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6. <del> Prio assumes a powerful adversary with the ability to compromise an unbounded number of clients.  In doing so, the adversary can provide malicious (yet truthful) inputs to the aggregation function.  Prio also assumes that all but one server operates honestly, where a dishonest server does not execute the protocol faithfully as specified.  The system also assumes that servers communicate over secure and mutually authenticated channels.  In practice, this can be done by TLS or some other form of application-layer authentication. In the presence of this adversary, Prio provides two important properties for computing an aggregation function F: Privacy.  The aggregators and collector learn only the output of F computed over all client inputs, and nothing else. Robustness.  As long as the aggregators execute the input- validation protocol correctly, a malicious client can skew the output of F only by reporting false (untruthful) input.  The output cannot be influenced in any other way. There are several additional constraints that a Prio deployment must satisfy in order to achieve these goals: Minimum batch size.  The aggregation batch size has an obvious impact on privacy.  (A batch size of one hides nothing of the input.) Aggregation function choice.  Some aggregation functions leak slightly more than the function output itself. [TODO: discuss these in more detail.] </del> <ins> PPM assumes an active attacker that controls the network and has the ability to statically corrupt any number of clients, aggregators, and collectors.  That is, the attacker can learn the secret state of any party prior to the start of its attack.  For example, it may coerce a client into providing malicious input shares for aggregation or coerce an aggregator into diverting from the protocol specified (e.g., by divulging its input shares to the attacker). In the presence of this adversary, PPM aims to achieve the following high-level secure aggregation goals: Privacy.  Clients trust that some aggregator is honest.  That is, as long as at least one aggregator executes the protocol faithfully, the parties learn nothing beyond the aggregate result (i.e., the output of the aggregation function computed over the honest measurements). Correctness.  The collector trusts that the aggregators execute the protocol correctly.  That is, as long as the aggregators execute the protocol faithfully, a malicious client can skew the aggregate result only by reporting a false (untruthful) measurement.  The result cannot be influenced in any other way. Currently, the specification does not achieve these goals.  In particular, there are several open issues that need to be addressed before these goals are met.  Details for each issue are below. When crafted maliciously, collect requests may leak more information about the measurements than the system intends.  For example, the spec currently allows sequences of collect requests to reveal an aggregate result for a batch smaller than the minimum batch size.  [OPEN ISSUE: See issue#195.  This also has implications for how we solve issue#183.] Even benign collect requests may leak information beyond what one might expect intuitively.  For example, the Poplar1 VDAF VDAF can be used to compute the set of heavy hitters among a set of arbitrary bit strings uploaded by clients.  This requires multiple evaluations of the VDAF, the results of which reveal information to the aggregators and collector beyond what follows from the heavy hitters themselves.  Note that this leakage can be mitigated using differential privacy.  [OPEN ISSUE: We have yet not specified how to add DP.] The core PPM spec does not defend against Sybil attacks.  In this type of attack, the adversary adds to a batch a number of reports that skew the aggregate result in its favor.  For example: The result may reveal additional information about the honest measurements, leading to a privacy violation; or the result may have some property that is desirable to the adversary ("stats poisoning").  The upload sub-protocol includes an extensions mechanism that can be used to prevent -- or at least mitigate -- these types of attacks.  See upload-extensions.  [OPEN ISSUE: No such extension has been implemented, so we're not yet sure if the current mechanism is sufficient.] Attacks may also come from the network.  Thus, it is required that the aggregators and collector communicate with one another over mutually authenticated and confidential channels.  The core PPM spec does not specify such a mechanism beyond requiring server authentication for HTTPS sessions.  Note that clients are not required to authenticate themselves.  [OPEN ISSUE: It might be better to be prescriptive about leader authentication in leader- helper channels and collector authenticaiton in collector-leader channels.  For the latter we have issue#155.] </ins> 6.1. <ins> [OPEN ISSUE: This subsection is a bit out-of-date.] </ins> In this section, we enumerate the actors participating in the Prio system and enumerate their assets (secrets that are either inherently valuable or which confer some capability that enables further attack

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text: This change is primarily editorial and includes the following changes: Replace references to "Prio" with references to a generic VDAF. (This section was written long ago when we had Prio in mind.) Elaborate on known issues for collect requests. Discuss Sybil attacks, including enumerating the different types ().
From dkg in Vienna:
It seems like there are a bunch of assumptions about Sybil attacks generally that are not well articulated yet. This would certainly help.
The list of attacks is really a list of things we ought to fix in the protocol, so I would not even bother including them in the security considerations. If we want to use this as an opportunity to identify open issues that need to be addressed before we consider the protocol secure, I would simply list the open issues and keep discussion in GitHub. (That is, the text here seems redundant with the issue )