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While QKD ensures information-theoretic security at the link level, real-world deployments depend on trusted repeaters, creating potential vulnerabilities. In this paper, we thus introduce a topology-hiding connectivity assurance protocol…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Margherita Cozzolino , Stephan Krenn , Thomas Lorünser

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that allows a prover to convince a verifier of the validity of a statement without leaking any further information. As an efficient variant of ZKP, non-interactive…

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to significant data reliability and system transparency challenges, aggravated by the centralized nature of existing IoT architectures. This centralization often results in siloed…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Lorenzo Gigli , Ivan Zyrianoff , Federico Montori , Luca Sciullo , Carlos Kamienski , Marco Di Felice

The application of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) in autonomous systems is an emerging area of research, motivated by the growing need for regulatory compliance, transparent auditing, and trustworthy operation in decentralized environments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Munawar Hasan , Apostol Vassilev , Edward Griffor , Thoshitha Gamage

As increasingly more sensitive data is being collected to gain valuable insights, the need to natively integrate privacy controls in data analytics frameworks is growing in importance. Today, privacy controls are enforced by data curators…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Lukas Burkhalter , Nicolas Küchler , Alexander Viand , Hossein Shafagh , Anwar Hithnawi

Digital signatures are a powerful cryptographic tool widely employed across various industries for securely authenticating the identity of a signer during communication between signers and verifiers. While quantum digital signatures have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Wusheng Wang , Masahito Hayashi

Recent work introduces zkay, a system for specifying and enforcing data privacy in smart contracts. While the original prototype implementation of zkay (v0.1) demonstrates the feasibility of the approach, its proof-of-concept implementation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Nick Baumann , Samuel Steffen , Benjamin Bichsel , Petar Tsankov , Martin Vechev

Decentralized identity systems promise user-controlled identifiers and cross-domain verification without a shared identity provider, yet authentication still reduces to possession of keys or credentials once secrets are leaked, reused, or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zibin Lin , Taotao Wang , Junhao Lai , Shengli Zhang , Qing Yang , Soung Chang Liew

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) are protocols which construct cryptographic proofs to demonstrate knowledge of a secret input in a computation without revealing any information about the secret. ZKPs enable novel applications in private and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tarunesh Verma , Yichao Yuan , Nishil Talati , Todd Austin

Verifying that a compiled binary originates from its claimed source code is a fundamental security requirement, called source code provenance. Achieving verifiable source code provenance in practice remains challenging. The most popular…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Javier Ron , Martin Monperrus

Secure and reliable management of identities has become one of the greatest challenges facing cloud computing today, mainly due to the huge number of new cloud-based applications generated by this model, which means more user accounts,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Keltoum Bendiab , Nicholas Kolokotronis , Stavros Shiaeles , Samia Boucherkha

Blockchain technology enforces the security, robustness, and traceability of operations of Process-Aware Information Systems (PAISs). In particular, transparency ensures that all data is publicly available, fostering trust among…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Michele Kryston , Edoardo Marangone , Alessandro Marcelletti , Claudio Di Ciccio

Redactable Signature Schemes and Zero-Knowledge Proofs are two radically different approaches to enable privacy. This paper analyses their merits and drawbacks when applied to decentralized identity system. Redactable Signatures, though…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Bryan Kumara , Mark Hooper , Carsten Maple , Timothy Hobson , Jon Crowcroft

Since the concern of privacy leakage extremely discourages user participation in sharing data, federated learning has gradually become a promising technique for both academia and industry for achieving collaborative learning without leaking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zhibo Xing , Zijian Zhang , Meng Li , Jiamou Liu , Liehuang Zhu , Giovanni Russello , Muhammad Rizwan Asghar

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is projected to become part of every person's life in some form. The ability to verify and authenticate that an individual is the actual person they are purported to be along with securing the personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Morgan Reece , Sudip Mittal

This paper introduces SPOT, a Secure and Privacy-preserving prOximity based protocol for e-healthcare systems. It relies on a distributed proxy-based approach to preserve users' privacy and a semi-trusted computing server to ensure data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Souha Masmoudi , Nesrine Kaaniche , Maryline Laurent

Verifiable credentials are a digital analogue of physical credentials. Their authenticity and integrity are protected by means of cryptographic techniques, and they can be presented to verifiers to reveal attributes or even predicates about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Andrea Flamini , Giada Sciarretta , Mario Scuro , Amir Sharif , Alessandro Tomasi , Silvio Ranise

Recently, major progress has been made towards the realisation of quantum internet to enable a broad range of classically intractable applications. These applications such as delegated quantum computation require running a secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Mina Doosti , Niraj Kumar , Mahshid Delavar , Elham Kashefi

Federated Identity Management has proven its worth by offering economic benefits and convenience to Service Providers and users alike. In such federations, the Identity Provider (IdP) is the solitary entity responsible for managing user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Mirza Kamrul Bashar Shuhan , Syed Md. Hasnayeen , Tanmoy Krishna Das , Md. Nazmus Sakib , Md Sadek Ferdous

Many users would prefer the privacy of end-to-end encryption in their online communications if it can be done without significant inconvenience. However, because existing key distribution methods cannot be fully trusted enough for automatic…

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