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As data-driven technologies advance swiftly, maintaining strong privacy measures becomes progressively difficult. Conventional $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy, while prevalent, exhibits limited adaptability for many applications.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yifeng Liu , Zehua Wang

Password users frequently employ passwords that are too simple, or they just reuse passwords for multiple websites. A common complaint is that utilizing secure passwords is too difficult. One possible solution to this problem is to use a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Elan Rosenfeld , Santosh Vempala , Manuel Blum

We introduce the concept of "universal password model" -- a password model that, once pre-trained, can automatically adapt its guessing strategy based on the target system. To achieve this, the model does not need to access any plaintext…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Dario Pasquini , Giuseppe Ateniese , Carmela Troncoso

User-chosen passwords remain essential to online security, and yet people continue to choose weak, insecure passwords. In this work, we investigate whether prospect theory, a behavioral model of how people evaluate risk, can provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Eryn Ma , Summer Hasama , Eshaan Lumba , Eleanor Birrell

The increasing availability of personal data has enabled significant advances in fields such as machine learning, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, this data abundance also raises serious privacy concerns, especially in light of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Napsu Karmitsa , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala , Tinja Pitkämäki

Usable and secure authentication on the web and beyond is mission-critical. While password-based authentication is still widespread, users have trouble dealing with potentially hundreds of online accounts and their passwords. Alternatives…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jan H. Klemmer , Marco Gutfleisch , Christian Stransky , Yasemin Acar , M. Angela Sasse , Sascha Fahl

Current cybersecurity research increasingly acknowledges the human factor, yet remains fragmented, often treating user vulnerabilities as isolated and static traits. This paper introduces MORPHEUS, a holistic framework that operationalizes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Giuseppe Desolda , Francesco Greco , Rosa Lanzilotti , Cesare Tucci

Passwords are undoubtedly the most dominant user authentication mechanism on the web today. Although they are inexpensive and easy-to-use, security concerns of password-based authentication are serious. Phishing and theft of password…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Klaudia Krawiecka , Arseny Kurnikov , Andrew Paverd , Mohammad Mannan , N. Asokan

Password authentication is a very important system security procedure to gain access to user resources. In the Traditional password authentication methods a server has check the authenticity of the users. In our proposed method users can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-13 A. S. N. Chakravarthy , Penmetsa V. Krishna Raja , Prof. P. S. Avadhani

The security of cloud environments, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), is complex and dynamic. Static security policies have become inadequate as threats evolve and cloud resources exhibit elasticity [1]. This paper addresses the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Muhammad Saqib , Dipkumar Mehta , Fnu Yashu , Shubham Malhotra

The rapid expansion of cloud infrastructures and distributed identity systems has significantly increased the complexity and attack surface of modern enterprises. Traditional rule based or signature driven detection systems are often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Venkata Tanuja Madireddy

Security questions are one of the mechanisms used to recover passwords. Strong answers to security questions (i.e. high entropy) are hard for attackers to guess or obtain using social engineering techniques (e.g. monitoring of social…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Nicholas Micallef , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Balancing robust security with strong privacy guarantees is critical for Risk-Based Adaptive Authentication (RBA), particularly in decentralized settings. Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising solution by enabling collaborative risk…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yaser Baseri , Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid , Dimitrios Makrakis , Hamidreza Fereidouni

In the past two decades, the number of mobile products being created by companies has grown exponentially. However, although these devices are constantly being upgraded with the newest features, the security measures used to protect these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Laura Pryor , Rushit Dave , Naeem Seliya , Evelyn R Sowells Boone

Although passwords remain the primary defense against unauthorized access, users often tend to use passwords that are easy to remember. This behavior significantly increases security risks, also due to the fact that traditional password…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Maurizio Atzori , Eleonora Calò , Loredana Caruccio , Stefano Cirillo , Giuseppe Polese , Giandomenico Solimando

Network & internet security is the burning question of today's world and they are deeply related to each other for secure successful data transmission. Network security approach is totally based on the concept of network security services.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Sanjay Majumder , Sanjay Chakraborty , Suman Das

The aim of this work is to study the evolution of password selection among users. We investigate whether users follow best practices when selecting passwords and identify areas in need of improvement. Four distinct publicly-available…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Theodosis Mourouzis , Kyriacos E. Pavlou , Stylianos Kampakis

With society's increased dependence on information communication systems, the need for dependable, trustable, robust, and secure adaptive systems becomes ever more acute. Modern autonomic message-oriented middleware platforms have stringent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Habtamu Abie , Trenton Schulz , Reijo Savola

Pioneering advancements in artificial intelligence, especially in genAI, have enabled significant possibilities for content creation, but also led to widespread misinformation and false content. The growing sophistication and realism of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Dinesh Srivasthav P , Badri Narayan Subudhi

Recent trend towards cloud computing paradigm, smart devices and 4G wireless technologies has enabled seamless data sharing among users. Cloud computing environment is distributed and untrusted, hence data owners have to encrypt their data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Yogachandran Rahulamathavan