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Analyses that fulfill differential privacy provide plausible deniability to individuals while allowing analysts to extract insights from data. However, beyond an often acceptable accuracy tradeoff, these statistical disclosure techniques…

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In this paper we present reclaimID: An architecture that allows users to reclaim their digital identities by securely sharing identity attributes without the need for a centralised service provider. We propose a design where user attributes…

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Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge (NIZK) proofs, such as zkSNARKS, let one prove knowledge of private data without revealing it or interacting with a verifier. While existing tooling focuses on specifying the predicate to be proven, real-world…

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Training contemporary AI models requires investment in procuring learning data and computing resources, making the models intellectual property of the owners. Popular model watermarking solutions rely on key input triggers for detection;…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Nojan Sheybani , Zahra Ghodsi , Ritvik Kapila , Farinaz Koushanfar

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are central to secure and privacy-preserving computation, with zk-SNARKs and zk-STARKs emerging as leading frameworks offering distinct trade-offs in efficiency, scalability, and trust assumptions. While their…

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Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) have emerged as an important cryptographic technique allowing one party (prover) to prove the correctness of a statement to some other party (verifier) and nothing else. ZKPs give rise to user's privacy in many…

While the amount of data produced and accumulated continues to advance at unprecedented rates, protection and concealment of data increase its prominence as a field of scientific study that requires more action. It is essential to protect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Cansu Betin Onur

Digital transactions currently exceed trillions of dollars annually, yet traditional paper-based agreements remain a bottleneck for automation, enforceability, and dispute resolution. Natural language contracts introduce ambiguity, require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 To-Wen Liu , Matthew Green

Payment channel network (PCN) is a layer-two scaling solution that enables fast off-chain transactions but does not involve on-chain transaction settlement. PCNs raise new privacy issues including balance secrecy, relationship anonymity and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Wenxuan Yu , Minghui Xu , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng , Qin Hu , Zehui Xiong

The increasing deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military, commercial, and logistics applications has raised significant concerns regarding flight path privacy. Conventional UAV communication systems often expose flight path…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Shayesta Naziri , Xu Wang , Guangsheng Yu , Christy Jie Liang , Wei Ni

The recent surge in artificial intelligence (AI), characterized by the prominence of large language models (LLMs), has ushered in fundamental transformations across the globe. However, alongside these advancements, concerns surrounding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Haochen Sun , Jason Li , Hongyang Zhang

Currently, when a security analyst discovers a vulnerability in critical software system, they must navigate a fraught dilemma: immediately disclosing the vulnerability to the public could harm the system's users; whereas disclosing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Santiago Cuéllar , Bill Harris , James Parker , Stuart Pernsteiner , Eran Tromer

The current humanitarian health crisis popularized the debate on data privacy. At the same time, several cities, states, and even countries put the mandatory presentation of health pass to access services into practice. In this article, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Mauricio de Vasconcelos Barros , Frederico Schardong , Ricardo Felipe Custódio

Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Identity from trusted public certificates (e.g., national identity cards and/or ePassports; eSIM) is introduced here to permissionless blockchains in order to remove the inefficiencies of Sybil-resistant mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 David Cerezo Sánchez

Digital identity is unsolved: after many years of research there is still no trusted communication over the Internet. To provide identity within the context of mutual distrust, this paper presents a blockchain-based digital identity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Quinten Stokkink , Johan Pouwelse

Verifiable credentials are a digital analogue of physical credentials. Their authenticity and integrity are protected by means of cryptographic techniques, and they can be presented to verifiers to reveal attributes or even predicates about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Andrea Flamini , Giada Sciarretta , Mario Scuro , Amir Sharif , Alessandro Tomasi , Silvio Ranise

Zero-knowledge proofs allow verification of computations without revealing private information. However, existing systems require memory proportional to the computation size, which has historically limited use in large-scale applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Logan Nye

Generative AI, exemplified by models like transformers, has opened up new possibilities in various domains but also raised concerns about fairness, transparency and reliability, especially in fields like medicine and law. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Bianca-Mihaela Ganescu , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that allows a prover to convince a verifier of the validity of a statement without leaking any further information. As an efficient variant of ZKP, non-interactive…

This paper describes techniques to help with COVID-19 automated contact tracing, and with the restoration efforts. We describe a decentralized protocol for ``proof-of-contact'' in zero knowledge where a person can publish a short…

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