English
Related papers

Related papers: Security Notions for Information Theoretically Sec…

200 papers

Differential privacy is a definition of "privacy'" for algorithms that analyze and publish information about statistical databases. It is often claimed that differential privacy provides guarantees against adversaries with arbitrary side…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Adam Smith

We show the information-theoretic security proof of the differential-phase-shift (DPS) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol based on the complementarity approach [arXiv:0704.3661 (2007)]. Our security proof provides a slightly better key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Akihiro Mizutani , Toshihiko Sasaki , Go Kato , Yuki Takeuchi , Kiyoshi Tamaki

This paper revisits the classical notion of unicity distance from an enlightening perspective grounded in information theory, specifically by framing the encryption process as a noisy transmission channel. Using results from reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Fangyuan Lin

A new framework for information hiding security, called topological-security, has been proposed in a previous study. It is based on the evaluation of unpredictability of the scheme, whereas existing notions of security, as stego-security,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-19 Christophe Guyeux , Nicolas Friot , Jacques M. Bahi

This paper introduces a new framework for data hiding security. Contrary to the existing ones, the approach introduced here is not based on probability theory. In this paper, a scheme is considered as secure if its behavior is proven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-06 Jacques M. Bahi , Christophe Guyeux

Differential privacy is a cryptographically-motivated definition of privacy which has gained significant attention over the past few years. Differentially private solutions enforce privacy by adding random noise to a function computed over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Daniel Hsu

The notion of $\varepsilon$-differential privacy is a widely used concept of providing quantifiable privacy to individuals. However, it is unclear how to explain the level of privacy protection provided by a differential privacy mechanism…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Saskia Nuñez von Voigt , Luise Mehner , Florian Tschorsch

This paper discloses a simple algorithm for encrypting text messages, based on the NP-completeness of the subset sum problem, such that the similarity between encryptions is roughly proportional to the semantic similarity between their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Nicholas Kersting

In the wiretap channel setting, one aims to get information-theoretic privacy of communicated data based only on the assumption that the channel from sender to receiver is noisier than the one from sender to adversary. The secrecy capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Mihir Bellare , Stefano Tessaro

In Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), inference based on communicated data is of critical significance as it can be used to manipulate or damage the control operations by adversaries. This calls for efficient mechanisms for secure transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Mohammed Karmoose , Suhas Diggavi , Christina Fragouli , Paulo Tabuada

There is a significant conceptual gap between legal and mathematical thinking around data privacy. The effect is uncertainty as to which technical offerings adequately match expectations expressed in legal standards. The uncertainty is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Aloni Cohen , Kobbi Nissim

The technique of hiding secret messages within seemingly harmless covertext to evade examination by censors with rigorous security proofs is known as provably secure steganography (PSS). PSS evolves from symmetric key steganography to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xin Zhang , Kejiang Chen , Na Zhao , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematical definition of privacy that can be widely applied when publishing data. DP has been recognized as a potential means of adhering to various privacy-related legal requirements. However, it can be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Priyanka Nanayakkara , Jessica Hullman

We investigate a fundamental property of device independent security in quantum cryptography by characterizing probability distributions which are necessarily independent of the measurement results of any eavesdropper. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 T. Franz , F. Furrer , R. F. Werner

Differential Privacy (DP) considers a scenario in which an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database. This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy threat faced by an individual in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

Information-theoretic (IT) measures based on $f$-divergences have recently gained interest as a measure of privacy leakage as they allow for trading off privacy against utility using only a single-value characterization. However, their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Chong Xiao Wang , Wee Peng Tay

The information theoretic approach to security entails harnessing the correlated randomness available in nature to establish security. It uses tools from information theory and coding and yields provable security, even against an adversary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Himanshu Tyagi , Alexander Vardy

Differential Privacy (DP) provides strong guarantees on the risk of compromising a user's data in statistical learning applications, though these strong protections make learning challenging and may be too stringent for some use cases. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Hilal Asi , John Duchi , Omid Javidbakht

Eavesdropping attacks in inference systems aim to learn not the raw data, but the system inferences to predict and manipulate system actions. We argue that conventional information security measures can be ambiguous on the adversary's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Chi-Yo Tsai , Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

Differential privacy is among the most prominent techniques for preserving privacy of sensitive data, oweing to its robust mathematical guarantees and general applicability to a vast array of computations on data, including statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Naoise Holohan , Stefano Braghin