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This chapter analyzes the possibility for an attacker to recover either individual measurements or probable individual measurements after the aggregations with any Privacy-Preserving Protocol (PPP). The relation between the measurements and the leak of privacy depends on several variables.

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Borges de Oliveira, F. (2017). Quantifying the Aggregation Size. In: On Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Smart Metering Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40718-0_5

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