13 September 2023 - Ari Biswas Speaker Ari Biswas Title Interactive Proofs For Differential Privacy Abstract Differential Privacy (DP) is often presented as a strong privacy enhancing technology with broad applicability and advocated as a de-facto standard for releasing aggregate statistics on sensitive data. However, in many embodiments, DP introduces a new attack surface: a malicious entity entrusted with releasing statistics could manipulate the results and use the randomness of DP as a convenient smokescreen to mask its nefariousness. Since revealing the random noise would obviate the purpose of introducing it, the miscreant may have a perfect alibi. To close this loophole, we introduce the idea of Interactive Proofs For Differential Privacy, which requires the publishing entity to output a zero knowledge proof that convinces an efficient verifier that the output is both DP and reliable. Such a definition might seem unachievable, as a verifier must validate that DP randomness was generated faithfully without learning anything about the randomness itself. We resolve this paradox by carefully mixing private and public randomness to compute verifiable DP counting queries with theoretical guarantees and show that it is also practical for real-world deployment. We also demonstrate that computational assumptions are necessary by showing a separation between information-theoretic DP and computational DP under our definition of verifiability. Bio Peter Scholl is an Associate Professor in the Cryptography Group at Aarhus University. His research is mainly focused on secure computation, particularly designing general-purpose protocols for multi-party computation, as well as related tools like oblivious transfer, homomorphic secret sharing and zero-knowledge proofs. Sep 13 2023 16.00 - 17.00 13 September 2023 - Ari Biswas Security, Privacy & Trust Seminar by Ari Biswas Informatics Forum (5.02) 10 Crichton St Newington Edinburgh EH8 9AB
13 September 2023 - Ari Biswas Speaker Ari Biswas Title Interactive Proofs For Differential Privacy Abstract Differential Privacy (DP) is often presented as a strong privacy enhancing technology with broad applicability and advocated as a de-facto standard for releasing aggregate statistics on sensitive data. However, in many embodiments, DP introduces a new attack surface: a malicious entity entrusted with releasing statistics could manipulate the results and use the randomness of DP as a convenient smokescreen to mask its nefariousness. Since revealing the random noise would obviate the purpose of introducing it, the miscreant may have a perfect alibi. To close this loophole, we introduce the idea of Interactive Proofs For Differential Privacy, which requires the publishing entity to output a zero knowledge proof that convinces an efficient verifier that the output is both DP and reliable. Such a definition might seem unachievable, as a verifier must validate that DP randomness was generated faithfully without learning anything about the randomness itself. We resolve this paradox by carefully mixing private and public randomness to compute verifiable DP counting queries with theoretical guarantees and show that it is also practical for real-world deployment. We also demonstrate that computational assumptions are necessary by showing a separation between information-theoretic DP and computational DP under our definition of verifiability. Bio Peter Scholl is an Associate Professor in the Cryptography Group at Aarhus University. His research is mainly focused on secure computation, particularly designing general-purpose protocols for multi-party computation, as well as related tools like oblivious transfer, homomorphic secret sharing and zero-knowledge proofs. Sep 13 2023 16.00 - 17.00 13 September 2023 - Ari Biswas Security, Privacy & Trust Seminar by Ari Biswas Informatics Forum (5.02) 10 Crichton St Newington Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Sep 13 2023 16.00 - 17.00 13 September 2023 - Ari Biswas Security, Privacy & Trust Seminar by Ari Biswas
