Secret charing vs. encryption-based techniques for privacy preserving data mining

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Privacy preserving querying and data publishing has been studied in the context of statistical databases and statistical disclosure control. Recently, large-scale data collection and integration efforts increased privacy concerns which motivated data mining researchers to investigate privacy implications of data mining and how data mining can be performed without violating privacy. In this paper, we first provide an overview of privacy preserving data mining focusing on distributed data sources, then we compare two technologies used in privacy preserving data mining. The first technology is encryption based, and it is used in earlier approaches. The second technology is secret-sharing which is recently being considered as a more efficient approach.