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Ciphertexts of an order-preserving encryption (OPE) scheme preserve the order of their corresponding plaintexts. However, OPEs are vulnerable to inference attacks that exploit this preserved order. At another end, differential privacy has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Bolin Ding , Somesh Jha , Weiran Liu , Jingren Zhou

We introduce \emph{Plausible Deniability in Fully Homomorphic Computation} (PD-FHC), a framework enabling users to outsource Boolean computations to an untrusted cloud while maintaining both computational privacy against honest-but-curious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shahzad Ahmad , Stefan Rass , Zahra Seyedi

Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have been introduced as essential and popular security gates that inspect incoming HTTP traffic to filter out malicious requests and provide defenses against a diverse array of web-based threats. Evading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Seyed Ali Akhavani , Bahruz Jabiyev , Ben Kallus , Cem Topcuoglu , Sergey Bratus , Engin Kirda

Data confidentiality is becoming a significant concern, especially in the cloud computing era. Memory access patterns have been demonstrated to leak critical information such as security keys and a program's spatial and temporal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Rachit Rajat , Yongqin Wang , Murali Annavaram

Wide deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) based applications (e.g., style transfer, cartoonish), stimulating the requirement of copyright protection of such application's production. Although some traditional visible copyright…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Donghua Wang , Wen Yao , Tingsong Jiang , Weien Zhou , Lang Lin , Xiaoqian Chen

Image manipulation detection and localization have received considerable attention from the research community given the blooming of Generative Models (GMs). Detection methods that follow a passive approach may overfit to specific GMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Filippo Bartolucci , Iacopo Masi , Giuseppe Lisanti

The way in which addressing and forwarding are implemented in the Internet constitutes one of its biggest privacy and security challenges. The fact that source addresses in Internet datagrams cannot be trusted makes the IP Internet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-23 J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

Existing literature on adversarial Machine Learning (ML) focuses either on showing attacks that break every ML model, or defenses that withstand most attacks. Unfortunately, little consideration is given to the actual feasibility of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ying Yuan , Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Conti

We propose Data Tumbling Layer (DTL), a cryptographic scheme for non-interactive data tumbling. The core concept is to enable users to commit to specific data and subsequently re-use to the encrypted version of these data across different…

The dictionary learning problem, representing data as a combination of a few atoms, has long stood as a popular method for learning representations in statistics and signal processing. The most popular dictionary learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Bahareh Tolooshams , Demba Ba

(Sender-)Deniable encryption provides a very strong privacy guarantee: a sender who is coerced by an attacker into "opening" their ciphertext after-the-fact is able to generate "fake" local random choices that are consistent with any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Andrea Coladangelo , Shafi Goldwasser , Umesh Vazirani

Differential privacy has emerged as the main definition for private data analysis and machine learning. The {\em global} model of differential privacy, which assumes that users trust the data collector, provides strong privacy guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Joshua Allen , Bolin Ding , Janardhan Kulkarni , Harsha Nori , Olga Ohrimenko , Sergey Yekhanin

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

In the era of cloud computing and data-driven applications, it is crucial to protect sensitive information to maintain data privacy, ensuring truly reliable systems. As a result, preserving privacy in deep learning systems has become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Fabian Perez , Jhon Lopez , Henry Arguello

Protected user-level libraries have been proposed as a way to allow mutually distrusting applications to safely share kernel-bypass services. In this paper, we identify and solve several previously unaddressed obstacles to realizing this…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Alan Beadle , Michael L. Scott , John Criswell

Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) can be employed for device identification, authentication, secret key storage, and other security tasks. However, PUFs are susceptible to modeling attacks if a number of PUFs' challenge-response pairs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Mahmood Azhar Qureshi , Arslan Munir

This paper introduces a paradigm shift in the way privacy is defined, driven by a novel interpretation of the fundamental result of Dwork and Naor about the impossibility of absolute disclosure prevention. We propose a general model of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sara Saeidian , Giulia Cervia , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Apple recently revealed its deep perceptual hashing system NeuralHash to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on user devices before files are uploaded to its iCloud service. Public criticism quickly arose regarding the protection of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Lukas Struppek , Dominik Hintersdorf , Daniel Neider , Kristian Kersting

Noisy partial label learning (noisy PLL) is an important branch of weakly supervised learning. Unlike PLL where the ground-truth label must conceal in the candidate label set, noisy PLL relaxes this constraint and allows the ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Mingyu Xu , Zheng Lian , Lei Feng , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao

Reinforcement learning is increasingly finding success across domains where the problem can be represented as a Markov decision process. Evolutionary computation algorithms have also proven successful in this domain, exhibiting similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Rohan Tangri , Danilo P. Mandic , Anthony G. Constantinides