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Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are attractive scenarios that can improve the traffic situation and provide convenient services for drivers and passengers via vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Jingwei Liu , Qin Hu , Chaoya Li , Rong Sun , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

In the m-out-of-n oblivious transfer (OT) model, one party Alice sends n bits to another party Bob, Bob can get only m bits from the n bits. However, Alice cannot know which m bits Bob received. Y.Mu[MJV02]} and Naor[Naor01] presented…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zhide Chen , Hong Zhu

Communication anonymity is a key requirement for individuals under targeted surveillance. Practical anonymous communications also require indistinguishability - an adversary should be unable to distinguish between anonymised and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Joseph Gardiner , Shishir Nagaraja

Anonymous communication networks are important building blocks for online privacy protection. One approach to achieve anonymity is to relay messages through multiple routers, where each router shuffles messages independently. To achieve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Fatemeh Shirazi , Elena Andreeva , Markulf Kohlweiss , Claudia Diaz

The Internet has undergone dramatic changes in the past 15 years, and now forms a global communication platform that billions of users rely on for their daily activities. While this transformation has brought tremendous benefits to society,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Fatemeh Shirazi , Milivoj Simeonovski , Muhammad Rizwan Asghar , Michael Backes , Claudia Diaz

We present HORNET, a system that enables high-speed end-to-end anonymous channels by leveraging next generation network architectures. HORNET is designed as a low-latency onion routing system that operates at the network layer thus enabling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Chen Chen , Daniele Enrico Asoni , David Barrera , George Danezis , Adrian Perrig

This paper investigates information-theoretic oblivious transfer via a discrete memoryless broadcast channel with one sender and two receivers. We analyze both non-colluding and colluding honest-but-curious user models and establish general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hadi Aghaee , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche

This work investigates the fundamental limits of implementing network oblivious transfer via noisy multiple access channels and broadcast channels between honest-but-curious parties when the parties have access to general tripartite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hadi Aghaee , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche

Anonymous routing protocols are used in MANET's to hide the nodes from outsiders in order to protect from various attacks. HPAR partitions the network area dynamically into zones and chooses nodes in zones randomly as intermediate relay…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Fahmida Aseez , Sheena Mathew

Users often wish to participate in online groups anonymously, but misbehaving users may abuse this anonymity to spam or disrupt the group. Messaging protocols such as Mix-nets and DC-nets leave online groups vulnerable to denial-of-service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-20 Henry Corrigan-Gibbs , Bryan Ford

Vehicular ad hoc networks allow vehicles to connect themselves as networks so that cars could communicate with each other. This paper introduces an anonymous communication scheme providing integrity protection, multi-level privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Yichen Jiang , Yi Ji , Tianhua Liu

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used technique for distribution alignment, with applications throughout the machine learning, graphics, and vision communities. Without any additional structural assumptions on trans-port, however, OT can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Chi-Heng Lin , Mehdi Azabou , Eva L. Dyer

In this article, we present Ariadne, a privacy-preserving communication network layer protocol that uses a source routing approach to avoid relying on trusted third parties. In Ariadne, a source node willing to send anonymized network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Antoine Fressancourt , Luigi Iannone , Mael Kerichard

All-Optical Network (AON) is a network where the user-network interface is optical and the data does undergo optical to electrical conversion within the network. AONs are attractive because they promise very high rates, flexible switching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-27 A. Ahmed Jedidi , B. Mohamed Abid

Secure multiparty computation enables collaborative computations across multiple users while preserving individual privacy, which has a wide range of applications in finance, machine learning and healthcare. Secure multiparty computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Kai-Yi Zhang , An-Jing Huang , Kun Tu , Ming-Han Li , Chi Zhang , Wei Qi , Ya-Dong Wu , Yu Yu

In an onion routing protocol, messages travel through several intermediaries before arriving at their destinations, they are wrapped in layers of encryption (hence they are called "onions"). The goal is to make it hard to establish who sent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Megumi Ando , Anna Lysyanskaya , Eli Upfal

Noisy channels are a powerful resource for cryptography as they can be used to obtain information-theoretically secure key agreement, commitment and oblivious transfer protocols, among others. Oblivious transfer (OT) is a fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Rafael Dowsley , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

Few primitives are as intertwined with the foundations of cryptography as Oblivious Transfer (OT). Not surprisingly, with the advent of quantum information processing, a major research path has emerged, aiming to minimize the requirements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Ricardo Faleiro , Manuel Goulão , Leonardo Novo , Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro

We propose a protocol for anonymous distribution of quantum information which can be used in two modifications. In the first modification the receiver of the message is publicly known, but the sender remains unknown (even to receiver). In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Bouda , Josef Sprojcar

Oblivious transfer protocol is a basic building block in cryptography and is used to transfer information from a sender to a receiver in such a way that, at the end of the protocol, the sender does not know if the receiver got the message…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Souto , P. Mateus , P. Adão , N. Paunković