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Recent Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) schemes enable secure searching over an encrypted database stored in a server while limiting the information leaked to the server. These schemes focus on hiding the access pattern, which refers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Simon Oya , Florian Kerschbaum

We introduce an attack against encrypted web traffic that makes use only of packet timing information on the uplink. This attack is therefore impervious to existing packet padding defences. In addition, unlike existing approaches this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Saman Feghhi , Douglas J. Leith

Distributed network of the computer and the design defects of the TCP protocol are given to the network attack to be multiplicative. Based on the simple and open assumptions of the TCP protocol in academic and collaborative communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Minghan Chen , Fangyan Dai , Bingjie Yan , Jieren Cheng , Longjuan Wang

In network slicing, the network operator needs to satisfy the service level agreements of multiple slices at the same time and on the same physical infrastructure. To do so with reduced provisioned resources, the operator may consider…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Panagiotis Nikolaidis , John Baras

This paper studies a new active eavesdropping technique via the so-called spoofing relay attack, which could be launched by the eavesdropper to significantly enhance the information leakage rate from the source over conventional passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Shared cache resources in multi-core processors are vulnerable to cache side-channel attacks. Recently proposed defenses have their own caveats: Randomization-based defenses are vulnerable to the evolving attack algorithms besides relying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Ghada Dessouky , Alexander Gruler , Pouya Mahmoody , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Emmanuel Stapf

Numerous exploits of client-server protocols and applications involve modifying clients to behave in ways that untampered clients would not, such as crafting malicious packets. In this paper, we demonstrate practical verification of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Andrew Chi , Robert Cochran , Marie Nesfield , Michael K. Reiter , Cynthia Sturton

Malware is constantly evolving. Although existing countermeasures have success in malware detection, corresponding counter-countermeasures are always emerging. In this study, a counter-countermeasure that avoids network-based detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Xingsi Zhong , Yu Fu , Lu Yu , Richard Brooks

Segment routing is a modern form of source-based routing, i.e., a routing technique where all or part of the routing decision is predetermined by the source or a hop on the path. Since initial standardization efforts in 2013, segment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Victor-Alexandru Pădurean , Oliver Gasser , Randy Bush , Anja Feldmann

Protocol sequences are used in channel access for the multiple-access collision channel without feedback. A new construction of protocol sequences with a guarantee of worst-case system throughput is proposed. The construction is based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-28 Kenneth W. Shum , Wing Shing Wong

Side-channel attacks try to extract secret information from a system by analyzing different side-channel signatures, such as power consumption, electromagnetic emanation, thermal dissipation, acoustics, time, etc. Power-based side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Sahan Sanjaya , Aruna Jayasena , Prabhat Mishra

Recently, many profiling side-channel attacks based on Machine Learning and Deep Learning have been proposed. Most of them focus on reducing the number of traces required for successful attacks by optimizing the modeling algorithms. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Ping Wang , Ping Chen , Zhimin Luo , Gaofeng Dong , Mengce Zheng , Nenghai Yu , Honggang Hu

Secure communication over a wiretap channel is investigated, in which an active adversary modifies the state of the channel and the legitimate transmitter has the opportunity to sense and learn the adversary's actions. The adversary has the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu R. Bloch , Aylin Yener

In cache-based side channel attacks, an attacker infers information about the victim based on the presence, or lack thereof, of one or more cachelines. Determining a cacheline's presence, which we refer to as "reading the signal", typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-02 David A. Kaplan

The Bitcoin P2P network currently represents a reference benchmark for modern cryptocurrencies. Its underlying protocol defines how transactions and blocks are distributed through all participating nodes. To protect user privacy, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Federico Franzoni , Vanesa Daza

Data obfuscation is a promising technique for mitigating attribute inference attacks by semi-trusted parties with access to time-series data emitted by sensors. Recent advances leverage conditional generative models together with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xin Yang , Omid Ardakanian

Many organizations protect secure networked devices from non-secure networked devices by assigning each class of devices to a different logical network. These two logical networks, commonly called the host network and the guest network, use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Adar Ovadya , Rom Ogen , Yakov Mallah , Niv Gilboa , Yossi Oren

The emergence of social and technological networks has enabled rapid sharing of data and information. This has resulted in significant privacy concerns where private information can be either leaked or inferred from public data. The problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Fragkiskos Koufogiannis , George Pappas

Modern corporations physically separate their sensitive computational infrastructure from public or other accessible networks in order to prevent cyber-attacks. However, attackers still manage to infect these networks, either by means of an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Yisroel Mirsky , Mordechai Guri , Yuval Elovici

Complex network theory is a useful way to study many real systems. In this paper, an anti-attack model based on complex network theory is introduced. The mechanism of this model is based on dynamic compensation process and reverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Hao Peng , Songnian Lu , Dandan Zhao , Aixin Zhang , Jianhua Li