# Information Theoretical Cryptogenography

#### Abstract

We consider problems where n people are communicating and a random subset of them is trying to leak information, without making it clear who are leaking the information. We introduce a measure of suspicion and show that the amount of leaked information will always be bounded by the expected increase in suspicion, and that this bound is tight. Suppose a large number of people have some information they want to leak, but they want to ensure that after the communication, an observer will assign probability at most c to the events that each of them is trying to leak the information. How much information can they reliably leak, per person who is leaking? We show that the answer is $$\left( \frac{-\log (1-c)}{c}-\log (e)\right)$$ - log ( 1 - c ) c - log ( e ) bits.

DOI: 10.1007/s00145-016-9242-8

### Cite this paper

@article{Jakobsen2014InformationTC, title={Information Theoretical Cryptogenography}, author={Sune K. Jakobsen}, journal={Journal of Cryptology}, year={2014}, volume={30}, pages={1067-1115} }