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On the Inherent Anonymity of Gossiping. (arXiv:2308.02477v1 [cs.DC])
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Detecting the source of a gossip is a critical issue, related to identifying
patient zero in an epidemic, or the origin of a rumor in a social network.
Although it is widely acknowledged that random and local gossip communications
make source identification difficult, there exists no general quantification of
the level of anonymity provided to the source. This paper presents a principled
method based on $\varepsilon$-differential privacy to analyze the inherent
source anonymity of gossiping for a large class of …
anonymity communications critical general identification issue local network origin quantification random social social network