Point-based trust: define how much privacy is worth

  • Authors:
  • Danfeng Yao;Keith B. Frikken;Mikhail J. Atallah;Roberto Tamassia

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI;Department of Computer Science and Systems Analysis, Miami University, Oxford, OH;Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN;Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI

  • Venue:
  • ICICS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Information and Communications Security
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper studies the notion of point-based policies for trust management, and gives protocols for realizing them in a disclosure-minimizing fashion. Specifically, Bob values each credential with a certain number of points, and requires a minimum total threshold of points before granting Alice access to a resource. In turn, Alice values each of her credentials with a privacy score that indicates her reluctance to reveal that credential. Bob's valuation of credentials and his threshold are private. Alice's privacy-valuation of her credentials is also private. Alice wants to find a subset of her credentials that achieves Bob's required threshold for access, yet is of as small a value to her as possible. We give protocols for computing such a subset of Alice's credentials without revealing any of the two parties' above-mentioned private information.