Biclique cryptanalysis was proposed by Bogdanov et al. in Asiacrypt 2011 as a new tool for cryptanalysis of block ciphers. A major hurdle in carrying out biclique cryptanalysis is that it has a very high query complexity ...

Quality is an attribute or a property of an item that quantitatively measures specific aspect or content. The definition and correct method of measurement of quality of a biometric modality that is usually represented by ...

Censorship of the Internet by government is a hotly contested topic. Some nations lean more toward free speech; others are much more conservative. How feasible is it for a government to censor the Internet? What mechanisms ...

While passwords, by de nition, are meant to be secret, recent trends in the Internet usage have witnessed an increasing number of people sharing their email passwords for both personal and professional purposes. As ...

I study the market for consumer information. Firms cannot commit to privacy, so buyers anticipate disclosure of purchase history for targeted pricing. In the literature, strategic rejections of informative o ers make ...

Face recognition has found several applications ranging from cross border security, surveillance, access control, multimedia to forensics. Face recognition under variations due to pose, illumination, and expression has ...

For robust face biometrics, a reliable anti-spoofing approach has become an essential pre-requisite against attacks. While spoofing attacks are possible with any biometric modality, face spoofing attacks are relatively ...

Subclass discriminant analysis is found to be applicable under various scenarios. However, it is computationally very expensive to update the between-class and within-class scatter matrices. This research presents an ...

Latent fingerprint comparison evidences are used in the court of law for more than 100 years. Manual matching of latent fingerprints is challenged by subjectivity and inconsistency in terms of results and is not scalable ...

National governments know the Internet as both a blessing and a headache. On the one hand, it unlocks great economic and strategic opportunity. On the other hand, government, military, or emergency-services become vulnerable ...