[Resource Topic] 2015/1158: A note on the optimality of frequency analysis vs. $\ell_p$-optimization

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Title:
A note on the optimality of frequency analysis vs. \ell_p-optimization

Authors: Marie-Sarah Lacharité, Kenneth G. Paterson

Abstract:

Naveed, Kamara, and Wright’s recent paper “Inference Attacks on Property-Preserving Encrypted Databases” (ACM-CCS 2015) evaluated four attacks on encrypted databases, such as those based on the design of CryptDB (Popa et al., SOSP 2011). Two of these attacks—frequency analysis and l_p-optimization—apply to deterministically encrypted columns when there is a publicly-available auxiliary data set that is “well-correlated” with the ciphertext column. In their experiments, frequency analysis performed at least as well as l_p-optimization for p=1, 2, and 3. We use maximum likelihood estimation to confirm their intuition and show that frequency analysis is an optimal cryptanalytic technique in this scenario.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1158

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