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The source code of a program not only defines its semantics but also contains subtle clues that can identify its author. Several studies have shown that these clues can be automatically extracted using machine learning and allow for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Micha Horlboge , Erwin Quiring , Roland Meyer , Konrad Rieck

Current architectures to validate, certify, and manage identity are based on centralised, top-down approaches that rely on trusted authorities and third-party operators. We approach the problem of digital identity starting from a human…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Geoff Goodell , Tomaso Aste

Anonymous Single-Sign-On authentication schemes have been proposed to allow users to access a service protected by a verifier without revealing their identity which has become more important due to the introduction of strong privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Jinguang Han , Liqun Chen , Steve Schneider , Helen Treharne , Stephan Wesemeyer

Group based anonymization is the most widely studied approach for privacy preserving data publishing. This includes k-anonymity, l-diversity, and t-closeness, to name a few. The goal of this paper is to raise a fundamental issue on the…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-05-13 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu , Philip S. Yu

Computation offloading (often to external computing resources over a network) has become a necessity for modern applications. At the same time, the proliferation of machine learning techniques has empowered malicious actors to use such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Md Washik Al Azad , Shifat Sarwar , Sifat Ut Taki , Spyridon Mastorakis

Motivated by the problem of simultaneously preserving confidentiality and usability of data outsourced to third-party clouds, we present two different database encryption schemes that largely hide data but reveal enough information to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-12 Omar Chowdhury , Deepak Garg , Limin Jia , Anupam Datta

Bisimulation is crucial for verifying process equivalence in probabilistic systems. This paper presents a novel logical framework for analyzing bisimulation in probabilistic parameterized systems, namely, infinite families of finite-state…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Chih-Duo Hong , Anthony W. Lin , Philipp Rümmer , Rupak Majumdar

Anonymous communication networks have emerged as crucial tools for obfuscating communication pathways and concealing user identities. However, their practical deployments face significant challenges, including susceptibility to artificial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chao Ge , Wei Yuan , Ge Chen , Yanbin Pan , Yuan Shen

By enabling multiple agents to cooperatively solve a global optimization problem in the absence of a central coordinator, decentralized stochastic optimization is gaining increasing attention in areas as diverse as machine learning,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Yongqiang Wang , Tamer Basar

Process anonymity has been studied for a long time. Memory anonymity is more recent. In an anonymous memory system, there is no a priori agreement among the processes on the names of the shared registers they access. This article introduces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Michel Raynal , Gadi Taubenfeld

User-driven privacy allows individuals to control whether and at what granularity their data is shared, leading to datasets that mix original, generalized, and missing values within the same records and attributes. While such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lucas Lange , Adrian Böttinger , Victor Christen , Anushka Vidanage , Peter Christen , Erhard Rahm

There is a known tension between the need to analyze personal data to drive business and privacy concerns. Many data protection regulations, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Abigail Goldsteen , Gilad Ezov , Ron Shmelkin , Micha Moffie , Ariel Farkash

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to significantly benefit or harm humanity. At present, a few for-profit companies largely control the development and use of this technology, and therefore determine its outcomes. In an effort…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Casey Clifton , Richard Blythman , Kartika Tulusan

The growing use of voice user interfaces has led to a surge in the collection and storage of speech data. While data collection allows for the development of efficient tools powering most speech services, it also poses serious privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Pierre Champion

The rapid advancement of ML models in critical sectors such as healthcare, finance, and security has intensified the need for robust data security, model integrity, and reliable outputs. Large multimodal foundational models, while crucial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Hongyang Zhang , Yue Zhao , Claudio Angione , Harry Yang , James Buban , Ahmad Farhan , Fielding Johnston , Patrick Colangelo

Anonymizing text that contains sensitive information is crucial for a wide range of applications. Existing techniques face the emerging challenges of the re-identification ability of large language models (LLMs), which have shown advanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Tianyu Yang , Xiaodan Zhu , Iryna Gurevych

The applicability of process mining techniques hinges on the availability of event logs capturing the execution of a business process. In some use cases, particularly those involving customer-facing processes, these event logs may contain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Gamal Elkoumy , Alisa Pankova , Marlon Dumas

Anonymization is a foundational principle of data privacy regulation, yet its practical application remains riddled with ambiguity and inconsistency. This paper introduces the concept of anonymity-washing -- the misrepresentation of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Szivia Lestyán , William Letrone , Ludovica Robustelli , Gergely Biczók

The applicability of process mining techniques hinges on the availability of event logs capturing the execution of a business process. In some use cases, particularly those involving customer-facing processes, these event logs may contain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Gamal Elkoumy , Alisa Pankova , Marlon Dumas

We describe a collection of techniques whereby audiovisual or other recordings of significant events can be made in a way that hinders falsification, pre-dating, or post-dating by interested parties, even by the makers and operators of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Charles H. Bennett