Security Guarantees Research Articles

Secure and Verifiable Data Collaboration with Low-Cost Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Federated Learning (FL) emerges as a viable solution to facilitate data collaboration, enabling multiple clients to collaboratively train a machine learning (ML) model under the supervision of a central server while ensuring the confidentiality of their raw data. However, existing studies have unveiled two main risks: (i) the potential for the server to infer sensitive information from the client's uploaded updates (i.e., model gradients), compromising client input privacy, and (ii) the risk of malicious clients uploading malformed updates to poison the FL model, compromising input integrity. Recent works utilize secure aggregation with zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) to guarantee input privacy and integrity in FL. Nevertheless, they suffer from extremely low efficiency and, thus, are impractical for real deployment. In this paper, we propose a novel and highly efficient approach RiseFL for secure and verifiable data collaboration, ensuring input privacy and integrity simultaneously. Firstly, we devise a probabilistic integrity check method that transforms strict checks into a hypothesis test problem, offering great optimization opportunities. Secondly, we introduce a hybrid commitment scheme to satisfy Byzantine robustness with improved performance. Thirdly, we present an optimized ZKP generation and verification technique that significantly reduces the ZKP cost based on probabilistic integrity checks. Furthermore, we theoretically prove the security guarantee of RiseFL and provide a cost analysis compared to state-of-the-art baselines. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets suggest that our approach is effective and highly efficient in both client computation and communication. For instance, RiseFL is up to 28x, 53x, and 164x faster than baselines ACORN, RoFL, and EIFFeL for the client computation.

A Performance Analysis of Security Protocols for Distributed Measurement Systems Based on Internet of Things with Constrained Hardware and Open Source Infrastructures.

The widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in home, industrial, and business environments has made available the deployment of innovative distributed measurement systems (DMS). This paper takes into account constrained hardware and a security-oriented virtual local area network (VLAN) approach that utilizes local message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) brokers, transport layer security (TLS) tunnels for local sensor data, and secure socket layer (SSL) tunnels to transmit TLS-encrypted data to a cloud-based central broker. On the other hand, the recent literature has shown a correlated exponential increase in cyber attacks, mainly devoted to destroying critical infrastructure and creating hazards or retrieving sensitive data about individuals, industrial or business companies, and many other entities. Much progress has been made to develop security protocols and guarantee quality of service (QoS), but they are prone to reducing the network throughput. From a measurement science perspective, lower throughput can lead to a reduced frequency with which the phenomena can be observed, generating, again, misevaluation. This paper does not give a new approach to protect measurement data but tests the network performance of the typically used ones that can run on constrained hardware. This is a more general scenario typical for IoT-based DMS. The proposal takes into account a security-oriented VLAN approach for hardware-constrained solutions. Since it is a worst-case scenario, this permits the generalization of the achieved results. In particular, in the paper, all OpenSSL cipher suites are considered for compatibility with the Mosquitto server. The most used key metrics are evaluated for each cipher suite and QoS level, such as the total ratio, total runtime, average runtime, message time, average bandwidth, and total bandwidth. Numerical and experimental results confirm the proposal's effectiveness in foreseeing the minimum network throughput concerning the selected QoS and security. Operating systems yield diverse performance metric values based on various configurations. The primary objective is identifying algorithms to ensure suitable data transmission and encryption ratios. Another aim is to explore algorithms that ensure wider compatibility with existing infrastructures supporting MQTT technology, facilitating secure connections for geographically dispersed DMS IoT networks, particularly in challenging environments like suburban or rural areas. Additionally, leveraging open firmware on constrained devices compatible with various MQTT protocols enables the customization of the software components, a crucial necessity for DMS.

Opportunities and challenges for commercial encryption applications in the Internet of Vehicles

The rapid development of vehicle networking technology has brought broad opportunities for commercial encryption applications, but it is also accompanied by many challenges. As an important guarantee for the information security of the Internet of vehicles, commercial encryption applications have obtained significant development opportunities in terms of technological innovation, market demand and policy support. However, the commercial encryption applications of connected vehicles are also facing challenges such as technical difficulties, lack of standardization, and increasing security threats. This paper aims to deeply analyze the opportunities and challenges of the commercial encryption application of the Internet of vehicles, and put forward corresponding development suggestions, in order to provide reference for the security development of the Internet of vehicles industry.

Solidarization of Russian Society: a Historiographical Analysis

Introduction. At present the relevance of the problem of solidarity of Russian society is associated with the attempts of the countries of the Greater West to solve accumulated problems through building an image of the enemy, which makes it possible to consolidate national economies and effectively fight opposition forces within the country. In modern Russian philosophy, a number of approaches to developing the concept of solidarity of Russian society have developed. Despite this, many aspects of this problem still remain insufficiently studied. Thus, this study analyzes various approaches to defining the solidarity of society, which were formed in Russian philosophy; identifies the essential properties of solidarity, and substantiates the thesis about the need to form new tools and mechanisms of social order that will allow for the solidarity of society. The purpose of the presented research is a historiographic analysis of the concept of solidarity in relation to Russian reality. Methodology and sources. The methodological basis of this study is the principle of unity of the historical and logical, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis. There were used as sources the works of classics of Russian philosophical thought who developed the concept of solidarity (I.S. Aksakov, N.Ya. Danilevsky, etc.), as well as the works of modern Russian thinkers, such as Yu.V. Shkudunova, A.A. Efanov, allowing to identify the main aspects of the problem of solidarity of Russian society. Results and discussion. The authors of this article conducted a historiographical analysis of the concept of “solidarization”. During the analysis, the main essential properties of solidarity were identified, such as procedurality, value orientation, ideology, and complexity. The relevance of the traditions of Russian religious philosophy for the development of the problem of solidarity is also shown. The authors consider the solidarity of society as a set of political, economic and sociocultural processes aimed at uniting society around an integral system of values expressed by a single social ideology. Conclusion. The modern world is in a phase of political turbulence, which has a direct impact on all fundamental aspects of society. Their impact can be seen especially clearly in the example of Russian reality. In these conditions, the survival of Russia depends on the degree of unity of society as a guarantee of national security.

Private measures, random walks, and synthetic data

Differential privacy is a mathematical concept that provides an information-theoretic security guarantee. While differential privacy has emerged as a de facto standard for guaranteeing privacy in data sharing, the known mechanisms to achieve it come with some serious limitations. Utility guarantees are usually provided only for a fixed, a priori specified set of queries. Moreover, there are no utility guarantees for more complex—but very common—machine learning tasks such as clustering or classification. In this paper we overcome some of these limitations. Working with metric privacy, a powerful generalization of differential privacy, we develop a polynomial-time algorithm that creates a private measure from a data set. This private measure allows us to efficiently construct private synthetic data that are accurate for a wide range of statistical analysis tools. Moreover, we prove an asymptotically sharp min-max result for private measures and synthetic data in general compact metric spaces, for any fixed privacy budget ε\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\varepsilon $$\\end{document} bounded away from zero. A key ingredient in our construction is a new superregular random walk, whose joint distribution of steps is as regular as that of independent random variables, yet which deviates from the origin logarithmically slowly.

The Budapest memorandum: lessons and unfulfilled expectations on Ukraine’s path to joining NATO

The Budapest Memorandum for Ukraine (the official name is the Memorandum on Security Guarantees in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) was the result of negotiations on the disposal of the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, its nuclear weapons were deployed or stored in four of the fifteen successor states: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. This raised important questions of security and protection, as well as command and control; and Moscow and Washington agreed that Russia should be the sole nuclear successor to the Soviet Union. The United States recognized that it would have to offer security guarantees to Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine to persuade them to hand over their Soviet-made nuclear weapons to Russia and join the NPT as non-nuclear-weapon states. In coordination with London and Moscow, Washington drew up a package of security guarantees. These assurances were set out in the Budapest memorandums regarding Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. France and China – the other nuclear-weapon states recognized by the NPT—have offered their own guarantees unilaterally.
 The Budapest Memorandum on Ukraine confirmed the obligation to respect the independence, sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine (according to the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) of 1975); to refrain from the threat of force or its use against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, as well as from any use of weapons against Ukraine, except in cases of self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations; and refrain from economic coercion against Ukraine in accordance with the Final Act of the CSCE. The memorandum also reiterated the positive and negative security guarantees provided to all non-nuclear-weapon state parties to the NPT.
 This scientific article is devoted to the study of the significance of the Budapest Memorandum for Ukraine and its influence on the possibility of the country joining NATO. The historical context of the conclusion of the memorandum is studied, the key obligations are determined and the consequences of their violation are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the current security situation in Ukraine, in particular due to the annexation of Crimea and the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine. The article examines the prospects of Ukraine’s membership in NATO and suggests ways to resolve unfulfilled expectations and restore the international community’s trust in the commitments made within the framework of the memorandum.

ANALYSIS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WHISTLEBLOWING SYSTEM IN THE KENDARI CITY GOVERNMENT

The whistleblowing system is becoming an increasingly utilized tool worldwide to prevent and detect current violations. However, its implementation is not easy, as individuals require a sense of security and safety guarantees to be willing to participate in preventing violations and corruption. Therefore, adequate structures and processes are needed for its implementation. Kendari City is the only local government in the Southeast Sulawesi Province region that has implemented a whistleblowing system in its administration. This research aims to analyze the structure, mechanisms, and procedures of the whistleblowing system that has been implemented using best practices established by the Deputy of Investigation at the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency. The research employs a qualitative approach, utilizing document studies, observations, and interviews with individuals involved or directly engaged in implementing the whistleblowing system in the Kendari City government. The results indicate that the whistleblowing system implementation’s structure, mechanisms, and procedures have adhered to best practices in policy and institutional aspects as per the Technical Guidance Guidelines for the Implementation of the Thematic Fraud Control Plan System and Internal Whistleblowing Behavior.

X-Wing

X-Wing is a hybrid key-encapsulation mechanism based on X25519 and ML-KEM-768. It is designed to be the sensible choice for most applications. The concrete choice of X25519 and ML-KEM-768 allows X-Wing to achieve improved efficiency compared to using a generic KEM combiner. In this paper, we introduce the X-Wing hybrid KEM construction and provide a proof of security. We show (1) that X-Wing is a classically IND-CCA secure KEM if the strong Diffie-Hellman assumption holds in the X25519 nominal group, and (2) that X-Wing is a post-quantum IND-CCA secure KEM if ML-KEM-768 is itself an IND-CCA secure KEM and SHA3-256 is secure when used as a pseudorandom function. The first result is proved in the ROM, whereas the second one holds in the standard model. Loosely speaking, this means X-Wing is secure if either X25519 or ML-KEM-768 is secure. We stress that these security guarantees and optimizations are only possible due to the concrete choices that were made, and it may not apply in the general case.

Post-Quantum Ready Key Agreement for Aviation

Transitioning from classically to quantum secure key agreement protocols may require to exchange fundamental components, for example, exchanging Diffie-Hellman-like key exchange with a key encapsulation mechanism (KEM). Accordingly, the corresponding security proof can no longer rely on the Diffie-Hellman assumption, thus invalidating the security guarantees. As a consequence, the security properties have to be re-proven under a KEM-based security notion. We initiate the study of the LDACS key agreement protocol (Edition 01.01.00 from 25.04.2023), which is soon-to-be-standardized by the International Civil Aviation Organization. The protocol's cipher suite features Diffie-Hellman as well as a KEM-based key agreement protocol to provide post-quantum security. While the former results in an instantiation of an ISO key agreement inheriting all security properties, the security achieved by the latter is ambiguous. We formalize the computational security using the systematic notions of de Saint Guilhem, Fischlin and Warinshi (CSF '20), and prove the exact security that the KEM-based variant achieves in this model; primarily entity authentication, key secrecy and key authentication. To further strengthen our “pen-and-paper” findings, we model the protocol and its security guarantees using Tamarin, providing an automated proof of the security against a Dolev-Yao attacker.

An Investigative Study on Variants of Post-Quantum RSA

As quantum computing advances, traditional cryptographic schemes such as RSA face increasing vulnerability to attacks. This investigative study delves into the realm of post-quantum cryptography, focusing specifically on variants of RSA designed to resist quantum attacks. Through a comprehensive review of existing literature and cryptographic protocols, we analyse the strengths and weaknesses of various post-quantum RSA variants, including lattice-based, code-based, and hash-based approaches. Additionally, we evaluate the computational efficiency and security guarantees of these variants, considering factors such as key size, encryption/decryption speed, and resistance to quantum algorithms. Our findings provide insights into the current state of post-quantum RSA, highlighting promising directions for further research and development in the quest for quantum-resistant cryptographic solutions. In the future robust variants of RSA, algorithms will help the stakeholders of the cryptosystems to instil faith in the security of the system in the face of challenges which is inadvertently posed by the attackers using advanced security attack vectors.

Current state and prospects of the Chinese gas market

The purpose of the study. Analyze the state of the Chinese gas market, the relationship between the problem of imported gas supplies and economic factors for the chain of the Chinese gas industry.Methodology. The research is based on the methods of an economic and mathematical model for the efficiency of natural gas transportation, a weighted average multi-index indicator, analysis of statistical data, study of scientific and journalistic literature. The value of research. The authors of the article identified topical issues of ensuring energy security, considering the trends of the global and Chinese gas market and the opportunity for further international cooperation. The recommendations proposed by the authors are of real importance for understanding the Chinese gas market.The results of the study. The authors of the article analyzed data on the demand and consumption of natural gas in China, as well as on the indices of the supplier countries in recent years. It is concluded that the Chinese gas market has great potential for the development of energy cooperation, and China also concluded that it is highly dependent on imports in the structure of gas consumption. Pipeline gas is an important source of natural gas imports to China and one of the main guarantees of energy security. Based on the results of the analysis, the prospects of cooperation between China and such supplier countries as Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Russia in the gas industry are substantiated.

Including GRC Principles in IoT Security: A Comparison of Current Approaches and Future Prospects

With its ability to provide seamless communication between systems and objects, the Internet of Things (IoT) has completely changed the way we engage with technology. However, because the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem consists of a diverse variety of devices with differing security and compliance requirements, this interconnection also presents substantial issues for security, privacy, and compliance. In order to solve these issues, this research attempts to present a thorough examination of how Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) concepts might be included into IoT security frameworks. The first section of the report provides an overview of IoT security as it is now, stressing the dangers and weaknesses that the ecosystem faces. The use of GRC concepts to reducing these risks and guaranteeing adherence to pertinent laws and guidelines is next covered. Through the incorporation of GRC concepts into IoT security frameworks, entities may adopt a comprehensive strategy for risk management and compliance assurance throughout the IoT ecosystem. A comparative study of current approaches that incorporate GRC guidelines into IoT security frameworks is also part of the project. This review assesses the benefits and drawbacks of various solutions, highlighting typical problems and suggested approaches for applying GRC concepts to IoT security. The study suggests potential options for incorporating GRC concepts into IoT security frameworks based on the comparative analysis's findings. In order to improve security and compliance in IoT systems, these include adopting new technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence as well as developing standardized frameworks and protocols for integrating GRC concepts in IoT security. All things considered, this study offers insightful information about how GRC principles may be included into IoT security frameworks, providing useful advice for businesses trying to improve their IoT security posture and guarantee compliance with pertinent laws and standards.

Extending the Security of SPDZ with Fairness

SPDZ refers to a family of protocols for Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) that lie at the foundation of very popular software frameworks for MPC, such as SCALE-MAMBA and MP-SPDZ. SPDZ provides good efficiency while guaranteeing security even when all but one of the participants are corrupted. This seemingly optimal property comes at a price: the protocol only offers security with abort, meaning that even a single cheating participant can force the protocol to abort, leaving honest participants with no clue on what the correct output is, or who cheated. This is especially problematic since cheating participants are able to obtain the correct output of the computation, effectively `stealing' it. We propose a *hybrid secure* adaptation to SPDZ, which retains the existing security guarantees, but in case the number of cheating players is less than half of the total, we achieve *fairness*, meaning that either all players obtain the correct output of the computation, or no player does. The `less than half' threshold of corrupted players has been proven to be a tight bound to achieve fairness. Aside from the description of the protocol and its security proof, we also present a proof-of-concept implementation, and evaluate its practical performance, thereby demonstrating that our solution has negligible overhead compared to standard SPDZ in most application scenarios.

An algorithm based on 6D fractional order hyperchaotic system and knight tour algorithm to encrypt image

Abstract The security guarantee of data transmission is becoming more crucial as the frequency of information interchange rises. Ensuring the security of images is essential since they serve as a vital transmission medium. This research suggests an image encryption method that combines the knight tour algorithm with a 6D fractional order hyperchaotic system. First, chaotic sequences are produced using a fractional order hyperchaotic system, which is then utilized to index order and jumble the entire image. To retrieve the image after the second scrambling, choose the knight tour beginning point and run ten rounds of knight tour algorithms on the scrambled image. Thirdly, to maximize the efficiency of picture encryption, employ diffusion methods. The outcomes of the imaging experiment were lastly tested and assessed. The security of the image can be successfully guaranteed by a high-dimensional fractional order hyperchaotic system. This is because its high dimensionality gives it a larger key space than the low dimensional system. This is why it can resist attacks more effectively. After a series of evaluation experiments, it is obvious that this encryption scheme has good encryption performance.

The State of the Gas Infrastructure of the Energy System of the Republic of Bulgaria as Guarantee for Energy Security

The article discusses the essence of infrastructure for the energy system. Therefore, they are noted for the main types of energy infrastructure according to the type of energy source used, resource. Their condition and their profitability for the energy sector. The influence of the state of the energy infrastructure on the opportunities and prospects for the sectoral development of the energy sector is emphasized. Its importance in terms of security of the energy system. The essence and the development of the infrastructure of the energy system of the Republic of Bulgaria are considered.

澳大利亚科学数据发展政策与规划

Australia attaches great importance to the efficient management of scientific data resources, acknowledging data as a key driving force for innovative development. The nation actively coordinates and integrates digital infrastructure construction while making data openness one of the top priorities within the public sector. To effectively promote the development of scientific data in Australia, the country has implemented effective management and open sharing practices for scientific data, recognizing it as a valuable asset, which guarantees the discoverability, accessibility, and usability of data resources. Australia has formulated different policies at different stages and established different levels of support and regulatory agencies, providing strong guarantees for government policy formulation, strategic planning, and plan service implementation. Based on a wide range of literature and website information resources, this paper employs meticulous techniques in screening, extraction, analysis, and organization, with a focus on comprehensively sorting and analyzing the policy system construction, support and regulatory agencies, strategic planning support, infrastructure construction, and practical effectiveness of Australian scientific data initiatives. The paper will serve as a reference for China in formulating a scientific data policy management system, establishing a sound data resource sharing mechanism, and reinforcing the data security guarantee system.

How the states divide income or tax residence (on the example of Ukraine)

Introduction. The past years have once again emphasized the relevance of friendly interstate relations, which create the basis for trade cooperation. International cooperation of states in the unstable conditions of pandemics and wars helps not only to maintain international security, but also provides the development of international trade. The paper analyzes the features of the conditions for avoiding double taxation and determining the country of residence. The publication reveals the problems faced by residents of Ukraine in 2022, namely: multiple taxation and avoidance of double taxation. Features of interstate agreements that guarantee, in particular, to Ukrainian residents, the opportunity to engage in entrepreneurship are highlighted. In our opinion, the conclusion of international treaties by states on the avoidance of double taxation is an act that reflects the political interest of countries in long-term trade cooperation and stimulates the fulfillment of the obligations of countries under treaties in the field of international trade. The purpose of the paper is to study the nature of multiple taxation and the conclusion of agreements on the avoidance of double taxation, its expediency, as well as regulatory consolidation. Results. The research analyzed the regulatory basis of income taxation of Ukrainian business entities, established who is considered a resident. Considered a fairly new category – e-residency, also attention was paid to modern international unilateral acts, normalizing the support of Ukrainian entrepreneurs. Conclusions. Modernity poses new challenges to the world community that the states are forced to cope with. International law is, first of all, partnership, commonwealth, and guarantee of mutual security, including economic security. There is establishment of normative regulation of resident taxation processes and consideration of e-residency as the next stage of development of relations between the state and the resident.

ON THE ISSUE OF THE GOALS AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF PROVIDING SOCIAL ASSISTANCE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The relevance of the research topic lies in the fact that social assistance is an important component of guarantees of the social security of citizens’ social rights. The article reveals the main task of the state social policy, which is to achieve the well-being of an individual and society as a whole through fair and equal access for all citizens to state social assistance. The article is devoted to the analysis of the goals of providing social assistance to persons in need, enshrined in the Federal Law of 17.07.1999 N 178-FZ "On State Social Assistance". The purpose of the study is to analyze and clarify the objectives set out in the Law on Social Assistance, to define the legal principles of state social assistance and to disclose their content. Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the research is predetermined by the set goal and objectives, as well as by the idea of the existence of universal, general scientific, private scientific and special legal research methods. The paper presents an analysis of legislation, practical experience of its use and scientific doctrine on the goals and principles of social protection and social assistance. The article reveals the concept of state social assistance; the opinions of scientists on the main goals of social protection are given. To conduct a full-fledged analysis, the subject composition of recipients of state social assistance is considered. Such subjects include low-income families, low-income citizens living alone and other categories of citizens who, for reasons beyond their control, have an average per capita income below the subsistence minimum. The result of the study. The authors propose their own formulations of the goals of social protection, assess the implementation of the goals in practice provided for in the legislation, identify the causes of emerging problems with the provision of social assistance, among which the lack of clear and concise rules for the provision of social assistance stands out. These will contribute to the development of legislation. Based on the analysis of legislation and law enforcement practice, their own principles have been put forward. These include targeting, accessibility, humanity, voluntariness, targeted use of budget funds, clarity, and equality. The article reveals the content of each of these principles. The practical and theoretical significance of the study is manifested in the fact that the improvement of legislation on social assistance should take place taking into account the goals and principles discussed in the article, which should be reflected in regulatory legal acts. It will make it possible to create a more effective system of social support for citizens and will contribute to improving the quality of life of the population. Conclusions. It is concluded that it is necessary to clarify the objectives specified in the Law, as well as to supplement it with an article containing the legal principles on which the legislation on social assistance will be based.

Legal regulation of obligations in international agreements

The law of international treaties is one of the key branches of international law. It is international agreements, as a source of international law, that govern states, since the contractual regulation of international activity is able to ensure civilized interstate cooperation, such as: trade, investment, create appropriate conditions for the development of the economies of the contracting parties, and guarantee security processes in the country. The obligations of states assumed during the conclusion of international agreements, their proper formulation, agreement and compliance are the primary basis of quality international relations. Accordingly, this paper is devoted to the analysis of the normatively determined characteristics of an international agreement and the presence of obligations in them, methods of revival of obligations in the agreement, comparison of agreements with different subjects and obligations in them. Emphasis is made separately on the existing problems of the implementation of current international agreements. The study shows that security agreements usually contain negative obligations, while trade agreements include both positive and negative types of obligations. The above demonstrates that an international agreement is an expression of the will of the parties, their intentions, and also demonstrates the nature of the relationship dictated by the subject of the agreement. Thus, security agreements provide for compliance with the principle of non-interference and refraining from actions that could harm another country. Instead, trade agreements aim at active cooperation between states, which emphasizes the need for positive commitments by countries. The issues of appropriateness of the formation of obligations are equally important, both in international private and in international public law. However, researchers, unfortunately, pay little attention to the specifics of states’ obligations. It is the latter that are important, complex and lengthy to negotiate and affect a wide range of individuals. Undoubtedly, they differ significantly among themselves in the specifics of multilateral international agreements, which provide for accession itself, and not participation in the formation of the texts of agreements. All of the above emphasizes the complexity and multifacetedness of the researched issue. Accordingly, as modern international agreement law develops, it needs new views, the proper formulation of obligations in agreements, and guarantees of the latter’s fulfillment.

EVERYDAY POLITICS OF ONLINE OJEK DRIVERS: TAKING COVER AND FIGHTING APPLICATORS FROM THE COMMUNITY BASECAMP

The platform-based transportation business model has swept across almost all regions in Indonesia. Millions of workers have been absorbed into the workforce in this business model. However, the lack of government protection, compounded by the absence of regulations governing working conditions and safety for workers, often leads to working conditions that favor the applicator side. In this less-than-ideal situation, some workers (online motorcycle taxi drivers) have formed online motorcycle taxi communities as an alternative to cope with these less-than-ideal conditions. This article will look at how the online motorcycle taxi community is used as a medium of indirect resistance against applicators. Using a qualitative method, we adopt Browney Frey's (2020) framework on how the vulnerability of the platform workforce is produced by exploring the online motorcycle taxi community and resistance in Indonesia. Data collection is conducted through interviews and observations. We interviewed at least two communities and more than six drivers. This article argues that the organization of online motorcycle taxis that are formed through the community is part of political expression to get security guarantees. At a certain level, the existence of the community is used as a covert medium of everyday resistance. This fieldwork took place in Palu, Central Sulawesi. This article contributes to understanding the nature of organizers and models of workers' resistance to flexible work regimes sponsored by digital work platforms.