The Tracker

Denning, D. E., & Denning, P. J. (1979). The Tracker: A Threat to Statistical Database Security. ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 4(1), 76-96.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1979

Volume

4

Issue

1

Pages

76-96

DOI

10.1145/320064.320069

DOI registrant

Association for Computing Machinery

Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/320064.320069

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Mechanisms

• Query Rate and Composition Limit
  • The classic demonstration that individually-permitted aggregate queries can be composed to reconstruct suppressed values is the tracker attack on statistical databases; query auditing and composition limits are its standard countermeasure.

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