Confidential Computing and Privacy-preserving Technologies for 6G

Informations projet

CONFIDENTIAL6G

N° de convention de subvention: 101096435

DOI

10.3030/101096435

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 17 Novembre 2022

Date de début 1 Janvier 2023

Date de fin 31 Decembre 2025

Financé au titre de

• Digital, Industry and Space

Coût total

€ 5 263 864,50

Contribution de l’UE

€ 4 999 153,00

Coordonné par

WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGIES PLIROFORIKIS KAI EPIKOINONION ANONYMI ETAIREIA
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Livrables

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.

Publications

Conference proceedings (33)

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

Auteurs: Diego F. Aranha, Anamaria Costache, Antonio Guimarães, Eduardo Soria-Vázquez
Publié dans: Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2024, 2024
Éditeur: Springer, Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-0935-2_10

A Dedicated Consensus Algorithm for Improving Performance of Futuristic Energy Blockchain

Auteurs: Charithri Yapa, Chamitha De Alwis, Uditha Wijewardhana, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publié dans: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2024
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCE59016.2024.10444184

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

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

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

Auteurs: R. Ratnayake, M. Liyanage and L. Murphy
Publié dans: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Dublin, Ireland, 2024
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICBC59979.2024.10634433

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

Auteurs: Thiwanka Silva, Madhushika Bamunuge, Dilusha Dissanayake, Chatura Seneviratne, Tharindu Gamage, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publié dans: 2023 IEEE AFRICON, 2023, ISSN 2153-0033
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/AFRICON55910.2023.10293543

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

Auteurs: Florian Krieger, Florian Hirner, Ahmet Can Mert, Sujoy Sinha Roy
Publié dans: 2024 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2024
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/DATE58400.2024.10546608

6G Security Vision - A Concise Update

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verifiable Computation for Approximate Homomorphic Encryption Schemes

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

Practical Two-party Computational Differential Privacy with Active Security

Auteurs: Fredrik Meisingseth, Christian Rechberger, Fabian Schmid
Publié dans: Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies: Volume 2025, 2025
Éditeur: IACR

Measuring Conditional Anonymity - A Global Study

Auteurs: Pascal Berrang, Paul Gerhart, Dominique Schröder
Publié dans: 2024 Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2024
Éditeur: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
DOI: 10.56553/popets-2024-0150

Tightly-Secure Group Key Exchange with Perfect Forward Secrecy

Auteurs: Emanuele Di Giandomenico, Doreen Riepel, Sven Schäge
Publié dans: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2024, 2024
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Cascudo, I., David, B.
Publié dans: Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2024. EUROCRYPT 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-58740-5
Éditeur: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58740-5_8

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

Auteurs: Shalitha Wijethilaka, Awaneesh Kumar Yadav, An Braeken, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publié dans: 22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom-2023), 2023
Éditeur: IEEE

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

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

New Limits for Homomorphic Encryption

Auteurs: Sven Schäge, Marc Vorstermans
Publié dans: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2025, 2025
Éditeur: Springer Nature Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-5125-5_16

Fast Amortized Bootstrapping with Small Keys and Polynomial Noise Overhead

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

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

Auteurs: Pramitha Fernando, Madusanka Liyanage
Publié dans: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2024
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICBC59979.2024.10634449

Foundations of Adaptor Signatures

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

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

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

New Limits of Provable Security and Applications to ElGamal Encryption

Auteurs: Sven Schäge
Publié dans: Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2024. EUROCRYPT 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-58737-5
Éditeur: Springer,Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58737-5_10

Protoss: Protocol for Tight Optimal Symmetric Security

Auteurs: Emanuele Di Giandomenico, Yong Li, Sven Schäge
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2024
Éditeur: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3658644.3690252

Verifiable Secret Sharing from Symmetric Key Cryptography with Improved Optimistic Complexity

Auteurs: Ignacio Cascudo, Daniele Cozzo, Emanuele Giunta
Publié dans: ASIACRYPT 2024. ASIACRYPT 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2024
Éditeur: Springer, Singapore

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

Auteurs: Bartoli, C., Cascudo, I.
Publié dans: Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2024. PKC 2024, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-57722-2
Éditeur: 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,

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

Homomorphic WiSARDs: Efficient Weightless Neural Network Training over Encrypted Data

Auteurs: Leonardo Neumann; Antonio Guimarães; Diego F. Aranha; Edson Borin
Publié dans: 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
Éditeur: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2403.20190

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

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

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

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

Blockchain-Enabled Private 5G Networks: A Primer

Auteurs: Nisita Weerasinghe, Tharaka Hewa, Anshumaan Kalla, Mika Ylianttila, Madhusanka Liyanage
Publié dans: 2023 IEEE AFRICON, 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-3923-9
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BCCA58897.2023.10338873

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

Auteurs: Yushan Siriwardhana, Pawani Porambage, Madhusanka Liyanage, Samuel Marchal, Mika Ylianttila
Publié dans: 2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2024
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC51664.2024.10454789

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

Auteurs: Thomas Attema, Serge Fehr, Michael Klooß, Nicolas Resch
Publié dans: CRYPTO'24 - UNDER SUBMISSION, 2023
Éditeur: Crypto24

Peer reviewed articles (11)

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

Auteurs: Katharina Koschatko, Reinhard Lüftenegger, Christian Rechberger
Publié dans: IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Numéro 2024, 2024, ISSN 2519-173X
Éditeur: 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

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

Skyscraper: Fast Hashing on Big Primes

Auteurs: Clémence Bouvier, Lorenzo Grassi, Dmitry Khovratovich, Katharina Koschatko, Christian Rechberger, Fabian Schmid, Markus Schofnegger
Publié dans: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Numéro 2025, 2025, ISSN 2569-2925
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Chamitha De Alwis; Pawani Porambage; Kapal Dev; Thippa Reddy Gadekallu; Madhusanka Liyanage
Publié dans: EEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2023, ISSN 1553-877X
Éditeur: 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

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

Journal of Cryptographic Engineering

Auteurs: Guimaraes, Antonio; Borin, Edson; Aranha, Diego F.
Publié dans: Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, 2024, ISSN 2190-8508
Éditeur: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s13389-024-00359-z

Blockchain for the metaverse: A Review

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

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

Auteurs: Ana Kovacevic, Nenad Gligoric
Publié dans: Electronics, Numéro 13, 2024, ISSN 2079-9292
Éditeur: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/electronics13234640

A Survey on Blockchain for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing

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

Blockchain Regulated Verifiable and Automatic Key Refreshment Mechanism for IoT

Auteurs: Raaj Anand Mishra; Anshuman Kalla; An Braeken; Madhusanka Liyanage
Publié dans: IEEE Access, 2023, ISSN 2169-3536
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/access.2023.3251651

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

Auteurs: Charithri Yapa, Chamitha De Alwis, Madhusanka Liyanage, Janaka Ekanayake
Publié dans: Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2024, ISSN 2452-414X
Éditeur: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.jii.2024.100580

Other (2)

Accelerating Multiparty Noise Generation Using Lookups

Auteurs: Fredrik Meisingseth, Christian Rechberger, Fabian Schmid
Publié dans: Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2025/805, 2025
Éditeur: Cryptology {ePrint} Archive

Homomorphic WiSARDs: Efficient Weightless Neural Network training over encrypted data

Auteurs: Leonardo Neumann, Antonio Guimarães, Diego F. Aranha, Edson Borin
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: arxiv

Book chapters (1)

New Limits of Provable Security and Applications to ElGamal Encryption

Auteurs: Sven Schäge
Publié dans: Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2024, 2024
Éditeur: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58737-5_10