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Securing privacy of "who communicates with whom" under Orwell-like conditions
Assume that there is a big and powerful country with an
information-greedy secret service which has backdoors to all internet nodes
throughout the world which permit him to observe all exchanged data ...
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Mathematics of privacy?
I wonder to which extent the current public debate on privacy issues (not only by state sniffing, but e.g. by microtargetting ads too an issue) offers interesting questions in mathematics?
Can we ...
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largest size for a randomness extractor
I am not so expert in theoretical computer science, so sorry if the question is trivial, i just could not find it in literature.
Suppose we have a source $X$ with min-entropy $\ell$, the randomness ...