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In this paper, we propose Docprompt for document question answering tasks with powerful zero-shot and few-shot performance. We proposed a novel weakly supervised data generation method, a novel multl-stage training method and a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Sijin Wu , Dan Zhang , Teng Hu , Shikun Feng

We uncover a vulnerability that allows for an attacker to perform an email-based attack on selected victims, using only standard scripts and agents. What differentiates the attack we describe from other, already known forms of distributed…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Markus Jakobsson , Filippo Menczer

In this paper, a new mathematical formulation for the problem of de-anonymizing social network users by actively querying their membership in social network groups is introduced. In this formulation, the attacker has access to a noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Farhad Shirani , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) have been studied in research for almost four decades. Yet, despite thousands of papers claiming scientific advances, a non-negligible number of recent works suggest that the findings of prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Miel Verkerken , Laurens D'hooge , Bruno Volckaert , Filip De Turck , Giovanni Apruzzese

Anonymity is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that hides the identities of both senders and receivers during message transmission over a network. Classical protocols cannot provide information-theoretic security for such task, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Srijani Das , Manasi Patra , Tuhin Paul , Anish Majumdar , Ramij Rahaman

This paper presents a mitigation scheme to cope with the random query string Denial of Service (DoS) attack, which is based on a vulnerability of current Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). The attack exploits the fact that edge servers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-02-24 Stefano Ferretti , Vittorio Ghini

In this work, we address the problem of text anonymization where the goal is to prevent adversaries from correctly inferring private attributes of the author, while keeping the text utility, i.e., meaning and semantics. We propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ahmed Frikha , Nassim Walha , Krishna Kanth Nakka , Ricardo Mendes , Xue Jiang , Xuebing Zhou

We consider the privacy of interactions between individuals in a network. For many networks, while nodes are anonymous to outside observers, the existence of a link between individuals implies the possibility of one node revealing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-13 Louis M Shekhtman , Alon Sela , Shlomo Havlin

Instant messaging has become one of the most used methods of communication online, which has attracted significant attention to its underlying cryptographic protocols and security guarantees. Techniques to increase privacy such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 David Soler , Carlos Dafonte , Manuel Fernández-Veiga , Ana Fernández Vilas , Francisco J. Nóvoa

We present new analytic techniques for inferring HTTP semantics from passive observations of HTTPS that can infer the value of important fields including the status-code, Content-Type, and Server, and the presence or absence of several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Blake Anderson , Andrew Chi , Scott Dunlop , David McGrew

Open proxies forward traffic on behalf of any Internet user. Listed on open proxy aggregator sites, they are often used to bypass geographic region restrictions or circumvent censorship. Open proxies sometimes also provide a weak form of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Akshaya Mani , Tavish Vaidya , David Dworken , Micah Sherr

Due to recent world events, video calls have become the new norm for both personal and professional remote communication. However, if a participant in a video call is not careful, he/she can reveal his/her private information to others in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Mohd Sabra , Anindya Maiti , Murtuza Jadliwala

Cyber attacks such as phishing, IRS scams, etc., still are successful in fooling Internet users. Users are the last line of defense against these attacks since attackers seem to always find a way to bypass security systems. Understanding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Shahryar Baki , Rakesh M. Verma , Arjun Mukherjee , Omprakash Gnawali

Modern websites heavily rely on JavaScript (JS) to implement legitimate functionality as well as privacy-invasive advertising and tracking. Browser extensions such as NoScript block any script not loaded by a trusted list of endpoints, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Abdul Haddi Amjad , Zubair Shafiq , Muhammad Ali Gulzar

Web client fingerprinting has become a widely used technique for uniquely identifying users, browsers, operating systems, and devices with high accuracy. While it is beneficial for applications such as fraud detection and personalized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mordechai Guri , Dor Fibert

Private Webmail 2.0 (Pwm 2.0) improves upon the current state of the art by increasing the usability and practical security of secure email for ordinary users. More users are able to send and receive encrypted emails without mistakenly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Scott Ruoti , Jeff Andersen , Travis Hendershot , Daniel Zappala , Kent Seamons

Echomix is a practical mix network framework and a suite of associated protocols providing strong metadata privacy against realistic modern adversaries. It is distinguished from other anonymity systems by a resistance to traffic analysis by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Ewa J Infeld , David Stainton , Leif Ryge , Threebit Hacker

In anonymous broadcast, one or more parties want to anonymously send messages to all parties. This problem is increasingly important as a black-box in many privacy-preserving applications such as anonymous communication, distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Mahnush Movahedi , Jared Saia , Mahdi Zamani

Given the increasing privacy concerns from identity theft and the re-identification of speakers through content in the speech field, this paper proposes a prompt-based speech generation pipeline that ensures dual anonymization of both…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Belinda Soh Hui Hui , Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang

Traffic analysis attacks can counteract end-to-end encryption and use leaked communication metadata to reveal information about communicating parties. With an ever-increasing amount of traffic by an ever-increasing number of networked…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Mohsen Shirali , Tobias Tefke , Ralf C. Staudemeyer , Henrich C. Poehls