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System Support for Efficient Replication in Distributed Systems

Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi

Current online applications, such as search engines, social networks, or file sharing services, execute across a distributed network of machines. They provide non-stop services to their users despite failures in the underlying network. To achieve such a hi ...

EPFL2019

Towards Usable Checksums: Automating the Integrity Verification ofWeb Downloads for the Masses

Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Mauro Cherubini, Igor Bilogrevic

Internet users can download software for their computers from app stores (e.g., Mac App Store and Windows Store) or from other sources, such as the developers' websites. Most Internet users in the US rely on the latter, according to our representative stud ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

RAIN: A Bio-Inspired Communication and Data Storage Infrastructure

Matteo Monti

We summarize the results and perspectives from a companion article, where we presented and evaluated an alternative architecture for data storage in distributed networks. We name the bio-inspired architecture RAIN, and it offers file storage service that, ...

Mit Press2017

"If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them'': A Usability Approach to Interdependent Privacy in Cloud Apps

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous

Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Google Drive, have growing ecosystems of 3rd party apps that are designed to work with users’ cloud files. Such apps often request full access to users’ files, including files shared with collaborators. Hence, whene ...

2017

Method for Generating an HTML Document that Contains Encrypted Files and the Code Necessary for Decrypting Them When a Valid Passphrase is Provided

Radhakrishna Achanta, Thomas Lochmatter

A computer implemented method for encrypting one or more files and wrapping them in an HTML document. The HTML document contains the encrypted files, the necessary code to decrypt the files, as well as user interface code to receive a passphrase input from ...

2015

Secure JPEG Scrambling enabling Privacy in Photo Sharing

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan

With the popularization of online social networks (OSNs) and smart mobile devices, photo sharing is becoming a part of people’ daily life. An unprecedented number of photos are being uploaded and shared everyday through online social networks or photo host ...

2015

Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing based on a Public Key Infrastructure

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan, David Mc Nally

A significant number of pictures are posted to social media sites or exchanged through instant messaging and cloud-based sharing services. Most social media services offer a range of access control mechanisms to protect users privacy. As it is not in the b ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Peer Sharing Behaviour in the eDonkey Network, and Implications for the Design of Server-less File Sharing Systems

Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Sidath Handurukande

In this paper we present an empirical study of a workload gathered by crawling the eDonkey network - a dominant peer-to-peer file sharing system - for over 50 days. We first confirm the presence of some known features, in particular the prevalence of free- ...

2006