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Preserving data confidentiality in clouds is a key issue. Secret Sharing, a cryptographic primitive for the distribution of a secret among a group of $n$ participants designed so that only subsets of shareholders of cardinality $0 < t \leq…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Massimo Cafaro , Piergiuseppe Pellè

We study the normal mean inference problem, which involves simultaneous testing of the means of many normal distributions. This problem has been extensively studied within the empirical Bayes (EB) framework. However, the reliability of most…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-03 Kwangok Seo , Johan Lim

Statistical agencies face a dual mandate to publish accurate statistics while protecting respondent privacy. Increasing privacy protection requires decreased accuracy. Recognizing this as a resource allocation problem, we propose an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-12 John M. Abowd , Ian M. Schmutte

In this work, we investigate binary classification under the constraints of both differential privacy and fairness. We first propose an algorithm based on the decoupling technique for learning a classifier with only fairness guarantee. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hrad Ghoukasian , Shahab Asoodeh

One of the most basic problems for studying the "price of privacy over time" is the so called private counter problem, introduced by Dwork et al. (2010) and Chan et al. (2010). In this problem, we aim to track the number of events that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Edith Cohen , Xin Lyu , Jelani Nelson , Tamás Sarlós , Uri Stemmer

A new approach to quantum cryptography to be called KCQ, keyed communication in quantum noise, is developed on the basis of quantum detection and communication theory for classical information transmission. By the use of a shared secret key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Horace P. Yuen

We propose a practical methodology to protect a user's private data, when he wishes to publicly release data that is correlated with his private data, in the hope of getting some utility. Our approach relies on a general statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Salman Salamatian , Amy Zhang , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Sandilya Bhamidipati , Nadia Fawaz , Branislav Kveton , Pedro Oliveira , Nina Taft

Preventing data exfiltration from computer systems typically depends on perimeter defences, but these are becoming increasingly fragile. Instead we suggest an approach in which each at-risk document is supplemented by many fake versions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-14 David Skillicorn , Xiao Li , Karen Chen

For privacy concerns to be addressed adequately in current machine learning systems, the knowledge gap between the machine learning and privacy communities must be bridged. This article aims to provide an introduction to the intersection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Mohammad Al-Rubaie , J. Morris Chang

We consider the problem of maintaining sparsity in private distributed storage of confidential machine learning data. In many applications, e.g., face recognition, the data used in machine learning algorithms is represented by sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Marvin Xhemrishi , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar

Formal disclosure avoidance techniques are necessary to ensure that published data can not be used to identify information about individuals. The addition of statistical noise to unpublished data can be implemented to achieve differential…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-10 Ryan Janicki , Scott H. Holan , Kyle M. Irimata , James Livsey , Andrew Raim

Coin-flipping is a fundamental task in two-party cryptography where two remote mistrustful parties wish to generate a shared uniformly random bit. While quantum protocols promising near-perfect security exist for weak coin-flipping -- when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Atul Singh Arora , Carl A. Miller , Mauro E. S. Morales , Jamie Sikora

Quantum annealers offer a promising approach to solve Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems, which have a wide range of applications. However, when a user submits its QUBO problem to a third-party quantum annealer, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Moyang Xie , Yuan Zhang , Sheng Zhong , Qun Li

In the recent time, the problem of protecting privacy in statistical data before they are published has become a pressing one. Many reliable studies have been accomplished, and loads of solutions have been proposed. Though, all these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-11-05 Oleg Chertov , Dan Tavrov

This work presents some novel techniques to enhance an encryption scheme motivated by classical McEliece cryptosystem. Contributions include: (1) using masking matrices to hide sensitive data, (2) allowing both legitimate parties to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Amir K. Khandani

In contemporary cryptographic systems, secret keys are usually exchanged by means of methods, which suffer from mathematical and technology inherent drawbacks. That could lead to unnoticed complete compromise of cryptographic systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Solange Ghernaouti-Helie , Igli Tashi , Thomas Laenger , Christian Monyk

We develop cryptographically secure techniques to guarantee unconditional privacy for respondents to polls. Our constructions are efficient and practical, and are shown not to allow cheating respondents to affect the ``tally'' by more than…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Markus Jakobsson , Helger Lipmaa

We devised a protocol that allows two parties, who may malfunction or intentionally convey incorrect information in communication through a quantum channel, to verify each other's measurements and agree on each other's results. This has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Kazuki Ikeda , Adam Lowe

Consider a data publishing setting for a data set with public and private features. The objective of the publisher is to maximize the amount of information about the public features in a revealed data set, while keeping the information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Hao Wang , Mario Diaz , Flavio P. Calmon , Lalitha Sankar

We study the computational cost of differential privacy in terms of memory efficiency. While the trade-off between accuracy and differential privacy is well-understood, the inherent cost of privacy regarding memory use remains largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alessandro Epasto , Xin Lyu , Pasin Manurangsi