Navigation services enable users to find the shortest path from a starting point S to a destination D, reducing time, gas, and traffic congestion. Still, navigation users risk the exposure of their sensitive location data. Our motivation arises from how users can accurately, securely, and efficiently navigate from S to D while passing through k unordered stops, i.e., midway locations with a non-fixed visiting order. In this work, we formally define Semi-Constrained Navigation (SCN) and present a novel scheme Hermes to achieve accurate, secure, and efficient SCN. Specifically, we propose a divide-andconquer approach to strike a good balance between accuracy and efficiency. It recursively depth-first-searches the whole area (a navigation tree) and invokes five carefully-crafted strategies stopby-stop to compute three subpaths in three sequential subareas. We construct a path-distance oracle to encrypt the road graph and securely implement the strategies by using homomorphic encryption and garble circuits. We formally prove the security in the random oracle model and analyze the search complexity to be less than O(k²). We experiment over a real-world city map and compare with six baselines. Results show that path search with k = 4 among N = 1000 intersections requires 5.58 seconds with a 3.2% distance deviation rate and an 82.5% path similarity.

Digital forensics is crucial to fight crimes around the world. Decentralized Digital Forensics (DDF) promotes it to another level by channeling the power of blockchain into digital investigations. In this work, we focus on the privacy and security of DDF. Our motivations arise from (1) how to track an anonymous- and-malicious data user who leaks only a part of the previously requested data, (2) how to achieve access control while protecting data from untrusted data centers, and (3) how to enable efficient and secure search on the blockchain. To address these issues, we propose Themis: an anonymous and secure DDF scheme with traceable anonymity, private access control, and efficient search. Our framework is boosted by establishing a Trusted Execution Environment in each authority (blockchain node) for securing the uploading, requesting, and searching. To instantiate the framework, we design a secure and robust watermarking scheme in conjunction with decentralized anonymous authentication, a private and fine-grained access control scheme, and an efficient and secure search scheme based on a dynamically updated data structure. We formally define and prove the privacy and security of Themis. We build a prototype with Ethereum and Intel SGX2 to evaluate its performance, which supports processing data from a considerable number of data providers and investigators.