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Privacy concerns in machine learning systems have grown significantly with the increasing reliance on sensitive user data for training large-scale models. This paper introduces a novel framework combining Probably Approximately Correct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Guilhem Repetto , Nojan Sheybani , Gabrielle De Micheli , Farinaz Koushanfar

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

Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematical privacy notion increasingly deployed across government and industry. With DP, privacy protections are probabilistic: they are bounded by the privacy budget parameter, $\epsilon$. Prior work in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Priyanka Nanayakkara , Mary Anne Smart , Rachel Cummings , Gabriel Kaptchuk , Elissa Redmiles

Data for deep learning should be protected for privacy preserving. Researchers have come up with the notion of learnable image encryption to satisfy the requirement. However, existing privacy preserving approaches have never considered the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-01 MaungMaung AprilPyone , Warit Sirichotedumrong , Hitoshi Kiya

We consider the problem of secret protection, in which a business or organization wishes to train a model on their own data, while attempting to not leak secrets potentially contained in that data via the model. The standard method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Arun Ganesh , Brendan McMahan , Milad Nasr , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

Deep neural networks have demonstrated cutting edge performance on various tasks including classification. However, it is well known that adversarially designed imperceptible perturbation of the input can mislead advanced classifiers. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Mehdi Jafarnia-Jahromi , Tasmin Chowdhury , Hsin-Tai Wu , Sayandev Mukherjee

Pervasive data collection by Smart Home Devices (SHDs) demands robust Privacy Protection Mechanisms (PPMs). The effectiveness of many PPMs, particularly user-facing controls, depends on user awareness and adoption, which are shaped by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shuning Zhang , Yijing Liu , Yuyu Liu , Ying Ma , Shixuan Li , Xin Yi , Qian Wu , Hewu Li

Empirical defenses for machine learning privacy forgo the provable guarantees of differential privacy in the hope of achieving higher utility while resisting realistic adversaries. We identify severe pitfalls in existing empirical privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Michael Aerni , Jie Zhang , Florian Tramèr

The increasing adoption of Cloud storage poses a number of privacy issues. Users wish to preserve full control over their sensitive data and cannot accept that it to be accessible by the remote storage provider. Previous research was made…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Ernesto Damiani , Francesco Pagano , Davide Pagano

Individual Differential Privacy (iDP) promises users control over their privacy, but this promise can be broken in practice. We reveal a previously overlooked vulnerability in sampling-based iDP mechanisms: while conforming to the iDP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Johannes Kaiser , Alexander Ziller , Eleni Triantafillou , Daniel Rückert , Georgios Kaissis

Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize the way we store, use, and process data. Information on most blockchains can be viewed by every node hosting the blockchain, which means that most blockchains cannot handle private data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Sabine Bertram , Co-Pierre Georg

In a Public Safety (PS) situation, agents may require critical and personally identifiable information. Therefore, not only does context and location-aware information need to be available, but also the privacy of such information should be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hamidreza Ghafghazi , Amr ElMougy , Hussein T. Mouftah , Carlisle Adams

Blockchain has received a widespread attention because of its decentralized, tamper-proof, and transparent nature. Blockchain works over the principle of distributed, secured, and shared ledger, which is used to record, and track data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Muneeb Ul Hassan , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Jinjun Chen

The 21st century belongs to the world of computing, specially as a result of the so-called cloud computing. This technology enables ubiquitous information management and thus people can access all their data from any place and at any time.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Alejandro Sanchez-Gomez , Jesus Diaz , David Arroyo

As the prevalence of data analysis grows, safeguarding data privacy has become a paramount concern. Consequently, there has been an upsurge in the development of mechanisms aimed at privacy-preserving data analyses. However, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yuzheng Hu , Fan Wu , Qinbin Li , Yunhui Long , Gonzalo Munilla Garrido , Chang Ge , Bolin Ding , David Forsyth , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Data Distribution Service (DDS) is an innovative approach towards communication in ICS/IoT infrastructure and robotics. Being based on the cross-platform and cross-language API to be applicable in any computerised device, it offers the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Stanislav Abaimov

The Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) paradigm is instrumental for decentralised identity management, allowing an entity to create, manage, and present their digital credentials without relying on centralised authorities. Credential selective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Elia Onofri , Andrea De Salve , Paolo Mori , Laura Emilia Maria Ricci , Roberto Di Pietro

Distributed optimization is manifesting great potential in multiple fields, e.g., machine learning, control, and resource allocation. Existing decentralized optimization algorithms require sharing explicit state information among the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Huqiang Cheng , Xiaofeng Liao , Huaqing Li , You Zhao

Owing to a number of reasons, the deployment of encryption solutions are beginning to be ubiquitous at both organizational and individual levels. The most emphasized reason is the necessity to ensure confidentiality of privileged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Adedayo M. Balogun , Shao Ying Zhu

Commercial companies that collect user data on a large scale have been the main beneficiaries of this trend since the success of deep learning techniques is directly proportional to the amount of data available for training. Massive data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Saichethan Miriyala Reddy , Saisree Miriyala