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Physical-layer based key generation schemes exploit the channel reciprocity for secret key extraction, which can achieve information-theoretic secrecy against eavesdroppers. Such methods, although practical, have been shown to be vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Yanjun Pan , Ziqi Xu , Ming Li , Loukas Lazos

Botnet Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are now 20 years old; what has changed in that time? Their disruptive presence, their volume, distribution across the globe, and the relative ease of launching them have all been trending…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Eric Osterweil , Angelos Stavrou , Lixia Zhang

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Aman Priyanshu , Sarthak Shastri , Sai Sravan Medicherla

This work proposes a new class of proactive attacks called the Informational Denial-of-Service (IDoS) attacks that exploit the attentional human vulnerability. By generating a large volume of feints, IDoS attacks deplete the cognitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Linan Huang , Quanyan Zhu

The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack stands out as a highly formidable cyber threat, representing an advanced form of the denial-of-service (DoS) attack. A DDoS attack involves multiple computers working together to overwhelm a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Nizo Jaman Shohan , Gazi Tanbhir , Faria Elahi , Ahsan Ullah , Md. Nazmus Sakib

Industrial Internet of Things (I-IoT) is a collaboration of devices, sensors, and networking equipment to monitor and collect data from industrial operations. Machine learning (ML) methods use this data to make high-level decisions with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Onat Gungor , Tajana Rosing , Baris Aksanli

Emergency services are vital services that Next Generation Networks (NGNs) have to provide. As the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is in the heart of NGNs, 3GPP has carried the burden of specifying a standardized IMS-based emergency services…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Andreea Ancuta Onofrei , Yacine Rebahi , Thomas Magedanz , Fokus Fraunhofer Institute , Germany

The detection of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks remains a challenge for the cloud environment, affecting a massive number of services and applications hosted by such virtualized infrastructures. Typically, in the literature, the detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-15 João Henrique Corrêa , Patrick Marques Ciarelli , Moises R. N. Ribeiro , Rodolfo da Silva Villaca

Existing defence mechanisms have demonstrated significant effectiveness in mitigating rule-based Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, leveraging predefined signatures and static heuristics to identify and block malicious traffic. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wei Shao , Yuhao Wang , Rongguang He , Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed , Seyit Camtepe

This report presents some technical details on the authentication process of a lightweight key exchange protocol, paying attention on how Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks could undermine its security, e.g., under the scope of lawful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Daniel Hennig , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

Security protocols are often found to be flawed after their deployment. We present an approach that aims at the neutralization or mitigation of the attacks to flawed protocols: it avoids the complete dismissal of the interested protocol and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-28 Michele Peroli , Luca Viganò , Matteo Zavatteri

DDoS attacks, also known as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, have emerged as one of the most serious and fastest-growing threats on the Internet. Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are an example of cyber attacks that target a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Anupama Mishra

We describe a threat model under which a split network-based federated learning system is susceptible to a model inversion attack by a malicious computational server. We demonstrate that the attack can be successfully performed with limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Tom Titcombe , Adam J. Hall , Pavlos Papadopoulos , Daniele Romanini

The problem of mitigating maliciously injected signals in interconnected systems is dealt with in this paper. We consider the class of covert attacks, as they are stealthy and cannot be detected by conventional means in centralized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Angelo Barboni , Thomas Parisini

Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) theft incurs hundreds of billions in annual losses, driven by advanced reverse engineering (RE) techniques. Traditional ``cryptic'' IC camouflaging methods typically focus on hiding localized gate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Junling Fan , David Koblah , Domenic Forte

Timing side channels pose a significant threat to the security and privacy of software applications. We propose an approach for mitigating this problem by decreasing the strength of the side channels as measured by entropy-based objectives,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Pavol Cerny , Ashutosh Trivedi

Today, internet and web services have become an inseparable part of our lives. Hence, ensuring continuous availability of service has become imperative to the success of any organization. But these services are often hampered by constant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Hrishikesh Arun Deshpande

The exponential increase in the number of malicious threats on computer networks and Internet services due to a large number of attacks makes the network security at continuous risk. One of the most prevalent network attacks that threaten…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Ghazi Al-Naymat , Mouhammd Al-kasassbeh , Eshraq Al-Hawari

Many IoT use cases involve constrained battery-powered devices offering services in a RESTful manner to their communication partners. Such services may involve, e.g., costly computations or actuator/sensor usage, which may have significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Stefan Hristozov , Manuel Huber , Georg Sigl

Interconnected embedded devices are increasingly used invarious scenarios, including industrial control, building automation, or emergency communication. As these systems commonly process sensitive information or perform safety critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Florian Kohnhäuser , Niklas Büscher , Sebastian Gabmeyer , Stefan Katzenbeisser