitable for applications which require many homo- morphic operations.