Privacy-Preserving Subgraph Checking

Abstract

A subgraph check is a variant of the common subgraph matching-operating on a reference and a test graph- determining whether a test graph is a subgraph of the reference graph. In this paper, we present two novel privacy-preserving subgraph checking protocols. In our first protocol, all subgraph checks are carried out independently of each other. The second protocol allows for a substantial performance improvement over the straight-forward approach of the first protocol by exploiting structural similarities among the test graphs to be checked against the reference graph.