Abstract: In light of the emergence of privacy breaches in federated learning, secure aggregation protocols, which mainly adopt either homomorphic encryption or threshold secret sharing techniques, ...
Discovered “salting” — adding unique random data to each password hash. Used Python’s os.urandom () and binascii to generate salts. Switched from .txt to a .json file for structured, safer storage.
Abstract: In this work, we present the design and implementation of a hardware accelerator for AES encryption and decryption using AMD Vitis HLS and Xilinx Vivado. The primary objective of this work ...