Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Subject "privacy enhancing technologies"
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The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Information-Theoretic and Computational Private Information Retrieval for Communication Efficiency
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-15)The goal of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is the ability to query a database successfully without the operator of the database server discovering which record(s) of the database the querier is interested in. There ... -
Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-12)Zero-knowledge proofs provide a means for a prover to convince a verifier that some claim is true and nothing more. The ability to prove statements while conveying zero information beyond their veracity has profound ... -
Nymbler: Privacy-enhanced Protection from Abuses of Anonymity
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-05)Anonymous communications networks help to solve the real and important problem of enabling users to communicate privately over the Internet. However, by doing so, they also introduce an entirely new problem: How can service ...