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Obfuscation Padding Schemes that Minimize Rényi Min-Entropy for Privacy

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Consider a set of users, each of which is choosing and downloading one file out of a central pool of public files, and an attacker that observes the download size for each user to identify the choice of each user. This paper studies the problem of padding the files to obfuscate the exact file sizes and minimize the expected accuracy of the attacker, without exceeding some given padding constraints. We derive the algorithm that finds the optimal padding scheme, prove its correctness, and compare it with an existing solution that uses a similar but different attack model. We also discuss how the two solutions are related in terms of private information leakage.
Consider a set of users, each of which is choosing and downloading one file out of a central pool of public files, and an attacker that observes the download size for each user to identify the choice of each user. This paper studies the problem of padding the files to obfuscate the exact file sizes and minimize the expected accuracy of the attacker, without exceeding some given padding constraints. We derive the algorithm that finds the optimal padding scheme, prove its correctness, and compare it with an existing solution that uses a similar but different attack model. We also discuss how the two solutions are related in terms of private information leakage.
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hal-04322523 , version 1 (20-12-2023)

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Sebastian Simon, Cezara Petrui, Carlos Pinzón, Catuscia Palamidessi. Obfuscation Padding Schemes that Minimize Rényi Min-Entropy for Privacy. ISPEC 2023 - The 18th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, Aug 2023, Coppenhagen, Denmark. pp.74-90, ⟨10.1007/978-981-99-7032-2_5⟩. ⟨hal-04322523⟩
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