Publications related to Toward a secure JPEG

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Power Yoga: Variable-Stretch Security of CCM for Energy-Efficient Lightweight IoT

The currently ongoing NIST LWC project aims at identifying new standardization targets for lightweight authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD) and (optionally) lightweight cryptographic hashing. NIST has deemed it important for performance and ...

2021

Comprehensive assessment of image compression algorithms

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina, Evgeniy Upenik

JPEG image coding standard has been a dominant format in a wide range of applications in soon three decades since it has been released as an international standard. The landscape of applications and services based on pictures has evolved since the original ...

SPIE2020

Time in cryptography

Gwangbae Choi

Time travel has always been a fascinating topic in literature and physics. In cryptography, one may wonder how to keep data confidential for some time. In this dissertation, we will study how to make private information travel to the future. This dissertat ...

EPFL2020

Privacy-Friendly Photo Sharing and Relevant Applications Beyond

Lin Yuan

Popularization of online photo sharing brings people great convenience, but has also raised concerns for privacy. Researchers proposed various approaches to enable image privacy, most of which focus on encrypting or distorting image visual content. In this ...

EPFL2017

Linking Online Misuse-Resistant Authenticated Encryption and Blockwise Attack Models

Damian Vizár

Real-world applications of authenticated encryption often require the encryption to be computable online, e.g. to compute the ith block of ciphertext after having processed the first i blocks of plaintext. A significant line of research was dedicated to id ...

2017

Improving systems software security through program analysis and instrumentation

Volodymyr Kuznetsov

Security and reliability bugs are prevalent in systems software. Systems code is often written in low-level languages like C/C++, which offer many benefits but also delegate memory management and type safety to programmers. This invites bugs that cause cra ...

EPFL2016

Signature Schemes Secure Against Hard-to-Invert Leakage

Sebastian Faust

Side-channel attacks allow the adversary to gain partial knowledge of the secret key when cryptographic protocols are implemented in real-world hardware. The goal of leakage resilient cryptography is to design cryptosystems that withstand such attacks. In ...

Springer2016

Private Eyes: Secure Remote Biometric Authentication

Bryan Alexander Ford

We propose an efficient remote biometric authentication protocol that gives strong protection to the user’s biometric data in case of two common kinds of security breaches: (1) loss or theft of the user’s token (smart card, handheld device, etc.), giving t ...

SciTePress2015

Learning Image Descriptors with Boosting

Vincent Lepetit, Tomasz Piotr Trzcinski, Christos Marios Christoudias

We propose a novel and general framework to learn compact but highly discriminative floating-point and binary local feature descriptors. By leveraging the boosting-trick we first show how to efficiently train a compact floating-point descriptor that is ver ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Security of Full-State Keyed Sponge and Duplex: Applications to Authenticated Encryption

Damian Vizár, Reza Reyhanitabar

We provide a security analysis for full-state keyed Sponge and full-state Duplex constructions. Our results can be used for making a large class of Sponge-based authenticated encryption schemes more efficient by concurrent absorption of associated data and ...

Springer2015

Efficient Ephemeral Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Keys

Arjen Lenstra, Andrea Miele

We show how any pair of authenticated users can on-the-fly agree on an elliptic curve group that is unique to their communication session, unpredictable to outside observers, and secure against known attacks. Our proposal is suitable for deployment on cons ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

Scrambling-based tool for secure protection of JPEG images

Touradj Ebrahimi

JPEG scrambling tool is a flexible web-based tool with an intuitive and simple to use GUI and interface to secure visual information in a region of interest (ROI) of JPEG images. The tool demonstrates an efficient integration and use of security tools in J ...

2014

Automated Side-Channel Vulnerability Discovery and Hardening : No-Cost Security Expertise for All

Ali Galip Bayrak

In traditional cryptography, an attacker tries to infer a mathematical relationship between the inputs and outputs of a cryptosystem to recover secret information. With the advances in the theoretical basis of the cryptographic algorithms, this task became ...

EPFL2014

Secure Computing with the MPEG RVC Framework

Marco Mattavelli, Richard Thavot, Junaid Jameel Ahmad

Recently, ISO/IEC standardized a dataflow-programming framework called Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) for the specification of video codecs. The RVC framework aims at providing the specification of a system at a high abstraction level so that the functi ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Securing Broadcast Against Dishonest Receivers

Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, Vinod Malathidevi Prabhakaran, László Czap

Consider a sender, Alice, who wants to transmit private messages to two receivers, Bob and Calvin, using unreliable wireless broadcast transmissions and short public feedback from Bob and Calvin. In [1], we assumed that Bob and Calvin provide honest feedba ...

IEEE2013

Boosting Binary Keypoint Descriptors

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Tomasz Piotr Trzcinski, Christos Marios Christoudias

Binary keypoint descriptors provide an efficient alternative to their floating-point competitors as they enable faster processing while requiring less memory. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to learn an extremely compact binary descriptor we ca ...

2013

Game Theory Meets Network Security and Privacy

Jean-Pierre Hubaux

This survey provides a structured and comprehensive overview of research on security and privacy in computer and communication networks that use game-theoretic approaches. We present a selected set of works to highlight the application of game theory in ad ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2013

Security and Privacy in RFID Systems

Khaled Ouafi

This PhD thesis is concerned with authentication protocols using portable lightweight devices such as RFID tags. these devices have lately gained a significant attention for the diversity of the applications that could benefit form their features, ranging ...

EPFL2012

Creating Shared Secrets out of Thin Air

Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, Aikaterini Argyraki, Iris Safaka

Current security systems typically rely on the adversary's computational limitations (e.g., the fact that it cannot invert a hash function or perform large-integer factorization). Wireless networks offer the opportunity for a different, complementary kind ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2012

Cryptographic Hash Functions in Groups and Provable Properties

Juraj Sarinay

We consider several "provably secure" hash functions that compute simple sums in a well chosen group (G,*). Security properties of such functions provably translate in a natural way to computational problems in G that are simple to define and possibly also ...

EPFL2011