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Privacy protection mechanisms are a fundamental aspect of security in cryptocurrency systems, particularly in decentralized networks such as Bitcoin. Although Bitcoin addresses are not directly associated with real-world identities, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shihan Zhang , Bing Han , Chuanyong Tian , Ruisheng Shi , Lina Lan , Qin Wang

Outsourced computation presents a risk to the confidentiality of clients' sensitive data since they have to trust that the service providers will not mishandle this data. Blinded Memory (BliMe) is a set of hardware extensions that addresses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Hossam ElAtali , Xiaohe Duan , Hans Liljestrand , Meng Xu , N. Asokan

Trackers have recently started to mix tracking and functional resources to circumvent privacy-enhancing content blocking tools. Such mixed web resources put content blockers in a bind: risk breaking legitimate functionality if they act and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Abdul Haddi Amjad , Danial Saleem , Fareed Zaffar , Muhammad Ali Gulzar , Zubair Shafiq

Modern malware poses a severe threat to cybersecurity, continually evolving in sophistication. To combat this threat, researchers and security professionals continuously explore advanced techniques for malware detection and analysis.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Pasquale Caporaso , Giuseppe Bianchi , Francesco Quaglia

Transparency is crucial in security-critical applications that rely on authoritative information, as it provides a robust mechanism for holding these authorities accountable for their actions. A number of solutions have emerged in recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Mustafa Al-Bassam , Sarah Meiklejohn

Online tracking has become of increasing concern in recent years, however our understanding of its extent to date has been limited to snapshots from web crawls. Previous at-tempts to measure the tracking ecosystem, have been done using…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Arjaldo Karaj , Sam Macbeth , Rémi Berson , Josep M. Pujol

Knowledge of the input format of binary executables is important for finding bugs and vulnerabilities, such as generating data for fuzzing or manual reverse engineering. This paper presents an algorithm to recover the structure and semantic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Seshagiri Prabhu Narasimha , Arun Lakhotia

Remote attestation (RA) authenticates code running in trusted execution environments (TEEs), allowing trusted code to be deployed even on untrusted hosts. However, trust relationships established by one component in a distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Haofan Zheng , Owen Arden

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) protocol has become an integral part of modern Internet technology. Currently, it is the primary protocol for commercialized web applications. It can provide a fast, secure connection with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Gordon King , Hans Wang

Open-source software serves as a foundation for the internet and the cyber supply chain, but its exploitation is becoming increasingly prevalent. While advances in vulnerability detection for OSS have been significant, prior research has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zhuoran Tan , Christos Anagnosstopoulos , Jeremy Singer

Recent advances in web technologies make it more difficult than ever to detect and block web tracking systems. In this work, we propose ASTrack, a novel approach to web tracking detection and removal. ASTrack uses an abstraction of the code…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Ismael Castell-Uroz , Kensuke Fukuda , Pere Barlet-Ros

Modern stream-based monitors collect detailed statistics of the runtime behavior of the system under observation. If the system runs in a privacy-sensitive context, this poses the risk of disclosing sensitive information. Differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bernd Finkbeiner , Frederik Scheerer

Large-scale, fault-tolerant, distributed systems are the backbone for many critical software services. Since they must execute correctly in a possibly adversarial environment with arbitrary communication delays and failures, the underlying…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Cezara Dragoi , Constantin Enea , Srinidhi Nagendra , Mandayam Srivas

Motivated by the fast adoption of WebAssembly, we propose the first functional pipeline to support the superoptimization of WebAssembly bytecode. Our pipeline works over LLVM and Souper. We evaluate our superoptimization pipeline with 12…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Javier Cabrera-Arteaga , Shrinish Donde , Jian Gu , Orestis Floros , Lucas Satabin , Benoit Baudry , Martin Monperrus

The rapid evolution of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies has led to an emerging need to make it smarter. A variety of applications now run simultaneously on an ARM-based processor. For example, devices on the edge of the Internet are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Le Guan , Peng Liu , Xinyu Xing , Xinyang Ge , Shengzhi Zhang , Meng Yu , Trent Jaeger

The increasing volume of traffic (especially from IoT devices) is posing a challenge to the current anomaly detection systems. Existing systems are forced to take the support of the control plane for a more thorough and accurate detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Sankalp Mittal

When a software transformation or software security task needs to analyze a given program binary, the first step is often disassembly. Since many modern disassemblers have become highly accurate on many binaries, we believe reliable…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Kaiyuan Li , Maverick Woo , Limin Jia

Modern embedded Linux devices, such as routers, IP cameras, and IoT gateways, rely on complex software stacks where numerous daemons interact to provide services. Testing these devices is crucial from a security perspective since vendors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alessio Izzillo , Riccardo Lazzeretti , Emilio Coppa

Given a stream of entries over time in a multi-dimensional data setting where concept drift is present, how can we detect anomalous activities? Most of the existing unsupervised anomaly detection approaches seek to detect anomalous events…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Siddharth Bhatia , Arjit Jain , Shivin Srivastava , Kenji Kawaguchi , Bryan Hooi

Cybersecurity research increasingly depends on reproducible evidence, such as traffic traces, logs, and labeled datasets, yet most public datasets remain static and offer limited support for controlled re-execution and traceability,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Leonardo Bitzki , Diego Kreutz , Tiago Heinrich , Douglas Fideles , Leandro Bertholdo , Silvio Quincozes , Angelo Diniz