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Various cryptographic techniques are used in outsourced database systems to ensure data privacy while allowing for efficient querying. This work proposes a definition and components of a new secure and efficient outsourced database system,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Dmytro Bogatov

Policy enforcers are sophisticated runtime components that can prevent failures by enforcing the correct behavior of the software. While a single enforcer can be easily designed focusing only on the behavior of the application that must be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Oliviero Riganelli , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani , Yliès Falcone

Cloud computing has become a potential resource for businesses and individuals to outsource their data to remote but highly accessible servers. However, potentials of the cloud services have not been fully unleashed due to users' concerns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Hoang Pham , Jason Woodworth , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Constraints such as separation-of-duty are widely used to specify requirements that supplement basic authorization policies. However, the existence of constraints (and authorization policies) may mean that a user is unable to fulfill…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Pierre Bergé , Jason Crampton , Gregory Gutin , Rémi Watrigant

In the area of networks, a common method to enforce a security policy expressed in a high-level language is based on an ad-hoc and manual rewriting process. We argue that it is possible to build a formal link between concrete and abstract…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-12 Nicolas Stouls , Marie-Laure Potet

Companies and individuals demand more and more storage space and computing power. For this purpose, several new technologies have been designed and implemented, such as the cloud computing. This technology provides its users with storage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Fateh Boucenna

Protecting source code against reverse engineering and theft is an important problem. The goal is to carry out computations using confidential algorithms on an untrusted party while ensuring confidentiality of algorithms. This problem has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Johannes Schneider , Thomas Locher

Deploying deep reinforcement learning in safety-critical settings requires developing algorithms that obey hard constraints during exploration. This paper contributes a first approach toward enforcing formal safety constraints on end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Nathan Hunt , Nathan Fulton , Sara Magliacane , Nghia Hoang , Subhro Das , Armando Solar-Lezama

In this paper, we coin the term Policy Enforcement as a Service (PEPS), which enables the provision of innovative inter-layer and inter-domain Access Control. We leverage the architecture of Software-Defined-Network (SDN) to introduce a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Arash Shaghaghi , Mohamed Ali , Kaafar , Sandra Scott-Hayward , Salil S. Kanhere , Sanjay Jha

The ability to enforce robust and dynamic access controls on cloud-hosted data while simultaneously ensuring confidentiality with respect to the cloud itself is a clear goal for many users and organizations. To this end, there has been much…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-28 William C. Garrison , Adam Shull , Steven Myers , Adam J. Lee

Information security isn't just about software and hardware -- it's at least as much about policies and processes. But the research community overwhelmingly focuses on the former over the latter, while gaping policy and process problems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Arvind Narayanan , Kevin Lee

As language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in high-stakes settings, ensuring that they reliably follow user-defined rules has become a critical safety concern. To this end, we study whether language models exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Dylan Sam , Alexander Robey , Andy Zou , Matt Fredrikson , J. Zico Kolter

Management of security policies has become increasingly difficult given the number of domains to manage, taken into consideration their extent and their complexity. Security experts has to deal with a variety of frameworks and specification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Othman Benammar , Hicham Elasri , Abderrahim Sekkaki

A security policy specifies a security property as the maximal information flow. A distributed system composed of interacting processes implicitly defines an intransitive security policy by repudiating direct information flow between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Jean Quilbeuf , Georgeta Igna , Denis Bytschkow , Harald Ruess

Many reinforcement learning applications involve the use of data that is sensitive, such as medical records of patients or financial information. However, most current reinforcement learning methods can leak information contained within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Tengyang Xie , Philip S. Thomas , Gerome Miklau

The design of secure and usable access schemes to personal data represent a major challenge of online social networks (OSNs). State of the art requires prior interaction to grant access. Sharing with users who are not subscribed or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Frederik Armknecht , Manuel Hauptmann , Stefanie Roos , Thorsten Strufe

Despite exciting progress on cryptography, secure and efficient query processing over outsourced data remains an open challenge. We develop a communication-efficient and information-theoretically secure system, entitled Obscure for…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Peeyush Gupta , Yin Li , Sharad Mehrotra , Nisha Panwar , Shantanu Sharma , Sumaya Almanee

Providing functionalities that allow online social network users to manage in a secure and private way the publication of their information and/or resources is a relevant and far from trivial topic that has been under scrutiny from various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Stefano Braghin , Vincenzo Iovino , Giuseppe Persiano , Alberto Trombetta

Data-driven landscape across finance, government, and healthcare, the continuous generation of information demands robust solutions for secure storage, efficient dissemination, and fine-grained access control. Blockchain technology emerges…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Chao Liu , Cankun Hou , Tianyu Jiang , Jianting Ning , Hui Qiao , Yusen Wu

A lot of research has been focused on secure outsourcing of biometric identification in the context of cloud computing. In such schemes, both the encrypted biometric database and the identification process are outsourced to the cloud. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Kai Zhou , Jian Ren