Digital contact tracing (DCT) is one of the weapons to be used against the COVID-19 pan-demic, especially in a post-lockdown phase, to prevent or block foci of infection. As DCT systems can handle highly private information about people, great care must be taken to prevent misuse of the system and actions detrimental to people's privacy, up to mass surveillance. This paper presents a new centralized DCT protocol, called ZE2-P3T (Zero Ephemeral Exchanging Privacy-Preserving Proximity Protocol), which relies on smart -phone localization but does not give any information about the user's location and identity to the server. Importantly, the fact that no exchange of ephemeral identities among users is required is the basis of the strong security of the protocol, which is proven to be more secure than the state-of-the-art protocol DP-3T/GAEN.(c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

A centralized contact-tracing protocol for the COVID-19 pandemic / Buccafurri, Francesco; De Angelis, Vincenzo; Labrini, Cecilia. - In: INFORMATION SCIENCES. - ISSN 0020-0255. - 617:(2022), pp. 103-132. [10.1016/j.ins.2022.10.101]

A centralized contact-tracing protocol for the COVID-19 pandemic

Buccafurri, Francesco
;
De Angelis, Vincenzo;Labrini, Cecilia
2022-01-01

Abstract

Digital contact tracing (DCT) is one of the weapons to be used against the COVID-19 pan-demic, especially in a post-lockdown phase, to prevent or block foci of infection. As DCT systems can handle highly private information about people, great care must be taken to prevent misuse of the system and actions detrimental to people's privacy, up to mass surveillance. This paper presents a new centralized DCT protocol, called ZE2-P3T (Zero Ephemeral Exchanging Privacy-Preserving Proximity Protocol), which relies on smart -phone localization but does not give any information about the user's location and identity to the server. Importantly, the fact that no exchange of ephemeral identities among users is required is the basis of the strong security of the protocol, which is proven to be more secure than the state-of-the-art protocol DP-3T/GAEN.(c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
2022
COVID-19
DP-3T
Digital contact tracing
Privacy
Proximity-based services
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