Application of privacy preserving protocols

Dr. Yingpeng Sang

School of Computing Science, University of Adelaide

Date and time: 11.30am - 12.30pm, Friday 4 December, 2009

Venue: 10.08.03 (Building 10, Level 8, Room 3)

Abstract:

(1)   In a scenario various Internet Service Providers need to cooperatively prevent a distributed denial-of-service attack by aggregating their network traffic data, but they are reluctant to share the traffic data since the data are private. The talk will show how the protocols proposed by the speaker can be applied to this problem.

(2)   Risk analysis of one popular privacy-preserving method in data mining: This method is based on random projection. It is widely used in privacy-preserving data mining because it can perturb the original private data, but well keep the clustering structures inside the data.  The talk will explain how an attacker can make some effective attacks on this method. The speaker's work includes some effective recovery of the private values from the perturbed data, based on some easily-obtained prior knowledge.

About the speaker:

Yingpeng Sang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide. He received his PhD degree in 2007 from School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests are privacy-preserving problems in distributed networks.He has done research work on some specific problems, such as privacy-preserving set operations, tuple matching, and data mining. He has over 10 publications in international conferences and journals.


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