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Reversible data hiding in encrypted domain (RDH-ED) schemes based on symmetric or public key encryption are mainly applied to the security of end-to-end communication. Aimed at providing reliable technical supports for multi-party security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Yan Ke , Minqing Zhang , Xinpeng Zhang , Jia Liu , Tingting Su , Xiaoyuan Yang

Distributed storage plays an essential role in realizing robust and secure data storage in a network over long periods of time. A distributed storage system consists of a data owner machine, multiple storage servers and channels to link…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-05 Mikio Fujiwara , Atsushi Waseda , Ryo Nojima , Shiho Moriai , Wakaha Ogata , Masahide Sasaki

We present Modular Polynomial (MP) Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication (SDMM). The construction is based on the observation that one can decode certain proper subsets of the coefficients of a polynomial with fewer evaluations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 David Karpuk , Razane Tajeddine

In this paper, we propose an efficient reliability based segmentation-discarding decoding (SDD) algorithm for short block-length codes. A novel segmentation-discarding technique is proposed along with the stopping rule to significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Chentao Yue , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

This work proposes a high-capacity scheme for separable reversible data hiding in encrypted images. At the sender side, the original uncompressed image is encrypted using an encryption key. One or several data hiders use the MSB of some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-14 M. Hassan Najafi , David J. Lilja

We consider the problem of Private Information Retrieval with Private Side Information (PIR-PSI), wherein a user wants to retrieve a file from replication based non-colluding databases by using the prior knowledge of a subset of the files…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Murali Krishnan K. H. , J. Harshan

In the modern era of large-scale computing systems, a crucial use of error correcting codes is to judiciously introduce redundancy to ensure recoverability from failure. To get the most out of every byte, practitioners and theorists have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami

Metric Differential Privacy (mDP) extends the concept of Differential Privacy (DP) to serve as a new paradigm of data perturbation. It is designed to protect secret data represented in general metric space, such as text data encoded as word…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Chenxi Qiu

We revisit zigzag array codes, a family of MDS codes known for achieving optimal access and optimal rebuilding ratio in single-node repair. In this work, we endow zigzag codes with two new properties: small field size and low skip cost.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Wenqin Zhang , Han Mao Kiah , Son Hoang Dau

A novel coding scheme for exact repair-regenerating codes is presented in this paper. The codes proposed in this work can trade between the repair bandwidth of nodes (number of downloaded symbols from each surviving node in a repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mehran Elyasi , Soheil Mohajer

We address the use of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes for distributed storage (DS) to enable efficient content delivery in wireless networks. Content is stored in a number of the mobile devices and can be retrieved from them using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Amina Piemontese , Alexandre Graell i Amat

A novel technique for construction of minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes is presented. Based on this technique, three explicit constructions of MSR codes are given. The first two constructions provide access-optimal MSR codes, with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-29 Netanel Raviv , Natalia Silberstein , Tuvi Etzion

The scalability and interpretability of message-passing (MP) decoding, such as (quaternary) Belief Propagation, remain open challenges in quantum error correction. Even for surface codes, arguably the first testbed for decoding methods,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Boqing Zhang , Henry D. Pfister , Hanwen Yao , Siyuan Niu

In this work, we consider the problem of efficient decoding of codes from insertions and deletions. Most of the known efficient codes are codes with synchronization strings which allow one to reduce the problem of decoding insertions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Anisha Banerjee , Roni Con , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

For a secret sharing scheme, two parameters $d_{min}$ and $d_{cheat}$ are defined in [12] and [13]. These two parameters measure the error-correcting capability and the secret-recovering capability of the secret sharing scheme against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hao Chen

We present a scheme able to protect k >= 3 qubits of information against the occurrence of multiple erasures, based on the code proposed by Yang et al. (2004 JETP Letters 79 236). In this scheme redundant blocks are used and we restrict to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-06 Gilson O. dos Santos , Francisco M. de Assis

A secret sharing scheme is a method to store information securely and reliably. Particularly, in a threshold secret sharing scheme, a secret is encoded into $n$ shares, such that any set of at least $t_1$ shares suffice to decode the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Wentao Huang , Michael Langberg , Joerg Kliewer , Jehoshua Bruck

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow a user to retrieve a record from the server without revealing any information on which record is being downloaded. In this paper, we consider PIR schemes where the database is stored using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Chatdanai Dorkson , Siaw-Lynn Ng

We consider $(n,k,l)$ MDS codes of length $n$, dimension $k$, and subpacketization $l$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}$. A codeword of such a code consists of $n$ column-vectors of length $l$ over $\mathbb{F}$, with the property that any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Ameera Chowdhury , Alexander Vardy

Private information retrieval (PIR) schemes (with or without colluding servers) have been proposed for realistic coded distributed data storage systems. Star product PIR schemes with colluding servers for general coded distributed storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Hao Chen , Liqing Xu