On the complexity of aggregating information for authentication and profiling

  • Authors:
  • Christian A. Duncan;Vir V. Phoha

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Secure Cyberspace, Computer Science, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA;Center for Secure Cyberspace, Computer Science, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

  • Venue:
  • DPM'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference, and 4th international conference on Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneus Security
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Motivated by applications in online privacy, user authentication and profiling, we discuss the complexity of various problems generalized from the classic 0-1 knapsack problem. In our scenarios, we assume the existence of a scoring function that evaluates the confidence in the personal online profile or authenticity of an individual based on a subset of acquired credentials and facts about an individual and show how the specific properties of that function affect the computational complexity of the problem, providing both NP-completeness proofs under certain conditions as well as pseudo-polynomial-time solutions under others.