The importance of safeguarding individuals' privacy rights in online activities is unmistakable
in today's anonymity networks. Since the introduction of Mixnet by Chaum, numerous …

Secure network protocols like TLS, QUIC, SSH and IPsec allow for additional padding to be
used during encryption in order to hide message lengths. While it is impossible to conceal …

When modelling how public key encryption can enable secure communication, we should
acknowledge that secret information, such as private keys or the encryption's randomness …

Online voting systems typically display a confirmation screen allowing voters to confirm their
selections before casting. This paper considers whether a network-based observer can …

Modern real-time communication (RTC) depends on efficient audio and video compression
to minimize bandwidth requirements. While the codecs are certainly up to the task, the …

A cryptosystem that performs compression before encryption may leak information about the
plaintext from the ciphertext length, giving rise to a compression side channel. An attacker …

Online voting is increasingly prevalent in Ontario's municipalities, despite a lack of regulated
technological and procedural safeguards. Individual municipalities, lacking deep knowledge …