Paper 2024/2009
The Mis/Dis-information Problem is Hard to Solve
Abstract
Securing information communication dates back thousands of years ago. The meaning of information security, however, has evolved over time and today covers a very wide variety of goals, including identifying the source of information, the reliability of information, and ultimately whether the information is trustworthy. In this paper, we will look at the evolution of the information security problem and the approaches that have been developed for providing information protection. We argue that the more recent problem of misinformation and disinformation has shifted the content integrity problem from the protection of message syntax to the protection of message semantics. This shift, in the age of advanced AI systems, a technology that can be used to mimic human-generated content as well as to create bots that mimic human behaviour on the Internet, poses fundamental technological challenges that evade existing technologies. It leaves social elements, including public education and a suitable legal framework, as increasingly the main pillars of effective protection, at least in the short run. It also poses an intriguing challenge to the scientific community: to design effective solutions that employ cryptography and AI, together with incentivization to engage the global community, to ensure the safety of the information ecosystem.
Note: This paper will appear in Festschrift Ed Dawson by Springer as LNCS 15600.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- Information securitymisinformationdisinformation
- Contact author(s)
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ghagen @ ucalgary ca
rei @ ucalgary ca
motiyung @ gmail com - History
- 2024-12-12: approved
- 2024-12-12: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2024/2009
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/2009,
author = {Gregory Hagen and Reihaneh Safavi-Naini and Moti Yung},
title = {The Mis/Dis-information Problem is Hard to Solve},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/2009},
year = {2024},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/2009}
}
