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Instant messaging applications like WhatsApp and iMessage have been widely used to exchange public and private information for both individuals and organizations. At the same time, the asynchronicity nature of these applications also introduces various security issues. To this end, considerable efforts have been made to strengthen the security and privacy of these applications, where a major goal is to capture the forward secrecy of asynchronous messaging without sacrificing other reasonable sec...

The wide use of internet-connected services makes massive personal data collected by service providers without the need of our consent. Although the archived data may enable them to provide better service experiences for users, it also presents serious risks to individual privacy, especially when active or unexpected data breaches have become commonplace. To mitigate this issue, several acts and regulations (e.g., the European Union general data protection regulation) have been issued and specif...

Puncturable encryption (PE), introduced by Green and Miers at IEEE S&P 2015, allows recipients to update their decryption keys to revoke decryption capability for selected messages without communicating with senders. In general, it allows users to control which ciphertexts their keys may decrypt. The notion of PE has been found very useful in many applications, such as asynchronous messaging systems, group messaging systems, public-key watermarking schemes, secure cloud emails, and many more...

The concept of puncturable encryption was introduced by Green and Miers at IEEE S&P 2015. Puncturable encryption allows recipients to update their decryption keys to revoke decryption capability for selected messages without communicating with senders. From the first instantiation, puncturable encryption shows its essence for many interesting applications, such as asynchronous messaging systems, group messaging systems, public-key watermarking schemes, secure cloud emails, and many more. To ...