English
Related papers

Related papers: Secure Internet Exams Despite Coercion

200 papers

Absolutely and asymptotically secure protocols for organizing an exam in a quantum way are proposed basing judiciously on multipartite entanglement. The protocols are shown to stand against common types of eavesdropping attack.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nguyen Ba An

Protecting secrets is a key challenge in our contemporary information-based era. In common situations, however, revealing secrets appears unavoidable, for instance, when identifying oneself in a bank to retrieve money. In turn, this may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Pouriya Alikhani , Nicolas Brunner , Claude Crépeau , Sébastien Designolle , Raphaël Houlmann , Weixu Shi , Nan Yang , Hugo Zbinden

Maintaining anonymity in natural language communication remains a challenging task. Even when the number of candidate authors is large, standard authorship attribution techniques that analyze writing style predict the original author with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haining Wang , Patrick Juola , Allen Riddell

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

This work mainly addresses continuous-time multiagent consensus networks where an adverse attacker affects the convergence performances of said protocol. In particular, we develop a novel secure-by-design approach in which the presence of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Marco Fabris , Daniel Zelazo

Stream-based communication dominates today's Internet, posing unique challenges for anonymous communication networks (ACNs). Traditionally designed for independent messages, ACNs struggle to account for the inherent vulnerabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Christoph Döpmann , Maximilian Weisenseel , Florian Tschorsch

An increasing number of countries implement Internet censorship at different scales and for a variety of reasons. In particular, the link between the censored client and entry point to the uncensored network is a frequent target of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Sheharbano Khattak , Laurent Simon , Steven J. Murdoch

Internet censorship limits the access of nodes residing within a specific network environment to the public Internet, and vice versa. During the last decade, techniques for conducting Internet censorship have been developed further.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Steffen Wendzel , Simon Volpert , Sebastian Zillien , Julia Lenz , Philip Rünz , Luca Caviglione

The paper studies how to release data about a critical infrastructure network (e.g., the power network or a transportation network) without disclosing sensitive information that can be exploited by malevolent agents, while preserving the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Ferdinando Fioretto , Terrence W. K. Mak , Pascal Van Hentenryck

In this work we investigate the problem of simultaneous privacy and integrity protection in cryptographic circuits. We consider a white-box scenario with a powerful, yet limited attacker. A concise metric for the level of probing and fault…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-27 Berndt M. Gammel , Stefan Mangard

This paper presents new methods enabling anonymous communication on the Internet. We describe a new protocol that allows us to create an anonymous overlay network by exploiting the web browsing activities of regular users. We show that the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Matthias Bauer

Large Language Models (LLMs) can now solve entire exams directly from uploaded PDF assessments, raising urgent concerns about academic integrity and the reliability of grades and credentials. Existing watermarking techniques either operate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Ashish Raj Shekhar , Shiven Agarwal , Priyanuj Bordoloi , Yash Shah , Tejas Anvekar , Vivek Gupta

This work proposes a novel privacy-preserving neural network feature representation to suppress the sensitive information of a learned space while maintaining the utility of the data. The new international regulation for personal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana

Certified robustness circumvents the fragility of defences against adversarial attacks, by endowing model predictions with guarantees of class invariance for attacks up to a calculated size. While there is value in these certifications, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Andrew C. Cullen , Paul Montague , Shijie Liu , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

We present the first quantum anonymous notification (QAN) protocol that introduces anonymity and paves the way for anonymous secure quantum communication in quantum networks. QAN protocol has applications ranging from multiparty quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 Awais Khan , Junaid ur Rehman , Hyundong Shin

Despite the remarkable success of deep neural networks, significant concerns have emerged about their robustness to adversarial perturbations to inputs. While most attacks aim to ensure that these are imperceptible, physical perturbation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Liang Tong , Minzhe Guo , Atul Prakash , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Sender anonymity in network communication is an important problem, widely addressed in the literature. Mixnets, combined with onion routing, represent certainly the most concrete and effective approach achieving the above goal. In general,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Francesco Buccafurri , Vincenzo De Angelis , Sara Lazzaro

How can we justify the validity of our computer security methods? This meta-methodological question is related to recent explorations on the science of computer security, which have been hindered by computer security's unique properties. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Antonio Roque

This paper describes a new protocol for authentication in ad-hoc networks. The protocol has been designed to meet specialized requirements of ad-hoc networks, such as lack of direct communication between nodes or requirements for revocable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Adam Wierzbicki , Aneta Zwierko , Zbigniew Kotulski

Digital identity seems like a prerequisite for digital democracy: how can we ensure "one person, one vote" online without identifying voters? But digital identity solutions - ID checking, biometrics, self-sovereign identity, and trust…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Bryan Ford