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The rapid proliferation of IoT nodes equipped with microphones and capable of performing on-device audio classification exposes highly sensitive data while operating under tight resource constraints. To protect against this, we present a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sergio Benlloch-Lopez , Miquel Viel-Vazquez , Javier Naranjo-Alcazar , Jordi Grau-Haro , Pedro Zuccarello

The growing adoption of IoT devices in our daily life is engendering a data deluge, mostly private information that needs careful maintenance and secure storage system to ensure data integrity and protection. Also, the prodigious IoT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Md Shihabul Islam , Mustafa Safa Ozdayi , Latifur Khan , Murat Kantarcioglu

INTRODUCTION: The proliferation of the amalgamation of IoT and edge computing has increased the demand for decentralised trust and security mechanisms capable of operating across heterogeneous and resource-limited devices. Approaches such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Khandoker Ashik Uz Zaman , Mahdi H. Miraz , Mohammed N. M. Ali

In this paper, we propose a novel class of symmetric key distribution protocols that leverages basic security primitives offered by low-cost, hardware chipsets containing millions of synchronized self-powered timers. The keys are derived…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mustafizur Rahman , Liang Zhou , Shantanu Chakrabartty

This paper analyzes the security of the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT). The main objective consists of identifying vulnerabilities and proposing security improvements.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ricardo Venâncio , Clarisse Sousa , Filipe Duarte , Luís Ribeiro

Modern applications often operate on data in multiple administrative domains. In this federated setting, participants may not fully trust each other. These distributed applications use transactions as a core mechanism for ensuring…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Isaac Sheff , Tom Magrino , Jed Liu , Andrew C. Myers , Robbert van Renesse

Secure aggregation, which is a core component of federated learning, aggregates locally trained models from distributed users at a central server. The ``secure'' nature of such aggregation consists of the fact that no information about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Kai Wan , Xin Yao , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Several efforts have been seen claiming the lightweight block ciphers as a necessarily suitable substitute in securing the Internet of Things. Currently, it has been able to envisage as a pervasive frame of reference almost all across the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ziaur Rahman , Xun Yi , Ibrahim Khalil , Mousumi Sumi

The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things has intensified demand for robust privacy-preserving machine learning mechanisms to safeguard sensitive data generated by large-scale, heterogeneous, and resource-constrained devices. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zakia Zaman , Praveen Gauravaram , Mahbub Hassan , Sanjay Jha , Wen Hu

Internet of Things means connecting different devices through the Internet. The Internet of things enables humans to remotely manage and control the objects they use with the Internet infrastructure. After the advent of the Internet of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Maryam Ataei Nezhad , Hamid Barati , Ali Barati

The classical distributed key generation protocols (DKG) are resurging due to their widespread applications in blockchain. While efforts have been made to improve DKG communication, practical large-scale deployments are still yet to come…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Hanwen Feng , Tiancheng Mai , Qiang Tang

Security risk assessment and prediction are critical for organisations deploying Internet of Things (IoT) devices. An absolute minimum requirement for enterprises is to verify the security risk of IoT devices for the reported…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Carlos A. Rivera Alvarez , Arash Shaghaghi , David D. Nguyen , Salil S. Kanhere

IoT systems are growing larger and larger and are becoming suitable for basic automation tasks. One of the features IoT automation systems can provide is dealing with a dynamic system -- Devices leaving and joining the system during…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Jan Seeger , Rohit A. Deshmukh , Arne Bröring

Users of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are often unaware of their security risks and cannot sufficiently factor security considerations into their device selection. This puts networks, infrastructure and users at risk. We developed and…

Secure communication makes the widespread use of telecommunication networks and services possible. With the constant progress of computing and mathematics, new cryptographic methods are being diligently developed. Quantum Key Distribution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Emir Dervisevic , Amina Tankovic , Ehsan Fazel , Ramana Kompella , Peppino Fazio , Miroslav Voznak , Miralem Mehic

Secure communication is a critical requirement for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which are often based on Microcontroller Units (MCUs). Current cryptographic solutions, which rely on software libraries or dedicated hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jingyao Zhang , Elaheh Sadredini

Device-independent quantum key distribution (QKD) can permit the superior security even with unknown devices. In practice, however, the realization of device-independent QKD is technically challenging because of its low noise tolerance. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Feihu Xu , Yu-Zhe Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Jian-Wei Pan

A new proposal for group key exchange is introduced which proves to be both efficient and secure and compares favorably with state of the art protocols.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Juan Antonio Lopez-Ramos , Joachim Rosenthal , Davide Schipani , Reto Schnyder

Group communication implies a many-to-many communication and it goes beyond both one-to-one communication (i.e., unicast) and one-to-many communication (i.e., multicast). Unlike most user authentication protocols that authenticate a single…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Lein Harn , Changlu Lin

Data is central to the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Most of the current IoT systems are using centralized cloud-based data sharing systems, which will be difficult to scale up to meet the demands of future IoT systems. Involvement of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Ahsan Manzoor , Madhsanka Liyanage , An Braeken , Salil S. Kanhere , Mika Ylianttila