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…

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…

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…

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…

The paper introduces Deniable Covert Asset Transfer (DCAT), a method that stages asset transfers to appear as ordinary, loss-producing DeFi activities, achieving empirical unobservability on major blo…

The paper proposes Q-FE, a novel Quantum-Native 6G Far-Edge architecture that secures Industrial IoT Digital Twins by integrating micro-digital twins, compact post-quantum key exchange, and asynchrono…

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…

The paper estimates the quantum resources required to break 256-bit ECC cryptography and warns that fast-clock quantum computers could enable on-spend attacks on modern cryptocurrencies, necessitating…

EdgeDetect is a communication-efficient and privacy-preserving federated intrusion detection system that uses gradient binarization and homomorphic encryption to significantly reduce bandwidth usage w…