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This paper firstly considers the research problem of fairness in collaborative deep learning, while ensuring privacy. A novel reputation system is proposed through digital tokens and local credibility to ensure fairness, in combination with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Lingjuan Lyu , Yitong Li , Karthik Nandakumar , Jiangshan Yu , Xingjun Ma

The stimulate of this research seeks collaboration of firewalls which, could reach to the capability of distributed points of security policy; the front-end entity may much interact by the invaders so the separation between this entity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Harleen Kaur , Omid MahdiEbadati E. , M. Afshar Alm

Deep Neural Network (DNN) has been showing great potential in kinds of real-world applications such as fraud detection and distress prediction. Meanwhile, data isolation has become a serious problem currently, i.e., different parties cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Longfei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Yingting Liu , Bingzhe Wu , Xibin Wu , Li Wang , Lei Wang , Jun Zhou , Shuang Yang

In the era of synthetic media, deepfake manipulations pose a significant threat to information integrity. To address this challenge, we propose TrustDefender, a two-stage framework comprising (i) a lightweight convolutional neural network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 H M Mohaimanul Islam , Huynh Q. N. Vo , Aditya Rane

Voting is a cornerstone of collective participatory decision-making in contexts ranging from political elections to decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Despite the proliferation of internet voting protocols promising enhanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Stanisław Barański , Ben Biedermann , Joshua Ellul

There has been an intense concern for security alternatives because of the recent rise of cyber attacks, mainly targeting critical systems such as industry, medical, or energy ecosystem. Though the latest industry infrastructures largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Ziaur Rahman , Ibrahim Khalil , Xun Yi , Mohammed Atiquzzaman

Online elections make a natural target for distributed denial of service attacks. Election agencies wary of disruptions to voting may procure DDoS protection services from a cloud provider. However, current DDoS detection and mitigation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Chris Culnane , Mark Eldridge , Aleksander Essex , Vanessa Teague

There has been a growing interest in Internet user privacy, demonstrated by the popularity of privacy-preserving products such as Telegram and Brave, and the widespread adoption of HTTPS. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a key component of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yunming Xiao , Peizhi Liu , Ruijie Yu , Chenkai Weng , Matteo Varvello , Aleksandar Kuzmanovic

Anonymous Single-Sign-On authentication schemes have been proposed to allow users to access a service protected by a verifier without revealing their identity which has become more important due to the introduction of strong privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Jinguang Han , Liqun Chen , Steve Schneider , Helen Treharne , Stephan Wesemeyer

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer network for storing data in a distributed file system, hosting over 190,000 peers spanning 152 countries. Despite its prominence, the privacy properties that IPFS offers to peers are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Miti Mazmudar , Shannon Veitch , Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi

Distributed ledger and blockchain systems are expected to make financial systems easier to audit, reduce counter-party risk and transfer assets seamlessly. The key concept is a token controlled by a cryptographic private key for spending,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Christopher D. Clack , Nicolas T. Courtois

Peer-to-peer file sharing envisions a data-centric dissemination model, where files consisting of multiple data pieces can be shared from any peer that can offer the data or from multiple peers simultaneously. This aim, implemented at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Akshay Raman , Kimberly Chou , Spyridon Mastorakis

In traditional runtime verification, a system is typically observed by a monolithic monitor. Enforcing privacy in such settings is computationally expensive, as it necessitates heavy cryptographic primitives. Therefore, privacy-preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Mahyar Karimi , K. S. Thejaswini , Roderick Bloem , Thomas A. Henzinger

Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have been proposed as an alternative solution to the current centralized Online Social Networks (OSNs). Online Social Networks are based on centralized architecture (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Mohsin Ur Rahman , Fabrizio Baiardi , Barbara Guidi , Laura Ricci

The trend towards delegating data processing to a remote party raises major concerns related to privacy violations for both end-users and service providers. These concerns have attracted the attention of the research community, and several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Youssef Gahi , Mouhcine Guennoun , Zouhair Guennoun , Khalil El-khatib

The Synchronic Web is a highly scalable notary infrastructure that provides tamper-evident data provenance for historical web data. In this document, we describe the applicability of this infrastructure for web archiving across three…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Thien-Nam Dinh , Nicholas Pattengale

Deep Neural Network-based systems are now the state-of-the-art in many robotics tasks, but their application in safety-critical domains remains dangerous without formal guarantees on network robustness. Small perturbations to sensor inputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Björn Lütjens , Michael Everett , Jonathan P. How

This paper proposes and evaluates a new bipartite post-quantum digital signature protocol based on Winternitz chains and the HORS oracle. Mutually mistrustful Alice and Bob are able to agree and sign a series of documents in a way that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Alex Shafarenko

The ability to know and verifiably demonstrate the origins of messages can often be as important as encrypting the message itself. Here we present an experimental demonstration of an unconditionally secure digital signature (USS) protocol…

Decentralized Storage Networks (DSNs) are emerging as a foundational infrastructure for Web 3.0, offering global peer-to-peer storage. However, a critical vulnerability persists: user privacy during file retrieval remains largely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Zhang , Minghui Xu , Hechuan Guo , Xiuzhen Cheng