PURBs

PURBs

Metadata leakage prevention for encrypted communication and storage

PURBs (Padded Uniform Random Blobs) encode encrypted messages so that ciphertexts reveal no metadata — such as the number or type of recipients — to passive observers. The encoding uses Elligator-based public keys embedded at uniformly random positions, and pads ciphertexts to a size drawn from a geometric distribution to hide payload length.

Encryption
Maturity
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C4DT
Inactive
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Decentralized Distributed Systems Laboratory

Decentralized Distributed Systems Laboratory
Bryan Ford

Prof. Bryan Ford

The DEDIS team is working on projects related to large-scale collective authorities (cothorities), which distribute trust among a number of independent parties to allow scalable self-organizing communities. With no single trusted party, cothorities can secure software updates, provide public randomness, enable privacy-conscious medical-data sharing and a lot more. Other projects include communicating securely over insecure channels and fast, scalable, accountable anonymous communication.

This page was last edited on 2024-03-20.