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Recent work of Erlingsson, Feldman, Mironov, Raghunathan, Talwar, and Thakurta [EFMRTT19] demonstrates that random shuffling amplifies differential privacy guarantees of locally randomized data. Such amplification implies substantially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Vitaly Feldman , Audra McMillan , Kunal Talwar

We prove that BB84 protocol with random privacy amplification is secure with a higher key rate than Mayers' estimate with the same error rate. Consequently, the tolerable error rate of this protocol is increased from 7.5 % to 11 %. We also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun Watanabe , Ryutaroh Matsumoto , Tomohiko Uyematsu

In this paper we consider the problem of generating arbitrary three-party correlations from a combination of public and secret correlations. Two parties -- called Alice and Bob -- share perfectly correlated bits that are secret from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Eric Chitambar , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Andreas Winter

Privacy is an important facet of defence against adversaries. In this letter, we introduce the problem of private flocking. We consider a team of mobile robots flocking in the presence of an adversary, who is able to observe all robots'…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Hehui Zheng , Jacopo Panerati , Giovanni Beltrame , Amanda Prorok

Covert communication conceals the transmission of the message from an attentive adversary. Recent work on the limits of covert communication in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels has demonstrated that a covert transmitter (Alice)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Boulat Bash , Saikat Guha

We study quantum soft covering and privacy amplification against quantum side information. The former task aims to approximate a quantum state by sampling from a prior distribution and querying a quantum channel. The latter task aims to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Yu-Chen Shen , Li Gao , Hao-Chung Cheng

In quantum weak oblivious transfer, Alice sends Bob two bits and Bob can learn one of the bits at his choice. It was found that the security of such a protocol is bounded by $2P_{Alice}^{\ast }+P_{Bob}^{\ast }\geq 2$, where $P_{Alice}^{\ast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Guang Ping He

This paper studies the private key generation of a cooperative pairwise-independent network (PIN) with M+2 terminals (Alice, Bob and M relays), M >= 2. In this PIN, the correlated sources observed by every pair of terminals are independent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Peng Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Xuchu Dai

We study the setup where each of $n$ users holds an element from a discrete set, and the goal is to count the number of distinct elements across all users, under the constraint of $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differentially privacy: - In the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Lijie Chen , Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

The exponential growth of data collection necessitates robust privacy protections that preserve data utility. We address information disclosure against adversaries with bounded prior knowledge, modeled by an entropy constraint $H(X) \geq…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Genqiang Wu , Xiaoying Zhang , Yu Qi , Hao Wang , Jikui Wang , Yeping He

We study the stability under quantum noise effects of the quantum privacy amplification protocol for the purification of entanglement in quantum cryptography. We assume that the E91 protocol is used by two communicating parties (Alice and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuliano Benenti , Sara Felloni , Giuliano Strini

In two-party quantum communication complexity, Alice and Bob receive some classical inputs and wish to compute some function that depends on both these inputs, while minimizing the communication. This model has found numerous applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Iordanis Kerenidis , Mathieu Laurière , François Le Gall , Mathys Rennela

In settings like vaccination registries, individuals act after observing others, and the resulting public records can expose private information. We study privacy-preserving sequential learning, where agents add endogenous noise to their…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-03 Yuxin Liu , M. Amin Rahimian

Local Differential Privacy protocols are stochastic protocols used in data aggregation when individual users do not trust the data aggregator with their private data. In such protocols there is a fundamental tradeoff between user privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Zitao Li , Boris Škorić , Ninghui Li

We study how inherent randomness in the training process -- where each sample (or client in federated learning) contributes only to a randomly selected portion of training -- can be leveraged for privacy amplification. This includes (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Andy Dong , Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Ozgur

Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic primitive in which Alice wishes to commit a secret bit to Bob. Perfectly secure bit commitment between two mistrustful parties is impossible through asynchronous exchange of quantum information.…

We present a quantum communication protocol which keeps all the properties of the ping-pong protocol [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 187902 (2002)] but improves the capacity doubly as the ping-pong protocol. Alice and Bob can use the variable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-yu Cai , Bai-wen Li

We present heuristics for solving the maximin problem induced by the generative adversarial privacy setting for linear and convolutional neural network (CNN) adversaries. In the linear adversary setting, we present a greedy algorithm for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Dae Hyun Kim , Taeyoung Kong , Seungbin Jeong

We consider the problem where a group of n nodes, connected to the same broadcast channel (e.g., a wireless network), want to generate a common secret bitstream, in the presence of an adversary Eve, who tries to obtain information on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-10-26 Iris Safaka , Mahdi J. Siavoshani , Uday Pulleti , Emre Atsan , Christina Fragouli , Katerina Argyraki , Suhas Diggavi

This paper studies the statistical characterization of detecting an adversary who wants to harm some computation such as machine learning models or aggregation by altering the output of a differentially private mechanism in addition to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Ayşe Ünsal , Melek Önen