• DocumentCode
    2318166
  • Title

    How to hide information for later use on networks

  • Author

    Alpern, Steve ; Fokkink, Robbert

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Appl. Math., London Sch. of Econ., London, UK
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    13-15 May 2009
  • Firstpage
    653
  • Lastpage
    657
  • Abstract
    In an accumulation game a Hider secretly distributes his given total wealth h>1 among n locations while a Searcher picks r locations and confiscates the material placed there. The Hider wins if what is left at the remaining locations is at least 1 otherwise the Searcher wins. Accumulation games were originally introduced to study certain covert activities, but the game also relates to secret sharing and food caching. In this paper we introduce a network structure on the game, restricting the Searcher to pick locations that are near and show how this leads to combinatorial considerations.
  • Keywords
    data encapsulation; security of data; accumulation game; covert activity; food caching; hider; information hiding; network structure; searcher; secret sharing; Animals; Cryptography; Information retrieval; Leg; Mathematics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Game Theory for Networks, 2009. GameNets '09. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4176-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4177-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GAMENETS.2009.5137456
  • Filename
    5137456