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Circular security is an important notion for public-key encryption schemes and is needed by several cryptographic protocols. In circular security the adversary is given an extra “hint” consisting of a cycle of encryption of secret keys i.e., (Epk1(sk2), . . . , Epkn(sk1)). A natural question is whether every IND-CPA encryption scheme is also circular secure. It is trivial to see that this is no...

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Privacy concerns in outsourced cloud databases have become more and more important recentlyand many efficient and scalable query processing methods over encrypted data have been proposed.However, there is very limited work on how to securely process top-k ranking queries over encrypteddatabases in the cloud. In this paper, we focus exactly on this problem: secure and efficient proce...

Let X 1 ; X 2 ; : : : ; X n be n independent identically distributed real random variables and S n := n X i=1 X i. We obtain precise asymptotics for P(S n 2 n A) for rather arbitrary Borel sets A, in terms of the density of the dominating points in A. Our result extends classical theorems in the eld of large deviations for independent samples. We also obtain asymptotics for P(S n 2 n A), with n...

In recent years, several novel cation-independent bioflocculants have been reported, which can avoid the secondary contamination caused by addition of cations. However, compared with cation-dependent bioflocculants, the flocculating mechanism of cation-independent bioflocculants is largely unknown. In this study, a cation-independent bioflocculant MBF-W6 produced by Chryseobacterium daeguense W...