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We develop a new Location Verification System (LVS) focussed on network-based Intelligent Transport Systems and vehicular ad hoc networks. The algorithm we develop is based on an information-theoretic framework which uses the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Shihao Yan , Robert Malaney , Ido Nevat , Gareth W. Peters

We consider parameterized concurrent systems consisting of a finite but unknown number of components, obtained by replicating a given set of finite state automata. Components communicate by executing atomic interactions whose participants…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Marius Bozga , Javier Esparza , Radu Iosif , Joseph Sifakis , Christoph Welzel

Penetration testing, the simulation of cyberattacks to identify security vulnerabilities, presents a sequential decision-making problem well-suited for reinforcement learning (RL) automation. Like many applications of RL to real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Raphael Simon , Pieter Libin , Wim Mees

The increasing use of deep neural networks for safety-critical applications, such as autonomous driving and flight control, raises concerns about their safety and reliability. Formal verification can address these concerns by guaranteeing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Lindsey Kuper , Guy Katz , Justin Gottschlich , Kyle Julian , Clark Barrett , Mykel Kochenderfer

Recent advances indicate that quantum computers will soon be reality. Motivated by this ever more realistic threat for existing classical cryptographic protocols, researchers have developed several schemes to resist "quantum attacks". In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Myrto Arapinis , Elham Kashefi , Nikolaos Lamprou , Anna Pappa

Validating network paths taken by packets is critical for a secure Internet architecture. Any feasible solution must both enforce packet forwarding along endhost-specified paths and verify whether packets have taken those paths. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Kai Bu , Yutian Yang , Avery Laird , Jiaqing Luo , Yingjiu Li , Kui Ren

This paper presents an Isabelle/HOL+Isar set of theories which allows to specify crypto-based components and to verify their composition properties wrt. cryptographic aspects. We introduce a formalisation of the security property of data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Maria Spichkova

Confidential computing is a key technology for isolating high-assurance applications from the large amounts of untrusted code typical in modern systems. Existing confidential computing systems cannot be certified for use in critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Wojciech Ozga , Guerney D. H. Hunt , Michael V. Le , Elaine R. Palmer , Avraham Shinnar

This set of theories presents a formalisation in Isabelle/HOL+Isar of data dependencies between components. The approach allows to analyse system structure oriented towards efficient checking of system: it aims at elaborating for a concrete…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Maria Spichkova

Mature push button tools have emerged for checking trace properties (e.g. secrecy or authentication) of security protocols. The case of indistinguishability-based privacy properties (e.g. ballot privacy or anonymity) is more complex and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Véronique Cortier , Niklas Grimm , Joseph Lallemand , Matteo Maffei

To keep a system secure, all devices in the system need to be benign. To avoid malicious and/or compromised devices, network access control such as authentication using a credential and remote attestation based on trusted hardware has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Takayuki Sasaki , Yusuke Shimada

Cloud service providers offer various facilities to their clients. The clients with limited resources opt for some of these facilities. They can outsource their bulk data to the cloud server. The cloud server maintains these data in lieu of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Binanda Sengupta , Sushmita Ruj

Many techniques for the automated verification of distributed protocols have been developed over the past several years, but their performance is still unpredictable and their failure modes can be opaque for industrial scale verification…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-22 William Schultz , Edward Ashton , Heidi Howard , Stavros Tripakis

The goal of an Intrusion Detection is inadequate to detect errors and unusual activity on a network or on the hosts belonging to a local network by monitoring network activity. Algorithms for building detection models are broadly classified…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-10-28 M. Sadiq Ali Khan

A protocol-independent secrecy theorem is established and applied to several non-trivial protocols. In particular, it is applied to protocols proposed for protecting the computation results of free-roaming mobile agents doing comparison…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Frédéric Blanqui

In this work we present and formally analyze CHAT-SRP (CHAos based Tickets-Secure Registration Protocol), a protocol to provide interactive and collaborative platforms with a cryptographically robust solution to classical security issues.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Jesus Diaz , David Arroyo , Francisco B. Rodriguez

Verification and validation of agentic behavior have been suggested as important research priorities in efforts to reduce risks associated with the creation of general artificial intelligence (Russell et al 2015). In this paper we question…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-12 David J. Jilk

When studying safety properties of (formal) protocol models, it is customary to view the scheduler as an adversary: an entity trying to falsify the safety property. We show that in the context of security protocols, and in particular of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-06-08 Flavio D. Garcia , Peter van Rossum , Ana Sokolova

In this paper, we present VerifyML, the first secure inference framework to check the fairness degree of a given Machine learning (ML) model. VerifyML is generic and is immune to any obstruction by the malicious model holder during the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Guowen Xu , Xingshuo Han , Gelei Deng , Tianwei Zhang , Shengmin Xu , Jianting Ning , Anjia Yang , Hongwei Li

Growing concern for individual privacy, driven by an increased public awareness of the degree to which many of our electronic activities are tracked by interested third parties (e.g. Google knows what I am thinking before I finish entering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Aaron Gibson , Hamilton Scott Clouse