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Tool-using agents increasingly operate in open-ended deployment environments, where they compose file systems, web APIs, code interpreters, and enterprise services at runtime. This creates a safety gap in tool composition: an agent can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xiaochong Jiang , Shiqi Yang , Ziwei Li , Lifei Liu , Haoran Yu , Yichen Liu

The paper presents an analysis of Commitment Schemes (CSs) used in Multi-Party Computation (MPC) protocols. While the individual properties of CSs and the guarantees offered by MPC have been widely studied in isolation, their interrelation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ioan Ionescu , Ruxandra F. Olimid

Privacy-preserving data mining has become an important topic. People have built several multi-party-computation (MPC)-based frameworks to provide theoretically guaranteed privacy, the poor performance of real-world algorithms have always…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Xiaoyu Fan , Guosai Wang , Kun Chen , Xu He , Wei Xu

Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) allows parties to know the result of cooperative computation while preserving privacy of individual data. Secure sum computation is an important application of SMC. In our proposed protocols parties are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Rashid Sheikh , Beerendra Kumar , Durgesh Kumar Mishra

We consider schemes for secret key distribution which use as a resource correlations that violate Bell inequalities. We provide the first security proof for such schemes, according to the strongest notion of security, the so called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Lluis Masanes

Given the advances in reactive synthesis, it is a natural next step to consider more complex multi-process systems. Distributed synthesis, however, is not yet scalable. Compositional approaches can be a game changer. Here, the challenge is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Bernd Finkbeiner , Noemi Passing

The ability to compose code in a modular fashion is important to the construction of large programs. In the logic programming setting, it is desirable that such capabilities be realized through logic-based devices. We describe an approach…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Steven Holte , Gopalan Nadathur

Universal Composability (UC) is the gold standard for cryptographic security, but mechanizing proofs of UC is notoriously difficult. A recently-discovered connection between UC and Robust Compilation (RC)$\unicode{x2014}$a novel theory of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Robert Künnemann , Marco Patrignani , Ethan Cecchetti

Integrated Circuits (ICs) are the target of diverse attacks during their lifetime. Fabrication-time attacks, such as the insertion of Hardware Trojans, can give an adversary access to privileged data and/or the means to corrupt the IC's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Mohammad Eslami , Tiago Perez , Samuel Pagliarini

Confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity, authorization, and accountability are known as security properties that secure systems should preserve. They are usually considered as security final goals that are achieved by system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Imen Sayar , Nan Messe , Sophie Ebersold , Jean-Michel Bruel

We present a simplified framework for proving sequential composability in the quantum setting. In particular, we give a new, simulation-based, definition for security in the bounded-quantum-storage model, and show that this definition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-20 Stephanie Wehner , Jürg Wullschleger

This work is intended as an introduction to cryptographic security and a motivation for the widely used Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) security definition. We review the notion of security necessary for a protocol to be usable in a larger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 Christopher Portmann , Renato Renner

The increasing complexity of control systems necessitates control laws that guarantee safety w.r.t. complex combinations of constraints. In this letter, we propose a framework to describe compositional safety specifications with control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Tamas G. Molnar , Aaron D. Ames

As autonomy becomes prevalent in many applications, ranging from recommendation systems to fully autonomous vehicles, there is an increased need to provide safety guarantees for such systems. The problem is difficult, as these are large,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Corina S. Pasareanu , Divya Gopinath , Huafeng Yu

In secure summation, $K$ users, each holds an input, wish to compute the sum of the inputs at a server without revealing any information about {\em all the inputs} even if the server may collude with {\em an arbitrary subset of users}. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zhou Li , Yizhou Zhao , Hua Sun

Closed-loop verification of cyber-physical systems with neural network controllers offers strong safety guarantees under certain assumptions. It is, however, difficult to determine whether these guarantees apply at run time because…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Ivan Ruchkin , Matthew Cleaveland , Radoslav Ivanov , Pengyuan Lu , Taylor Carpenter , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Evaluating the effectiveness of software protection is crucial for selecting the most effective methods to safeguard assets within software applications. Obfuscation involves techniques that deliberately modify software to make it more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Leonardo Regano , Daniele Canavese , Cataldo Basile , Marco Torchiano

Ishai et al. (FOCS'06) introduced secure shuffling as an efficient building block for private data aggregation. Recently, the field of differential privacy has revived interest in secure shufflers by highlighting the privacy amplification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Marc Damie , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter , Jan Ramon

We consider two-party quantum protocols starting with a transmission of some random BB84 qubits followed by classical messages. We show a general "compiler" improving the security of such protocols: if the original protocol is secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-31 Ivan Damgaard , Serge Fehr , Carolin Lunemann , Louis Salvail , Christian Schaffner

This paper presents a secure-by-construction planning and control framework for multi-agent systems subject to linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. The framework protects sensitive information from a passive intruder with partial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Georgios Mitsos , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Siyuan Liu