Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Alvim, Mário S., Fernandes, Natasha, McIver, Annabelle, Morgan, Carroll, Nunes, Gabriel H.
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2023
Soggetti:
Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11110
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866909313832845312
author Alvim, Mário S.
Fernandes, Natasha
McIver, Annabelle
Morgan, Carroll
Nunes, Gabriel H.
author_facet Alvim, Mário S.
Fernandes, Natasha
McIver, Annabelle
Morgan, Carroll
Nunes, Gabriel H.
contents We combine Kronecker products, and quantitative information flow, to give a novel formal analysis for the fine-grained verification of utility in complex privacy pipelines. The combination explains a surprising anomaly in the behaviour of utility of privacy-preserving pipelines -- that sometimes a reduction in privacy results also in a decrease in utility. We use the standard measure of utility for Bayesian analysis, introduced by Ghosh at al., to produce tractable and rigorous proofs of the fine-grained statistical behaviour leading to the anomaly. More generally, we offer the prospect of formal-analysis tools for utility that complement extant formal analyses of privacy. We demonstrate our results on a number of common privacy-preserving designs.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2308_11110
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle A novel analysis of utility in privacy pipelines, using Kronecker products and quantitative information flow
Alvim, Mário S.
Fernandes, Natasha
McIver, Annabelle
Morgan, Carroll
Nunes, Gabriel H.
Cryptography and Security
We combine Kronecker products, and quantitative information flow, to give a novel formal analysis for the fine-grained verification of utility in complex privacy pipelines. The combination explains a surprising anomaly in the behaviour of utility of privacy-preserving pipelines -- that sometimes a reduction in privacy results also in a decrease in utility. We use the standard measure of utility for Bayesian analysis, introduced by Ghosh at al., to produce tractable and rigorous proofs of the fine-grained statistical behaviour leading to the anomaly. More generally, we offer the prospect of formal-analysis tools for utility that complement extant formal analyses of privacy. We demonstrate our results on a number of common privacy-preserving designs.
title A novel analysis of utility in privacy pipelines, using Kronecker products and quantitative information flow
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11110