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…

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…

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 introduces local private information retrieval (local PIR), redefining user privacy in graph-replicated systems to focus on hiding the message index from servers, and demonstrates that local…

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…

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…

TAPAS introduces an efficient, asymmetric two-server private aggregation scheme that significantly reduces computational and communication costs for large-scale federated learning compared to existing…

The paper introduces the PML envelope, a novel definition that provides a robust and operationally meaningful measure of information leakage about a secret, satisfying both post-processing robustness…

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, perfectly secure Information-Theoretic Distributed Point Function (ITDPF) that converts point functions into shares using asymptotically shorter secret keys compared to exi…

SILMARILS presents a quantum-secure, information-theoretic designated-verifier (DV) signature scheme built on a minimal algebraic core, suitable for lightweight blockchain authentication.

SEAL-Tag is a privacy-preserving runtime environment that mitigates PII leakage in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems by enforcing verifiable evidence aggregation and structured auditing.

This paper provides a comprehensive, system-level taxonomy for designing quantum-resistant network architectures, moving beyond simple protocol substitutions to address key distribution and management…

The paper introduces the Black-Hole Attack, a poisoning vulnerability that exploits geometric defects in high-dimensional embedding spaces to force malicious vectors into the top-k results of vector d…

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…

This paper demonstrates that standard privacy guarantees for multi-tenant RAG services fail when multiple accounts from the same tenant collude, proposing a novel audit protocol to quantify this joint…

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 ACE, a novel voting protocol that achieves end-to-end verifiability and strong voter privacy by combining tally-hiding aggregation with an Audit-or-Cast challenge, eliminating the…

This paper analyzes the reliability of efficient membership inference attack (MIA) evaluation methods, demonstrating that standard aggregation techniques introduce biases that compromise accurate vuln…

This paper provides the first comprehensive, end-to-end survey dedicated to the security of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, systematically mapping threats, defenses, and benchmarks acros…