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One-time programs (OTPs) aim to let a user evaluate a program on a single input while revealing nothing else. Classical OTPs require hardware assumptions, and even with quantum information, OTPs for deterministic functionalities remain…

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Be it for a malicious or legitimate purpose, packing, a transformation that consists in applying various operations like compression or encryption to a binary file, i.e. for making reverse engineering harder or obfuscating code, is widely…

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Motivated by the applications of secure multiparty computation as a privacy-protecting data analysis tool, and identifying oblivious transfer as one of its main practical enablers, we propose a practical realization of randomized quantum…

Malware checking is changing from being a local service to a cloud-assisted one where users' devices query a cloud server, which hosts a dictionary of malware signatures, to check if particular applications are potentially malware. Whilst…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Sandeep Tamrakar , Jian Liu , Andrew Paverd , Jan-Erik Ekberg , Benny Pinkas , N. Asokan

Cryptographic Protocols (CP) are distributed algorithms intended for secure communication in an insecure environment. They are used, for example, in electronic payments, electronic voting procedures, systems of confidential data processing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Andrew M. Mironov

When optimizing software for the cloud, monolithic applications need to be partitioned into many smaller *microservices*. While many tools have been proposed for this task, we warn that the evaluation of those approaches has been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Rahul Yedida , Rahul Krishna , Anup Kalia , Tim Menzies , Jin Xiao , Maja Vukovic

The Internet of Things (IoT) being a promising technology of the future is expected to connect billions of devices. The increased number of communication is expected to generate mountains of data and the security of data can be a threat.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Muhammad Usman , Irfan Ahmed , M. Imran Aslam , Shujaat Khan , Usman Ali Shah

The monolithic nature of widely used commodity operating systems means that vulnerabilities in one software component potentially compromise the entire kernel. Formally verifying these systems, or redesigning them altogether as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shriram Raja , Zhiyuan Ruan , Richard West

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a fundamental problem in secure distributed computing. An MPC protocol allows a set of $n$ mutually distrusting parties to carry out any joint computation of their private inputs, without disclosing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Ananya Appan , Anirudh Chandramouli , Ashish Choudhury

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

Rust is a popular memory-safe systems programming language. In order to interact with hardware or call into non-Rust libraries, Rust provides \emph{unsafe} language features that shift responsibility for ensuring memory safety to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Merve Gülmez , Thomas Nyman , Christoph Baumann , Jan Tobias Mühlberg

The open-source Helix++ project improves the security posture of computing platforms by applying cutting-edge cybersecurity techniques to diversify and harden software automatically. A distinguishing feature of Helix++ is that it does not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jack W. Davidson , Jason D. Hiser , Anh Nguyen-Tuong

With the increasing deployment of generative machine learning models in privacy-sensitive domains such as healthcare and personalized services, ensuring secure inference has become a critical challenge. Secure multi-party computation (MPC)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tianpei Lu , Bingsheng Zhang , Lekun Peng , Bowen Zheng , Lichun Li , Kui Ren

Methods of quantum mechanics promise information-theoretic security for various protocols in cryptography. However, impossibility of some cryptographic applications such as standard bit commitment, oblivious transfer, multiparty secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Muhammad Nadeem

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

We propose a novel approach to improving software security called Cryptographic Path Hardening, which is aimed at hiding security vulnerabilities in software from attackers through the use of provably secure and obfuscated cryptographic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Vijay Ganesh , Michael Carbin , Martin Rinard

Secure multiparty computation enables collaborative computations across multiple users while preserving individual privacy, which has a wide range of applications in finance, machine learning and healthcare. Secure multiparty computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Kai-Yi Zhang , An-Jing Huang , Kun Tu , Ming-Han Li , Chi Zhang , Wei Qi , Ya-Dong Wu , Yu Yu

Modern IoT and embedded platforms must start execution from a known trusted state to thwart malware, ensure secure firmware updates, and protect critical infrastructure. Current approaches to establish a root of trust depend on secret keys…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Friedrich Doku , Peter Dinda

A cryptographic protocol (CP) is a distributed algorithm designed to provide a secure communication in an insecure environment. CPs are used, for example, in electronic payments, electronic voting procedures, database access systems, etc.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-25 A. M. Mironov

In classical two-party computation, a trusted initializer who prepares certain initial correlations, known as one-time tables, can help make the inputs of both parties information-theoretically secure. We propose some bipartite quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Li Yu