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…

This paper proposes a scalable framework for integrating Post-Quantum Cryptography into Federated Learning-enabled Internet of Medical Things systems, demonstrating reduced latency and feasible resour…

Intercloud proposes a decentralized economic network that achieves eventual consistency and security using a novel 'chilling-effect consensus' mechanism, eliminating the need for global coordination.

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…

Pepper is a novel, high-bandwidth anonymous broadcast protocol that achieves cryptographic sender anonymity and significantly improves messaging throughput compared to existing state-of-the-art system…

This paper presents an architecture for private and verifiable electronic voting using the Paillier cryptosystem, without a trusted key dealer, and proves its correctness under certain assumptions.

Obscura is a novel, decentralized privacy protocol for the Algorand blockchain that achieves transaction anonymity using LSAG ring signatures, overcoming the limitations of existing zk-SNARK-based met…

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…

The paper analyzes the security of a partially masked hardware accelerator for Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) in PQC, demonstrating that the claimed security margins are significantly overestimated…

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 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.

The paper proposes COD-ssi, a novel framework that achieves mutual privacy in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) credential exchanges, ensuring that neither the Holder nor the Verifier can learn unnecessar…

This paper presents a longitudinal study on the adoption of anonymisation protocols in the Bitcoin network, identifying over 5.94 million CoinJoin and 23.3 million CoinSwap transactions, and revealing…

This paper compares two cryptocurrency sender untraceability designs, Linear Untraceable Asset Transfer Objects (LUAT) and Constant-State Untraceable Asset Transfer Objects (CUAT), and analyzes their…

The paper introduces extsc{Dao$^2$}, a framework enabling secure, threshold-controlled payments from one Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) to another, supporting both traceable and anonymou…

The paper introduces Aquaman, a transparent-proxy architecture that enables quantum-resilient session-key establishment at the network edge, protecting clients that cannot natively support post-quantu…

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

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 proposes a Secure Parallel Determinant Computation (SPDC) framework that enables efficient, privacy-preserving, and scalable matrix determinant calculation across multiple untrusted edge ser…