Confidential Computing and Privacy-preserving Technologies for 6G

Información del proyecto

CONFIDENTIAL6G

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 101096435

DOI

10.3030/101096435

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 17 Noviembre 2022

Fecha de inicio 1 Enero 2023

Fecha de finalización 31 Diciembre 2025

Financiado con arreglo a

• Digital, Industry and Space

Coste total

€ 5 263 864,50

Aportación de la UE

€ 4 999 153,00

Coordinado por

WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGIES PLIROFORIKIS KAI EPIKOINONION ANONYMI ETAIREIA
Greece

CORDIS proporciona enlaces a los documentos públicos y las publicaciones de los proyectos de los programas marco HORIZONTE.

Los enlaces a los documentos y las publicaciones de los proyectos del Séptimo Programa Marco, así como los enlaces a algunos tipos de resultados específicos, como conjuntos de datos y «software», se obtienen dinámicamente de OpenAIRE .

Resultado final

Documents, reports (6)

Post-quantum Analysis Report

Analysis report on the post-quantum threats and tooling ecosystem, including a detailed analysis on the challenges of the migration towards PQC infrastructures.

Requirements and Architecture for Confidential Computing in 6G

Document describing requirements and architecture for secure and privacy preserving computations.

Secure Decentralized Data Sharing

Document describing secure blockchain-based data sharing and access control platform with privacy-preserving characteristics, based on quantum-safe cryptography and with confidential ZKP-enhanced blockchain characteristics.

Initial communication, dissemination, standardisation and exploitation activities

This will be a report summarising all activities related to dissemination, communication, ecosystem building, standardisation, IPR management and exploitation during the first half of the project.

Plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities

Describe the detailed dissemination, communication and exploitation plan of the project (including project website, social media channels and branding).

Requirements and Architecture for Confidential Networking in 6G

Report outlining the requirements and architecture for confidential computing.

Publicaciones

Conference proceedings (33)

HELIOPOLIS: Verifiable Computation over Homomorphically Encrypted Data from Interactive Oracle Proofs is Practical

Autores: Diego F. Aranha, Anamaria Costache, Antonio Guimarães, Eduardo Soria-Vázquez
Publicado en: Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2024, 2024
Editor: Springer, Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-0935-2_10

A Dedicated Consensus Algorithm for Improving Performance of Futuristic Energy Blockchain

Autores: Charithri Yapa, Chamitha De Alwis, Uditha Wijewardhana, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCE59016.2024.10444184

Privacy-Preserved Collaborative Federated Learning Platform for Industrial Internet of Things

Autores: Lakshan Pathiraja, Isuru Lakshan, Kavini Kushani, Chamara Sandeepa, Tharindu D. Gamage, Thilina Weerasinghe, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: 2023 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), 2023, ISSN 2689-7563
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/LATINCOM59467.2023.1036188610.1109/LATINCOM59467.2023.10361886

Machine Learning for Data Trust Evaluations in Blockchain-Enabled IoT Systems

Autores: R. Ratnayake, M. Liyanage and L. Murphy
Publicado en: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Dublin, Ireland, 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICBC59979.2024.10634433

Proof of Equation: A Novel Consensus Algorithm for Dynamic Spectrum Access

Autores: Thiwanka Silva, Madhushika Bamunuge, Dilusha Dissanayake, Chatura Seneviratne, Tharindu Gamage, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: 2023 IEEE AFRICON, 2023, ISSN 2153-0033
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/AFRICON55910.2023.10293543

Aloha-HE: A Low-Area Hardware Accelerator for Client-Side Operations in Homomorphic Encryption

Autores: Florian Krieger, Florian Hirner, Ahmet Can Mert, Sujoy Sinha Roy
Publicado en: 2024 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/DATE58400.2024.10546608

6G Security Vision - A Concise Update

Autores: Gürkan Gür, Pawani Porambage, Diana Pamela Moya Osorio, Attila Altay Yavuz, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF 2023), 2024, ISSN 2770-7679
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/FNWF58287.2023.10520627

Blockchain-Enabled RF Radiation Exposure Level Measurement in Wireless Mobile Networks

Autores: Nivin Madawalage, Tharani Thalgahagoda, Inushi Gunatilake, Pramitha Fernando, Geeth Wijesiri, Chatura Seneviratne, Madusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: 2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC51664.2024.10454816

Breaking Chains, Empowering IoT: A Comparative Study of Holochain and Blockchain

Autores: P. Fernando, A. Braeken and M. Liyanage
Publicado en: 2023 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-2687-1
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/LATINCOM59467.2023.10361851

Unlocking Spectrum Potential: A Blockchain-Powered Paradigm for Dynamic Spectrum Management

Autores: Lavan Perera, Pasika Ranaweera, Sachitha Kusaladharma, Shen Wang, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: 2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EUCNC/6GSUMMIT60053.2024.10597118

Verifiable Computation for Approximate Homomorphic Encryption Schemes

Autores: Ignacio Cascudo, Anamaria Costache, Daniele Cozzo, Dario Fiore, Antonio Guimarães, Eduardo Soria-Vazquez
Publicado en: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2025, 2025
Editor: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01907-3_21

Practical Two-party Computational Differential Privacy with Active Security

Autores: Fredrik Meisingseth, Christian Rechberger, Fabian Schmid
Publicado en: Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies: Volume 2025, 2025
Editor: IACR

Measuring Conditional Anonymity - A Global Study

Autores: Pascal Berrang, Paul Gerhart, Dominique Schröder
Publicado en: 2024 Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2024
Editor: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
DOI: 10.56553/popets-2024-0150

Tightly-Secure Group Key Exchange with Perfect Forward Secrecy

Autores: Emanuele Di Giandomenico, Doreen Riepel, Sven Schäge
Publicado en: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2024, 2024
Editor: Springer Nature Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-0935-2_5

Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing Over Class Groups and Applications to DKG and YOSO

Autores: Cascudo, I., David, B.
Publicado en: Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2024. EUROCRYPT 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-58740-5
Editor: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58740-5_8

A Novel Blockchain-based Decentralized Multi-party Certificate Management Framework

Autores: Shalitha Wijethilaka, Awaneesh Kumar Yadav, An Braeken, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: 22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom-2023), 2023
Editor: IEEE

A Blockchain-based Authentication Protocol for Metaverse Environments using a Zero Knowledge Proof

Autores: Awaneesh Kumar Yadav, An Braeken, Mika Ylianttila, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom), 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-3333-6
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MetaCom57706.2023.00053

New Limits for Homomorphic Encryption

Autores: Sven Schäge, Marc Vorstermans
Publicado en: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2025, 2025
Editor: Springer Nature Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-5125-5_16

Fast Amortized Bootstrapping with Small Keys and Polynomial Noise Overhead

Autores: Antonio Guimarães and Hilder V. L. Pereira.
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '25), 2025
Editor: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3719027.3765181

Demo: Radio Spectrum Data Collection with Distributed-Proof-of-Sense Blockchain Network

Autores: Pramitha Fernando, Madusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICBC59979.2024.10634449

Foundations of Adaptor Signatures

Autores: Gerhart, Paul and Schröder, Dominique and Soni, Pratik and Thyagarajan, Sri AravindaKrishnan
Publicado en: 2024 Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-58722-1
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58723-8_6

Minimize the Randomness in Rasta-Like Designs: How Far Can We Go?

Autores: Lorenzo Grassi, Fukang Liu, Christian Rechberger, Fabian Schmid, Roman Walch, Qingju Wang
Publicado en: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Selected Areas in Cryptography – SAC 2024, 2025
Editor: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-82841-6_9

New Limits of Provable Security and Applications to ElGamal Encryption

Autores: Sven Schäge
Publicado en: Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2024. EUROCRYPT 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-58737-5
Editor: Springer,Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58737-5_10

Protoss: Protocol for Tight Optimal Symmetric Security

Autores: Emanuele Di Giandomenico, Yong Li, Sven Schäge
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2024
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3658644.3690252

Verifiable Secret Sharing from Symmetric Key Cryptography with Improved Optimistic Complexity

Autores: Ignacio Cascudo, Daniele Cozzo, Emanuele Giunta
Publicado en: ASIACRYPT 2024. ASIACRYPT 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2024
Editor: Springer, Singapore

On Sigma-Protocols and (Packed) Black-Box Secret Sharing Schemes

Autores: Bartoli, C., Cascudo, I.
Publicado en: Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2024. PKC 2024, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-57722-2
Editor: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-57722-2_14

Utilization of a Blockchain-Based Reputation Management System for Energy Trading in Smart Grid 2.0,

Autores: C. Yapa, C. De Alwis, U. Wijewardhana and M. Liyanage
Publicado en: 2023 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-2687-1
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/LATINCOM59467.2023.10361893

Homomorphic WiSARDs: Efficient Weightless Neural Network Training over Encrypted Data

Autores: Leonardo Neumann; Antonio Guimarães; Diego F. Aranha; Edson Borin
Publicado en: ACNS 2025 - proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer), 2025, ISBN 978-3-031-95767-3
Editor: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2403.20190

Trust Management and Bad Data Reduction in Internet of Vehicles Using Blockchain and AI

Autores: Rashmi Ratnayake; Madhusanka Liyanage; Liam Murphy
Publicado en: 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2023-Spring), 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-1114-3
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/VTC2023-Spring57618.2023.10200207

Decentralized Defense: Leveraging Blockchain against Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning Systems

Autores: Rashmi Thennakoon, Arosha Wanigasundara, Sanjaya Weerasinghe, Chatura Seneviratne, Yushan Siriwardhana, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: 2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC51664.2024.10454688

Blockchain-Enabled Private 5G Networks: A Primer

Autores: Nisita Weerasinghe, Tharaka Hewa, Anshumaan Kalla, Mika Ylianttila, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: 2023 IEEE AFRICON, 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-3923-9
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BCCA58897.2023.10338873

Robust Aggregation Technique Against Poisoning Attacks in Multi-Stage Federated Learning Applications

Autores: Yushan Siriwardhana, Pawani Porambage, Madhusanka Liyanage, Samuel Marchal, Mika Ylianttila
Publicado en: 2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC51664.2024.10454789

The Fiat–Shamir Transformation of (Γ1, . . . , Γµ)-Special-Sound Interactive Proofs

Autores: Thomas Attema, Serge Fehr, Michael Klooß, Nicolas Resch
Publicado en: CRYPTO'24 - UNDER SUBMISSION, 2023
Editor: Crypto24

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Exploring the Six Worlds of Gröbner Basis Cryptanalysis: Application to Anemoi

Autores: Katharina Koschatko, Reinhard Lüftenegger, Christian Rechberger
Publicado en: IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Edición 2024, 2024, ISSN 2519-173X
Editor: Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
DOI: 10.46586/TOSC.V2024.I4.138-190

Distributed-Proof-of-Sense: Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms for Detecting Spectrum Access Violations of the Radio Spectrum

Autores: Pramitha Fernando; Keshawa Dadallage; Tharindu Gamage; Chathura Seneviratne; An Braeken; Arjuna Madanayake; Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: EEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2023, ISSN 2332-7731
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TCCN.2023.3291366

Skyscraper: Fast Hashing on Big Primes

Autores: Clémence Bouvier, Lorenzo Grassi, Dmitry Khovratovich, Katharina Koschatko, Christian Rechberger, Fabian Schmid, Markus Schofnegger
Publicado en: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Edición 2025, 2025, ISSN 2569-2925
Editor: Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
DOI: 10.46586/TCHES.V2025.I2.743-780

A Survey on Network Slicing Security: Attacks, Challenges, Solutions and Research Directions

Autores: Chamitha De Alwis; Pawani Porambage; Kapal Dev; Thippa Reddy Gadekallu; Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: EEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2023, ISSN 1553-877X
Editor: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2023.3312349

Opening the Blackbox: Collision Attacks on Round-Reduced Tip5, Tip4, Tip4’ and Monolith

Autores: Fukang Liu, Katharina Koschatko, Lorenzo Grassi, Hailun Yan, Shiyao Chen, Subhadeep Banik, Willi Meier
Publicado en: IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Edición 2024, 2024, ISSN 2519-173X
Editor: Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
DOI: 10.46586/TOSC.V2024.I4.97-137

Journal of Cryptographic Engineering

Autores: Guimaraes, Antonio; Borin, Edson; Aranha, Diego F.
Publicado en: Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, 2024, ISSN 2190-8508
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s13389-024-00359-z

Blockchain for the metaverse: A Review

Autores: Thien Huynh-The; Thippa Reddy Gadekallu; Weizheng Wang; Gokul Yenduri; Pasika Ranaweera; Quoc-Viet Pham; Daniel Benevides da Costa; Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: Future Generation Computer Systems, 2023, ISSN 0167-739X
Editor: Elsevier
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2203.09738

Enhancing Security of Automotive OTA Firmware Updates via Decentralized Identifiers and Distributed Ledger Technology

Autores: Ana Kovacevic, Nenad Gligoric
Publicado en: Electronics, Edición 13, 2024, ISSN 2079-9292
Editor: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/electronics13234640

A Survey on Blockchain for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing

Autores: Lavan Perera; Pasika Ranaweera; Sachitha Kusaladharma; Shen Wang; Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ojcoms.2024.3376233

Blockchain Regulated Verifiable and Automatic Key Refreshment Mechanism for IoT

Autores: Raaj Anand Mishra; Anshuman Kalla; An Braeken; Madhusanka Liyanage
Publicado en: IEEE Access, 2023, ISSN 2169-3536
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/access.2023.3251651

Utilization of a blockchainized reputation management service for performance enhancement of Smart Grid 2.0 applications

Autores: Charithri Yapa, Chamitha De Alwis, Madhusanka Liyanage, Janaka Ekanayake
Publicado en: Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2024, ISSN 2452-414X
Editor: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.jii.2024.100580

Other (2)

Accelerating Multiparty Noise Generation Using Lookups

Autores: Fredrik Meisingseth, Christian Rechberger, Fabian Schmid
Publicado en: Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2025/805, 2025
Editor: Cryptology {ePrint} Archive

Homomorphic WiSARDs: Efficient Weightless Neural Network training over encrypted data

Autores: Leonardo Neumann, Antonio Guimarães, Diego F. Aranha, Edson Borin
Publicado en: 2024
Editor: arxiv

Book chapters (1)

New Limits of Provable Security and Applications to ElGamal Encryption

Autores: Sven Schäge
Publicado en: Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2024, 2024
Editor: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58737-5_10