Adversary Gain vs. Defender Loss in Quantified Information Flow. Piotr Mardziel, Mario Alvim, Michael Hicks. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS). July 2014.

Keywords: information security, quantified information flow



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Metrics for quantifying information leakage assume that an adversary's gain is the defender's loss. We demonstrate that this assumption does not always hold via a class of scenarios. We describe how to extend quantification to account for a defender with goals distinct from adversary failure. We implement the extension and experimentally explore the impact on the measured information leakage of the motivating scenario.

@inproceedings{mardziel14loss,
  author = {Piotr Mardziel and Mario Alvim and Michael Hicks},
  title = {Adversary Gain vs. Defender Loss in Quantified Information Flow},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS)},
  month = {July},
  year = {2014},
}