Research Article

Efficient Two-Step Protocol and Its Discriminative Feature Selections in Secure Similar Document Detection

Algorithm 1

Protocol of SSDD-Base.
Protocol   SSDD-Base
() and are -dimensional vectors owned by Alice and Bob, respectively.
Assume that Alice and Bob maintain the same matrix .
Alice:
Generate random numbers ;
Compute an -dimensional vector , where; ;
Send to Bob;
Bob:
Compute a scalar value ;
Compute an -dimensional vector , where ;
Send with to Alice;
Alice:
Compute a scalar value ;
Obtain ;     // Note that
 () if then Identify and as a similar one; // = user-specified tolerance