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In ultralong fiber laser key distribution, two sides use standard optical equipment to create kilometer long fiber lasers in a communication link to establish a secret key. Its security rests on the assumption that any attacker would need…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin , Pedro Chamorro-Posada

Unlike conventional anti-eavesdropping methods that always require additional energy or computing resources (e.g., in friendly jamming and cryptography-based solutions), this work proposes a novel anti-eavesdropping solution that comes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Nguyen Van Huynh , Nguyen Quang Hieu , Nam H. Chu , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Gaps, dropouts and short clips of corrupted audio are a common problem and particularly annoying when they occur in speech. This paper uses machine learning to regenerate gaps of up to 320ms in an audio speech signal. Audio regeneration is…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Deniss Strods , Alan F. Smeaton

Audio packet loss concealment is the hiding of gaps in VoIP audio streams caused by network packet loss. With the ICASSP 2024 Audio Deep Packet Loss Concealment Grand Challenge, we build on the success of the previous Audio PLC Challenge…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Lorenz Diener , Solomiya Branets , Ando Saabas , Ross Cutler

We show that adding noise before publishing data effectively screens $p$-hacked findings: spurious explanations produced by fitting many statistical models (data mining). Noise creates "baits" that affect two types of researchers…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-05-21 Federico Echenique , Kevin He

The advancements in generative AI have enabled the improvement of audio synthesis models, including text-to-speech and voice conversion. This raises concerns about its potential misuse in social manipulation and political interference, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le , Van-Tuan Tran , Dinh-Thuc Nguyen , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Acoustic emanations of computer keyboards represent a serious privacy issue. As demonstrated in prior work, physical properties of keystroke sounds might reveal what a user is typing. However, previous attacks assumed relatively strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Alberto Compagno , Mauro Conti , Daniele Lain , Gene Tsudik

Adversarial attacks by malicious users that threaten the safety of large language models (LLMs) can be viewed as attempts to infer a target property $T$ that is unknown when an instruction is issued, and becomes knowable only after the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Masahiro Kaneko , Timothy Baldwin

Acoustic imaging typically relies on large sensor arrays that can be electronically complex and often have large data storage requirements to process element level data. Recently, the concept of a single-pixel-imager has garnered interest…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-07-05 Jeffrey S. Rogers , Charles A. Rohde , Matthew D. Guild , Christina J. Naify , Theodore P. Martin , Gregory J. Orris

Most modern smartphones are equipped with a barometer to sample air pressure. Accessing these samples is deemed harmless, hence does not require any permission. In this work, we show, however, that these samples can reveal sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Alireza Hafez , Dorsa Nahid , Majid Khabbazian

The paper applies reinforcement learning to novel Internet of Thing configurations. Our analysis of inaudible attacks on voice-activated devices confirms the alarming risk factor of 7.6 out of 10, underlining significant security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Forrest McKee , David Noever

We introduce IMPACT, a set of high-throughput main memory-based timing attacks that leverage characteristics of processing-in-memory (PiM) architectures to establish covert and side channels. IMPACT enables high-throughput communication and…

In the past, two main approaches for the purpose of authentication, including information-theoretic authentication codes and complexity-theoretic message authentication codes (MACs), were almost independently developed. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Xiaofu Wu , Zhen Yang , Cong Ling , Xiang-Gen Xia

The security of a cryptographic key that is generated by communication through a noisy quantum channel relies on the ability to distill a shorter secure key sequence from a longer insecure one. We show that -- for protocols that use quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dagomir Kaszlikowski , Jenn Yang Lim , Leong Chuang Kwek , Berthold-Georg Englert

In the case of the need of extraordinary security, Kirchhoff-loop-Johnson-(like)-noise ciphers can easily be integrated on existing types of digital chips in order to provide secure data communication between hardware processors, memory…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 Laszlo B. Kish , Olivier Saidi

When large language models are trained on private data, it can be a significant privacy risk for them to memorize and regurgitate sensitive information. In this work, we propose a new practical data extraction attack that we call "neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ashwinee Panda , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Zhengming Zhang , Yaoqing Yang , Prateek Mittal

Voice control is a popular way to operate mobile devices, enabling users to communicate requests to their devices. However, adversaries can leverage voice control to trick mobile devices into executing commands to leak secrets or to modify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Giuseppe Petracca , Yuqiong Sun , Ahmad Atamli , Trent Jaeger

Many organizations protect secure networked devices from non-secure networked devices by assigning each class of devices to a different logical network. These two logical networks, commonly called the host network and the guest network, use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Adar Ovadya , Rom Ogen , Yakov Mallah , Niv Gilboa , Yossi Oren

Wireless channels can be inherently privacy-preserving by distorting the received signals due to channel noise, and superpositioning multiple signals over-the-air. By harnessing these natural distortions and superpositions by wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yusuke Koda , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Praneeth Vepakomma , Ramesh Raskar

This paper considers a sensor attack and fault detection problem for linear cyber-physical systems, which are subject to system noise that can obey an unknown light-tailed distribution. We propose a new threshold-based detection mechanism…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Dan Li , Sonia Martínez