In 2010, Groth constructed the only previously known sublinear-communication NIZK circuit satisfiability argument in the common reference string model. We optimize Groth’s argument by, in particular, reducing both the CRS length and the prover’s computational complexity from quadratic to quasilinear in the circuit size. We also use a (presumably) weaker security assumption, and have tighter sec...

Zero-Day vulnerabilities are an intriguing and ever increasing problem. Microsoft has been one of the more exploited companies having Zero-Day vulnerabilities. This paper intends to identify some relationships within the ZeroDay vulnerabilities identified in nineteen news articles from 2010. We tried to collect data on vulnerability report date, attack report date, vulnerability patch date, vul...

We propose a new non-interactive (perfect) zero-knowledge (NIZK) shuffle argument that, when compared the only previously known efficient NIZK shuffle argument by Groth and Lu, has a small constant factor times smaller computation and communication, and is based on more standard computational assumptions. Differently from Groth and Lu who only prove the co-soundness of their argument under pure...

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Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases remain the number one killer in the world, accounting for nearly one-third of all deaths worldwide. There is a clinical dilemma, in that almost half of acute coronary events occur in previously asymptomatic patients, and nearly 70% of acute coronary events result from coronary lesions that are not hemodynamically significant or flow-limiting before the ev...

Zero inflation problem is very common in ecological studies as well as other areas. We propose the COnstrained Zero-Inflated Generalized Additive Model (COZIGAM) for analyzing zero-inflated data. Our approach assumes that the response follows some distribution from the zero-inflated 1-parameter exponential family, with the further assumption that the probability of zero inflation is some monoto...