Privacy

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 attributes. This is similar to attribute-based …

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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 heart signal is transformed from a continuous …

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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 with the back-end office, apart from …

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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 expose a set of restricted APIs to extensions …

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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 use of Inter-Pulse Interval (IPI) values as a …

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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 experience while surfing the web. The acceptance …

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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 token by extracting them from the Inter-Pulse …

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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 these systems and the environment in which …

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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 lives, security and privacy is a must. …

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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 challenges posed by the scarcity of resources in WBAN …

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