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Secure aggregation is a cryptographic protocol that securely computes the aggregation of its inputs. It is pivotal in keeping model updates private in federated learning. Indeed, the use of secure aggregation prevents the server from learning the value and the source of the individual model updates provided by the users, hampering inference and data attribution attacks. In this work, we show that a malicious server can easily elude secure aggregation as if the latter were not in place. We devise two different attacks capable of inferring information on individual private training datasets, independently of the number of users participating in the secure aggregation. This makes them concrete threats in large-scale, real-world federated learning applications. The attacks are generic and equally effective regardless of the secure aggregation protocol used They exploit a vulnerability of the federated learning protocol caused by incorrect usage of secure aggregation and lack of parameter validation. Our work demonstrates that current implementations of federated learning with secure aggregation offer only a ''false sense of security.''
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | CCS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security |
Number of pages | 15 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Publication year | Nov 2022 |
Pages | 2429-2443 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450394505 |
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Publication status | Published - Nov 2022 |
Event | 28th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2022 - Los Angeles, United States Duration: 7 Nov 2022 → 11 Nov 2022 |
Conference | 28th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2022 |
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Land | United States |
By | Los Angeles |
Periode | 07/11/2022 → 11/11/2022 |
Sponsor | ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC) |
Series | Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security |
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ISSN | 1543-7221 |
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