The Internet of Things (IoT) is ubiquitous in our lives. However, the inherent vulnerability of IoT smart devices can lead to the destruction of networks in untrustworthy environments. Therefore, authentication is a necessary tool to ensure the legit...
Current requirements for ensuring data exchange over the internet to fight against security breaches have to consider new cryptographic attacks. The most recent advances in cryptanalysis are boosted by quantum computers, which are able to break commo...
Circuit-based zero-knowledge proofs have arose as a solution to the implementation of privacy in blockchain applications, and to current scalability problems that blockchains suffer from. The most efficient circuit-based zero-knowledge proofs use a p...
With the increasing demand for privacy protection in the blockchain, the universal zero-knowledge proof protocol has been developed and widely used. Because hash function is an important cryptographic primitive in a blockchain, the zero-knowledge pro...
It is crucial to ensure the privacy and authenticity of the owner’s information in car insurance claims. However, the current traditional car insurance claims scenario suffers from inefficiency, complex service, unreliable data, and data leakag...
The problem of digital identity acquires more relevance every day in the eyes of a society that spends more and more time connected to the Internet. It has evolved throughout its history to reach a decentralized model known as Self-Sovereign Identity...
UAVs are increasingly being used in various domains, from personal and commercial applications to military operations. Ensuring the security and trustworthiness of UAV communications is crucial, and blockchain technology has been explored as a soluti...
Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are cryptographic primitives allowing a party to prove to another party that the former knows some information while keeping it secret. Such a premise can lead to the development of numerous privacy-preserving protocols i...
The access control (AC) system in an IoT (Internet of Things) context ensures that only authorized entities have access to specific devices and that the authorization procedure is based on pre-established rules. Recently, blockchain-based AC systems...
In this paper, we address the problem of secure decision of membership. We present a Zero-Knowledge Dual Membership Proof (ZKDMP) protocol, which can support positive and negative (Pos-and-Neg) membership decisions simultaneously. To do it, two secur...
The development of systems for the identification of elasmobranchs, including sharks and rays, is crucial for biodiversity conservation and fisheries management, as they represent one of the most threatened marine taxa. This challenge is constrained...
Nowadays, the adoption of demand response programs is still lagging due to the prosumers’ lack of awareness, fear of losing control and privacy of energy data, etc. Programs decentralization, by adopting promising technologies such as blockchai...
With the proliferation of mobile devices, identifying previously unseen mobile applications has become a critical challenge in network security. Traditional application identification approaches rely heavily on fixed training categories and limited t...
In distributed computing, data trading mechanisms are essential for ensuring the sharing of data across multiple computing nodes. Nevertheless, they currently encounter considerable obstacles, including low accuracy in matching trading parties, ensur...
Automated food safety inspection systems rely heavily on the visual detection of contamination, spoilage, and foreign objects in food products. Current approaches typically require extensive labeled training data for each specific hazard type, limiti...
This work presents a mathematical solution to data privacy and integrity issues in Split Learning which uses Homomorphic Encryption (HE) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP). It allows calculations to be conducted on encrypted data, keeping the data priva...
This paper describes the design and analysis of a new scheme for the authenticated exchange of confidential information in insecure environments within the Internet of Things, which allows a receiver of a message to authenticate the sender and comput...
The issue of identity authentication for online medical services has been one of the key focuses of the healthcare industry in recent years. Most healthcare organizations use centralized identity management systems (IDMs), which not only limit the in...
As large language models (LLMs) increasingly enter specialized domains, inference without external resources often leads to knowledge gaps, opaque reasoning, and hallucinations. To address these challenges in power equipment defect grading, we propos...
Probabilistically Checkable Proofs (PCPs) allows a randomized verifier, with oracle access to a purported proof, to probabilistically verify an input statement of the form “x∈L” by querying only a few proof bits. Zero-Knowledge PCPs...
During the last few years, smart mobile devices have constituted an indispensable part of our lives, being a main element for many daily activities. However, it is well known that several security and privacy concerns still occur, especially taking i...
Conventional machine-learning-based defenses are unable to generalize well to novel chains of ATT&CK actions. Being inefficient with low telemetry budgets, they are also unable to provide causal explainability and auditing. We propose a knowledge...
One of the most important components of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is the automotive self-organizing VANET network (vehicular ad hoc network). Its nodes are vehicles with specialized onboard units (OBU) installed on them. Such a network...
In virtual power plants, diverse business scenarios involving user data, such as queries, transactions, and sharing, pose significant privacy risks. Traditional attribute-based encryption (ABE) methods, while supporting fine-grained access, fall shor...
Ontological knowledge graph (OKG) is a well-formed visual representation that depicts knowledge organization in formal elements (e.g., entities and attributes) and their interrelationships. OKG is crucial for innovation management analysis as it prov...
Current authentication schemes based on zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) still face issues such as high computation costs, low efficiency, and security assurance difficulty. Therefore, we propose a secure and efficient authentication scheme (SEAS) for larg...
In this study, a new data-sharing method is proposed that uses a private InterPlanetary File System—a decentralized storage system operated within a closed network—to distribute data to external entities while making its authenticity veri...
Real-time peer-to-peer communication in web browsers typically relies on centralized signaling servers, creating single points of failure, privacy vulnerabilities, and censorship risks. We present WebRTC Swarms, a fully decentralized signaling archit...
The issuing and verification of higher education certificates, including all higher education documents, still functions in a costly and inappropriately bureaucratic manner. Blockchain technology provides a more secure and consistent way to revolutio...
Blockchain-based sensor networks offer promising solutions for secure and transparent data management in IoT ecosystems. However, efficient set membership proofs remain a critical challenge, particularly in resource-constrained environments. This pap...
This research presents a novel framework and experimental results that combine zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) with private blockchain technology to safeguard whistleblower privacy while ensuring secure digital evidence submission and verification. For...
Frequent user data breaches and misuse incidents highlight the flaws in current identity management systems. This study proposes a blockchain-based, peer-supervised self-sovereign identity (SSI) generation and privacy protection technology. Our appro...
A sharing framework based on Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) and Proxy Re-encryption (PRE) technologies offers a promising solution for sharing Student Electronic Academic Records (SEARs). As core credentials in the education sector, student records are c...
Authentication is a crucial security service on the Internet. In real-world applications, multiple independent trust domains often exist, with each recognizing only certain identities within their own systems. During cross-domain access, users cannot...
This paper defines a new practical construction for a code-based signature scheme. We introduce a new protocol that is designed to follow the recent paradigm known as “Sigma protocol with helper”, and prove that the protocol’s secur...
As the main food source of the world’s population, grain quality safety is of great significance to the healthy development of human beings. The grain food supply chain is characterized by its long life cycle, numerous and complex business data, diff...
This study aimed to investigate the relationships between knowledge, attitudes, and values in promoting zero-waste, pro-environmental behaviour among the university campus community and how technology plays its role. A survey instrument was developed...
As the urgency of addressing climate change grows, strategies such as developing zero-emission campuses to achieve carbon neutrality are becoming increasingly crucial. Yet, research in this field remains somewhat underdeveloped and fragmented. This s...
The use of the term ‘net zero’ has rapidly and recently become mainstream but is often not well-defined in the literature. A brief history of the term was researched, followed by a systematic literature review to consider the research que...
Federated learning enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but practical deployments increasingly require verifiable guarantees that clients compute updates correctly. Zero-knowledge proofs can provide such guarantees, yet exis...
Authentication protocols are expanding their application scope in wireless information systems, among which are low-orbit satellite communication systems (LOSCS) for the OneWeb space Internet, automatic object identification systems using RFID, the I...
Agricultural peatlands are the most productive soils in the UK for the cultivation of many food crops. Historical drainage of peat for agriculture (i.e., cropland and managed grassland), without consideration of other associated environmental and cli...
Malware continues to evolve rapidly, posing significant challenges to network security. Traditional signature-based detection methods often struggle to cope with advanced evasion techniques such as polymorphism, metamorphism, encryption, and stealth,...
Academic credential fraud presents a significant challenge to the global academic and labor markets, undermining the credibility of legitimate qualifications. In this paper, we introduce ZKBAR-V, a Zero-Knowledge Proof-Enabled Blockchain-Based Academ...
Blockchain provides the opportunity for organizations to execute trustable collaborations through smart contract automations. However, linkability problems exist in blockchain-based collaboration platforms due to privacy leakages, which, when exploit...
The types of political and policy knowledge required to guide rapid transition to low-carbon economies remain largely disconnected in the fields of political science, psychology, and sociology. The composition and key features of the main actors invo...
Blockchain, with its characteristics of non-tamperability and decentralization, has had a profound impact on various fields of society and has set off a boom in the research and application of blockchain technology. However, blockchain technology fac...
A ring signature (RS) scheme enables a group member to sign messages on behalf of its group without revealing the definite signer identify, but this also leads to the abuse of anonymity by malicious signers, which can be prevented by traceable ring s...
Blockchain and smart contracts are widely used in IoT access control to create decentralized, trustworthy environments for secure access and record management. However, their application introduces a dual challenge: The transparency of blockchain and...
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As a policy that is widely used worldwide, Vision Zero is a long-term strategic goal for road safety in China. The aim of this paper is to examine the literature in the field of Vision Zero retrieved by the Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection databa...
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