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Anycast messaging (i.e., sending a message to an unspecified receiver) has long been neglected by the anonymous communication community. An anonymous anycast prevents senders from learning who the receiver of their message is, allowing for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Christoph Coijanovic , Christiane Kuhn , Thorsten Strufe

Children are one of the most under-represented groups in speech technologies, as well as one of the most vulnerable in terms of privacy. Despite this, anonymization techniques targeting this population have received little attention. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ajinkya Kulkarni , Francisco Teixeira , Enno Hermann , Thomas Rolland , Isabel Trancoso , Mathew Magimai Doss

Anonymity systems such as Tor aim to enable users to communicate in a manner that is untraceable by adversaries that control a small number of machines. To provide efficient service to users, these anonymity systems make full use of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Prateek Mittal , Ahmed Khurshid , Joshua Juen , Matthew Caesar , Nikita Borisov

Voice anonymization masks vocal traits while preserving linguistic content, which may still leak speaker-specific patterns. To assess and strengthen privacy evaluation, we propose a dual-stream attacker that fuses spectral and…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ridwan Arefeen , Xiaoxiao Miao , Rong Tong , Aik Beng Ng , Simon See , Timothy Liu

Group communication implies a many-to-many communication and it goes beyond both one-to-one communication (i.e., unicast) and one-to-many communication (i.e., multicast). Unlike most user authentication protocols that authenticate a single…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Lein Harn , Changlu Lin

We present six multiparty protocols with information-theoretic security that tolerate an arbitrary number of corrupt participants. All protocols assume pairwise authentic private channels and a broadcast channel (in a single case, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Anne Broadbent , Alain Tapp

Secure communication is one of the key applications of quantum networks. In recent years, following the demands for identity protection in classical communication protocols, the need for anonymity has also emerged for quantum networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Christopher Thalacker , Frederik Hahn , Jarn de Jong , Anna Pappa , Stefanie Barz

Anonymity is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that hides the identities of both senders and receivers during message transmission over a network. Classical protocols cannot provide information-theoretic security for such task, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Srijani Das , Manasi Patra , Tuhin Paul , Anish Majumdar , Ramij Rahaman

We present Loopix, a low-latency anonymous communication system that provides bi-directional 'third-party' sender and receiver anonymity and unobservability. Loopix leverages cover traffic and brief message delays to provide anonymity and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Ania Piotrowska , Jamie Hayes , Tariq Elahi , Sebastian Meiser , George Danezis

We present three voting protocols with unconditional privacy and correctness, without assuming any bound on the number of corrupt participants. All protocols have polynomial complexity and require private channels and a simultaneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-11-25 Anne Broadbent , Stacey Jeffery , Alain Tapp

Since 2016, all of four major U.S. operators have rolled out nationwide Wi-Fi calling services. They are projected to surpass VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and other VoIP services in terms of mobile IP voice usage minutes in 2018. They enable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Tian Xie , Guan-Hua Tu , Bangjie Yin , Chi-Yu Li , Chunyi Peng , Mi Zhang , Hui Liu , Xiaoming Liu

Communicating anonymously comes at a cost - and large communities have been in a constant tug-of-war between the development of faster protocols, and the improvement of security analyses. Thereby more intricate privacy goals emerged and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Christiane Kuhn , Friederike Kitzing , Thorsten Strufe

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a mechanism for efficiently downloading messages while keeping the index secret. Here, PIRs in which servers do not communicate with each other are called standard PIRs, and PIRs in which some servers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Atsushi Miki , Yusuke Morishita , Toshiyasu Matsushima

Transport layer data leaks metadata unintentionally -- such as who communicates with whom. While tools for strong transport layer privacy exist, they have adoption obstacles, including performance overheads incompatible with mobile devices.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Boel Nelson , Elena Pagnin , Aslan Askarov

Trustera, the first functional system that redacts personally identifiable information (PII) in real-time spoken conversations to remove agents' need to hear sensitive information while preserving the naturalness of live customer-agent…

Speaker anonymization is the task of modifying a speech recording such that the original speaker cannot be identified anymore. Since the first Voice Privacy Challenge in 2020, along with the release of a framework, the popularity of this…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Sarina Meyer , Xiaoxiao Miao , Ngoc Thang Vu

Anonymous Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption (HIBE) is an extension of Identity-Based Encryption (IBE), and it provides not only a message hiding property but also an identity hiding property. Anonymous HIBE schemes can be applicable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Kwangsu Lee , Jong Hwan Park , Dong Hoon Lee

Currently, the TCP/IP model enables exploitation of vulnerabilities anonymously by unconditionally fulfilling every request for a connection into an application; the model only incorporates authentication within applications themselves,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jonathon Anderson

We revisit the problem of designing scalable protocols for private statistics and private federated learning when each device holds its private data. Locally differentially private algorithms require little trust but are (provably) limited…

Acoustic eavesdropping is a privacy risk, but existing attacks rarely work in real outdoor situations where people make phone calls on the move. We present SuperEar, the first portable system that uses acoustic metamaterials to reliably…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zhiyuan Ning , Zhanyong Tang , Juan He , Weizhi Meng , Yuntian Chen , Ji Zhang , Zheng Wang