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Comprehensively retrieving diverse documents is crucial to address queries that admit a wide range of valid answers. We introduce retrieve-verify-retrieve (RVR), a multi-round retrieval framework designed to maximize answer coverage.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Deniz Qian , Hung-Ting Chen , Eunsol Choi

This work introduces the \emph{Secure and Private Structured-Subset Retrieval (SPSSR)} problem. In SPSSR, a user wishes to retrieve one subset from an arbitrary family of size-$D$ subsets from $K$ messages replicated across $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

The present paper introduces a practical protocol for provably secure, outsourced computation. Our protocol minimizes overhead for verification by requiring solutions to withstand an interactive game between a prover and challenger. For…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Sanjay Jain , Prateek Saxena , Frank Stephan , Jason Teutsch

The emergence of cloud computing provides a new computing paradigm for users -- massive and complex computing tasks can be outsourced to cloud servers. However, the privacy issues also follow. Fully homomorphic encryption shows great…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Lizhi Xiong , Wenhao Zhou , Zhihua Xia , Qi Gu , Jian Weng

We describe scalable protocols for solving the secure multi-party computation (MPC) problem among a large number of parties. We consider both the synchronous and the asynchronous communication models. In the synchronous setting, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Varsha Dani , Valerie King , Mahnush Movahedi , Jared Saia , Mahdi Zamani

As cryptographic tokens and altcoins are increasingly being built to serve as utility tokens, the notion of useful work consensus protocols, as opposed to number-crunching PoW consensus, is becoming ever more important. In such contexts,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Michał Król , Alberto Sonnino , Mustafa Al-Bassam , Argyrios Tasiopoulos , Ioannis Psaras

We present efficient and practical algorithms for a large, distributed system of processors to achieve reliable computations in a secure manner. Specifically, we address the problem of computing a general function of several private inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Donald Rozinak Beaver

A growing framework of legal and ethical requirements limit scientific and commercial evalua-tion of personal data. Typically, pseudonymization, encryption, or methods of distributed com-puting try to protect individual privacy. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Nikolaus von Bomhard , Bernd Ahlborn , Catherine Mason , Ulrich Mansmann

In a proof of knowledge (PoK), a verifier becomes convinced that a prover possesses privileged information. In combination with zero-knowledge proof systems, PoKs play an important role in security protocols such as in digital signatures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Anne Broadbent , Alex B. Grilo , Nagisa Hara , Arthur Mehta

Data attribution methods aim to answer useful counterfactual questions like "what would a ML model's prediction be if it were trained on a different dataset?" However, estimation of data attribution models through techniques like empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ari Karchmer , Martin Pawelczyk , Seth Neel

Private information retrieval (PIR) protocols make it possible to retrieve a file from a database without disclosing any information about the identity of the file being retrieved. These protocols have been rigorously explored from an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eitan Yaakobi

In this work, we consider the problem of secure multi-party computation (MPC), consisting of $\Gamma$ sources, each has access to a large private matrix, $N$ processing nodes or workers, and one data collector or master. The master is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Seyed Reza Hoseini Najarkolaei , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Mohammad Reza Aref

Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) can improve the security and privacy of data owners while allowing analysts to perform high quality analytics. Secure aggregation is a secure distributed mechanism to support federated deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Timothy Stevens , Joseph Near , Christian Skalka

In this paper we're going to explore the ways in which security proofs can fail, and their broader lessons for security engineering. To mention just one example, Larry Paulson proved the security of SSL/TLS using his theorem prover Isabelle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ross Anderson , Nicholas Boucher

As an important type of cloud data, digital provenance is arousing increasing attention on improving system performance. Currently, provenance has been employed to provide cues regarding access control and to estimate data quality. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Xinyu Fan , Faen Zhang , Jiahong Wu , Jingming Guo

In a Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol, a user can download a file from a database without revealing the identity of the file to each individual server. A PIR protocol is called $t$-private if the identity of the file remains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Netanel Raviv , Itzhak Tamo , Eitan Yaakobi

Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMC) allows parties with similar background to compute results upon their private data, minimizing the threat of disclosure. The exponential increase in sensitive data that needs to be passed upon networked…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-08-10 Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra , Neha Koria , Nikhil Kapoor , Ravish Bahety

In recent years, secure multiparty computation (SMC) advanced from a theoretical technique to a practically applicable technology. Several frameworks were proposed of which some are still actively developed. We perform a first comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Marcel von Maltitz , Georg Carle

We introduce quantitative usability and security models to guide the design of password management schemes --- systematic strategies to help users create and remember multiple passwords. In the same way that security proofs in cryptography…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Jeremiah Blocki , Manuel Blum , Anupam Datta

Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is an important enabling technology for data privacy in modern distributed applications. Currently, proof methods for low-level MPC protocols are primarily manual and thus tedious and error-prone, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Christian Skalka , Joseph P. Near