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Threshold Signature Scheme (TSS) protocols have gained significant attention over the past ten years due to their widespread adoption in cryptocurrencies. The adoption is mainly boosted by Gennaro and Goldfedder's TSS protocol. Since then,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Faneela , Jawad Ahmad , Baraq Ghaleb , Imdad Ullah Khan , William J. Buchanan , Sana Ullah Jan , Muhammad Shahbaz Khan

As of today, TLS is the most commonly used protocol to protect communication content. To provide good security, it is of central importance, that administrators know how to configure their services correctly. For this purpose, services…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Christian Tiefenau , Emanuel von Zezschwitz

Forward Secrecy (FS) is a security property in key-exchange algorithms which guarantees that a compromise in the secrecy of a long-term private-key does not compromise the secrecy of past session keys. With a growing awareness of long-term…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Eman Salem Alashwali , Pawel Szalachowski , Andrew Martin

The adoption of modern encryption protocols such as TLS 1.3 has significantly challenged traditional network traffic classification (NTC) methods. As a consequence, researchers are increasingly turning to machine learning (ML) approaches to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Nimesha Wickramasinghe , Arash Shaghaghi , Gene Tsudik , Sanjay Jha

With outstanding features, Machine Learning (ML) has been the backbone of numerous applications in wireless networks. However, the conventional ML approaches have been facing many challenges in practical implementation, such as the lack of…

Fingerprint-based localization improves the positioning performance in challenging, non-line-of-sight (NLoS) dominated indoor environments. However, fingerprinting models require an expensive life-cycle management including recording and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Maximilian Stahlke , George Yammine , Tobias Feigl , Bjoern M. Eskofier , Christopher Mutschler

The use of TLS proxies to intercept encrypted traffic is controversial since the same mechanism can be used for both benevolent purposes, such as protecting against malware, and for malicious purposes, such as identity theft or warrantless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Mark O'Neill , Scott Ruoti , Kent Seamons , Daniel Zappala

Fingerspelling is a critical component of British Sign Language (BSL), used to spell proper names, technical terms, and words that lack established lexical signs. Fingerspelling recognition is challenging due to the rapid pace of signing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Alyssa Chan , Taein Kwon , Andrew Zisserman

Many domains now leverage the benefits of Machine Learning (ML), which promises solutions that can autonomously learn to solve complex tasks by training over some data. Unfortunately, in cyberthreat detection, high-quality data is hard to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tobias Braun , Irdin Pekaric , Giovanni Apruzzese

The behavior of LLMs does not depend solely on the model itself. Components of the inference system, such as the inference engine, attention backend, and hardware platform, subtly influence how inputs are processed. These components differ…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Anna Wimbauer , Jonas Möller , Erik Imgrund , Konrad Rieck

Protecting a fingerprint database against attackers is very vital in order to protect against false acceptance rate or false rejection rate. A key property in distinguishing fingerprint images is by exploiting the characteristics of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Aamo Iorliam , Orgem Emmanuel , Yahaya I. Shehu

Thousands of vulnerabilities are reported on a monthly basis to security repositories, such as the National Vulnerability Database. Among these vulnerabilities, software misconfiguration is one of the top 10 security risks for web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Carlos Diego Nascimento Damasceno , Daniel Strüber

Modern HTTPS mechanisms such as Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) and encrypted DNS improve privacy but remain vulnerable to website fingerprinting (WF) attacks, where adversaries infer visited sites from encrypted traffic patterns. Existing WF…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yifei Cheng , Yujia Zhu , Baiyang Li , Xinhao Deng , Yitong Cai , Yaochen Ren , Qingyun Liu

Fingerprint recognition systems, which rely on the unique characteristics of human fingerprints, are essential in modern security and verification applications. Accurate minutiae extraction, a critical step in these systems, depends on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Raffaele Cappelli

Recently, many organizations have been installing middleboxes in their networks in large numbers to provide various services to their customers. Although middleboxes have the advantage of not being dependent on specific hardware and being…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Taehyun Ahn , Jiwon Kwak , Seungjoo Kim

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a relevant problem in computer vision, and implies unique challenges owing to its inherent variability and the rich contextualization required for its interpretation. Despite the success of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Carlos Penarrubia , Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Jose J. Valero-Mas , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Website fingerprinting enables a local eavesdropper to determine which websites a user is visiting over an encrypted connection. State-of-the-art website fingerprinting attacks have been shown to be effective even against Tor. Recently,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Payap Sirinam , Mohsen Imani , Marc Juarez , Matthew Wright

The widespread deployment of LLMs across enterprise services has created a critical security blind spot. Organizations operate multiple LLM services handling billions of queries daily, yet regulatory compliance boundaries prevent these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Waris Gill , Natalie Isak , Matthew Dressman

Deep text matching approaches have been widely studied for many applications including question answering and information retrieval systems. To deal with a domain that has insufficient labeled data, these approaches can be used in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Chen Qu , Feng Ji , Minghui Qiu , Liu Yang , Zhiyu Min , Haiqing Chen , Jun Huang , W. Bruce Croft

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the base for many Internet applications and services to achieve end-to-end security. In this paper, we provide guidance on how to measure TLS deployments, including X.509 certificates and Web PKI. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Pouyan Fotouhi Tehrani , Eric Osterweil , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch