Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for the Digital Age

Dear Colleagues,

Privacy has become an increasingly important concern in the digital age, as individuals and organizations must grapple with the challenges of safeguarding sensitive data in a constantly evolving technological landscape. Fortunately, privacy-enhancing technologies offer promising solutions to these challenges. This Special Issue of Cryptography is dedicated to exploring recent advances and innovative approaches in privacy-preserving technologies, including cutting-edge cryptographic techniques, secure computation protocols, and other methods for preserving the confidentiality and integrity of data.

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Secure multi-party computations;
• Secure outsourcing computations;
• Differential privacy;
• Homomorphic encryption;
• Federate learning;
• Privacy-preserving authentication and access control;
• Searchable symmetric encryption;
• Data integrity auditing;
• Blockchain-based privacy-preserving technologies;
• Privacy-preserving machine learning;
• Privacy-preserving set operations;
• Privacy-enhancing technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT);
• Privacy-enhancing technologies for other applications;
• Cloud computing security.

Dr. Hanlin Zhang
Dr. Zengpeng Li
Dr. Dou An
Guest Editors

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