Respect for privacy begins when gathering information

Privacy-Preserving Information Gathering Using VANET

When autobiographical memory begins

The authors review competing theories concerning the emergence and early development of autobiographical memory. It is argued that the differences between these accounts, although important, may be more apparent than real. The crux of these disagreements lies not in what processes are important, but rather, the role these different processes play in the emergence of autobiographical memory and ...

Privacy preserving electronic data gathering

K e y w o r d s P r i v a c y , Electronic data gathering, E-voting protocols, Discrete logarithm. We would like to thank the editor and the reviewers for their concern. Moreover, we acknowledge the partial support by the "Archimedes" research programme awarded by the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and the European Union. 0895-7177/05/$ see front matter (~ 2005 Elsevier Ltd. ...

When Privacy meets Security: Leveraging personal information for password cracking

Passwords are widely used for user authentication and, despite their weaknesses, will likely remain in use in the foreseeable future. Human-generated passwords typically have a rich structure, which makes them susceptible to guessing attacks. In this paper, we study the effectiveness of guessing attacks based on Markov models. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we propose a novel password c...

Agent Systems for Information-Gathering

Information retrieval and database technology has long been interested in the problems of retrieving relevant information from vast data and information stores. The availability of information on the Internet, however, has spawned a new technological need: information gathering. Information gathering involves searching distributed, possibly heterogeneous data sources to answer a query. This pap...