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…

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…

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 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…

The paper proposes PPRoute, a privacy-preserving LLM routing framework that significantly speeds up secure model selection while maintaining high performance comparable to non-private methods.

The paper introduces $\pi$Creds, a novel system for generating privacy-preserving, decentralized verifiable credentials by leveraging LLM inference over authenticated data, significantly expanding the…

The paper proposes a RADIUS-based framework to maintain persistent device identity for Network Access Control (NAC) despite modern operating system MAC address randomization, ensuring regulatory compl…

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 reverse-engineers Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC) implementation to independently benchmark its model and evaluate its privacy claims, addressing the lack of transparency in Apple's syst…

Ember is a serverless, peer-to-peer messaging system that provides end-to-end encrypted communication over a decentralized IPv6 mesh network while enforcing strict data minimization.

BRASP is a searchable encryption scheme that enables private Boolean range queries over encrypted spatial data while robustly protecting both the search pattern and access pattern.

The paper proposes Context-aware Metric Differential Privacy (C-mDP), a framework that improves vehicle location privacy by modeling temporal dependencies, achieving higher data utility than standard…

ShieldShare is a novel, non-root Android application that enables secure, VPN-backed hotspot sharing with accurate per-user traffic accounting, addressing limitations in current mobile VPN implementat…

PrivScope is a novel on-device governor that enforces task-scoped disclosure, ensuring sensitive information is abstracted to the least revealing form before being sent to a cloud language model, sign…

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 ECCFROG522PP, a 522-bit prime-field elliptic curve designed for high security, emphasizing deterministic generation and public reproducibility over performance.

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

Gyokuro is a novel Source-assisted Private Membership Testing (SPMT) protocol that uses Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to efficiently and privately verify data item existence in large databases…

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…