Publications related to Signal (software)

On the Theory and Practice of Modern Secure Messaging

Billions of people now have conversations daily over the Internet. A large portion of this communication takes place via secure messaging protocols that offer "end-to-end encryption'" guarantees and resilience to compromise like the widely-used Double Ratc ...

EPFL2024

Private Message Franking with After Opening Privacy

Serge Vaudenay, Iraklis Leontiadis

Recently Grubbs et al. [GLR17] initiated the formal study of message franking protocols. This new type of service launched by Facebook, allows the receiver in a secure messaging application to verifiably report to a third party an abusive message some send ...

2023

Cryptographic Administration for Secure Group Messaging

Serge Vaudenay, Daniel Patrick Collins

Many real-world group messaging systems delegate group administration to the application level, failing to provide formal guarantees related to group membership. Taking a cryptographic approach to group administration can prevent both implementation and pr ...

Berkeley2023

Groove: Flexible Metadata-Private Messaging

Ludovic Barman, David Lazar

Metadata-private messaging designs that scale to support millions of users are rigid: they limit users to a single device that is online all the time and transmits on short regular intervals, and require users to choose precisely when each of their buddies ...

Usenix Assoc2022

Data Privacy Concerns as a Source of Resistance to Complete Mobile Data Collection Tasks Via a Smartphone App

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Smartphones present many interesting opportunities for survey research, particularly through the use of mobile data collection applications (apps). There is still much to learn, however, about how to integrate apps in general population surveys. Recent stu ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2022

Supporting Developers in Creating Web Apps for Education via an App Development Framework

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram

As more educational activities are conducted online, the need for interactive applications (apps) that can effectively support educators in their practice is increasing. These apps are often created by web developers or by researchers, educators, and even ...

Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València2022

BioLocker: A Practical Biometric Authentication Mechanism based on 3D Fingervein

Serge Vaudenay, Loïs Evan Huguenin-Dumittan, Fatma Betül Durak

We design a consecution of protocols which allows organizations to have secure strong access control of their users to their desktop machines based on biometry. It provides both strong secure authentication and privacy. Moreover, our mechanism allows the s ...

Springer, Cham2020

Time in cryptography

Gwangbae Choi

Time travel has always been a fascinating topic in literature and physics. In cryptography, one may wonder how to keep data confidential for some time. In this dissertation, we will study how to make private information travel to the future. This dissertat ...

EPFL2020

Atom: Horizontally Scaling Strong Anonymity

Bryan Alexander Ford, Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs

Atom is an anonymous messaging system that protects against traffic-analysis attacks. Unlike many prior systems, each Atom server touches only a small fraction of the total messages routed through the network. As a result, the system’s capacity scales near ...

Association for Computing Machinery2017

Generating Steganographic Text with LSTMs

Martin Jaggi, Aikaterini Argyraki, Tina Fang

Motivated by concerns for user privacy, we design a steganographic system ("stegosystem") that enables two users to exchange encrypted messages without an adversary detecting that such an exchange is taking place. We propose a new linguistic stegosystem ba ...

2017

PriFi: A Low-Latency and Tracking-Resistant Protocol for Local-Area Anonymous Communication

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Ludovic Barman, Bryan Alexander Ford, Mahdi Zamani, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli

Popular anonymity mechanisms such as Tor provide low communication latency but are vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks that can de-anonymize users. Moreover, known traffic-analysis-resistant techniques such as Dissent are impractical for use in latency- ...

ACM2016

Secret Communication Over Broadcast Erasure Channels With State-Feedback

Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, László Czap, Vinod Malathidevi Prabhakaran

We consider a 1-to-K communication scenario, where a source transmits private messages to K receivers through a broadcast erasure channel, and the receivers feedback strictly, causally, and publicly their channel states after each transmission. We explore ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Triangle Network Secrecy

Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, László Czap, Vinod Malathidevi Prabhakaran

We characterize the secret message capacity of the triangle network, that consists of a source, a relay and a destination connected through orthogonal erasure channels. A passive eavesdropper, Eve, wiretaps any one of the three channels. The source and the ...

2014

Secure Communication in Erasure Networks with State-feedback

László Czap

The security and efficiency of communication are two of the main concerns for networks of today and the future. Our understanding of how to efficiently send information over various channels and networks has significantly increased in the past decade (see ...

EPFL2014

Securing Broadcast Against Dishonest Receivers

Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, László Czap, Vinod Malathidevi Prabhakaran

Consider a sender, Alice, who wants to transmit private messages to two receivers, Bob and Calvin, using unreliable wireless broadcast transmissions and short public feedback from Bob and Calvin. In [1], we assumed that Bob and Calvin provide honest feedba ...

IEEE2013

Secret message capacity of erasure broadcast channels with feedback

Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, László Czap, Vinod Malathidevi Prabhakaran

We characterize the secret message capacity of a wiretapped erasure channel where causal channel state informa- tion of the honest nodes is publicly available. In doing so, we establish an intimate connection between message secrecy and secret key generati ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

Degraded two-message multicast over graphs

Christina Fragouli, Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

We consider communication of two degraded mes- sage sets over graphs where a common source sends two prioritized messages (a common and a private message) to several receivers. All receivers require the common message and a subset of the receivers require ...

2011

Social Software Modeling and Mashup based on Actors, Activities and Assets

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sandy Ingram, Evgeny Bogdanov

Despite the extreme diversity of Web applications, one can find similarities among them. This paper proposes an answer to the question of knowing whether it is possible to conceptually represent different Web applications in a common manner such that they ...

2008