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Quantitative information flow analyses (QIF) are a class of techniques for measuring the amount of confidential information leaked by a program to its public outputs. Shannon entropy is an important method to quantify the amount of leakage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yong Lai , Haolong Tong , Zhenghang Xu , Minghao Yin

This work presents insights gained by investigating the relationship between algorithmic fairness and the concept of secure information flow. The problem of enforcing secure information flow is well-studied in the context of information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Samuel Teuber , Bernhard Beckert

Elaborate protocols in Secure Multi-party Computation enable several participants to compute a public function of their own private inputs while ensuring that no undesired information leaks about the private inputs, and without resorting to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Patrick Ah-Fat , Michael Huth

This study proposes a systematic design procedure for determining the quantization gain and the security parameter in the Confidential Fictitious Reference Iterative Tuning (CFRIT), enabling overflow-free and accuracy-guaranteed encrypted…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Jungjin Park , Osamu Kaneko , Kiminao Kogiso

Security still remains an afterthought in modern Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, which solely focus on enhancing performance and reducing the chip size. Typically, the security analysis is conducted by hand, leading to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Lennart M. Reimann , Sarp Erdönmez , Dominik Sisejkovic , Rainer Leupers

Researchers have proposed formal definitions of quantitative information flow based on information theoretic notions such as the Shannon entropy, the min entropy, the guessing entropy, and channel capacity. This paper investigates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-02 Hirotoshi Yasuoka , Tachio Terauchi

In this thesis we consider the problem of information hiding in the scenarios of interactive systems, statistical disclosure control, and refinement of specifications. We apply quantitative approaches to information flow in the first two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-02-14 Mário S. Alvim

We present a framework for quantifying information flow within general quantum processes. For this purpose, we introduce the signaling power of quantum channels and discuss its relevant operational properties. This function supports…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Leonardo S. V. Santos , Zhen-Peng Xu , Jyrki Piilo , Otfried Gühne

The advantages of quantum information processing are in many cases obtained as consequences of quantum interactions, especially for computational tasks where two-qubit interactions are essential. In this work, we establish the framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Sudipto Singha Roy , Joonwoo Bae

Different platforms for quantum computation are currently being developed with a steadily increasing number of physical qubits. To make today's devices practical for quantum software engineers, novel programming tools with maximal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Michael Cubeddu , Will Finigan , Thomas Lively , Johannes Flick , Prineha Narang

Quantitative information flow analyses measure how much information on secrets is leaked by publicly observable outputs. One area of interest is to quantify and estimate the information leakage of composed systems. Prior work has focused on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Yusuke Kawamoto , Thomas Given-Wilson

Dempster-Shafer theory of imprecise probabilities has proved useful to incorporate both nonspecificity and conflict uncertainties in an inference mechanism. The traditional Bayesian approach cannot differentiate between the two, and is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Sari Haj Hussein

In the federated learning system, parameter gradients are shared among participants and the central modulator, while the original data never leave their protected source domain. However, the gradient itself might carry enough information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yong Liu , Xinghua Zhu , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

In security-critical software applications, confidential information must be prevented from leaking to unauthorized sinks. Static analysis techniques are widespread to enforce a secure information flow by checking a program after…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Tobias Runge , Alexander Kittelmann , Marco Servetto , Alex Potanin , Ina Schaefer

We present a systematic refactoring of the conventional treatment of privacy analyses, basing it on mathematical concepts from the framework of Quantitative Information Flow (QIF). The approach we suggest brings three principal advantages:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Mário S. Alvim , Natasha Fernandes , Annabelle McIver , Carroll Morgan , Gabriel H. Nunes

Information flow analysis checks whether certain pieces of (confidential) data may affect the results of computations in unwanted ways and thus leak information. Dynamic information flow analysis adds instrumentation code to the target…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Gergö Barany

We generalize the quantum Fisher information flow proposed by Lu \textit{et al}. [Phys. Rev. A \textbf{82}, 042103 (2010)] to the multi-parameter scenario from the information geometry perspective. A measure named the \textit{intrinsic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-22 Haijun Xing , Libin Fu

We present a general framework for the quantification and characterization of leakage errors that result when a quantum system is encoded in the subspace of a larger system. To do this we introduce new metrics for quantifying the coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Christopher J. Wood , Jay M. Gambetta

Optical metrology has progressed beyond the Abbe-Rayleigh limit, unlocking (sub)atomic precision by leveraging nonlinear phenomena, statistical accumulation, and AI estimators trained on measurand variations. Here, we show that Fisher…

In quantitative information flow we say that program $Q$ is "at least as secure as" $P$ just when the amount of secret information flowing from $Q$ is never more than flows from $P$, with of course a suitable quantification of "flow". This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-19 N. Bordenabe , A. McIver , C Morgan , T. Rabehaja