Article in Proceedings INPROC-2009-103

BibliographyNeubauer, Martin: Modelling of Pseudonymity under Probabilistic Linkability Attacks.
In: International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2009. CSE '09..
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
IEEE Computer Society; 3, pp. 160-167, english.
Vancouver, Canada: IEEE Computer Society, August 2009.
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3823-5; DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.376.
Article in Proceedings (Workshop Paper).
CR-SchemaK.6.5 (Security and Protection)
G.3 (Probability and Statistics)
Abstract

This paper contributes to the field of measuring (un)linkability in communication systems; a subproblem of privacy protection. We propose an attacker state model for attacks on unlinkability of partial identities named linkability graph. It covers probabilistic linkability attacks based on heterogeneous and time-variant characteristics. From our model, we derive linkability measures and argue prospects for safeguard design. Our model reduces space and time complexity compared to other contributions in literature. This enables simulative privacy analysis of complex context-aware systems that employ multiple partial identities per user.

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Department(s)Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Kommunikationsnetze und Rechnersysteme (IKR)
Project(s)SFB-627, A3 (Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Kommunikationsnetze und Rechnersysteme (IKR))
Entry dateDecember 2, 2009