Statistical Measurement of Information Leakage
Tom Chothia :: Tuesday 24th March 2009
Venue: Room 245 @ 1200
Abstract. This work addresses the problem of how information leakage can be
calculated statistically from trial runs of a system. We show that
measures of information leakage based on capacity and mutual
information can be accurately estimated, given a large enough sample
size, and we describe how to obtain bounds on the error of the
estimated value by calculating the distribution that it comes from.
Warning: this talk contains some very scary mathematics, parental
guidance is advised for younger reading group members.
Join work with Kostas Chatzikokolakis and Apratim Guha