The paper proposes a novel space switching method to efficiently unify arithmetic and comparison operations within Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes, achieving significant performance improve…

The paper proposes a novel ring-based information-theoretic Private Information Retrieval (itED-PIR) scheme that overcomes the key size and communication overhead limitations of existing field-based A…

The paper introduces Search-Bound Proximity Proofs (SBPP) to close an authorization provenance gap in encrypted geographic search by binding zero-knowledge proofs to specific search sessions for audit…

The paper introduces PriSrv+, an advanced service discovery protocol that significantly enhances privacy, usability, and efficiency in wireless networks through a novel matchmaking encryption scheme c…

The paper introduces SPIDER, a novel single-server Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme that achieves state-of-the-art communication complexity without requiring specialized server cooperation o…

The paper proposes Independent Vector Evaluation (IVE), a novel method that significantly reduces the computational cost of generating selection vectors for private embedding lookups under Fully Homom…

GPIR is a GPU-accelerated Private Information Retrieval (PIR) system that significantly boosts throughput by introducing a stage-aware hybrid execution model and optimizing data layouts for modern GPU…

The paper proposes PriSrv, a novel private service discovery protocol that enhances wireless communication security and privacy by enabling fine-grained, multi-layered matching and mutual authenticati…

PRAG is an end-to-end privacy-preserving Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that maintains high retrieval accuracy and scalability in cloud environments by encrypting both documents and queri…

The paper proposes a novel, unconditionally secure information-theoretic Authenticated Private Information Retrieval (itAPIR) scheme that upgrades existing, less secure itPIR-RV schemes without overhe…

The paper introduces PAS, a structured privacy mechanism that encodes user location using relative anchors, enabling location privacy in spatial RAG systems while maintaining high retrieval performanc…

The paper introduces the base-m length codec, a canonical and robust encoding scheme that maps byte strings to lists of residues modulo m, essential for finite-ring cryptosystems.

LIPPEN introduces a novel hardware-software co-design that provides strong, zero-overhead pointer encryption for enhanced memory safety, achieving comprehensive pointer integrity and confidentiality.

Cloak is an oblivious storage system that significantly improves the performance of ORAM by exploiting temporal locality, achieving low overheads while maintaining security.

The paper introduces Sieve, a system that uses a large language model (LLM) to generate executable query code from natural language security questions, significantly improving the ability to perform c…

This paper generalizes the definition of privacy in graph-replicated Private Information Retrieval (PIR) by allowing each server to have an arbitrary, specific set of message indices it must keep priv…

This paper presents a cryptanalytic attack demonstrating that a specific code-based Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme can be broken, allowing the server to efficiently determine the requested…

The paper proposes H-Elo, a Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)-based system that enables private and secure matchmaking by keeping user rating values encrypted during the traditional rating update pro…

The paper introduces Appraisal, a novel Screening-then-Linkage framework (PPRS) that significantly improves the scalability and efficiency of Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage by incorporating a light…

This paper develops and analyzes two differentially private methods for answering counting queries on quantum-encoded datasets, demonstrating improved privacy guarantees and a quantum-safe approach fo…