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In recent years, fuzzing has been widely applied not only to application software but also to system software, including the Linux kernel and firmware, and has become a powerful technique for vulnerability discovery. Among these approaches,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masami Ichikawa

We present a powerful new loss function and training scheme for learning binary hash codes with any differentiable model and similarity function. Our loss function improves over prior methods by using log likelihood loss on top of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Martin Loncaric , Bowei Liu , Ryan Weber

Coverage-guided fuzzers are powerful automated bug-finding tools. They mutate program inputs, observe coverage, and save any input that hits an unexplored path for future mutation. Unfortunately, without knowledge of input formats--for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Harrison Green , Claire Le Goues , Fraser Brown

High scalability and low running costs have made fuzz testing the de facto standard for discovering software bugs. Fuzzing techniques are constantly being improved in a race to build the ultimate bug-finding tool. However, while fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Ahmad Hazimeh , Adrian Herrera , Mathias Payer

Hashing has been widely adopted for large-scale data retrieval in many domains, due to its low storage cost and high retrieval speed. Existing cross-modal hashing methods optimistically assume that the correspondence between training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Xuanwu Liu , Jun Wang , Guoxian Yu , Carlotta Domeniconi , Xiangliang Zhang

A new image encryption scheme using the advanced encryption standard (AES), a chaotic map, a genetic operator, and a fuzzy inference system is proposed in this paper. In this work, plain images were used as input, and the required security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Mahdi Shariatzadeh , Mohammad Javad Rostami , Mahdi Eftekhari

The booming vector manage system calls for feasible similarity hash function as a front-end to perform similarity analysis. In this paper, we make a systematical survey on the existent well-known similarity hash functions to tease out the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zhushou Tang , Lingyi Tang , Keying Tang , Ruoying Tang

The increasing complexity of modern processors poses many challenges to existing hardware verification tools and methodologies for detecting security-critical bugs. Recent attacks on processors have shown the fatal consequences of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Aakash Tyagi , Addison Crump , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Garrett Persyn , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Patrick Jauernig , Rahul Kande

Consistent Hashing functions are widely used for load balancing across a variety of applications. However, the original presentation and typical implementations of Consistent Hashing rely on randomised allocation of hash codes to keys which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Matthew Sackman

Fuzzing is a technique of finding bugs by executing a software recurrently with a large number of abnormal inputs. Most of the existing fuzzers consider all parts of a software equally, and pay too much attention on how to improve the code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Yuwei Li , Shouling Ji , Chenyang Lv , Yuan Chen , Jianhai Chen , Qinchen Gu , Chunming Wu

Semantic hashing represents documents as compact binary vectors (hash codes) and allows both efficient and effective similarity search in large-scale information retrieval. The state of the art has primarily focused on learning hash codes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Christian Hansen , Casper Hansen , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Stephen Alstrup , Christina Lioma

Fuzzing -- testing programs with random inputs -- has become the prime technique to detect bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. To generate inputs that cover new functionality, fuzzers require execution feedback from the program -- for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Rahul Gopinath , Bachir Bendrissou , Björn Mathis , Andreas Zeller

Fuzzing has gained in popularity for software vulnerability detection by virtue of the tremendous effort to develop a diverse set of fuzzers. Thanks to various fuzzing techniques, most of the fuzzers have been able to demonstrate great…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yu-Fu Fu , Jaehyuk Lee , Taesoo Kim

Hashing has recently sparked a great revolution in cross-modal retrieval because of its low storage cost and high query speed. Recent cross-modal hashing methods often learn unified or equal-length hash codes to represent the multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Xin Liu , Zhikai Hu , Haibin Ling , Yiu-ming Cheung

The field of Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML) has recently attained impressive results, including the discovery of state-of-the-art machine learning solutions, such as neural image classifiers. This is often done by applying an…

Among the many software vulnerability discovery techniques available today, fuzzing has remained highly popular due to its conceptual simplicity, its low barrier to deployment, and its vast amount of empirical evidence in discovering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Valentin J. M. Manes , HyungSeok Han , Choongwoo Han , Sang Kil Cha , Manuel Egele , Edward J. Schwartz , Maverick Woo

Grey-box fuzzers such as American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) are popular tools for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities in programs. While these fuzzers have been able to find vulnerabilities in many widely used programs, they are not efficient;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Siddharth Karamcheti , Gideon Mann , David Rosenberg

Modern authentication systems store hashed values of passwords of users using cryptographic hash functions. Therefore, to crack a password an attacker needs to guess a hash function input that is mapped to the hashed value, as opposed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Yair Yona , Suhas Diggavi

Fuzz testing, or "fuzzing," refers to a widely deployed class of techniques for testing programs by generating a set of inputs for the express purpose of finding bugs and identifying security flaws. Grey-box fuzzing, the most popular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Siddharth Karamcheti , Gideon Mann , David Rosenberg

Emulation-based fuzzers enable testing binaries without source code, and facilitate testing embedded applications where automated execution on the target hardware architecture is difficult and slow. The instrumentation techniques added to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michael Chesser , Surya Nepal , Damith C. Ranasinghe