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Data science pipelines to train and evaluate models with machine learning may contain bugs just like any other code. Leakage between training and test data can lead to overestimating the model's accuracy during offline evaluations, possibly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Chenyang Yang , Rachel A Brower-Sinning , Grace A. Lewis , Christian Kästner

In the inference attacks studied in Quantitative Information Flow (QIF), the attacker typically tries to interfere with the system in the attempt to increase its leakage of secret information. The defender, on the other hand, typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Mário S. Alvim , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Yusuke Kawamoto , Catuscia Palamidessi

New model of software safety is offered. Distribution of mistakes in program on stages of life cycle is researched. Study of ways of increase of reliability of software at help simulation program is leaded.

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-07-02 Arkadiy Khandjian

Multiplayer online gaming has witnessed an explosion in popularity over the past two decades. However, security issues continue to give rise to in-game cheating, deterring honest gameplay, detracting from user experience, and ultimately…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yaqi Cai , Konstantinos Markantonakis , Carlton Shepherd

Selecting the combination of security controls that will most effectively protect a system's assets is a difficult task. If the wrong controls are selected, the system may be left vulnerable to cyber-attacks that can impact the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Dylan Léveillé , Jason Jaskolka

Security of computers and the networks that connect them is increasingly becoming of great significance. Computer security is defined as the protection of computing systems against threats to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ajith Abraham , Ravi Jain

We investigate the role of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity by evaluating how machine learning techniques can detect malicious network activity and identify potential information leakage in cryptographic implementations. We conduct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Reza Zilouchian , Michael Chavez , Fernando Koch

The security of quantum key distribution relies on the validity of quantum mechanics as a description of nature and on the non-existence of leaky degrees of freedom in the practical implementations. We experimentally demonstrate how, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antia Lamas-Linares , Christian Kurtsiefer

Memory disclosure attacks play an important role in the exploitation of memory corruption vulnerabilities. By analyzing recent research, we observe that bypasses of defensive solutions that enforce control-flow integrity or attempt to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Robert Gawlik , Philipp Koppe , Benjamin Kollenda , Andre Pawlowski , Behrad Garmany , Thorsten Holz

This paper considers a method of coding the sensor outputs in order to detect stealthy false data injection attacks. An intelligent attacker can design a sequence of data injection to sensors and actuators that pass the state estimator and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Fei Miao , Quanyan Zhu , Miroslav Pajic , George J. Pappas

Leakage errors arise when the quantum state leaks out of some subspace of interest, for example, the two-level subspace of a multi-level system defining a computational `qubit' or the logical code space defined by some quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-18 Joel J. Wallman , Marie Barnhill , Joseph Emerson

It is of utmost importance to ensure that modern data intensive systems do not leak sensitive information. In this paper, the authors, who met thanks to Joost-Pieter Katoen, discuss symbolic methods to compute information-theoretic measures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Philipp Schröer , Francesca Randone , Raúl Pardo , Andrzej Wąsowski

We propose a symbolic execution method for analyzing the safety of software under fault attacks both accurately and efficiently. Fault attacks leverage physically injected hardware faults in an embedded system to break the safety of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yuzhou Fang , Chenyu Zhou , Jingbo Wang , Chao Wang

Network systems often contain vulnerabilities that remain unfixed in a network for various reasons, such as the lack of a patch or knowledge to fix them. With the presence of such residual vulnerabilities, the network administrator should…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Narges Khakpour , David Parker

Leaked secrets, such as passwords and API keys, in codebases were responsible for numerous security breaches. Existing heuristic techniques, such as pattern matching, entropy analysis, and machine learning, exist to detect and alert…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Zhen Yu Ding , Benjamin Khakshoor , Justin Paglierani , Mantej Rajpal

Information leakage to a guessing adversary in index coding is studied, where some messages in the system are sensitive and others are not. The non-sensitive messages can be used by the server like secret keys to mitigate leakage of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yucheng Liu , Lawrence Ong , Phee Lep Yeoh , Parastoo Sadeghi , Joerg Kliewer , Sarah Johnson

SAFE is a clean-slate design for a highly secure computer system, with pervasive mechanisms for tracking and limiting information flows. At the lowest level, the SAFE hardware supports fine-grained programmable tags, with efficient and…

Recently discovered Spectre and meltdown attacks affects almost all processors by leaking confidential information to other processes through side-channel attacks. These vulnerabilities expose design flaws in the architecture of modern…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Bilal Ali Ahmad

Despite its ever-increasing impact, security is not considered as a design objective in commercial electronic design automation (EDA) tools. This results in vulnerabilities being overlooked during the software-hardware design process.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Lennart M. Reimann , Jonathan Wiesner , Dominik Sisejkovic , Farhad Merchant , Rainer Leupers

We propose a novel type system for verifying that programs correctly implement constant-resource behavior. Our type system extends recent work on automatic amortized resource analysis (AARA), a set of techniques that automatically derive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Van Chan Ngo , Mario Dehesa-Azuara , Matthew Fredrikson , Jan Hoffmann