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With the increasing threat posed by modulation classification to wireless security, this paper proposes a secure communication framework based on modulation order confusion (MOC), which intentionally disguises the original modulation as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jingyi Wang , Fanggang Wang

Despite encryption, the packet size is still visible, enabling observers to infer private information in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment (e.g., IoT device identification). Packet padding obfuscates packet-length characteristics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Mnassar Alyami , Abdulmajeed Alghamdi , Mohammed Alkhowaiter , Cliff Zou , Yan Solihin

Security protocols are concurrent processes that communicate using cryptography with the aim of achieving various security properties. Recent work on their formal verification has brought procedures and tools for deciding trace equivalence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-08 David Baelde , Stéphanie Delaune , Lucca Hirschi

Dataset obfuscation refers to techniques in which random noise is added to the entries of a given dataset, prior to its public release, to protect against leakage of private information. In this work, dataset obfuscation under two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Mahshad Shariatnasab , Farhad Shirani , S. Sitharma Iyengar

Available purely software based code attestation protocols have recently been shown to be cheatable. In this work we propose to upload compressed instruction code to make the code attestation protocol robust against a so called compresssion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-02-28 Benjamin Vetter , Dirk Westhoff

Sparse coding consists in representing signals as sparse linear combinations of atoms selected from a dictionary. We consider an extension of this framework where the atoms are further assumed to be embedded in a tree. This is achieved…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-08-18 Rodolphe Jenatton , Julien Mairal , Guillaume Obozinski , Francis Bach

This paper investigates the semantic robustness of attention-based classifiers for design pattern detection, particularly focusing on their reliance on structural and behavioral semantics. We reproduce the DPDAtt, an attention-based design…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Manthan Shenoy , Andreas Rausch

Obfuscation techniques are a general category of software protections widely adopted to prevent malicious tampering of the code by making applications more difficult to understand and thus harder to modify. Obfuscation techniques are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Alessio Viticchié , Leonardo Regano , Marco Torchiano , Cataldo Basile , Mariano Ceccato , Paolo Tonella , Roberto Tiella

Semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than raw input symbol sequences. Task-oriented semantic communication is a variant that tries to retains only task-specific information, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xuesong Wang , Mo Li , Xingyan Shi , Zhaoqian Liu , Shenghao Yang

IPFS is a content-addressed decentralized peer-to-peer data network, using the Bitswap protocol for exchanging data. The data exchange leaks the information to all neighbors, compromising a user's privacy. This paper investigates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Erik Daniel , Marcel Ebert , Florian Tschorsch

Opaque predicates are a well-established fundamental building block for software obfuscation. Simplified, an opaque predicate implements an expression that provides constant Boolean output, but appears to have dynamic behavior for static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Max Hoffmann , Christof Paar

In this paper, we consider a privacy preserving encoding framework for identification applications covering biometrics, physical object security and the Internet of Things (IoT). The proposed framework is based on a sparsifying transform,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Behrooz Razeghi , Slava Voloshynovskiy , Dimche Kostadinov , Olga Taran

We propose in this paper a new coding scheme called twisted-pair superposition transmission (TPST). The encoding is to "mix together" a pair of basic codes by superposition, while the decoding can be implemented as a successive cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Suihua Cai , Xiao Ma

Parameter-efficient tuning aims to mitigate the large memory requirements of adapting pretrained language models for downstream tasks. For example, one popular method, prefix-tuning, prepends trainable tokens to sequences while freezing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jonathan Li , Will Aitken , Rohan Bhambhoria , Xiaodan Zhu

Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) obfuscation is a common technique used to transform simple expressions into semantically equivalent but more complex combinations of boolean and arithmetic operators. Its widespread usage in DRM systems,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Colton Skees

Code generation is increasingly critical for real-world applications. Still, diffusion-based large language models continue to struggle with this demand. Unlike free-form text, code requires syntactic precision; even minor structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yiming Zeng , Jinghan Cao , Zexin Li , Yiming Chen , Tao Ren , Zhuochun Li , Dawei Xiang , Xidong Wu , Shangqian Gao , Tingting Yu

The strength of obfuscated software has increased over the recent years. Compiler based obfuscation has become the de facto standard in the industry and recent papers also show that injection of obfuscation techniques is done at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Peter Garba , Matteo Favaro

In this paper, a communication-efficient multi-processor compressed sensing framework based on the approximate message passing algorithm is proposed. We perform lossy compression on the data being communicated between processors, resulting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Puxiao Han , Junan Zhu , Ruixin Niu , Dror Baron

We introduce OpSets, an executable framework for specifying and reasoning about the semantics of replicated datatypes that provide eventual consistency in a distributed system, and for mechanically verifying algorithms that implement these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Martin Kleppmann , Victor B. F. Gomes , Dominic P. Mulligan , Alastair R. Beresford

An increasingly wide range of artificial intelligence applications rely on syntactic information to process and extract meaning from natural language text or speech, with constituent trees being one of the most widely used syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Daniel Fernández-González , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez