%0 Conference Paper %B Advances in Cryptology–-CRYPTO `09 %D 2009 %T Computational Differential Privacy %A Ilya Mironov %A Omkant Pandey %A Omer Reingold %A Salil Vadhan %X

The definition of differential privacy has recently emerged as a leading standard of privacy guarantees for algorithms on statistical databases. We offer several relaxations of the definition which require privacy guarantees to hold only against efficient—i.e., computationally-bounded—adversaries. We establish various relationships among these notions, and in doing so, we observe their close connection with the theory of pseudodense sets by Reingold et al.[1]. We extend the dense model theorem of Reingold et al. to demonstrate equivalence between two definitions (indistinguishability- and simulatability-based) of computational differential privacy. Our computational analogues of differential privacy seem to allow for more accurate constructions than the standard information-theoretic analogues. In particular, in the context of private approximation of the distance between two vectors, we present a differentially-private protocol for computing the approximation, and contrast it with a substantially more accurate protocol that is only computationally differentially private.

%B Advances in Cryptology–-CRYPTO `09 %S Lecture Notes in Computer Science %I Springer-Verlag %C Santa Barbara, CA %V 5677 %P 126–142 %8 16–20 August %G eng %U http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-03356-8_8