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Managed TLS has become a common approach for deploying HTTPS, with platforms generating and storing private keys and automating certificate issuance on behalf of domain operators. This model simplifies operational management but shifts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Daniyal Ganiuly , Nurzhau Bolatbek , Assel Smaiyl

Conference key agreement (CKA), or multipartite key distribution, is a cryptographic task where more than two parties wish to establish a common secret key. A composition of bipartite quantum key distribution protocols can accomplish this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Gláucia Murta , Federico Grasselli , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

Cloud computing allows users to view computing in a new direction, as it uses the existing technologies to provide better IT services at low-cost. To offer high QOS to customers according SLA, cloud services broker or cloud service provider…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-13 K. Venkataramana , M. Padmavathamma

As an emerging paradigm in digital identity, Decentralized Identity (DID) appears advantages over traditional identity management methods in a variety of aspects, e.g., enhancing user-centric online services and ensuring complete user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tianxiu Xie , Keke Gai , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu , Bin Xiao

The Messaging Layer security (MLS) and its underlying Continuous Group Key Agreement (CGKA) protocol allows a group of users to share a cryptographic secret in a dynamic manner, such that the secret is modified in member insertions and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 David Soler , Carlos Dafonte , Manuel Fernández-Veiga , Ana Fernández Vilas , Francisco J. Nóvoa

In the Internet of Things and smart environments data, collected from distributed sensors, is typically stored and processed by a central middleware. This allows applications to query the data they need for providing further services.…

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

A peer-to-peer network, enabling different parties to jointly store and run computations on data while keeping the data completely private. Enigma's computational model is based on a highly optimized version of secure multi-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Guy Zyskind , Oz Nathan , Alex Pentland

Decentralized systems are a subset of distributed systems where multiple authorities control different components and no authority is fully trusted by all. This implies that any component in a decentralized system is potentially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Carmela Troncoso , Marios Isaakidis , George Danezis , Harry Halpin

The security of public key validation protocols for web-based applications has recently attracted attention because of weaknesses in the certificate authority model, and consequent attacks. Recent proposals using public logs have succeeded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Jiangshan Yu , Vincent Cheval , Mark Ryan

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have been the industry standard for securing IoT networks against known attacks. To increase the capability of an IDS, researchers proposed the concept of blockchain-based Collaborative-IDS (CIDS), wherein…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Guntur Dharma Putra , Volkan Dedeoglu , Abhinav Pathak , Salil S. Kanhere , Raja Jurdak

EdDSA is a standardised elliptic curve digital signature scheme introduced to overcome some of the issues prevalent in the more established ECDSA standard. Due to the EdDSA standard specifying that the EdDSA signature be deterministic, if…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Sam Grierson , Konstantinos Chalkias , William J Buchanan , Leandros Maglaras

We present F-PKI, an enhancement to the HTTPS public-key infrastructure (or web PKI) that gives trust flexibility to both clients and domain owners, and enables certification authorities (CAs) to enforce stronger security measures. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Laurent Chuat , Cyrill Krähenbühl , Prateek Mittal , Adrian Perrig

We describe TrustBase, an architecture that provides certificate-based authentication as an operating system service. TrustBase enforces best practices for certificate validation for all applications and transparently enables existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Mark O'Neill , Scott Heidbrink , Jordan Whitehead , Scott Ruoti , Dan Bunker , Kent Seamons , Daniel Zappala

Conference Key Agreement (CKA) is a cryptographic effort of multiple parties to establish a shared secret key. In future quantum networks, generating secret keys in an anonymous way is of tremendous importance for parties that want to keep…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Frederik Hahn , Jarn de Jong , Anna Pappa

Identity and trust in the modern Internet are centralized around an oligopoly of identity service providers consisting solely of major tech companies. The problem with centralizing trust has become evident in recent discoveries of mass…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Martin Schanzenbach , Christian Banse , Julian Schütte

Key escrow refers to storing a copy of a cryptographic key with a trusted third party, typically a government agency or some other organization. Key escrow aims to ensure that law enforcement agencies can access encrypted data when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Mahender Kumar

We propose a secure computation solution for blockchain networks. The correctness of computation is verifiable even under malicious majority condition using information-theoretic Message Authentication Code (MAC), and the privacy is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Derek Zhang , Alex Su , Felix Xu , Jiang Chen

Internet security and privacy stand on the trustworthiness of public certificates signed by Certificate Authorities (CAs). However, software products do not trust the same CAs and therefore maintain different root stores, each typically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Nikita Korzhitskii , Niklas Carlsson

Password-authenticated identities, where users establish username-password pairs with individual servers and use them later on for authentication, is the most widespread user authentication method over the Internet. Although they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Pawel Szalachowski

In decentralized federated learning (FL), multiple clients collaboratively learn a shared machine learning (ML) model by leveraging their privately held datasets distributed across the network, through interactive exchange of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Shuangyang Li , Kai Wan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Giuseppe Caire