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Existing systems for metadata-hiding messaging that provide cryptographic privacy properties have either high communication costs, high computation costs, or both. In this paper, we introduce Express, a metadata-hiding communication system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Saba Eskandarian , Henry Corrigan-Gibbs , Matei Zaharia , Dan Boneh

Covert communication offers a method to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is happening at all. In this work, we report an experimental demonstration of covert communication that is…

A recent paper of Edman et al. has taken a combinatorial approach to measuring the anonymity of a threshold mix anonymous communications system. Their paper looks at ways of matching individual messages sent to individual messages received,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-02-11 Jean-Charles Grégoire , Angèle M. Hamel

In this paper, a high dimensional chaotic systems based mixed keystream generator is proposed to secure the voice data. As the voice-based communication becomes extensively vital in the application areas of military, voice over IP,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Musheer Ahmad , Bashir Alam , Omar Farooq

In this work, we present a discrete event mix network simulator, which allows analysing how anonymity, latency, and bandwidth overhead are affected by various scenarios of deployment and design choices. These design choices include network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ania M. Piotrowska

Blockchain technologies have overturned the digital finance industry by introducing a decentralized pseudonymous means of monetary transfer. The pseudonymous nature introduced privacy concerns, enabling various deanonymization techniques,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Juraj Mariani , Ivan Homoliak

This paper puts forward a safe mechanism of data transmission to tackle the security problem of information which is transmitted in Internet. The encryption standards such as DES (Data Encryption Standard), AES (Advanced Encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Shaik Rasool , G. Sridhar , K. Hemanth Kumar , P. Ravi Kumar

MIX has recently been proposed as a new sensor scheme with better energy management for data-gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks. However, it is not known how it performs when some of the sensors carry out sinkhole attacks. In this paper,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Olivier Powell , Luminita Moraru , Jean-Marc Seigneur

Organizational networks are vulnerable to traffic-analysis attacks that enable adversaries to infer sensitive information from the network traffic - even if encryption is used. Typical anonymous communication networks are tailored to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Ludovic Barman , Italo Dacosta , Mahdi Zamani , Ennan Zhai , Apostolos Pyrgelis , Bryan Ford , Jean-Pierre Hubaux , Joan Feigenbaum

This paper studies the security of a secure communication scheme based on two discrete-time intermittently-chaotic systems synchronized via a common random driving signal. Some security defects of the scheme are revealed: 1) the key space…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Shujun Li , Gonzalo Álvarez , Guanrong Chen , Xuanqin Mou

The rapid development of computer technology will be the whole world as a whole, the widespread application of instant messaging technology to bring great convenience to people's lives, while privacy protection has become a more significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Weiqing You , Guozhen Shi , Xiaoming Chen , Jian Qi , Chuang Qing

Quantum security improves cryptographic protocols by applying quantum mechanics principles, assuring resistance to both quantum and conventional computer attacks. This work addresses these issues by integrating Quantum Key Distribution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tasmin Karim , Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon , Md. Fahim Sultan , Mst Shapna Akter

In this paper, we propose an algorithm that targets contamination and eavesdropping adversaries. We consider the case when the number of independent packets available to the eavesdropper is less than the multicast capacity of the network.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-05-16 Yejun Zhou , Hui Li , Jianfeng Ma

Data protection algorithms are becoming increasingly important to support modern business needs for facilitating data sharing and data monetization. Anonymization is an important step before data sharing. Several organizations leverage on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Manish Kesarwani , Akshar Kaul , Stefano Braghin , Naoise Holohan , Spiros Antonatos

The problem of anonymous networking when an eavesdropper observes packet timings in a communication network is considered. The goal is to hide the identities of source-destination nodes, and paths of information flow in the network. One way…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-11-14 J. Ghaderi , R. Srikant

Atom is an anonymous messaging system that protects against traffic-analysis attacks. Unlike many prior systems, each Atom server touches only a small fraction of the total messages routed through the network. As a result, the system's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Albert Kwon , Henry Corrigan-Gibbs , Srinivas Devadas , Bryan Ford

Benchmarking is an important measure for companies to investigate their performance and to increase efficiency. As companies usually are reluctant to provide their key performance indicators (KPIs) for public benchmarks, privacy-preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Kilian Becher , Martin Beck , Thorsten Strufe

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

This document describes a best-effort delay-tolerant communication system that protects the privacy of users in wireless ad-hoc networks by making their communication undetectable. The proposed system is a wireless broadcast-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Ana Barroso

Today, Internet of Things (IoT) technology is being increasingly popular which is applied in a wide range of industry sectors such as healthcare, transportation and some critical infrastructures. With the widespread applications of IoT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Jingwei Liu , Ailian Ren , Lihuan Zhang , Rong Sun , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani