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2606.20315 2026-06-19 q-bio.GN cs.CR 新提交

bioETH-Beacon: A Confidential On-Chain Genomic Beacon with Encrypted Counts, Filters, and Bounded Noise over a Fully Homomorphic EVM

bioETH-Beacon: 基于全同态EVM的机密基因组信标,支持加密计数、过滤和有界噪声

Christos Galanopoulos, Kimon Antonios Provatas, Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares

AI总结 提出基于全同态EVM的智能合约原型bioETH-Beacon,实现加密基因组信标查询,通过加密计数、有界噪声和访问控制抵御成员推理攻击,并优化查询成本。

Comments 11 pages, 6 figures, 8 tables. Research prototype for privacy-preserving genomics using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) on blockchain (fhEVM)

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AI中文摘要

全球基因组学与健康联盟(GA4GH)Beacon协议允许研究人员查询某个基因组变异是否在参与队列中被观察到,并返回聚合的变异级计数。随着Beacon网络的发展,两个隐私风险依然存在:宿主机构可以看到明文查询,而重复的罕见变异查询可能支持成员推理攻击。我们提出了bioETH-Beacon,一个智能合约原型,它在全同态以太坊虚拟机(fhEVM)上对加密数据执行Beacon“聚合计数”查询。医院上传加密的标记计数条目,授权研究人员提交加密的标记查询,合约返回加密答案,通过链下密钥管理服务仅释放给合约链上ACL中指定的请求者。该设计组织为一个3x4的层级-查询族网格,涵盖基因型、性别、年龄和表型查询,层级在更强的机密性和更低的查询成本之间进行权衡。对于基因型路径,原型可以添加链上有界噪声以减轻探测攻击。基于多基因评分(PGS)目录的合成面板实验显示了预期的扩展行为,并证明当公共标记存在是可接受的权衡时,预聚合可以显著降低查询gas成本。总体而言,bioETH-Beacon提供了一个无需可信计算评估者的机密Beacon式基因组查询研究原型。

英文摘要

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Beacon protocol lets researchers ask whether a genomic variant has been observed in a participating cohort and receive aggregate variant-level counts. As Beacon networks grow, two privacy risks remain: host institutions can see plaintext queries, and repeated rare-variant queries can support membership-inference attacks. We present bioETH-Beacon, a smart-contract prototype that runs the Beacon "aggregate count" query over encrypted data on a fully homomorphic Ethereum Virtual Machine (fhEVM). Hospitals upload encrypted marker-count entries, authorized researchers submit encrypted marker queries, and the contract returns an encrypted answer that is released, via an off-chain key-management service, only to the requester named in the contract's on-chain ACL. The design is organized as a 3x4 tier-by-query-family grid spanning genotype, sex, age, and phenotype queries, with tiers that trade stronger confidentiality for lower query cost. For genotype paths, the prototype can add bounded on-chain noise to mitigate probing attacks. Experiments on synthetic panels derived from a Polygenic Score (PGS) catalog show the expected scaling behavior and demonstrate that pre-aggregation can substantially reduce query gas when public marker presence is an acceptable trade-off. Overall, bioETH-Beacon provides a research prototype for confidential Beacon-style genomic querying without a trusted compute evaluator.