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Security of the three-party quantum secret sharing (QSS) schemes based on entanglement and a collective eavesdropping check is analyzed in the case of considerable quantum channel losses. An opaque attack scheme is presented for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fu-Guo Deng , Xi-Han Li , Hong-Yu Zhou

Matrix multiplication is one of the key operations in various engineering applications. Outsourcing large-scale matrix multiplication tasks to multiple distributed servers or cloud is desirable to speed up computation. However, security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Wei-Ting Chang , Ravi Tandon

The increasing adoption of Cloud storage poses a number of privacy issues. Users wish to preserve full control over their sensitive data and cannot accept that it to be accessible by the remote storage provider. Previous research was made…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Ernesto Damiani , Francesco Pagano , Davide Pagano

Web query log data contain information useful to research; however, release of such data can re-identify the search engine users issuing the queries. These privacy concerns go far beyond removing explicitly identifying information such as…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-12-06 Amin Milani Fard , Ke Wang

Analysts and scientists are interested in querying streams of video, audio, and text to extract quantitative insights. For example, an urban planner may wish to measure congestion by querying the live feed from a traffic camera. Prior work…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Matthew Russo , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Daniel Kang , Yi Sun , Matei Zaharia

The paper studies how to release data about a critical infrastructure network (e.g., the power network or a transportation network) without disclosing sensitive information that can be exploited by malevolent agents, while preserving the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Ferdinando Fioretto , Terrence W. K. Mak , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Algorithms for oblivious random access machine (ORAM) simulation allow a client, Alice, to obfuscate a pattern of data accesses with a server, Bob, who is maintaining Alice's outsourced data while trying to learn information about her data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Michael T. Goodrich

Order-preserving encryption (OPE) is a fundamental cryptographic tool for enabling efficient range queries on encrypted data in outsourced databases. Despite its importance, existing OPE schemes face critical limitations that hinder their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Baiqiang Wang , Dongfang Zhao

This paper introduces AGAPECert, an Auditable, Generalized, Automated, Privacy-Enabling, Certification framework capable of performing auditable computation on private data and reporting real-time aggregate certification status without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Servio Palacios , Aaron Ault , James V. Krogmeier , Bharat Bhargava , Christopher G. Brinton

In the classical multi-party computation setting, multiple parties jointly compute a function without revealing their own input data. We consider a variant of this problem, where the input data can be shared for machine learning training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Chenwei Wu , Chenzhuang Du , Yang Yuan

In this paper, we investigate a class of information-flow security properties called opacity in partial-observed discrete-event systems. Roughly speaking, a system is said to be opaque if the intruder, which is modeled by a passive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Bohan Cui , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li , Alessandro Giua

Data obfuscation is a promising technique for mitigating attribute inference attacks by semi-trusted parties with access to time-series data emitted by sensors. Recent advances leverage conditional generative models together with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xin Yang , Omid Ardakanian

Program obfuscation is a widely employed approach for software intellectual property protection. However, general obfuscation methods (e.g., lexical obfuscation, control obfuscation) implemented in mainstream obfuscation tools are heuristic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Hui Xu , Yangfan Zhou , Yu Kang , Michael R. Lyu

Feature selection is a technique that extracts a meaningful subset from a set of features in training data. When the training data is large-scale, appropriate feature selection enables the removal of redundant features, which can improve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Koki Wakiyama , Tomohiro I , Hiroshi Sakamoto

The enforcement of sensitive policies in untrusted environments is still an open challenge for policy-based systems. On the one hand, taking any appropriate security decision requires access to these policies. On the other hand, if such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Muhammad Rizwan Asghar

Trusted execution environment (TEE) has provided an isolated and secure environment for building cloud-based analytic systems, but it still suffers from access pattern leakages caused by side-channel attacks. To better secure the data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yilei Wang , Xiangdong Zeng , Sheng Wang , Feifei Li

Secure outsourced computation is critical for cloud computing to safeguard data confidentiality and ensure data usability. Recently, secure outsourced computation schemes following a twin-server architecture based on partially homomorphic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Bowen Zhao , Weiquan Deng , Xiaoguo Li , Ximeng Liu , Qingqi Pei , Robert H. Deng

Image security for information has become increasingly critical as internet become more prevalent due to hacking and unauthorized access. To ensure the security of confidential image data, image encryption using visual cryptography plays a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Dipak K. Rabari , Yogesh K. Meghrajani , Laxmi S. Desai

Passive operating system fingerprinting reveals valuable information to the defenders of heterogeneous private networks; at the same time, attackers can use fingerprinting to reconnoiter networks, so defenders need obfuscation techniques to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Blake Anderson , David McGrew

The enforcement of security policies in outsourced environments is still an open challenge for policy-based systems. On the one hand, taking the appropriate security decision requires access to the policies. However, if such access is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-21 Muhammad Rizwan Asghar , Mihaela Ion , Giovanni Russello , Bruno Crispo