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Large Language Model (LLM) agents have achieved rapid adoption and demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of applications. To improve reasoning and task execution, modern LLM agents would incorporate memory modules or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xingyu Lyu , Jianfeng He , Ning Wang , Yidan Hu , Tao Li , Danjue Chen , Shixiong Li , Yimin Chen

Anonymity is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that hides the identities of both senders and receivers during message transmission over a network. Classical protocols cannot provide information-theoretic security for such task, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Srijani Das , Manasi Patra , Tuhin Paul , Anish Majumdar , Ramij Rahaman

Data mining services require accurate input data for their results to be meaningful, but privacy concerns may influence users to provide spurious information. To encourage users to provide correct inputs, we recently proposed a data…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Shipra Agrawal , Vijay Krishnan , Jayant Haritsa

Unlike suggested during their early years of existence, Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies in fact offer significantly less privacy as compared to traditional banking. A myriad of privacy-enhancing extensions to those cryptocurrencies as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Christiane Kuhn , Aniket Kate , Thorsten Strufe

Today, the publication of microdata poses a privacy threat. Vast research has striven to define the privacy condition that microdata should satisfy before it is released, and devise algorithms to anonymize the data so as to achieve this…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Jianneng Cao , Panagiotis Karras

Public access to digital data can turn out to be a cause of undesirable information disclosure. That's why it is vital to somehow protect the data before publishing. There exist two main subclasses of such a task, namely, providing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-11-05 Oleg Chertov , Dan Tavrov

We present a distributed average consensus protocol that preserves the privacy of agents' inputs. Unlike the differential privacy mechanisms, the presented protocol does not affect the accuracy of the output. It is shown that the protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Nirupam Gupta , Jonathan Katz , Nikhil Chopra

Network-based attacks on control systems may alter sensor data delivered to the controller, effectively causing degradation in control performance. As a result, having access to accurate state estimates, even in the presence of attacks on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Amir Khazraei , Miroslav Pajic

The Tor anonymity network allows users such as political activists and those under repressive governments to protect their privacy when communicating over the internet. At the same time, Tor has been demonstrated to be vulnerable to several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Rachel King , Quinn Burke , Yohan Beugin , Blaine Hoak , Kunyang Li , Eric Pauley , Ryan Sheatsley , Patrick McDaniel

Latency is a key indicator of Internet service performance. Continuously tracking the latency of client requests enables service operators to quickly identify bottlenecks, perform adaptive resource allocation or routing, and mitigate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Bhavana Vannarth Shobhana , Yen-lin Chien , Jonathan Diamant , Badri Nath , Shir Landau Feibish , Srinivas Narayana

The Tor network is the most prominent system for providing anonymous communication to web users, with a daily user base of 2 million users. However, since its inception, it has been constantly targeted by various traffic fingerprinting and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Christoph Sendner , Jasper Stang , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Raveen Wijewickrama , Murtuza Jadliwala

Mixes, relaying routers that hide the relation between incoming and outgoing messages, are the main building block of high-latency anonymous communication networks. A number of so-called disclosure attacks have been proposed to effectively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Fernando Pérez-González , Carmela Troncoso , Simon Oya

Parallel to our physical activities our virtual presence also leaves behind our unique digital fingerprints, while navigating on the Internet. These digital fingerprints have the potential to unveil users' activities encompassing browsing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Blerim Rexha , Arbena Musa , Kamer Vishi , Edlira Martiri

This paper describes the problem of securing data by making it disappear after some time limit, making it impossible for it to be recovered by an unauthorized party. This method is in response to the need to keep the data secured and to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-13 Prashant Pilla

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

Network operators are reluctant to share traffic data due to security and privacy concerns. Consequently, there is a lack of publicly available traces for validating and generalizing the latest results in network and security research.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-03-26 Martin Burkhart , Daniela Brauckhoff , Martin May , Elisa Boschi

A firm seeks to analyze a dataset and to release the results. The dataset contains information about individual people, and the firm is subject to some regulation that forbids the release of the dataset itself. The regulation also imposes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Aloni Cohen , Micah Altman , Francesca Falzon , Evangelina Anna Markatou , Kobbi Nissim

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

The development of artificial intelligence has significantly transformed people's lives. However, it has also posed a significant threat to privacy and security, with numerous instances of personal information being exposed online and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Le Yang , Miao Tian , Duan Xin , Qishuo Cheng , Jiajian Zheng

Attacks, including the manipulation of sensor readings and the modification of actuator commands, pose a significant challenge to the security and privacy of automated systems. This paper considers discrete event systems that can be modeled…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis