An example operation may include one or more of initializing a smart contract (SC) and appending it to a blockchain, registering each of a plurality of participants as a party to the SC, receiving from at least some of the participants an encrypted confidential input commitment, appending the encrypted input commitments to the blockchain, decrypting the encrypted input commitments, executing by the SC at least one business rule using the decrypted input commitments to obtain a business rule result, and identifying a prevailing participant based at least in part on the business rule result.

Systems and methods provide access to location-restricted resources outside of recognized locations. An example, a method includes receiving a request for a controlled access resource from a client device and determining that the request is not associated with a recognized location but that state data exists for the client device identifier. In response to identifying the state data, the method includes generating a link for accessing the controlled access resource at a server, generating an encrypted token including a timestamp, a random number, and licensed resource information from the state data, including the encrypted token in the link, and providing the link to the client device. The client device uses the link to request the controlled access resource from the server, which determines that the request includes the token, determines that the token is not expired, and provides the controlled access resource to the client device.

Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic using network monitoring computers (NMCs). Networks may be configured to protect servers using centralized security protocols. Centralized security protocols may depend on centralized control provided by authentication control servers. If a client intends to access protected servers it may communicate with the authentication control server to obtain keys that enable it to access the requested servers. NMCs may monitor network traffic the centralized security protocol to collect metrics associated with the control servers, clients, or resource servers.

Method and apparatus for virtualized environment where virtual computing instances interface a service platform operated on a physical computing apparatus are disclosed. A new virtual computing instance interfacing the service platform can be created, the created new virtual computing instance belonging to a class of virtual computing instances. At least one security credential is obtained from a storage of security credentials associated with the class of the new virtual computing instance. Data communicated with at least one further computing instance is secured based on the obtained at least one security credential.

A method (200) for operating a User Equipment (UE) is disclosed, the UE configured to connect to a communication network. The method comprises: indicating to the communication network an Integrity Protection for User Plane (IPUP) mode supported by the UE when requesting registration with the communication network (202). The IPUP mode comprises one of: use of Integrity Protection for User Plane data exchanged with the UE (202a), non-use of Integrity Protection for User Plane data exchanged with the UE (202b), or use of Integrity Protection for User Plane data, and non-use of Confidentiality Protection for User Plane data (202c). Also disclosed are an apparatus for operating a UE, methods and apparatus for operating a radio access node and a core node of a communication network, and a computer program operable to carry out methods for operating a UE, a radio access node and/or a core node of a communication network.

An apparatus and method for joining an Internet of Things (IoT) network are provided, the apparatus including a communicator configured to receive, from an electronic device, an encrypted auto-onboard configuration data associated with the IoT network, a sensor configured to detect a user command, and at least one processor configured to generate a decryption key based on features extracted from the user command, decrypt the encrypted auto-onboard configuration data using the decryption key, and join the IoT network.

A host processing device (“host”) instructs a plurality of data processing (DP) accelerators to configure themselves for secure communications. The host generates an adjacency table of each of the plurality of DP accelerators (“DPAs”). The host is communicatively coupled to the plurality of DPAs via a switch. The host transmits, to the switch, a list of the DPAs and instructs the switch to generate an adjacency table of the DPAs that includes a unique identifier of each DPAs and a communication port of the switch associated with the DPA. The host establishes a session key communication with each DPA and sends the DPA a list of other DPAs that the DPA is to establish a session key with, for secure communications between the DPAs. The DPA establishes a different session key for each pair of the plurality of DPAs. When all DPAs have established a session key for communication with other DPAs, the host can assign work tasks for performance by a plurality of DPAs, each communicating over a separately secured communication channel.

Secure analytics using homomorphic and injective format-preserving encryption are disclosed herein. An example method includes encoding an analytic parameter set using a homomorphic encryption scheme as a set of homomorphic analytic vectors; transmitting the set of homomorphic analytic vectors to a server system; and receiving a homomorphic encrypted result from the server system, the server system having utilized the homomorphic encryption scheme and a first injective, format-preserving encryption scheme to evaluate the set of homomorphic analytic vectors over a datasource.

Embodiments described include systems and methods for providing peer-to-peer caching among client applications. A cache coordinator is configured to receive a first request to register an object stored in a cache by a first client application including a first embedded browser. The first embedded browser obtains the object via a session established by the first embedded browser with a first network application on a server of a second entity. The cache coordinator is configured to store a location of the first client application and a hash of the object. The cache coordinator is configured to receive a second request from a second client application. The second request requests the location of the object among peer client applications. The cache coordinator is configured to communicate identification of the location of the first client application to the second client application for retrieving the object from the cache of the first client application.

The present description relates to systems and techniques for allowing a third party verifier to verify aspects of secured data, or successful communication thereof. For example, a message or other data may be associated with a shared manifest that describes aspects of some data but does not reveal or expose the data. As a result, the data may be kept private while selective privacy and verification with respect to the data is achieved by the inclusion of only selected aspects of said data in the shared manifest.