Formalization of Differential Privacy in Isabelle/HOL

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Main Authors: Sato, Tetsuya, Minamide, Yasuhiko
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author Sato, Tetsuya
Minamide, Yasuhiko
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Minamide, Yasuhiko
contents Differential privacy is a statistical definition of privacy that has attracted the interest of both academia and industry. Its formulations are easy to understand, but the differential privacy of databases is complicated to determine. One of the reasons for this is that small changes in database programs can break their differential privacy. Therefore, formal verification of differential privacy has been studied for over a decade. In this paper, we propose an Isabelle/HOL library for formalizing differential privacy in a general setting. To our knowledge, it is the first formalization of differential privacy that supports continuous probability distributions. First, we formalize the standard definition of differential privacy and its basic properties. Second, we formalize the Laplace mechanism and its differential privacy. Finally, we formalize the differential privacy of the report noisy max mechanism.
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spellingShingle Formalization of Differential Privacy in Isabelle/HOL
Sato, Tetsuya
Minamide, Yasuhiko
Logic in Computer Science
Cryptography and Security
Programming Languages
Differential privacy is a statistical definition of privacy that has attracted the interest of both academia and industry. Its formulations are easy to understand, but the differential privacy of databases is complicated to determine. One of the reasons for this is that small changes in database programs can break their differential privacy. Therefore, formal verification of differential privacy has been studied for over a decade. In this paper, we propose an Isabelle/HOL library for formalizing differential privacy in a general setting. To our knowledge, it is the first formalization of differential privacy that supports continuous probability distributions. First, we formalize the standard definition of differential privacy and its basic properties. Second, we formalize the Laplace mechanism and its differential privacy. Finally, we formalize the differential privacy of the report noisy max mechanism.
title Formalization of Differential Privacy in Isabelle/HOL
topic Logic in Computer Science
Cryptography and Security
Programming Languages
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15386