Recent years have seen an exponential growth in the use of various biometric technologies
for trusted automatic recognition of humans. With the rapid adaptation of biometric systems …

Biometric recognition is a challenging research field but suffers from privacy and security
concerns. To address this concern, Cancelable Biometrics is suggested in literature in which …

A secure digital evidence system should ensure that evidence cannot be tampered with and
that private information cannot be leaked. Blockchain, a distributed tamper-resistant and …

In this work, we initially study the necessary properties and security requirements of Ring
Confidential Transaction (RingCT) protocol deployed in the popular anonymous …

Bitcoin is the first e-cash system to see widespread adoption. While Bitcoin offers the
potential for new types of financial interaction, it has significant limitations regarding privacy …

Bitcoin owes its success to the fact that transactions are transparently recorded in the
blockchain, a global public ledger that removes the need for trusted parties. Unfortunately …

Ride-sharing is a service that enables drivers to share trips with other riders, contributing to
appealing benefits of shared travel cost and reducing traffic congestion. However, the …

We construct a pairing based simulation-extractable SNARK (SE-SNARK) that consists of
only 3 group elements and has highly efficient verification. By formally linking SE-SNARKs to …

Fog computing is a modern computing platform that connects the cloud with the edge smart
devices located at the edge of the network. The fog computing platform has several …

Thanks to the widespread deployment of TLS, users can access private data over channels
with end-to-end confidentiality and integrity. What they cannot do, however, is prove to third …