attacker

Script for testing Diffix by running attacks

Requirements

Requires a directory called tables under the directory where attacks.py is executed.

Basic workflow

• Build table to attack
• Upload table to reference Diffix
• Run attack, usually multiple times, measuring effectiveness in the process
  • When multiple attacks, each run with a different secret salt so that result differs (as opposed to using different tables to attack)

Building table

Tables are built by the classes in whereParser.py and rowFiller.py.

There are two main steps:

1. Build table that has all possible combinations of columns and specified values.
2. Add or delete rows individually to create the required attack conditions.