Publications related to Secrecy

Symmetry in design and decoding of polar-like codes

The beginning of 21st century provided us with many answers about how to reach the channel capacity. Polarization and spatial coupling are two techniques for achieving the capacity of binary memoryless symmetric channels under low-complexity decoding algor ...

EPFL2022

Bootstrapping for Approximate Homomorphic Encryption with Negligible Failure-Probability by Using Sparse-Secret Encapsulation

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Jean-Philippe Léonard Bossuat

Bootstrapping parameters for the approximate homomorphic-encryption scheme of Cheon et al., CKKS (Asiacrypt 17), are usually instantiated using sparse secrets to be efficient. However, using sparse secrets constrains the range of practical parameters withi ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Secrecy by Design With Applications to Privacy and Compression

Yanina Yurina Shkel

Secrecy by design is examined as an approach to information-theoretic secrecy. The main idea behind this approach is to design an information processing system from the ground up to be perfectly secure with respect to an explicit secrecy constraint. The pr ...

2021

Secure, Confidential Blockchains Providing High Throughput and Low Latency

Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias

One of the core promises of blockchain technology is that of enabling trustworthy data dissemination in a trustless environment. What current blockchain systems deliver, however, is slow dissemination of public data, rendering blockchain technology unusabl ...

EPFL2019

A Study of Persistent Fault Analysis

Subhadeep Banik, Andrea Felice Caforio

Persistent faults mark a new class of injections that perturb lookup tables within block ciphers with the overall goal of recovering the encryption key. Unlike earlier fault types persistent faults remain intact over many encryptions until the affected dev ...

Springer2019

Building Security Protocols Against Powerful Adversaries

Iris Safaka

As our sensitive data is increasingly carried over the Internet and stored remotely, security in communications becomes a fundamental requirement. Yet, today's security practices are designed around assumptions the validity of which is being challenged. In ...

EPFL2016

Matryoshka: Hiding Secret Communication in Plain Sight

Aikaterini Argyraki, Christina Fragouli, Iris Safaka

We want to enable a pair of communicating users to exchange secret messages while hiding the fact that secret communication is taking place. We propose a linguistic steganography approach, where each human message is hidden in another human-like message. A ...

2016

An LP Characterization of the Secret-message Capacity of Three Erasure Networks With Feedback

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

This paper presents exact capacity characterizations for the case, when a principal, Alice, wants to securely send a message to another principal, Bob, over three network configurations: the parallel edges network, the V-network, and the triangle network. ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

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 Wireless Communications via Cooperative Transmitting

Ninoslav Marina

Information-theoretic secrecy is combined with cryptographic secrecy to create a secret-key exchange protocol for wireless networks. A network of transmitters, which already have cryptographically secured channels between them, cooperate to exchange a secr ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2014

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

Creating Secrets out of Erasures

Aikaterini Argyraki, Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, Panagiotis Kostopoulos

Current security systems often rely on the adversary's computational limitations. Wireless networks offer the opportunity for a different, complementary kind of security, which relies on the adversary's limited network presence (i.e., that the adversary ca ...

2013

On Selecting the Nonce Length in Distance-Bounding Protocols

Serge Vaudenay, Christos Dimitrakakis, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa

Distance-bounding protocols form a family of challenge-response authentication protocols that have been introduced to thwart relay attacks. They enable a verifier to authenticate and to establish an upper bound on the physical distance to an untrusted prov ...

Oxford University Press2013

Beyond Bits: Reconstructing Images from Local Binary Descriptors

Pierre Vandergheynst, Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Emmanuel D'Angelo

Local Binary Descriptors (LBDs) are good at matching image parts, but how much information is actually carried? Surprisingly, this question is usually ignored and replaced by a comparison of matching performances. In this paper, we directly address it by t ...

2012

Creating Shared Secrets out of Thin Air

Aikaterini Argyraki, Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, Iris Safaka

Current security systems typically rely on the adversary's computational limitations (e.g., the fact that it cannot invert a hash function or perform large-integer factorization). Wireless networks offer the opportunity for a different, complementary kind ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2012

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 ...

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Information-theoretic secrecy for wireless networks

Etienne Perron

The aim of information-theoretic secrecy is to ensure that an eavesdropper who listens to the wireless transmission of a message can only collect an arbitrarily small number of information bits about this message. In contrast to cryptography, there are no ...

EPFL2009

On Cooperative Wireless Network Secrecy

Emre Telatar, Suhas Diggavi, Etienne Perron

Given that wireless communication occurs in a shared and inherently broadcast medium, the transmissions are vulnerable to undesired eavesdropping. This occurs even when a point-to-point communication is sought, and hence a fundamental question is whether w ...

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