Often clients (e.g., sensors, organizations) need to outsource joint computations that are based on some joint inputs to external untrusted servers. These computations often rely on the aggregation of data collected from multiple clients, while the c...
Secret key exchange is a necessary function for modern cryptography. The integer partition function is a mathematical function that arises from number theory. New methods for computing the integer partition function were developed and evaluated in th...
This paper presents Sillcom, a high-performance secure indoor localization scheme designed to minimize both communication and computational costs while preserving participants’ privacy. Unlike existing privacy-preserving indoor localization tec...
The Diffie–Hellman protocol, ingenious in its simplicity, is still the major solution in protocols for generating a shared secret in cryptography for e-trading and many other applications after an impressive number of decades. However, lately,...
As the demand for expansive back-end systems in online applications continues to grow, novel frameworks are necessitated to address the escalating operational demands, energy consumption, and associated costs. Traditional Client–Server models,...
Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed users, while preserving data privacy by only sharing model updates. However, secure aggregation, which is essential to prevent data leakage during this process, often inc...
Blockchain technology, characterized by its immutability and decentralization, enables the creation of permanent and tamper-resistant records once data are uploaded, making it widely applicable in scenarios requiring data authenticity and reliability...
XOR-based Visual Cryptography Scheme (XOR-based VCS) is a method of secret image sharing. The principle of XOR-based VCS is to encrypt a secret image into several encrypted images, called shares. No information about the secret can be obtained from a...
Threshold schemes are used among cryptographic techniques for splitting visual data. Such methods allow the generation of a number of secret shares, a certain number of which need to be assembled in order to reconstruct the original image. Traditiona...
This paper examines the properties of classical secret sharing schemes used in information protection systems, including the protection of valuable and confidential data. It addresses issues such as implementation complexity, limited flexibility, vul...
Quantum key distribution protocols allow two honest distant parties to establish a common truly random secret key in the presence of powerful adversaries, provided that the two users share a short secret key beforehand. This pre-shared secret key is...
A secret image sharing (SIS) scheme inserts a secret message into shadow images in a way that if shadow images are combined in a specific way, the secret image can be recovered. A 2-out-of-2 sharing digital image scheme (SDIS) adopts a color palette...
Linear codes with a few weights have been extensively studied due to their wide applications in secret sharing schemes, strongly regular graphs, association schemes, and authentication codes. In this paper, we choose the defining sets from two distin...
Proactive secret sharing (PSS), an extension of secret-sharing schemes, safeguards sensitive data in dynamic distributed networks by periodically refreshing shares to counter adversarial attacks. In our previous work, we constructed a non-interactive...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are promising tools in mobile communication due to their flexibility. However, the rapid development of mobile communications further intensifies the challenge of spectrum scarcity, necessitating spectrum sharing with...
Many leading technology companies currently offer Machine Learning as a Service Platform, enabling developers and organizations to access the inference capabilities of pre-trained models via API calls. However, due to concerns over user data privacy,...
Unlike a prevalent expectation that tumor cells secrete tumor-promoting proteins and stimulate the progression of neighboring tumor cells, accumulating evidence indicates that the role of tumor-secreted proteins is double-edged and context-dependent....
Background: Despite existing proteomics studies of other cell types, a comprehensive proteome of mesothelial cells has not been characterized. This study establishes a crucial baseline proteome for mesothelial cells to better understand their fundame...
Phytopathogenic fungi secrete numerous effector proteins to disrupt plant defenses. At present, their sequence–structure–function relationships remain poorly understood owing to their diversity. Comprehensive understanding of conserved ef...
Healthcare applications store private user data on cloud servers and perform computation operations that support several patient diagnoses. Growing cyber-attacks on hospital systems result in user data being held at ransom. Furthermore, mathematical...
As the most popular cryptographic scheme in the post-quantum field, lattices have received extensive attention and research. Not only do they provide quantum-resistant security, they also enable the construction of complex applications. Currently, la...
Several results relating additive ideals of numerical semigroups and algebraic-geometry
codes are presented. In particular, we deal with the set of non-redundant parity-checks, the code
length, the generalized Hamming weights, and the isometry-dual seq...
In conventional cryptography, information-theoretically secure message authentication can be achieved by means of universal hash functions, and requires that the two legitimate users share a random secret key, which is at least twice as long as the t...
Polar expansion is a widespread phenomenon in plants spanning all taxonomic groups from the Charophycean Green Algae to pollen tubes in Angiosperms and Gymnosperms. Current data strongly suggests that many common features are shared amongst cells dis...
Entropy is a basic and important concept in information theory. It is also often used as a measure of the unpredictability of a cryptographic key in cryptography research areas. Ubiquitous computing (Ubi-comp) has emerged rapidly as an exciting new p...
Background: Many Gram-negative enterobacteria translocate virulence proteins (effectors) into intestinal epithelial cells using a type III secretion system (T3SS) to subvert the activity of various cell functions possess. Many T3SS effectors have bee...
ClanTox (classifier of animal toxins) was developed for identifying toxin-like candidates from complete proteomes. Searching mammalian proteomes for short toxin-like proteins (coined TOLIPs) revealed a number of overlooked secreted short proteins wit...
Cybersecurity protocols enable several levels of protection against cyberattacks (digital attacks) that spread across network devices, platform programs, and network applications. On the Internet of Things (IoT), cyberattacks are generally intended t...
The power and robustness of statistical tests are strongly tied to the amount of data available for testing. However, much of the collected data today is siloed amongst various data owners due to privacy concerns, thus limiting the utility of the col...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most prominent opportunistic bacteria in airways of cystic fibrosis patients and in immunocompromised patients. These bacteria share the same polymicrobial niche with other microbes, such as the opportunistic fung...
The entropy of a closure operator has been recently proposed for the study of network coding and secret sharing. In this paper, we study closure operators in relation to their entropy. We first introduce four different kinds of rank functions for a g...
This paper investigates entropic matroids, that is, matroids whose rank function is given as the Shannon entropy of random variables. In particular, we consider p-entropic matroids, for which the random variables each have support of cardinality p. W...
Linear codes are the most important family of codes in cryptography and coding theory. Some codes only have a few weights and are widely used in many areas, such as authentication codes, secret sharing schemes and strongly regular graphs. By setting...
Banana Fusarium wilt, caused by the fungus pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc), is a devastating disease that causes tremendous reductions in banana yield worldwide. Secreted proteins can act as pathogenicity factors and play important r...
The Gram-negative bacterium Kingella kingae is part of the commensal oropharyngeal flora of young children. As detection methods have improved, K. kingae has been increasingly recognized as an emerging invasive pathogen that frequently causes skeleta...
HSP90 is a vital chaperone protein conserved across all organisms. As a chaperone protein, it correctly folds client proteins. Structurally, this protein is a dimer with monomer subunits that consist of three main conserved domains known as the N-ter...
The inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor-associated 2 (IRAG2) is also known as Jaw1 or lymphoid-restricted membrane protein (LRMP) and shares homology with the inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor-associated cGMP kinase substrate 1 (IRAG1). IRAG1 int...
Leakage of information in power line communication (PLC) networks is a threat to privacy and security. A way to enhance security is to encode the transmitted information with the use of a secret key. If the communication channel exhibits common chara...
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are minute vesicles with lipid bilayer membranes. EVs are secreted by cells for intercellular communication. Recently, EVs have received much attention, as they are rich in biological components such as nucleic acids, lip...
It is increasingly recognized that hypoxia may develop in adipose tissue as its mass expands. Adipose tissue is also the main reservoir of lipophilic pollutants, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Both hypoxia and PCBs have been shown to alt...
In this paper, we study the entropy functions on extreme rays of the polymatroidal region which contain a matroid, i.e., matroidal entropy functions. We introduce variable strength orthogonal arrays indexed by a connected matroid M and positive integ...
While the number of devices connected together as the Internet of Things (IoT) is growing, the demand for an efficient and secure model of resource discovery in IoT is increasing. An efficient resource discovery model distributes the registration and...
The parathyroid and thymus glands are key components of the endocrine and immune systems, respectively, with intriguing developmental, anatomical, and functional interrelationships. This study starts from the hypothesis that, given their shared embry...
Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ASCs) are considered to be a useful tool for regenerative medicine, owing to their capabilities in differentiation, self-renewal, and immunomodulation. These cells have become a focus in the clinical setting du...
Salmonella enterica is a leading cause of bacterial food-borne illness in humans and is responsible for millions of cases annually. A critical strategy for the survival of this pathogen is the translocation of bacterial virulence factors termed effec...
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have the potential to be a viable therapy against various diseases due to their paracrine effects, such as secretion of immunomodulatory, trophic and protective factors. These cells are known to be distributed within var...
The Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) is critical in improving electronic device precision, dependability, and productivity. Researchers are driving the development of digital healthcare systems by connecting available medical resources and healthcar...
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are envisioned to change the whole of society. New engineered systems joining physical and digital solutions are being employed in industry, education, etc. These new systems are networked by default, and private informat...
The Karp and Rabin (KR) fingerprint is a special hash-like function widely utilized for efficient string matching. Recently, Sharma et al.leveraged its linear and symmetric properties to facilitate private database queries. However, their approach ma...
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