Privacy

Are Chrome Extensions Compliant with the Spirit of Least Privilege?
Extensions are small applications that are installed by users and enrich the user experience of browsing on the Internet. Browsers …
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Gridchain: An Investigation of Privacy for the Future Local Distribution Grid
As part of building the smart grid, there is a massive deployment of so-called smart meters that aggregate information and communicate …
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Heart-Based Biometric Protocols: A look back over almost two decades
This article surveys the literature over the period 2003-2021 on heart-based biometric protocols. In particular, we focus on how the …
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Semantic Attribute-Based Encryption: A Framework for Combining ABE schemes with Semantic Technologies
Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) is a cryptographic solution to protect resources in a fine-grained manner based on a set of public …
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After you, please: browser extensions order attacks and countermeasures
Browser extensions are small applications executed in the browser context that provide additional capabilities and enrich the user …
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Are the Interpulse Intervals of an ECG signal a good source of entropy? An in-depth entropy analysis based on NIST 800-90B recommendation
In recent years many authors have explored the use of biological signals for security issues. In the context of cardiac signals, the …
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Feasibility analysis of Inter-Pulse Intervals based solutions for cryptographic token generation by two electrocardiogram sensors
In this paper we address the problem of how two devices that are sensing the same heart signal can generate the same cryptographic …
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Heartbeats do not make good pseudo-random number generators: An analysis of the randomness of inter-pulse intervals
The proliferation of wearable and implantable medical devices has given rise to an interest in developing security schemes suitable for …
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Secure photo sharing in social networks
Nowadays, in an ubiquitous world where everything is connected to the Internet and where social networks play an important role in our …
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Secure publish-subscribe protocols for heterogeneous medical wireless body area networks
Security and privacy issues in medical wireless body area networks (WBANs) constitute a major unsolved concern because of the …
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