SAFEGUARDING PRIVATE MEDICAL DATA

摘要

Disclosed in this specification is a method and program storage device for comparing two sets of private data without revealing those private data. If the comparison deems the two data sets sufficiently similar, helper data may be provided to permit reconstruction of one of the private data sets without transmission of that private data set. In one embodiment, the private data is a secret key encoded by biometric data and the system is used to permit the decryption of private medical data.