A computer-implemented method of operating an electronic draw system, the method comprising: obtaining a bit sequence in one or more blocks of one or more different blockchains; generating a seed value based on the bit sequence in the one or more blocks of the one or more different blockchains; applying a random number generator algorithm to calculate a sequence of random numbers using the seed value as input; and converting the sequence of random numbers to an electronic drawing output of the electronic draw system.

The present disclosure provides a graphical watermark, a method and an apparatus for generating a graphical watermark, and a method and an apparatus for authenticating a graphical watermark. The graphical watermark includes: a plurality of graphical markers carrying position and pose information, and identity information of the graphical watermark; and a watermark pattern provided between a pair of graphical markers.

A method of managing an overlay network overlaid on data-storage transactions of a blockchain, whereby data content of the overlay network is stored in payloads of the data-storage transactions and overlay-layer links are defined between the data-storage transactions. The method comprises identifying a graph structure of the overlay network, wherein nodes corresponds to different ones of the data-storage transactions and edges correspond to the links. Each node is associated with a respective first key for signing an input of a child data-storage transaction to authorise writing the child to the blockchain. The method further comprises using a child key derivation, CKD, function to determine a hierarchical set of second keys having the same graph structure as the overlay network, wherein the second keys enable an additional function other than signing inputs of the data-storage transactions.

Examples are described for dynamically applying a digital watermark to a file, such as a dataset of genomic sequencing data. In one example, a method of dynamically applying a watermark to at least a portion of a file includes generating, using a secret key, a first random seed, generating, using the first random seed, an ordered pseudorandom set of integers, generating, using entity information and timing information, a second random seed, selecting, using the second random seed, a subset of the ordered pseudorandom set of integers, and modifying data at data locations in the file corresponding to at least a portion of the identifiers included in the subset to generate a watermarked file. The method may further include performing a check to determine whether the watermark is present in a file using a sequence of watermark elements that are generated based on the secret key.

Methods of data encryption using a mutating encryption key are disclosed. The methods generate an encryption key and utilize a codex to mutate or vary the encryption key value. The encryption key may be generated using a random number generator. The encryption key value in pre-mutation state, together with the codex, is used to generate the next valid value for the encryption key. Unencrypted message data may be used together with the codex to mutate the encryption key. A valid encryption key and the unencrypted or successfully deciphered message are thus required to mutate the encryption key to the next key post-mutation state at each end.

A method for data processing is performed by an operation data recording device. The method includes: in response to a data access request sent by a client for a target vehicle, generating symmetric keys for symmetrically encrypting operation data of the target vehicle, in which the symmetric keys are generated based on a user ID and a primary public key for a third party, and the user ID is carried in the data access request; obtaining target encrypted data by symmetrically encrypting the operation data using the symmetric keys; and sending the target encrypted data to the client.

Disclosed is a database encryption method supporting composable SQL query, which mainly comprises the following steps: (1) a user encrypting and preprocessing data based on the encryption scheme provided by the present disclosure and uploading an encryption result and preprocessed data to a service provider; (2) setting and uploading a SQL query instructions: the user uploads the query instruction to the service provider according to actual needs, and uploads auxiliary parameters for the query instruction at the same time; (3) data query: the service provider performs SQL query according to the query instruction and auxiliary parameters received from the user, saves a calculation result, updates the data and returns a query result to the user.

According to various embodiments, a method for code-based generation of a key pair for asymmetric cryptography is described including generating a private key defining a linear code, determining a parity check or generator matrix for the linear code, blinding a sub-matrix of the parity check or generator matrix, generating a blinded inverse matrix by inverting the blinded sub-matrix or by inverting a quadratic matrix contained in the blinded sub-matrix, de-blinding the blinded inverse matrix to generate an inverse matrix and generating a public key for the private key using the inverse matrix.

The present application relates to networking technologies, communication cube technologies, and, more particularly, to methods, apparatus, techniques, and means for communication security, encryption, and privacy in network communications.

A method including determining, by a device, a sharing decryption key based at least in part on an assigned private key associated with the device and a group access public key associated with a group; decrypting, by the device, a group access private key associated with the group by utilizing the sharing decryption key; and decrypting, by the device, encrypted content included in a folder associated with the group based at least in part on utilizing the group access private key associated with the group. Various other aspects are contemplated.