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Code summarization aims to generate concise natural language descriptions of source code, which can help improve program comprehension and maintenance. Recent studies show that syntactic and structural information extracted from abstract…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Ensheng Shi , Yanlin Wang , Lun Du , Hongyu Zhang , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang , Hongbin Sun

Concerns for the privacy of individuals captured in public imagery have led to privacy-preserving action recognition. Existing approaches often suffer from issues arising through obfuscation being applied globally and a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Filip Ilic , He Zhao , Thomas Pock , Richard P. Wildes

Code obfuscation is widely adopted in modern software development to protect intellectual property and hinder reverse engineering, but it also provides attackers with a powerful means to conceal malicious logic inside otherwise legitimate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Francesco Pagano , Lorenzo Pisu , Leonardo Regano , Davide Maiorca , Alessio Merlo , Giorgio Giacinto

Software obfuscation plays a crucial role in protecting intellectual property in software from reverse engineering attempts. While some obfuscation techniques originate from the obfuscation-reverse engineering arms race, others stem from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Giulio De Pasquale , Fukutomo Nakanishi , Daniele Ferla , Lorenzo Cavallaro

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized software engineering (SE) by enhancing software development efficiency. The advent of pre-trained models (PTMs) leveraging transfer learning has significantly advanced AI for SE. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Zixiang Xian , Rubing Huang , Dave Towey , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen

Building and maintaining a silicon foundry is a costly endeavor that requires substantial financial investment. From this scenario, the semiconductor business has largely shifted to a fabless model where the Integrated Circuit supply chain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zain Ul Abideen , Sumathi Gokulanathan , Muayad J. Aljafar , Samuel Pagliarini

IoT security and privacy has raised grave concerns. Efforts have been made to design tools to identify and understand vulnerabilities of IoT systems. Most of the existing protocol security analysis techniques rely on a well understanding of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Kaizheng Liu , Ming Yang , Zhen Ling , Huaiyu Yan , Yue Zhang , Xinwen Fu , Wei Zhao

Program obfuscation is a widely employed approach for software intellectual property protection. However, general obfuscation methods (e.g., lexical obfuscation, control obfuscation) implemented in mainstream obfuscation tools are heuristic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Hui Xu , Yangfan Zhou , Yu Kang , Michael R. Lyu

The static instrumentation of machine code, also known as binary rewriting, is a power technique, but suffers from high runtime overhead compared to compiler-level instrumentation. Recent research has shown that tools can achieve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Xiaozhu Meng , Buddhika Chamith , Ryan Newton

The secure and robust functioning of a network relies on the defect-free implementation of network applications. As network protocols have become increasingly complex, however, hand-writing network message processing code has become…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Burgy Laurent , Laurent Réveillère , Julia Lawall , Gilles Muller

Software obfuscation techniques can prevent binary diffing techniques from locating vulnerable code by obfuscating the third-party code, to achieve the purpose of protecting embedded device software. With the rapid development of binary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Peihua Zhang , Chenggang Wu , Mingfan Peng , Kai Zeng , Ding Yu , Yuanming Lai , Yan Kang , Wei Wang , Zhe Wang

Artificial intelligence (AI) is ushering in a new era for communication. As a result, the establishment of a semantic communication framework is putting on the agenda. Based on a realistic semantic communication model, this paper develops a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yi-Qun Zhao , Zhi-Ming Ma , Geoffrey Ye Li , Shuai Yuan , Tong Ye , Chuan Zhou

To counter man-at-the-end attacks such as reverse engineering and tampering, software is often protected with techniques that require support modules to be linked into the application. It is well-known, however, that attackers can exploit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Jens Van den Broeck , Bart Coppens , Bjorn De Sutter

Speech analysis had been taken to a new level with the discovery of Reverse Speech (RS). RS is the discovery of hidden messages, referred as reversals, in normal speech. Works are in progress for exploiting the relevance of RS in different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Santhy Viswam , Sajeer Karattil

Circuit obfuscation is a frequently used approach to conceal logic functionalities in order to prevent reverse engineering attacks on fabricated chips. Efficient obfuscation implementations are expected with lower design complexity and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Jianlei Yang , Xueyan Wang , Qiang Zhou , Zhaohao Wang , Hai , Li , Yiran Chen , Weisheng Zhao

The following work presents a new algorithm for character recognition from obfuscated images. The presented method is an example of a potential threat to current postal services. This paper both analyzes the efficiency of the given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Wei Wang , Emily Sallenback , Zeyu Ning , Hugues Nelson Iradukunda , Wenxi Lu , Qingquan Zhang , Ting Zhu

We construct a new protocol for attribute-based encryption with the use of the modification of the standard secret sharing scheme. In the suggested modification of the secret sharing scheme, only one master key for each user is required…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-24 M. A. Kudinov , A. A. Chilikov , E. O. Kiktenko , A. K. Fedorov

A new approach to the problem of error correction in communication channels is proposed, in which the input sequence is transformed in such a way that the interdependence of symbols is significantly increased. Then, after the sequence is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Boris Ryabko

Reverse engineering of unknown network protocols based on recorded traffic traces enables security analyses and debugging of undocumented network services. In particular for binary protocols, existing approaches (1) lack comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Stephan Kleber , Milan Stute , Matthias Hollick , Frank Kargl

Programming language understanding and representation (a.k.a code representation learning) has always been a hot and challenging task in software engineering. It aims to apply deep learning techniques to produce numerical representations of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Yun Miao , Yudu You , Mengzhe Yuan , Yuchen Chen , Quanjun Zhang , An Guo , Xiang Chen , Yang Liu , Zhenyu Chen