2020 IEEE International Symposium
on Information Theory
21-26 June 2020 • Los Angeles, California, USA
| Paper ID | P.6.2 | ||
| Paper Title | Secure Information Exchange for Omniscience | ||
| Authors | Chung Chan, City University of Hong Kong, China; Navin Kashyap, Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla, Indian Institute of Science, India; Qiaoqiao Zhou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China | ||
| Session | P.6: Information Theoretic Security II | ||
| Presentation | Lecture | ||
| Track | Cryptography, Security and Privacy | ||
| Manuscript | Click here to download the manuscript | ||
| Virtual Presentation | Click here to watch in the Virtual Symposium | ||
| Abstract | We consider the problem of exchanging sensitive information in public and provide a general formulation that can unify and extend various existing scenarios of information exchange, such as the problems of private information extraction and information bottleneck. The formulation also gives rise to a new scenario called secure omniscience (SO), where users want to exchange all their private information with minimum leakage to a wiretapper with side information. Single-letter lower and upper bounds are obtained for the minimum leakage, and the bounds are shown to be tight under the finite linear source model with two users. The bounds are derived in terms of the solutions of the closely related problems of communication for omniscience (CO) and secret key agreement (SKA). However, we find examples where the bounds are not tight, and so the connections to CO and SKA are not precise. In particular, it is possible that any optimal CO scheme that minimizes communication does not minimize leakage, and any optimal SO scheme that minimizes leakage does not attain the capacity for SKA. Nevertheless, we identify a useful notion of information alignment that can modify an optimal CO scheme to reduce leakage for SO. | ||
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