Secure sketches are useful in extending cryptographic schemes to biometric data since they allow recovery of fuzzy secrets under inevitable noise. In practice, secrets derived from biometric data are seldom used alone, but typically employed in a multi-factor or a multimodality setting where multiple secrets with different roles and limitations are used together. To handle multiple secrets, we ...

We analyze some specific aspects concerning conditional orderings and relations among them. To this purpose we define a suitable concept of reversed conditional ordering and prove some related results. In particular we aim to compare the univariate stochastic orderings ≤st, ≤hr, and ≤lr in terms of differences among different notions of conditional orderings. Some applications of our result to ...

In the change of the orientation one has to reverse the sequence (the operation introduced in [7]) and to change the second restriction one has to rotate the sequence (the operation introduced in [26]). The goal of the paper is to prove, mostly simple, facts about the relationship between properties and attributes of the finite sequence and its rotation (similar results about reversing had been...

This paper reports first steps towards a formal model for strategy leakage. We generalize the representation of prior adversarial knowledge from a distribution on secrets to a distribution on strategies for generating secrets, which we call an environment. Applying information-theoretic techniques to environments allows us to disentangle the information leakage about a secret from the leakage a...

A multi-secret sharing scheme (MSS) allows a dealer to share multiple secrets among a set of participants. in such a way a multi-secret sharing scheme (MSS) allows a dealer to share multiple secrets among a set of participants, such that any authorized subset of participants can reconstruct the secrets. Up to now, existing MSSs either require too long shares for participants to be perfect secur...

Medical ethics is a realm where four important subjects of philosophy, medicine, theology and law are covered. Physicians and philosophers cooperation in this area will have great efficiency in the respective ethical rules formation. In addition to respect the autonomy of the patient, physician's obligation is to ensure that the medical intervention has benefit for the patient and the harm is m...