CHRONOS is a hardware-assisted framework that significantly reduces the latency of secure federated learning by decoupling cryptographic key setup from the active training phase, while maintaining hig…

Aegon is a new protocol that provides an auditable, tamper-evident infrastructure for tracking AI content licensing transactions and compliance receipts.

The paper introduces GDPRuler, a trusted middleware system that enables verifiable GDPR compliance for key-value stores on untrusted cloud environments without requiring modifications to the core data…

This survey analyzes privacy-enhancing encryption technologies (ABE, PRE, SE) for data sharing, proposing a comprehensive framework, identifying potential attacks, and evaluating their multi-dimension…

The paper proves that standard account-based ledgers cannot non-custodially enforce asset disposition, and introduces a novel commitment-based ledger structure, the 'envelope,' that achieves this capa…

The paper introduces ODYSSEY, a confidential blockchain that mitigates execution-inference and execution-replay attacks by implementing a delegation model, achieving high throughput and low latency in…

zk-X509 is a privacy-preserving identity system that uses zero-knowledge proofs to prove ownership of standard X.509 certificates on a public blockchain without revealing private keys or personal data…

LiteAtt introduces a verifier-less, Peer-to-Peer Self-Attestation (P2P-SA) framework for modern IoT MCUs, enabling mutual authentication and firmware attestation directly within the connection handsha…

The paper introduces PASS, a Provenanced Access Subaccount System that replaces traditional key-based control with verifiable provenance-based control for blockchain wallets, enabling secure, multi-ac…

FIDEM introduces a standard-compliant framework that uses Zero-Knowledge Proofs to securely bind IoT devices to their Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) profiles, mitigating risks associated with in…

The paper introduces $I$-$(OT)^2$, a novel base 1-out-of-2 Oblivious Transfer (OT) protocol designed to minimize computation and interaction for resource-constrained IoT devices.

The paper proposes a novel identity-based public key management framework, IPK-pq, utilizing NIST ML-DSA and random matrix theory to enhance the scalability and efficiency of Public Key Infrastructure…

This paper conducts an extensive microbenchmark study to characterize the performance of core cryptographic workloads across various cloud services, architectures, and programming languages, identifyi…

The paper proposes a trustless framework using dual-layer cryptographic commitments to solve the operator-gating problem in blockchain provenance trees, ensuring verifiable user attribution even when…

The paper introduces 'quantum-safe,' a Python library that addresses the remaining 'production gap' in post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by providing robust, easy-to-use hybrid implementations and compr…

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…

This paper introduces a unified threat model and evaluation framework to systematically compare privacy-preserving techniques for distributed learning in IoT systems, highlighting the trade-off betwee…

Ciphera proposes a decentralized biometric identity framework that combines facial recognition with DIDs and VCs, achieving feasible sub-second verification while highlighting challenges in revocation…

This paper analyzes digital privacy risks in IoT ecosystems, proposing a comprehensive framework (AURA-IoT) and taxonomy to mitigate threats using advanced privacy-enhancing technologies.

The paper proposes a hash-based commit-reveal alternative to minimize the infrastructural overhead associated with adopting large post-quantum signature schemes in blockchain transactions.