In this paper, we present a framework for achieving anonymity and trust, two seemingly contradictory properties, in distributed systems. Our approach builds on webs of trust, a we...
Michael Backes, Stefan Lorenz, Matteo Maffei, Kim ...
Abstract. Public-key cryptography is a prerequisite for security in distributed systems and for reliable electronic commerce. The protection of public keys against attacks is the A...
We study information reconciliation (IR) scheme for the quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols. The IR for the QKD can be considered as the asymmetric Slepian-Wolf problem, which...
In this paper we present a software architecture and a development environment for the implementation of applications based on secure mobile agents. Recent breakthroughs in mobile...
Carles Garrigues, Sergi Robles, Joan Borrell, Guil...
We study the problem of "privacy amplification": key agreement between two parties who both know a weak secret w, such as a password. (Such a setting is ubiquitous on th...