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GenoGuard: Protecting Genomic Data Against Brute-Force Attacks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jacques Fellay, Erman Ayday, Zhicong Huang, Ari Juels

Secure storage of genomic data is of great and increasing importance. The scientific community's improving ability to interpret individuals' genetic materials and the growing size of genetic database populations have been aggravating the potential conseque ...

2015

Quantifying Location Privacy

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Reza Shokri, Georgios Theodorakopoulos

It is a well-known fact that the progress of personal communication devices leads to serious concerns about privacy in general, and location privacy in particular. As a response to these issues, a number of Location-Privacy Protection Mechanisms (LPPMs) ha ...

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A Framework for the Validation of Privacy Protection Solutions in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Frédéric Dufaux

The issue of privacy protection in video surveillance has drawn a lot of interest lately. However, thorough performance analysis and validation is still lacking, especially regarding the fulfillment of privacy-related requirements. In this paper, we put fo ...

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On Tamper-Resistance from a Theoretical Viewpoint: The Power of Seals

Serge Vaudenay

Tamper-proof devices are pretty powerful. They can be used to have better security in applications. In this work we observe that they can also be maliciously used in order to defeat some common privacy protection mechanisms. We propose the theoretical mode ...

Springer2009

Efficient Deniable Authentication for Signatures, Application to Machine-Readable Travel Document

Serge Vaudenay, Jean Monnerat, Sylvain Pasini

Releasing a classical digital signature faces to privacy issues. Indeed, there are cases where the prover needs to authenticate some data without making it possible for any malicious verifier to transfer the proof to anyone else. It is for instance the cas ...

Springer Berlin / Heidelberg2009

Access control and privacy in location-aware applications

Maria Luisa Damiani

The topic addressed in this thesis concerns the relationship between spatial knowledge and information protection in a mobile setting. The proliferation of mobile devices in an increasingly connected world raises growing concern for information security an ...

EPFL2008

About Machine-Readable Travel Documents

Serge Vaudenay, Martin Vuagnoux

Passports are documents that help immigration officers to identify people. In order to strongly authenticate their data and to automatically identify people, they are now equipped with RFID chips. These contain private information, biometrics, and a digita ...

Springer2007

About Machine-Readable Travel Documents

Serge Vaudenay, Martin Vuagnoux

2007

Multimodal Biometrics for Identity Documents

Jonas Richiardi, Andrzej Drygajlo

The MBioID initiative has been set up to address the following germane question: What and how biometric technologies could be deployed in identity documents in the foreseeable future? This research effort proposes to look at current and future practices an ...

2007

About Machine-Readable Travel Documents

Serge Vaudenay, Martin Vuagnoux, Jean Monnerat

Passports are now equipped with RFID chips that contain private information, biometric data, and a digital signature by issuing authorities. We review most of applicable security and privacy issues. We argue that the main privacy issue is not unauthorized ...

Springer2007