Anonymity protocols as noisy channels

  • Authors:
  • Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis;Catuscia Palamidessi;Prakash Panangaden

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA and LIX, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France;INRIA and LIX, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France;School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Venue:
  • TGC'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Trustworthy global computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose a framework in which anonymity protocols are interpreted as particular kinds of channels, and the degree of anonymity provided by the protocol as the converse of the channel's capacity. We also investigate how the adversary can test the system to try to infer the user's identity, and we study how his probability of success depends on the characteristics of the channel. We then illustrate how various notions of anonymity can be expressed in this framework, and show the relation with some definitions of probabilistic anonymity in literature.