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Offline attacks on passwords are increasingly commonplace and dangerous. An offline adversary is limited only by the amount of computational resources he or she is willing to invest to crack a user's password. The danger is compounded by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Jeremiah Blocki , Anirudh Sridhar

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a prominent notion for privacy-preserving data collection. While numerous LDP protocols and post-processing (PP) methods have been developed, selecting an optimal combination under different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Berkay Kemal Balioglu , Alireza Khodaie , Mehmet Emre Gursoy

The growing use of machine learning in cloud environments raises critical concerns about data security and privacy, especially in finance. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) offers a solution by enabling computations on encrypted data, but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Faneela , Baraq Ghaleb , Jawad Ahmad , William J. Buchanan , Sana Ullah Jan

Local differential privacy (LDP) has recently gained prominence as a powerful paradigm for collecting and analyzing sensitive data from users' devices. However, the inherent perturbation added by LDP protocols reduces the utility of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Alireza Khodaie , Berkay Kemal Balioglu , Mehmet Emre Gursoy

This paper introduces an efficient and spontaneous privacy-preserving protocol for vehicular ad-hoc networks based on revocable ring signature. The proposed protocol has three appealing characteristics: First, it offers conditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-10 Hu Xiong , Matei Ripeanu , Zhiguang Qin

Preventing abusive activities caused by adversaries accessing online services at a rate exceeding that expected by websites has become an ever-increasing problem. CAPTCHAs and SMS authentication are widely used to provide a solution by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Kosei Akama , Yoshimichi Nakatsuka , Masaaki Sato , Keisuke Uehara

System logs constitute valuable information for analysis and diagnosis of system behavior. The size of parallel computing systems and the number of their components steadily increase. The volume of generated logs by the system is in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Siavash Ghiasvand , Florina M. Ciorba

We show how group discounts can be offered without forcing buyers to surrender their anonymity, as long as buyers can use their own computing devices (e.g. smartphone, tablet or computer) to perform a purchase. Specifically, we present a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

We firstly suggest privacy protection cache policy applying the duty to delete personal information on a hybrid main memory system. This cache policy includes generating random data and overwriting the random data into the personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Na-Young Ahn , Donghoon Lee

Communication and privacy are two critical concerns in distributed learning. Many existing works treat these concerns separately. In this work, we argue that a natural connection exists between methods for communication reduction and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Tian Li , Zaoxing Liu , Vyas Sekar , Virginia Smith

With the rapid increase in computing, storage and networking resources, data is not only collected and stored, but also analyzed. This creates a serious privacy problem which often inhibits the use of this data. In this chapter, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Yuan Hong , Jaideep Vaidya , Nicholas Rizzo , Qi Liu

Privacy-aware processing of personal data on the web of services requires managing a number of issues arising both from the technical and the legal domain. Several approaches have been proposed to matching privacy requirements (on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Marco Anisetti , Claudio A. Ardagna , Michele Bezzi , Ernesto Damiani , Antonino Sabetta

In the \emph{shuffle model} of differential privacy, data-holding users send randomized messages to a secure shuffler, the shuffler permutes the messages, and the resulting collection of messages must be differentially private with regard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Victor Balcer , Albert Cheu , Matthew Joseph , Jieming Mao

Federated Learning enables a population of clients, working with a trusted server, to collaboratively learn a shared machine learning model while keeping each client's data within its own local systems. This reduces the risk of exposing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-13 David Byrd , Antigoni Polychroniadou

The shuffle model is recently proposed to address the issue of severe utility loss in Local Differential Privacy (LDP) due to distributed data randomization.In the shuffle model, a shuffler is utilized to break the link between the user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Xiaochen Li , Weiran Liu , Hanwen Feng , Kunzhe Huang , Jinfei Liu , Kui Ren , Zhan Qin

Recent studies have revealed severe privacy risks in federated learning, represented by Gradient Leakage Attacks. However, existing studies mainly aim at increasing the privacy attack success rate and overlook the high computation costs for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Nawrin Tabassum , Ka-Ho Chow , Xuyu Wang , Wenbin Zhang , Yanzhao Wu

Privacy was one of the key points mentioned in Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper, and one of the selling points of Bitcoin in its early stages. In hindsight, however, de-anonymising Bitcoin users turned out to be more feasible than expected.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Sarah Azouvi , Haaroon Yousaf , Alexander Hicks

In today's world of E-Commerce everything comes online like Music, E-Books, Shopping all most everything is online. If you are using some service or buying things online then you have to pay for that. For that you have to do Net Banking or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Vishal Vadgama , Bhavin Tanti , Chirag Modi , Nishant Doshi

In order to receive personalized services, individuals share their personal data with a wide range of service providers, hoping that their data will remain confidential. Thus, in case of an unauthorized distribution of their personal data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Emre Yilmaz , Erman Ayday

Using the computational resources of an untrusted third party to crack a password hash can pose a high number of privacy and security risks. The act of revealing the hash digest could in itself negatively impact both the data subject who…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Norbert Tihanyi , Tamas Bisztray , Bertalan Borsos , Sebastien Raveau