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Encrypted cloud storage can hide data contents but still leak sensitive information through access patterns. ORAM addresses this by hiding access patterns, but existing ORAM systems are too inefficient to deploy in practice. We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Onur Eren Arpaci , Florian Kerschbaum , Sujaya Maiyya

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) and private information retrieval (PIR) are classic cryptographic primitives used to hide the access pattern to data whose storage has been outsourced to an untrusted server. Unfortunately, both primitives require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Sarvar Patel , Giuseppe Persiano , Kevin Yeo

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) hides the memory access patterns, enhancing data privacy by preventing attackers from discovering sensitive information based on the sequence of memory accesses. The performance of ORAM is often limited by its inherent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Haojie Ye , Yuchen Xia , Yuhan Chen , Kuan-Yu Chen , Yichao Yuan , Shuwen Deng , Baris Kasikci , Trevor Mudge , Nishil Talati

Recent studies have demonstrated that machine learning approaches like deep neural networks (DNNs) are easily fooled by adversarial attacks. Subtle and imperceptible perturbations of the data are able to change the result of deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Negin Entezari , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Following the recent adoption of deep neural networks (DNN) accross a wide range of applications, adversarial attacks against these models have proven to be an indisputable threat. Adversarial samples are crafted with a deliberate intention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Valentina Zantedeschi , Maria-Irina Nicolae , Ambrish Rawat

In the literature on adversarial examples, white box and black box attacks have received the most attention. The adversary is assumed to have either full (white) or no (black) access to the defender's model. In this work, we focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shi Hu , Eric Nalisnick , Max Welling

In this work, we propose DRAM-Locker as a robust general-purpose defense mechanism that can protect DRAM against various adversarial Deep Neural Network (DNN) weight attacks affecting data or page tables. DRAM-Locker harnesses the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ranyang Zhou , Sabbir Ahmed , Arman Roohi , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Shaahin Angizi

We present a method for provably defending any pretrained image classifier against $\ell_p$ adversarial attacks. This method, for instance, allows public vision API providers and users to seamlessly convert pretrained non-robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Hadi Salman , Mingjie Sun , Greg Yang , Ashish Kapoor , J. Zico Kolter

While the rapid development of facial recognition algorithms has enabled numerous beneficial applications, their widespread deployment has raised significant concerns about the risks of mass surveillance and threats to individual privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Paweł Borsukiewicz , Daniele Lunghi , Melissa Tessa , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

The success of deep face recognition (FR) systems has raised serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Previous studies proposed introducing imperceptible adversarial noises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Minghui Li , Jiangxiong Wang , Hao Zhang , Ziqi Zhou , Shengshan Hu , Xiaobing Pei

Personal AI systems increasingly retain long-term memory of user activity, including documents, emails, messages, meetings, and ambient recordings. Trusted hardware can keep this data private, but struggles to scale with a growing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Darya Kaviani , Alp Eren Ozdarendeli , Jinhao Zhu , Yu Ding , Raluca Ada Popa

Aggressive memory density scaling causes modern DRAM devices to suffer from RowHammer, a phenomenon where rapidly activating a DRAM row can cause bit-flips in physically-nearby rows. Recent studies demonstrate that modern DRAM chips,…

Adversarial perturbations can be added to images to protect their content from unwanted inferences. These perturbations may, however, be ineffective against classifiers that were not {seen} during the generation of the perturbation, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Chau Yi Li , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Riccardo Mazzon , Andrea Cavallaro

We address the problem of securing distributed storage systems against eavesdropping and adversarial attacks. An important aspect of these systems is node failures over time, necessitating, thus, a repair mechanism in order to maintain a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-28 Sameer Pawar , Salim El Rouayheb , Kannan Ramchandran

Content providers increasingly utilise Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to enhance users' content download experience. However, this deployment scenario raises significant security concerns regarding content confidentiality and user privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Viet Vo , Shangqi Lai , Xingliang Yuan , Surya Nepal , Qi Li

Keystone is a trusted execution environment, based on RISC-V architecture. It divides the memory into a secure Keystone private memory and an unsecure non-Keystone memory, and allows code that lies inside the Keystone private memory to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Mriganka Shekhar Chakravarty , Biswabandan Panda

In the field of privacy protection, publishing complete data (especially high-dimensional data sets) is one of the most challenging problems. The common encryption technology can not deal with the attacker to take differential attack to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Song Mei , Zhiqiang Ye

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

DeepFake is becoming a real risk to society and brings potential threats to both individual privacy and political security due to the DeepFaked multimedia are realistic and convincing. However, the popular DeepFake passive detection is an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Run Wang , Ziheng Huang , Zhikai Chen , Li Liu , Jing Chen , Lina Wang

Ransomware represents a pervasive threat, traditionally countered at the operating system, file-system, or network levels. However, these approaches often introduce significant overhead and remain susceptible to circumvention by attackers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Nicolas Reategui , Roman Pletka , Dionysios Diamantopoulos