Hypothesis tests have been used in the past as a tool in a cryptanalytic context. In this paper, we propose to use this paradigm and define a precise and sound statistical framewo...
We study the effect compulsion attacks, through which an adversary can request a decryption or key from an honest node, have on the security of mix based anonymous communication s...
Mix networks are used to deliver messages anonymously to recipients, but do not straightforwardly allow the recipient of an anonymous message to reply to its sender. Yet the abili...
Recent collision-finding attacks against hash functions such as MD5 and SHA-1 motivate the use of provably collision-resistant (CR) functions in their place. Finding a collision ...
The issue of information security has attracted increasing attention in recent years. In network attack and defense scenarios, attackers and defenders constantly change their resp...