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In this paper, we study the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem, aiming to prevent attackers from stealing the private information of agents. For this purpose, we propose a novel privacy-preserving algorithm based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Bing Liu , Furan Xie , Li Chai

Anonymous Dynamic Networks is a harsh computational environment due to changing topology and lack of identifiers. Computing the size of the network, a problem known as Counting, is particularly challenging because messages received cannot…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Maitri Chakraborty , Alessia Milani , Miguel A. Mosteiro

Synthetic data is often presented as a method for sharing sensitive information in a privacy-preserving manner by reproducing the global statistical properties of the original data without disclosing sensitive information about any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Matteo Giomi , Franziska Boenisch , Christoph Wehmeyer , Borbála Tasnádi

Like many routing protocols, the Tor anonymity network has decentralized path selection, in clients locally and independently choose paths. As a result, network resources may be left idle, leaving the system in a suboptimal state. This is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-14 John Geddes , Mike Schliep , Nicholas Hopper

The Onion Router (Tor) relies on path selection algorithms to balance performance and anonymity by determining how traffic flows through its relay network. As Tor scales and usage patterns evolve, default strategies such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Siddique Abubakr Muntaka , Jacques Bou Abdo

Compression algorithms reduce the redundancy in data representation to decrease the storage required for that data. Data compression offers an attractive approach to reducing communication costs by using available bandwidth effectively.…

Performance · Computer Science 2007-05-23 B. S. Shajeemohan , Dr. V. K. Govindan

Based on the principle of onion routing, the Tor network achieves anonymity for its users by relaying user data over a series of intermediate relays. This approach makes congestion control in the network a challenging task. As of today,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Christoph Döpmann , Felix Fiedler , Sergio Lucia , Florian Tschorsch

Online harassment, incitement to violence, racist behavior, and other harmful content on social media can damage social harmony and even break the law. Traditional blocklisting technologies can block malicious users, but this comes at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Haotian Deng , Mengxuan Liu , Chuan Zhang , Wei Huang , Licheng Wang , Liehuang Zhu

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are one of the most challenging threats to Internet security. An attacker typically compromises a large number of vulnerable hosts and uses them to flood the victim's site with malicious traffic, clogging its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-26 Katerina J. Argyraki , David R. Cheriton

Network data needs to be shared for distributed security analysis. Anonymization of network data for sharing sets up a fundamental tradeoff between privacy protection versus security analysis capability. This privacy/analysis tradeoff has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-10 William Yurcik , Clay Woolam , Greg Hellings , Latifur Khan , Bhavani Thuraisingham

Considering topologies of anonymous networks we used to organizing anonymous communication into hard to trace paths hiding its origin or destination. In anonymity the company is crucial, however the serial transportation imposes a costly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Igor Margasinski

This paper introduces a new attack on recent messaging systems that protect communication metadata. The main observation is that if an adversary manages to compromise a user's friend, it can use this compromised friend to learn information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Sebastian Angel , David Lazar , Ioanna Tzialla

Auditing algorithms' privacy typically involves simulating a game-based protocol that guesses which of two adjacent datasets was the original input. Traditional approaches require thousands of such simulations, leading to significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Di Wang

Increasing awareness of privacy-preserving has led to a strong focus on anonymous systems protecting anonymity. By studying early schemes, we summarize some intractable problems of anonymous systems. Centralization setting is a universal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Renpeng Zou , Xixiang Lv

Anonymity has become a significant issue in security field by recent advances in information technology and internet. The main objective of anonymity is hiding and concealing entities privacy inside a system. Many methods and protocols have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Morteza Yousefi Kharaji , Fatemeh Salehi Rizi

Cryptocurrency systems can be subject to deanonimization attacks by exploiting the network-level communication on their peer-to-peer network. Adversaries who control a set of colluding node(s) within the peer-to-peer network can observe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Piyush Kumar Sharma , Devashish Gosain , Claudia Diaz

This paper proposes a privacy protocol for distributed average consensus algorithms on bounded real-valued inputs that guarantees statistical privacy of honest agents' inputs against colluding (passive adversarial) agents, if the set of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Nirupam Gupta , Jonathan Katz , Nikhil Chopra

Anonymizing sensitive information in user text is essential for privacy, yet existing methods often apply uniform treatment across attributes, which can conflict with communicative intent and obscure necessary information. This is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Weihao Shen , Yaxin Xu , Shuang Li , Wei Chen , Yuqin Lan , Meng Yuan , Fuzhen Zhuang

Anonymous communication systems (ACS) offer privacy and anonymity through the Internet. They are mostly free tools and are popular among users all over the world. In the recent years, anonymity applications faced many problems regarding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Mehran Alidoost Nia , Eduard Babulak , Benjamin Fabian , Reza Ebrahimi Atani

We consider the task of anonymously transmitting a quantum message in a network. We present a protocol that accomplishes this task using the W state and we analyze its performance in a quantum network where some form of noise is present. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Victoria Lipinska , Gláucia Murta , Stephanie Wehner