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Privacy Against Brute-Force Inference Attacks

Information Theory 2019-02-04 v1 Cryptography and Security math.IT

Abstract

Privacy-preserving data release is about disclosing information about useful data while retaining the privacy of sensitive data. Assuming that the sensitive data is threatened by a brute-force adversary, we define Guessing Leakage as a measure of privacy, based on the concept of guessing. After investigating the properties of this measure, we derive the optimal utility-privacy trade-off via a linear program with any ff-information adopted as the utility measure, and show that the optimal utility is a concave and piece-wise linear function of the privacy-leakage budget.

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@article{arxiv.1902.00329,
  title  = {Privacy Against Brute-Force Inference Attacks},
  author = {Seyed Ali Osia and Borzoo Rassouli and Hamed Haddadi and Hamid R. Rabiee and Deniz Gündüz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.00329},
  year   = {2019}
}
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