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In this paper, a new method is proposed for sparse PCA based on the recursive divide-and-conquer methodology. The main idea is to separate the original sparse PCA problem into a series of much simpler sub-problems, each having a closed-form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-03 Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

Lately, multimedia encryption has been the focus of attention in many researches. Recently, a large number of encryption algorithms has been presented to protect image contents.The main objective of modern image encryption schemes is to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Hassan Noura , Lama Sleem , Raphaël Couturier

In this paper the elements of the CAPTCHA usability are analyzed. CAPTCHA, as a time progressive element in computer science, has been under constant interest of ordinary, professional as well as the scientific users of the Internet. The…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Darko Brodić , Alessia Amelio , Ivo R. Draganov

In this paper, we propose to improve the security performance of a recently proposed color image encryption algorithm which is based on multi-chaotic systems. The existing cryptosystem employed a pixel-chaotic-shuffle mechanism to encrypt…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Musheer Ahmad , Hamed D. Alsharari , Munazza Nizam

To enhance the security of text CAPTCHAs, various methods have been employed, such as adding the interference lines on the text, randomly distorting the characters, and overlapping multiple characters. These methods partly increase the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Ran Jiang , Sanfeng Zhang , Linfeng Liu , Yanbing Peng

Passwords are widely used for user authentication and, despite their weaknesses, will likely remain in use in the foreseeable future. Human-generated passwords typically have a rich structure, which makes them susceptible to guessing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Claude Castelluccia , Abdelberi Chaabane , Markus Dürmuth , Daniele Perito

Hundreds of defenses have been proposed to make deep neural networks robust against minimal (adversarial) input perturbations. However, only a handful of these defenses held up their claims because correctly evaluating robustness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Roland S. Zimmermann , Wieland Brendel , Florian Tramer , Nicholas Carlini

A central challenge in password security is to characterize the attacker's guessing curve i.e., what is the probability that the attacker will crack a random user's password within the first $G$ guesses. A key challenge is that the guessing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Jeremiah Blocki , Peiyuan Liu

Text-based passwords continue to be the prime form of authentication to computer systems. Today, they are increasingly created and used with mobile text entry methods, such as touchscreens and mobile keyboards, in addition to traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Yulong Yang , Janne Lindqvist , Antti Oulasvirta

This work presents some novel techniques to enhance an encryption scheme motivated by classical McEliece cryptosystem. Contributions include: (1) using masking matrices to hide sensitive data, (2) allowing both legitimate parties to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Amir K. Khandani

Password security can no longer provide enough security in the area of remote user authentication. Considering this security drawback, researchers are trying to find solution with multifactor remote user authentication system. Recently,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Hossen Asiful Mustafa , Hasan Muhammad Kafi

Computer users are generally authenticated by means of a password. Unfortunately passwords are often forgotten and replacement is expensive and inconvenient. Some people write their passwords down but these records can easily be lost or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Tony McBryan , Karen Renaud , J. Paul Siebert

Despite numerous countermeasures proposed by practitioners and researchers, remote control-flow alteration of programs with memory-safety vulnerabilities continues to be a realistic threat. Guaranteeing that complex software is completely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Martín Ochoa , Sebastian Banescu , Cynthia Disenfeld , Gilles Barthe , Vijay Ganesh

Temporal memory corruptions are commonly exploited software vulnerabilities that can lead to powerful attacks. Despite significant progress made by decades of research on mitigation techniques, existing countermeasures fall short due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Reza Mirzazade Farkhani , Mansour Ahmadi , Long Lu

Today, the protection of information, ensuring of the safety and the recall in lossless in case of need is highly significant and it is seen as a major threat in the field. Information security is possible by hiding the available data, by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Nurettin Topaloglu , M. Hanefi Calp , Burak Turk

In recent decades, criminals have increasingly used the web to research, assist and perpetrate criminal behaviour. One of the most important ways in which law enforcement can battle this growing trend is through accessing pertinent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Aikaterini Kanta , Iwen Coisel , Mark Scanlon

Text password has long been the dominant user authentication technique and is used by large numbers of Internet services. If they follow recommended practice, users are faced with the almost insuperable problem of generating and managing a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Fatma Al Maqbali , Chris J Mitchell

Computationally hard problems based on coding theory, such as the syndrome decoding problem, have been used for constructing secure cryptographic schemes for a long time. Schemes based on these problems are also assumed to be secure against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Puja Mondal , Supriya Adhikary , Suparna Kundu , Angshuman Karmakar

We construct three public key knapsack cryptosystems. Standard knapsack cryptosystems hide easy instances of the knapsack problem and have been broken. The systems considered in the article face this problem: They hide a random (possibly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-03-17 Laurent Evain

A while ago, I developed what I called an encryption method. The most favorable of reviews did not see a method but a collection of techniques. Be that as it may, the process used, is described in the paper, Windtalking Computers. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Givon Zirkind