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In this paper, we introduce the imperfect shuffle differential privacy model, where messages sent from users are shuffled in an almost uniform manner before being observed by a curator for private aggregation. We then consider the private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Jelani Nelson , Samson Zhou

Ishai et al. (FOCS'06) introduced secure shuffling as an efficient building block for private data aggregation. Recently, the field of differential privacy has revived interest in secure shufflers by highlighting the privacy amplification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Marc Damie , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter , Jan Ramon

Secure aggregation is a foundational building block of privacy-preserving learning, yet achieving robustness under adversarial behavior remains challenging. Modern systems increasingly adopt the shuffle model of differential privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yuhang Li , Yajie Wang , Xiangyun Tang , Peng Jiang , Yu-an Tan , Liehuang Zhu

Oblivious transfer protocol is a basic building block in cryptography and is used to transfer information from a sender to a receiver in such a way that, at the end of the protocol, the sender does not know if the receiver got the message…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Souto , P. Mateus , P. Adão , N. Paunković

Inspired by a common technique for shuffling a deck of cards on a table without riffling, we formalize the pile shuffle and investigate its capabilities as a sorting device. Our study is novel in that we consider pile shuffle in three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Kyle B. Treleaven

Cloud-based machine learning services (CMLS) enable organizations to take advantage of advanced models that are pre-trained on large quantities of data. The main shortcoming of using these services, however, is the difficulty of keeping the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Yiftach Savransky , Roni Mateless , Gilad Katz

When dealing with massive data sorting, we usually use Hadoop which is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. A common approach in implement of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Zhuo Wang , Longlong Tian , Dianjie Guo , Xiaoming Jiang

Distributed learning platforms for processing large scale data-sets are becoming increasingly prevalent. In typical distributed implementations, a centralized master node breaks the data-set into smaller batches for parallel processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Mohamed Attia , Ravi Tandon

Encrypted cloud storage can hide data contents but still leak sensitive information through access patterns. ORAM addresses this by hiding access patterns, but existing ORAM systems are too inefficient to deploy in practice. We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Onur Eren Arpaci , Florian Kerschbaum , Sujaya Maiyya

The problem of Oblivious RAM (ORAM) has traditionally been studied in a single-server setting, but more recently the multi-server setting has also been considered. Yet it is still unclear whether the multi-server setting has any inherent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-05 T-H. Hubert Chan , Jonathan Katz , Kartik Nayak , Antigoni Polychroniadou , Elaine Shi

We engineer algorithms for sorting huge data sets on massively parallel machines. The algorithms are based on the multiway merging paradigm. We first outline an algorithm whose I/O requirement is close to a lower bound. Thus, in contrast to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Mirko Rahn , Peter Sanders , Johannes Singler

In a recent paper Chan et al. [SODA '19] proposed a relaxation of the notion of (full) memory obliviousness, which was introduced by Goldreich and Ostrovsky [J. ACM '96] and extensively researched by cryptographers. The new notion,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Amos Beimel , Kobbi Nissim , Mohammad Zaheri

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) is a cryptographic primitive that allows a client to securely execute RAM programs over data that is stored in an untrusted server. Distributed Oblivious RAM is a variant of ORAM, where the data is stored in $m>1$…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Eyal Kushilevitz , Tamer Mour

The shuffle model of DP (Differential Privacy) provides high utility by introducing a shuffler that randomly shuffles noisy data sent from users. However, recent studies show that existing shuffle protocols suffer from the following two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Takao Murakami , Yuichi Sei , Reo Eriguchi

Based on quantum entanglement, an all-or-nothing oblivious transfer protocol is proposed and is proven to be secure. The distinct merit of the present protocol lies in that it is not based on quantum bit commitment. More intriguingly, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guang Ping He , Z. D. Wang

We present two cache-oblivious sorting-based convex hull algorithms in the Binary Forking Model. The first is an algorithm for a presorted set of points which achieves $O(n)$ work, $O(\log n)$ span, and $O(n/B)$ serial cache complexity,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Reilly Browne , Rezaul Chowdhury , Shih-Yu Tsai , Yimin Zhu

We reconsider a recently published algorithm (Dalkilic et al.) for merging lists by way of the perfect shuffle. The original publication gave only experimental results which, although consistent with linear execution time on the samples…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-04 John Ellis , Ulrike Stege

As cloud computing becomes prevalent in recent years, more and more enterprises and individuals outsource their data to cloud servers. To avoid privacy leaks, outsourced data usually is encrypted before being sent to cloud servers, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Jinkun Cao , Jinhao Zhu , Liwei Lin , Zhengui Xue , Ruhui Ma , Haibing Guan

Clustering is a widely used technique with a long and rich history in a variety of areas. However, most existing algorithms do not scale well to large datasets, or are missing theoretical guarantees of convergence. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Yijia Zhou , Kyle A. Gallivan , Adrian Barbu

As one of the most important basic operations, matrix multiplication computation (MMC) has varieties of applications in the scientific and engineering community such as linear regression, k-nearest neighbor classification and biometric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Chun Liu , Xuexian Hu , Xiaofeng Chen , Jianghong Wei , Wenfen Liu