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This paper investigates the optimal privacy-aware networked control problem, in which the dynamical system affected by a private input process sends its measurement to a remote controller after stochastic quantization. An adversary seeks to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Chuanghong Weng , Ehsan Nekouei

Gentle quantum leakage is proposed as a measure of information leakage to arbitrary eavesdroppers that aim to avoid detection. Gentle (also sometimes referred to as weak or non-demolition) measurements are used to encode the desire of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Farhad Farokhi , Sejeong Kim

We develop a new notion of security against timing attacks where the attacker is able to simultaneously observe the execution time of a program and the probability of the values of low variables. We then show how to measure the security of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-07-25 Alessandra Di Pierro , Chris Hankin , Herbert Wiklicky

Since being proposed in 2006, differential privacy has become a standard method for quantifying certain risks in publishing or sharing analyses of sensitive data. At its heart, differential privacy measures risk in terms of the differences…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Anand D. Sarwate , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

Split learning and inference propose to run training/inference of a large model that is split across client devices and the cloud. However, such a model splitting imposes privacy concerns, because the activation flowing through the split…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Kiwan Maeng , Chuan Guo , Sanjay Kariyappa , Edward Suh

Modern recommender systems are trained to predict users potential future interactions from users historical behavior data. During the interaction process, despite the data coming from the user side recommender systems also generate exposure…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xin Xin , Jiyuan Yang , Hanbing Wang , Jun Ma , Pengjie Ren , Hengliang Luo , Xinlei Shi , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren

Differential privacy offers formal quantitative guarantees for algorithms over datasets, but it assumes attackers that know and can influence all but one record in the database. This assumption often vastly overapproximates the attackers'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Damien Desfontaines , Esfandiar Mohammadi , Elisabeth Krahmer , David Basin

In recent years, it has become easy to obtain location information quite precisely. However, the acquisition of such information has risks such as individual identification and leakage of sensitive information, so it is necessary to protect…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Maho Asada , Masatoshi Yoshikawa , Yang Cao

While users claim to be concerned about privacy, often they do little to protect their privacy in their online actions. One prominent explanation for this "privacy paradox" is that when an individual shares her data, it is not just her…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Guocheng Liao , Yu Su , Juba Ziani , Adam Wierman , Jianwei Huang

In this work, we focus on solving a decentralized consensus problem in a private manner. Specifically, we consider a setting in which a group of nodes, connected through a network, aim at computing the mean of their local values without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mohammad Fereydounian , Aryan Mokhtari , Ramtin Pedarsani , Hamed Hassani

Privacy in Location-Based Services (LBS) has become a paramount concern with the ubiquity of mobile devices and the increasing integration of location data into various applications. This paper presents several novel contributions to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Anis Bkakria , Reda Yaich

This paper studies the design of an optimal privacyaware estimator of a public random variable based on noisy measurements which contain private information. The public random variable carries non-private information, however, its estimate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Ehsan Nekouei , Henrik Sandberg , Mikael Skoglund , Karl H. Johansson

Differential privacy provides strong privacy guarantees for machine learning applications. Much recent work has been focused on developing differentially private models, however there has been a gap in other stages of the machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ashly Lau , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

Opacity, or non-interference, is a property ensuring that an external observer cannot infer confidential information (the "secret") from system observations. We introduce an information-theoretic measure of opacity, which quantifies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Chongyang Shi , Sumukha Udupa , Michael R. Dorothy , Shuo Han , Jie Fu

Recently, inference privacy has attracted increasing attention. The inference privacy concern arises most notably in the widely deployed edge-cloud video analytics systems, where the cloud needs the videos captured from the edge. The video…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Siping Shi , Bihai Zhang , Dan Wang

An attacker can gain information of a user by analyzing its network traffic. The size of transferred data leaks information about the file being transferred or the service being used, and this is particularly revealing when the attacker has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Sebastian Simon , Cezara Petrui , Carlos Pinzón , Catuscia Palamidessi

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on massive data capture rich information embedded in the training data. However, this also introduces the risk of privacy leakage, particularly involving personally identifiable information (PII).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Wenshuo Dong , Qingsong Yang , Shu Yang , Lijie Hu , Meng Ding , Wanyu Lin , Tianhang Zheng , Di Wang

Barycentric and pairwise quantum Renyi leakages are proposed as two measures of information leakage for privacy and security analysis in quantum computing and communication systems. These quantities both require minimal assumptions on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Farhad Farokhi

Leaking information about the execution behavior of critical real-time tasks may lead to serious consequences, including violations of temporal constraints and even severe failures. We study information leakage for a special class of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Mohammad Fakhruddin Babar , Zain A. H. Hammadeh , Mohammad Hamad , Monowar Hasan