In an oblivious transfer (OT) protocol, a Sender with messages M1, . . . , MN and a Receiver with indices 1, . . . , k [1, N] interact in such a way that at the end the Receiver ...
In this paper, we study the security of a practical randomness extractor and its application in the tls standard. Randomness extraction is the first stage of key derivation functi...
Online privacy is an increasingly important problem, as many services are now offered in a digital form. Privacy (or the lack thereof) is of a special concern in subscriptions to ...
Fair exchange is one of the most fundamental problems in secure distributed computation. Alice has something that Bob wants, and Bob has something that Alice wants. A fair exchang...
Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) such as Snort or Bro that have to analyze the packet payload for all the received data show severe performance problems if used in...