A Note on Perfect Correctness by Derandomization by Bitansky, Nir, Vaikuntanathan, Vinod

“…We show a general compiler that transforms a large class of erroneous cryptographic schemes (such as public-key encryption, indistinguishability obfuscation, and secure multiparty computation schemes) into perfectly correct ones. …”
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Price Competition Reduction Strategies in Chinese B2C E-Commerce Markets: A Case Study by Liu, Kaiwen

“…Evidence shows that firms around the world are practicing price fixing and price obfuscation to reduce price competition for higher profits. …”
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A Note on Perfect Correctness by Derandomization by Bitansky, Nir, Vaikuntanathan, Vinod

“…We show a general compiler that transforms a large class of erroneous cryptographic schemes (such as public-key encryption, indistinguishability obfuscation, and secure multiparty computation schemes) into perfectly correct ones. …”
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Logic locking satisfiability evaluation based on machine learning techniques by Han, Yifei

“…This scenario underscores the need for robust logic obfuscation solutions to mitigate these risks. Despite this, Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) attacks and related methods can nearly breach all advanced logic obfuscation techniques. …”
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Sustainability assurance as greenwashing by Carmichael, D, Soonawalla, K, Stroehle, JC

“…Our investigation into the sustainability reporting of some of the world’s largest companies revealed deception, obfuscation, and diversion. Senior management and auditing and assurance practices must do better.…”

The Magic of ELFs by Zhandry, Mark

“…In particular, we show how to use ELFs to build secure point function obfuscation with auxiliary input, as well as polynomially many hardcore bits for any one-way function. …”
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GGH15 Beyond Permutation Branching Programs: Proofs, Attacks, and Candidates by Chen, Yilei, Vaikuntanathan, Vinod, Wee, Hoeteck

“…We present new constructions of private constrained PRFs and lockable obfuscation, for constraints (resp. functions to be obfuscated) that are computable by general branching programs. …”
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Lightweight privacy preservation techniques for deep learning and inference in Internet of Things by Jiang, Linshan

“…This thesis primarily studies data obfuscation as a lightweight method to preserve data privacy for cloud-based collaborative machine learning and inference in IoT. …”
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Obfuscatable aggregatable signcryption scheme with PadSteg for unattended devices in IoT systems by Uwadiegwu, Inyama Victor

“…Obfuscatable Aggregatable Signcryption (OASC) is the combination of cryptography technique such as digital signature with data encryption and obfuscation to protect data in the IoT system. It is efficacious to protecting the confidentiality and integrity of communication in Internet of Things (IoT) system. …”
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From “singing bright prospects” to “traversing history’s 'garbage time'”: China struggles with slowing growth by Thornton, PM

“…As China’s growth slows, Beijing is increasingly resorting to strategies of obfuscation and censorship with regard to key economic data and economic propaganda that emphasize positive news regarding growth. …”

Securing Android applications via edge assistant third-party library detection by Tang, Zhushou, Xue, Minhui, Meng, Guozhu, Ying, Chengguo, Liu, Yugeng, He, Jianan, Zhu, Haojin, Liu, Yang

“…In order to address the difficulties caused by code obfuscation, shrinkage, and optimization, we identify the invariants that are unchanged during mutation, separate TPLs from the primary code in APPs, and use these invariants to determine the contained TPLs as well as their versions. …”
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Biologically Inspired Mechanisms for Adversarial Robustness by Vuyyuru Reddy, Manish, Banburski, Andrzej, Plant, Nishka, Poggio, Tomaso

“…We verify that these two mechanisms do not suffer from gradient obfuscation and study their contribution to adversarial robustness through ablation studies.…”
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Reusable garbled circuits and succinct functional encryption by Goldwasser, Shafi, Kalai, Yael Tauman, Popa, Raluca Ada, Vaikuntanathan, Vinod, Zeldovich, Nickolai

“…Building on our succinct single-key functional encryption scheme, we show several new applications in addition to reusable garbled circuits, such as a paradigm for general function obfuscation which we call token-based obfuscation, homomorphic encryption for a class of Turing machines where the evaluation runs in input-specific time rather than worst-case time, and a scheme for delegating computation which is publicly verifiable and maintains the privacy of the computation.…”
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Accelerating scientists’ knowledge turns by Goble, C, De Roure, D, Bechhofer, S

“…In particular method obfuscation obstructs reproducibility. The exchange of “Re-search Objects” rather than articles proposes a technical solution; however the obstacles are mainly social ones that require the scientific community to rethink its current value systems for scholarship, data, methods and software.…”

‘Achieved without ambiguity?’ Memorializing victimhood in Belgrade after the 1999 NATO bombing by Badescu, G

“…While the competition and overall debates mirror general trends of memorial architecture in the context of European politics of regret and trauma, the limited scope of the memorial and its marginality in the cityscape both reflect and enhance the continuing obfuscation of the past in Serbia.…”

Machine Learning Methods for Image-based Personalized Cancer Screening by Yala, Adam

“…In this thesis, I will discuss our contributions in addressing the above challenges in three areas: 1) cancer risk assessment from imaging, 2) personalized screening policy design and 3) private data sharing through neural obfuscation. I have demonstrated that our clinical models offer significant improvements over the current standard of care across globally diverse patient populations. …”
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Navigating by touch: haptic Monte Carlo localization via geometric sensing and terrain classification by Buchanan, R, Bednarek, J, Camurri, M, Nowicki, MR, Walas, K, Fallon, M

“…Legged robot navigation in extreme environments can hinder the use of cameras and lidar due to darkness, air obfuscation or sensor damage, whereas proprioceptive sensing will continue to work reliably. …”

Short review on metamorphic malware detection in Hidden Markov Models by Yeong, T. Ling, Mohd Sani, Nor Fazlida

“…In this paper, we present Hidden Markov Model as an efficient metamorphic malware detection tool by exploring the common obfuscation techniques used in malware while reviewing and comparing the different studies that adopt HMM as a detection tool.…”
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Nonnegative matrix factorization and metamorphic malware detection by Ling, Yeong Tyng, Mohd Sani, Nor Fazlida, Abdullah, Mohd Taufik, Abdul Hamid, Nor Asilah Wati

“…Metamorphic malware change their internal code structure by adopting code obfuscation technique while maintaining their malicious functionality during each infection. …”
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Machine learning for high-dimensional data analysis in hardware assurance applications by Hong, Xuenong

“…It develops novel Graph Neural Network (GNN) based machine learning methods to perform circuit analysis tasks in HA, including circuit partitioning, circuit recognition, circuit obfuscation and circuit error correction. The outcome of this thesis work opens new opportunities of AI in HA.…”
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