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Reconciling Belief and Vulnerability in Information Flow

Reconciling Belief and Vulnerability in Information Flow
Reconciling Belief and Vulnerability in Information Flow
Belief and vulnerability have been proposed re- cently to quantify information flow in security systems. Both concepts stand as alternatives to the traditional approaches founded on Shannon entropy and mutual information, which were shown to provide inadequate security guarantees. In this paper we unify the two concepts in one model so as to cope with (potentially inaccurate) attackers’ extra knowledge. To this end we propose a new metric based on vulnerability that takes into account the adversary’s beliefs.
information hiding, information flow, quantitative and probabilistic models, uncertainty, accuracy
79-92
Hamadou, Sardaouna
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Sassone, Vladimiro
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Palamidessi, Catuscia
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Hamadou, Sardaouna
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Sassone, Vladimiro
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Palamidessi, Catuscia
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Hamadou, Sardaouna, Sassone, Vladimiro and Palamidessi, Catuscia (2010) Reconciling Belief and Vulnerability in Information Flow. IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy. pp. 79-92 .

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Belief and vulnerability have been proposed re- cently to quantify information flow in security systems. Both concepts stand as alternatives to the traditional approaches founded on Shannon entropy and mutual information, which were shown to provide inadequate security guarantees. In this paper we unify the two concepts in one model so as to cope with (potentially inaccurate) attackers’ extra knowledge. To this end we propose a new metric based on vulnerability that takes into account the adversary’s beliefs.

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Published date: April 2010
Venue - Dates: IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy, 2010-04-01
Keywords: information hiding, information flow, quantitative and probabilistic models, uncertainty, accuracy
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 268592
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/268592
PURE UUID: e6342816-e1a5-41d6-97e9-4f523014b3eb

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Date deposited: 12 Mar 2010 11:09
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 09:14

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Author: Sardaouna Hamadou
Author: Vladimiro Sassone
Author: Catuscia Palamidessi

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