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pith:2025:CZH234VY5PYLEG4ALQIG5RAUGC

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Tuning for TraceTarnish: Techniques, Trends, and Testing Tangible Traits

Robert Dilworth

TraceTarnish attack analysis identifies function-word frequencies, content-word distributions, and type-token ratio as reliable signals that text has been altered to mask its author.

arxiv:2512.03465 v5 · 2025-12-03 · cs.CR · cs.CL · cs.IR

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C1strongest claim

The identified stylometric cues — function-word frequencies, content-word distributions, and the Type-Token Ratio — serve as reliable indicators of compromise (IoCs), revealing when a text has been deliberately altered to mask its true author.

C2weakest assumption

That the Information Gain-selected features remain useful for both attack enhancement and detection even when only the transformed text is available, and that the Reddit-derived dataset generalizes beyond the specific comments and transformations tested.

C3one line summary

TraceTarnish attack identifies stylometric features like function-word frequencies and type-token ratio that both strengthen authorship anonymization and serve as indicators of compromise when pre- and post-transformation texts can be compared.

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164fadf2b8ebf0b21b805c106ec41430ab944d7fccb2f0aa4d385f5284e42cf6

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arxiv: 2512.03465 · arxiv_version: 2512.03465v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.03465 · pith_short_12: CZH234VY5PYL · pith_short_16: CZH234VY5PYLEG4A · pith_short_8: CZH234VY

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