In this paper, we focus our attention on the problem of assigning initial secrets to users in ad-hoc network (respectively, sensors in a sensor network) so that they can use those...
Sandeep S. Kulkarni, Mohamed G. Gouda, Anish Arora
Rivest and Shamir presented two simple micropayment schemes, “PayWord” and “MicroMint,” for making small purchases over the Internet [14]. Recently, Adachi et al. have poi...
Quantum money is a cryptographic protocol in which a mint can produce a quantum state, no one else can copy the state, and anyone (with a quantum computer) can verify that the sta...
Edward Farhi, David Gosset, Avinatan Hassidim, And...
A mix network by Wikstrom fails in correctness, provable privacy and soundness. Its claimed advantages in security and efficiency are compromised. The analysis in this paper illus...
Abstract— We show how to efficiently extract truly random bits from two independent sources of linear min-entropy, under a computational assumption. The assumption we rely on is...