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Process attestation verifies human authorship by collecting behavioral biometric evidence, including keystroke dynamics, typing patterns, and editing behavior, during the creative process. However, the very data needed to prove authenticity…

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This study proposes a lightweight Zero-Knowledge authentication model supported by QR codes. The approach is based on the Schnorr authentication protocol and provides an additional security layer against replay attacks through nonce and…

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Self-Sovereign Digital Identity (SSDI) enables individuals to control their own identity assertions and data, rather than relying on centralized or federated systems prone to large-scale data breaches. By eliminating centralized databases…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sushanth Ambati , Kainat Adeel , Jack Myers , Nikolay Ivanov

Digital identity is unsolved: after many years of research there is still no trusted communication over the Internet. To provide identity within the context of mutual distrust, this paper presents a blockchain-based digital identity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Quinten Stokkink , Johan Pouwelse

This article builds upon the protocol for digital transfers described by Goodell, Toliver, and Nakib, which combines privacy by design for consumers with strong compliance enforcement for recipients of payments and self-validating assets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Daniele Friolo , Geoffrey Goodell , Dann Toliver , Hazem Danny Nakib

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are rapidly gaining importance in privacy-preserving and verifiable computing. ZKPs enable a proving party to prove the truth of a statement to a verifying party without revealing anything else. ZKPs have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Alhad Daftardar , Jianqiao Mo , Joey Ah-kiow , Benedikt Bünz , Ramesh Karri , Siddharth Garg , Brandon Reagen

The microservice bombshells that have been linked with the microservice expansion have altered the application architectures, offered agility and scalability in terms of complexity in security trade-offs. Feeble legacy-based perimeter-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Rethish Nair Rajendran , Sathish Krishna Anumula , Dileep Kumar Rai , Sachin Agrawal

Healthcare AI needs large, diverse datasets, yet strict privacy and governance constraints prevent raw data sharing across institutions. Federated learning (FL) mitigates this by training where data reside and exchanging only model updates,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Savvy Sharma , George Petrovic , Sarthak Kaushik

The financial sector's adoption of technology-driven data analysis has enhanced operational efficiency and revenue generation by leveraging personal sensitive data. However, the inherent characteristics of blockchain hinder decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Zhuangtong Huang , Jiawei Zhu , Zhongyu Huang , Yixin Xu , Jerome Yen , Ye Wang

The ongoing regulation of blockchain-based services and applications requires the identification of users who are issuing transactions on the blockchain. This systematic review explores the current status, identifies research gaps, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Awid Vaziry , Kaustabh Barman , Patrick Herbke

As large language models (LLMs) continue to grow in size, fewer users are able to host and run models locally. This has led to increased use of third-party hosting services. However, in this setting, there is a lack of guarantees on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Arka Pal , Louai Zahran , William Gvozdjak , Akilesh Potti , Micah Goldblum

Nowadays, there is a plethora of services that are provided and paid for online, like video streaming subscriptions, car or parking sharing, purchasing tickets for events, etc. Online services usually issue tokens directly related to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Xavier Salleras , Sergi Rovira , Vanesa Daza

Internet of Things (IoT) devices pose significant security challenges due to their heterogeneity (i.e., hardware and software) and vulnerability to extensive attack surfaces. Today's conventional perimeter-based systems use credential-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Cem Bicer , Ilir Murturi , Praveen Kumar Donta , Schahram Dustdar

Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an emerging identity system that facilitates secure credential issuance and verification without placing trust in any centralised authority. To bypass central trust, most SSI implementations place blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Rahma Mukta , Rue C. Teh , Hye-young Paik , Qinghua Lu , Salil S. Kanhere

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) have emerged as a powerful tool for secure and privacy-preserving computation. ZKPs enable one party to convince another of a statement's validity without revealing anything else. This capability has profound…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Alhad Daftardar , Jianqiao Mo , Joey Ah-kiow , Benedikt Bünz , Siddharth Garg , Brandon Reagen

This paper focuses on Zero-Trust Foundation Models (ZTFMs), a novel paradigm that embeds zero-trust security principles into the lifecycle of foundation models (FMs) for Internet of Things (IoT) systems. By integrating core tenets, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Kai Li , Conggai Li , Xin Yuan , Shenghong Li , Sai Zou , Syed Sohail Ahmed , Wei Ni , Dusit Niyato , Abbas Jamalipour , Falko Dressler , Ozgur B. Akan

Financial Generative Pre-trained Transformers (FinGPT) with multimodal capabilities are now being increasingly adopted in various financial applications. However, due to the intellectual property of model weights and the copyright of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Xiao-Yang Liu , Ningjie Li , Keyi Wang , Xiaoli Zhi , Weiqin Tong

Existing digital identity management systems fail to deliver the desirable properties of control by the users of their own identity data, credibility of disclosed identity data, and network-level anonymity. The recently proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Quinten Stokkink , Georgy Ishmaev , Dick Epema , Johan Pouwelse

Authentication and authorization of a user's identity are generally done by the service providers or identity providers. However, these centralized systems limit the user's control of their own identity and are prone to massive data leaks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Shlok Gilda , Tanvi Jain , Aashish Dhalla

The Private Proof of Solvency is a groundbreaking solution in the realm of Proof of Solvency, offering a secure, efficient, and privacy-preserving method for crypto custody providers such as centralized cryptocurrency exchanges or…

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