Output details
11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Birmingham
Output title
A Statistical Test for Information Leaks Using Continuous Mutual Information
Type
E - Conference contribution
Name of conference/published proceedings
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 24th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF)
Volume number
-
Issue number
-
First page of article
177
ISSN of proceedings
-
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
<10>This work describes a framework for calculating side channel leakage using continuous mutual information. The use of the discrete version is well understood, but when this measure is applied to systems with continuous observations (such as time measurements) much of the useful data can be lost. Our contribution was to calculate the distribution that estimates of information leakage based on discrete and continuous mutual information would come from and show that using continuous measures was significantly more accurate. This paper led directly to the ESPRC grant "New Techniques for finding information leaks" EP/J009075/, which was funded in 2012.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
E - Security and Privacy
Citation count
3
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
