Cryptanalysis of Basic Bloom Filters Used for Privacy Preserving Record Linkage

Bloom filter encoded identifiers are increasingly used for privacy preserving record linkage applications, because they allow for errors in encrypted identifiers. However, little research on the security of Bloom filters has been published so far. In this paper, we formalize a successful attack on...

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Main Authors: Frank Niedermeyer, Simone Steinmetzer, Martin Kroll, Rainer Schnell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Labor Dynamics Institute 2014-12-01
Series:The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
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Online Access:https://journalprivacyconfidentiality.org/index.php/jpc/article/view/640