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Integrity and Metadata Protection in Data Retrieval

Kirill Nikitin

Secure retrieval of data requires integrity, confidentially, transparency, and metadata-privacy of the process. Existing protection mechanisms, however, provide only partially these properties: encryption schemes still expose cleartext metadata, protocols ...

EPFL2021

Centralized or Decentralized? The Contact Tracing Dilemma

Serge Vaudenay

The COVID-19 pandemic created a noticeable challenge to the cryptographic community with the development of contact tracing applications. The media reported a dispute between designers proposing a centralized or a decentralized solution (namely, the PEPP-P ...

2020

Analysis of DP3T - Between Scylla and Charybdis

Serge Vaudenay

To help fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) project proposed a Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP3T) system. This helps tracking the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus while keeping th ...

2020

Data-Aware Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

Aleksei Triastcyn

In this thesis, we focus on the problem of achieving practical privacy guarantees in machine learning (ML), where the classic differential privacy (DP) fails to maintain a good trade-off between user privacy and data utility. Differential privacy guarantee ...

EPFL2020

BioLocker: A Practical Biometric Authentication Mechanism based on 3D Fingervein

Serge Vaudenay, Loïs Evan Huguenin-Dumittan, Fatma Betül Durak

We design a consecution of protocols which allows organizations to have secure strong access control of their users to their desktop machines based on biometry. It provides both strong secure authentication and privacy. Moreover, our mechanism allows the s ...

Springer, Cham2020

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In human-computer interaction, self-disclosure of sensitive information regarding distressing experiences requires the establishment of a trust channel between the user and the digital tool. As privacy and security have been identified as factors that cont ...

2020

Covid-19 contact tracing: efficacy and privacy

This article assesses the risk-risk trade-off between privacy and efficacy that the use of contact tracing apps entails. It argues for the use of privacy-preserving apps, but highlights potential weaknesses and cautions against allowing digital tracing to ...

EPFL2020

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Mobile Applications and Services

Thi Van Anh Pham

Over a third of the world's population owns a smartphone. As generic computing devices that support a large and heterogeneous collection of mobile applications (apps), smartphones provide a plethora of functionalities and services to billions of users. B ...

EPFL2019

MedChain: Accountable and Auditable Data Sharing in Distributed Medical Scenarios

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Linus Gasser, Jean Louis Raisaro

The current trend towards personalized medicine creates an urgent need to share data among different hospitals and health institutions, which endangers the privacy of the data subjects if not done with the appropriate precautions. Conversely, the frequency ...

2019

Inpainting in Omnidirectional Images for Privacy Protection

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Pinar Akyazi

Privacy protection is drawing more attention with the advances in image processing, visual and social media. Photo sharing is a popular activity, which also brings the concern of regulating permissions associated with shared content. This paper presents a ...

2019