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Privacy against an adversary (AD) that tries to detect the underlying privacy-sensitive data distribution is studied. The original data sequence is assumed to come from one of the two known distributions, and the privacy leakage is measured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Zuxing Li , Tobias J. Oechtering , Deniz Gunduz

The goal of two-party cryptography is to enable two parties, Alice and Bob, to solve common tasks without the need for mutual trust. Examples of such tasks are private access to a database, and secure identification. Quantum communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Jędrzej Kaniewski , Stephanie Wehner

Voting plays a central role in bringing crowd wisdom to collective decision making, meanwhile data privacy has been a common ethical/legal issue in eliciting preferences from individuals. This work studies the problem of aggregating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Shaowei Wang , Jiachun Du , Wei Yang , Xinrong Diao , Zichun Liu , Yiwen Nie , Liusheng Huang , Hongli Xu

We make progress in the following three problems: 1. Constructing optimal seeded non-malleable extractors; 2. Constructing optimal privacy amplification protocols with an active adversary, for any security parameter; 3. Constructing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Eshan Chattopadhyay , Xin Li

This paper suggests an improvement to the BB84 scheme in Quantum key distribution. The original scheme has its weakness in letting quantifiably more information gain to an eavesdropper during public announcement of unencrypted bases lists.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Sanjeevakumar , M. Kasi Rajan , L. Sudarsan , R. Venkatesh , N. Srinivasan

Suppose that a transmitter Alice potentially wishes to communicate with a receiver Bob over an adversarially jammed binary channel. An active adversary James eavesdrops on their communication over a binary symmetric channel (BSC(q)), and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Qiaosheng Zhang , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

This work considers the fundamental privacy limits under active fingerprinting attacks in power-law bipartite networks. The scenario arises naturally in social network analysis, tracking user mobility in wireless networks, and forensics…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-15 M. Shariatnasab , F. Shirani , Z. Anwar

Many deployments of differential privacy in industry are in the local model, where each party releases its private information via a differentially private randomizer. We study triangle counting in the local model with edge differential…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Talya Eden , Quanquan C. Liu , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith

We present a new locally differentially private algorithm for the heavy hitters problem which achieves optimal worst-case error as a function of all standardly considered parameters. Prior work obtained error rates which depend optimally on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mark Bun , Jelani Nelson , Uri Stemmer

Privacy amplification is an indispensable step in the post-processing of quantum key distribution, which can be used to compress the redundancy of shared key and improve the security level of the key. The commonly used privacy amplification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Wei Li , Shengmei Zhao

In the past few years there was a growing interest in proving the security of cryptographic protocols, such as key distribution protocols, from the sole assumption that the systems of Alice and Bob cannot signal to each other. This can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Rotem Arnon , Esther Hänggi , Amnon Ta-Shma

We study the problem of interactive function computation by multiple parties possessing a single bit each in a differential privacy setting (i.e., there remains an uncertainty in any specific party's bit even when given the transcript of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

We establish a one-shot strong converse bound for privacy amplification against quantum side information using trace distance as a security criterion. This strong converse bound implies that in the independent and identical scenario, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Yu-Chen Shen , Li Gao , Hao-Chung Cheng

In secure multiparty computation, mutually distrusting users in a network want to collaborate to compute functions of data which is distributed among the users. The users should not learn any additional information about the data of others…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Deepesh Data , Bikash Kumar Dey , Manoj Mishra , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

We study the practical effectiveness of privacy amplification for classical key-distribution schemes. We find that in contrast to quantum key distribution schemes, the high fidelity of the raw key generated in classical systems allow the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Tamas Horvath , Laszlo B. Kish , Jacob Scheuer

We ask whether neural networks can learn to use secret keys to protect information from other neural networks. Specifically, we focus on ensuring confidentiality properties in a multiagent system, and we specify those properties in terms of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Martín Abadi , David G. Andersen

This work considers active deanonymization of bipartite networks. The scenario arises naturally in evaluating privacy in various applications such as social networks, mobility networks, and medical databases. For instance, in active…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Mahshad Shariatnasab , Farhad Shirani , Elza Erkip

We analyse two party non-local games whose predicate requires Alice and Bob to generate matching bits, and their three party extensions where a third player receives all inputs and is required to output a bit that matches that of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Enrique Cervero-Martín , Marco Tomamichel

This study examines a resource-sharing problem involving multiple parties that agree to use a set of capacities together. We start with modeling the whole problem as a mathematical program, where all parties are required to exchange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Utku Karaca , Nursen Aydin , Sinan Yildirim , S. Ilker Birbil

Quantum key distribution allows two parties, traditionally known as Alice and Bob, to establish a secure random cryptographic key if, firstly, they have access to a quantum communication channel, and secondly, they can exchange classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Christandl , Renato Renner , Artur Ekert