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Recent oracle separations [Kretschmer, TQC'21, Kretschmer et. al., STOC'23] have raised the tantalizing possibility of building quantum cryptography from sources of hardness that persist even if the polynomial hierarchy collapses. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Dakshita Khurana , Kabir Tomer

As a widely deployed security scheme, text-based CAPTCHAs have become more and more difficult to resist machine learning-based attacks. So far, many researchers have conducted attacking research on text-based CAPTCHAs deployed by different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Chunhui Li , Xingshu Chen , Haizhou Wang , Yu Zhang , Peiming Wang

Although there have been many solutions applied, the safety challenges related to the password security mechanism are not reduced. The reason for this is that while the means and tools to support password attacks are becoming more and more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Nguyen Hong Son , Ha Thanh Dung

For humans and computers, the first step in answering an open-domain question is retrieving a set of relevant documents from a large corpus. However, the strategies that computers use fundamentally differ from those of humans. To better…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Wanrong He , Andrew Mao , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Passwords, a first line of defense against unauthorized access, must be secure and memorable. However, people often struggle to create secure passwords they can recall. To address this problem, we design Password inspiration by eXploring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Shengqian Wang , Amirali Salehi-Abari , Julie Thorpe

This paper presents a novel solution to the age long problem of password security at input level. In our solution, each of the various characters from which a password could be composed is encoded with a random single digit integer and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-01 A. T. Akinwale , F. T. Ibharalu

Cryptography is an art and science of secure communication. Here the sender and receiver are guaranteed the security through encryption of their data, with the help of a common key. Both the parties should agree on this key prior to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-10 Minal Lopes , Nisha Sarwade

Informal arguments that cryptographic protocols are secure can be made rigorous using inductive definitions. The approach is based on ordinary predicate calculus and copes with infinite-state systems. Proofs are generated using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Lawrence C. Paulson

This paper considers how interactions with AI algorithms can boost human creative thought. We employ a psychological task that demonstrates limits on human creativity, namely semantic feature generation: given a concept name, respondents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ara Vartanian , Xiaoxi Sun , Yun-Shiuan Chuang , Siddharth Suresh , Xiaojin Zhu , Timothy T. Rogers

Chaos and its applications in the field of secure communications have attracted a lot of attention. Chaos-based pseudo-random number generators are critical to guarantee security over open networks as the Internet. We have previously…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jacques M. Bahi , Xiaole Fang , Christophe Guyeux , Qianxue Wang

Cryptography is the science of encrypting the information so that it is rendered unreadable for an intruder. Cryptographic techniques are of utmost importance in today's world as the information to be sent might be of invaluable importance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Arjun Puri , Sudesh Kumar

Warnings have been raised about the steady diminution of privacy. More and more personal information, such as that contained electronic mail, is moving to cloud computing servers where it might be machine-searched and indexed. FauxCrypt is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Devlin M. Gualtieri

With the rapid development of internet technologies, social networks, and other related areas, user authentication becomes more and more important to protect the data of users. Password authentication is one of the widely used methods to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Lifeng Han

Internet of Things means connecting different devices through the Internet. The Internet of things enables humans to remotely manage and control the objects they use with the Internet infrastructure. After the advent of the Internet of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Maryam Ataei Nezhad , Hamid Barati , Ali Barati

Security of information transmitted through the Internet, against passive or active attacks is an international concern. The use of a chaos-based pseudo-random bit sequence to make it unrecognizable by an intruder, is a field of research in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-15 Qianxue Wang , Christophe Guyeux , Jacques M. Bahi

A cryptographic protocol (CP) is a distributed algorithm designed to provide a secure communication in an insecure environment. CPs are used, for example, in electronic payments, electronic voting procedures, database access systems, etc.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-25 A. M. Mironov

Riddles based on simple puns can be classified according to the patterns of word, syllable or phrase similarity they depend upon. We have devised a formal model of the semantic and syntactic regularities underlying some of the simpler types…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Kim Binsted , Graeme Ritchie

Traditional text-based password schemes are inherently weak. Users tend to choose passwords that are easy to remember, making them susceptible to various attacks that have matured over the years. ObPwd [5] has tried to address these issues…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Sufian Hameed , Lamak Qaizar , Shankar Khatri

The ability to hide information from unauthorized individuals has been a prevalent issue over the years. Countless algorithms such as DES, AES and SHA have been developed. These algorithms depend on varying key length and key management…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Samuel King Opoku

L\"ondahl and Johansson proposed last year a variant of the McEliece cryptosystem which replaces Goppa codes by convolutional codes. This modification is supposed to make structural attacks more difficult since the public generator matrix…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Grégory Landais , Jean-Pierre Tillich