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20152025
most citedCYCLOSA: Decentralizing Private Web Search Through SGX-Based Browser Extensions

27 citations · 65 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CR2025

TriHaRd: Higher Resilience for TEE Trusted Time

Matthieu Bettinger, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Pascal Felber +3

Accurately measuring time passing is critical for many applications. However, in Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) such as Intel SGX, the time source is outside the Trusted Com…

cs.LG2025

On the Normalization of Confusion Matrices: Methods and Geometric Interpretations

Johan Erbani, Pierre-Edouard Portier, Elod Egyed-Zsigmond +2

The confusion matrix is a standard tool for evaluating classifiers by providing insights into class-level errors. In heterogeneous settings, its values are shaped by two main facto…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

An Open-source Implementation and Security Analysis of Triad's TEE Trusted Time Protocol

Matthieu Bettinger, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Anthony Simonet-Boulogne

The logic of many protocols relies on time measurements. However, in Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) like Intel SGX, the time source is outside the Trusted Computing Base: a…

cs.CR2025

Dropout-Robust Mechanisms for Differentially Private and Fully Decentralized Mean Estimation

César Sabater, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Jan Ramon

Achieving differentially private computations in decentralized settings poses significant challenges, particularly regarding accuracy, communication cost, and robustness against in…

cs.LG2025

A Weighted Loss Approach to Robust Federated Learning under Data Heterogeneity

Johan Erbani, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Pierre-Edouard Portier +2

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that enables multiple data holders to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their training data with…

cs.DC2025

Reliability is Blind: Collective Incentives for Decentralized Computing Marketplaces without Individual Behavior Information

Henry Mont, Matthieu Bettinger, Sonia Ben Mokhtar +1

In decentralized cloud computing marketplaces, ensuring fair and efficient interactions among asset providers and end-users is crucial. A key concern is meeting agreed-upon service…

cs.IR2025

Secure Federated Graph-Filtering for Recommender Systems

Julien Nicolas, César Sabater, Mohamed Maouche +2

Recommender systems often rely on graph-based filters, such as normalized item-item adjacency matrices and low-pass filters. While effective, the centralized computation of these c…

cs.DC2022

SplitBFT: Improving Byzantine Fault Tolerance Safety Using Trusted Compartments

Ines Messadi, Markus Horst Becker, Kai Bleeke +3

Byzantine fault-tolerant agreement (BFT) in a partially synchronous system usually requires 3f + 1 nodes to tolerate f faulty replicas. Due to their high throughput and finality pr…

cs.DC2022

ALDER: Unlocking blockchain performance by multiplexing consensus protocols

Kadir Korkmaz, Joachim Bruneau-Queyreix, Sonia Ben Mokthar +1

Most of today's online services (e.g., social networks, search engines, market places) are centralized, which is recognized as unsatisfactory by a majority of users for various rea…

cs.LG2021★ 11 cited

Enhancing Robustness of On-line Learning Models on Highly Noisy Data

Zilong Zhao, Robert Birke, Rui Han +4

Classification algorithms have been widely adopted to detect anomalies for various systems, e.g., IoT, cloud and face recognition, under the common assumption that the data source…

cs.LG2019★ 1 cited

RAD: On-line Anomaly Detection for Highly Unreliable Data

Zilong Zhao, Robert Birke, Rui Han +4

Classification algorithms have been widely adopted to detect anomalies for various systems, e.g., IoT, cloud and face recognition, under the common assumption that the data source…

cs.DC2018★ 25 cited

X-Search: Revisiting Private Web Search using Intel SGX

Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Antoine Boutet, Pascal Felber +3

The exploitation of user search queries by search engines is at the heart of their economic model. As consequence, offering private Web search functionalities is essential to the u…

cs.DC2018★ 27 cited

CYCLOSA: Decentralizing Private Web Search Through SGX-Based Browser Extensions

Rafael Pires, David Goltzsche, Sonia Ben Mokhtar +6

By regularly querying Web search engines, users (unconsciously) disclose large amounts of their personal data as part of their search queries, among which some might reveal sensiti…

cs.CR2015

Time Distortion Anonymization for the Publication of Mobility Data with High Utility

Vincent Primault, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Cédric Lauradoux +1

An increasing amount of mobility data is being collected every day by different means, such as mobile applications or crowd-sensing campaigns. This data is sometimes published afte…