ebook img

Measuring and Predicting Anonymity - Faculteit der PDF

146 Pages·2012·2.88 MB·English
by  
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview Measuring and Predicting Anonymity - Faculteit der

Measuring and Predicting Anonymity Measuring and Predicting Anonymity Matthijs R. Koot University of Amsterdam Informatics Institute Science Park 904 1098 XH Amsterdam http://www.science.uva.nl/ii/ Measuring and Predicting Anonymity Academisch Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof.dr. D.C. van den Boom ten overstaan van een door het college voor promoties ingestelde commissie, in het openbaar te verdedigen in de Agnietenkapel op woensdag 27 juni 2012, te 10.00 uur door Matthijs Richard Koot geboren te Leeuwarden. Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. C.T.A.M. de Laat Promotor: Prof.dr. M.R.H. Mandjes Overige leden: Prof.dr. J.A. Bergstra Prof.dr.ir. C. Diaz Prof.dr.ir. B.J.A. Kr¨ose Prof.dr. R.D. van der Mei Prof.dr. R.R. Meijer Prof.dr. L.A. Sweeney Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica Copyright © 2012 by Matthijs R. Koot Cover design by Robert Koot. Printed by Gildeprint Drukkerijen - The Netherlands. The need for private life is neither new nor temporary, and worthy of defense. iv to my parents Giel and Ina Koot and my dear brother Robert. v Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.3 Contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2 Background 11 2.1 Early concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.2 Information theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.3 Process calculi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.4 Epistemic logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.5 k-Anonymity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 2.6 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3 Empirical study 27 3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3.2 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3.3 Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3.4 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 4 Estimating uniqueness 41 4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 4.2 Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 vi

Description:
problems, the objective of this thesis is to study techniques for measuring and predicting privacy. Ideally, we want to develop mathematical tools useful for.
See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.