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Quantum homomorphic encryption is the corresponding technology of classical homomorphic encryption in the quantum field. Due to its ability to ensure the correctness of computation and the security of data, it is particularly suitable for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Zhen-Zhen Li , Ming-Kui Liu , Wen-Ling Yang , Bo Gao , Zi-Chen Li

This paper considers the problem of single-server Private Computation (PC) in the presence of Side Information (SI). In this problem, there is a server that stores $K$ i.i.d. messages, and a user who has a subset of $M$ uncoded messages or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

PageRank is a well-known centrality measure for the web used in search engines, representing the importance of each web page. In this paper, we follow the line of recent research on the development of distributed algorithms for computation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Atsushi Suzuki , Hideaki Ishii

In many practical settings, the user needs to retrieve information from a server in a periodic manner, over multiple rounds of communication. In this paper, we discuss the setting in which this information needs to be retrieved privately,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Fatemeh Kazemi , Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

We consider the problem of computing an aggregation function in a \emph{secure} and \emph{scalable} way. Whereas previous distributed solutions with similar security guarantees have a communication cost of $O(n^3)$, we present a distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Sebastien Gambs , Rachid Guerraoui , Hamza Harkous , Florian Huc , Anne-Marie Kermarrec

Threshold aggregation reporting systems promise a practical, privacy-preserving solution for developers to learn how their applications are used "\emph{in-the-wild}". Unfortunately, proposed systems to date prove impractical for wide scale…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Alex Davidson , Peter Snyder , E. B. Quirk , Joseph Genereux , Benjamin Livshits , Hamed Haddadi

Due to the great development of secure multi-party computation, many practical secure computation schemes have been proposed. As an example, different secure auction mechanisms have been widely studied, which can protect bid privacy while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Zhili Chen , Xin Chen

A typical setup in many machine learning scenarios involves a server that holds a model and a user that possesses data, and the challenge is to perform inference while safeguarding the privacy of both parties. Private Inference has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zirui Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Rawad Bitar , Netanel Raviv

To construct a quantum network with many end users, it is critical to have a cost-efficient way to distribute entanglement over different network ends. We demonstrate an entanglement access network, where the expensive resource, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 X. Y. Chang , D. L. Deng , X. X. Yuan , P. Y. Hou , Y. Y. Huang , L. M. Duan

Privacy-preserving techniques for distributed computation have been proposed recently as a promising framework in collaborative inter-domain network monitoring. Several different approaches exist to solve such class of problems, e.g.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-01-31 Fabio Ricciato , Martin Burkhart

The growing complexity of Internet of Things (IoT) environments, particularly in cross-domain data sharing, presents significant security challenges. Existing data-sharing schemes often rely on computationally expensive cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Kexian Liu , Jianfeng Guan , Xiaolong Hu , Jianli Liu , Hongke Zhang

In secure multiparty computation (MPC), mutually distrusting users collaborate to compute a function of their private data without revealing any additional information about their data to other users. While it is known that information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deepesh Data , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Manoj M. Prabhakaran

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) allows parties to perform computations on data while keeping that data private. This capability has great potential for machine-learning applications: it facilitates training of machine-learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Brian Knott , Shobha Venkataraman , Awni Hannun , Shubho Sengupta , Mark Ibrahim , Laurens van der Maaten

We propose a new algorithm for k-means clustering in a distributed setting, where the data is distributed across many machines, and a coordinator communicates with these machines to calculate the output clustering. Our algorithm guarantees…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Tom Hess , Ron Visbord , Sivan Sabato

The development of large-scale distributed control systems has led to the outsourcing of costly computations to cloud-computing platforms, as well as to concerns about privacy of the collected sensitive data. This paper develops a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Andreea B. Alexandru , Konstantinos Gatsis , Yasser Shoukry , Sanjit A. Seshia , Paulo Tabuada , George J. Pappas

As far as we know, the literature on secure computation from cut-and-choose has focused on achieving computational security against malicious adversaries. It is unclear whether the idea of cut-and-choose can be adapted to secure computation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Zhili Chen

Secure multiparty computation enables the joint evaluation of multivariate functions across distributed users while ensuring the privacy of their local inputs. This field has become increasingly urgent due to the exploding demand for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Kfir Sulimany , Sri Krishna Vadlamani , Ryan Hamerly , Prahlad Iyengar , Dirk Englund

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

We develop techniques to analyse the statistics of completion times of non-deterministic elements in quantum entanglement generation, and how they affect the overall performance as measured by the secret key rate. By considering such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Scott E. Vinay , Pieter Kok

Anonymity in networked communication is vital for many privacy-preserving tasks. Secure key distribution alone is insufficient for high-security communications, often knowing who transmits a message to whom and when must also be kept hidden…