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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Fabio Roli

Clustering algorithms have been increasingly adopted in security applications to spot dangerous or illicit activities. However, they have not been originally devised to deal with deliberate attack attempts that may aim to subvert the…

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Asymmetric password based key exchange is a key exchange protocol where a client and a server share a low entropic password while the server additionally owns a high entropic secret for a public key. There are simple solutions for this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Shaoquan Jiang

Proper privacy protection in RFID systems is important. However, many of the schemes known are impractical, either because they use hash functions instead of the more hardware efficient symmetric encryption schemes as a efficient…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-02-25 Jaap-Henk Hoepman , Rieks Joosten

In today's world password compromise by some adversaries is common for different purpose. In ICC 2008 Lei et al. proposed a new user authentication system based on the virtual password system. In virtual password system they have used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Bhavin Tanti , Nishant Doshi

The aim of this work is to study the evolution of password selection among users. We investigate whether users follow best practices when selecting passwords and identify areas in need of improvement. Four distinct publicly-available…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Theodosis Mourouzis , Kyriacos E. Pavlou , Stylianos Kampakis

Increasing number of cyber-attacks demotivate people to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for industrial as well as day to day work. A main reason for the increasing number of cyber-attacks is mistakes that programmers make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Chamila Wijayarathna , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

As language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in high-stakes settings, ensuring that they reliably follow user-defined rules has become a critical safety concern. To this end, we study whether language models exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Dylan Sam , Alexander Robey , Andy Zou , Matt Fredrikson , J. Zico Kolter

Ensuring the usefulness of electronic data sources while providing necessary privacy guarantees is an important unsolved problem. This problem drives the need for an overarching analytical framework that can quantify the safety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-04 Lalitha Sankar , S. Raj Rajagopalan , H. Vincent Poor

When studying safety properties of (formal) protocol models, it is customary to view the scheduler as an adversary: an entity trying to falsify the safety property. We show that in the context of security protocols, and in particular of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-06-08 Flavio D. Garcia , Peter van Rossum , Ana Sokolova

Sensitive applications running on the cloud often require data to be stored in an encrypted domain. To run data mining algorithms on such data, partially homomorphic encryption schemes (allowing certain operations in the ciphertext domain)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Tikaram Sanyashi , Bernard Menezes

These days, cyber-criminals target humans rather than machines since they try to accomplish their malicious intentions by exploiting the weaknesses of end users. Thus, human vulnerabilities pose a serious threat to the security and…

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Password security plays a crucial role in cybersecurity, yet traditional password strength meters, which rely on static rules like character-type requirements, often fail. Such methods are easily bypassed by common password patterns (e.g.,…

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Lack of usability of security Application Programming In- terfaces (APIs) is one of the main reasons for mistakes that programmers make that result in security vulnerabilities in software applications they develop. Especially, APIs that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Chamila Wijayarathna , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

While convenient, relying on LLM-powered code assistants in day-to-day work gives rise to severe attacks. For instance, the assistant might introduce subtle flaws and suggest vulnerable code to the user. These adversarial code-suggestions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Karl Rubel , Maximilian Noppel , Christian Wressnegger

The last years of the 20 th century and the beginning of the 21 th mark the facilitation trend of our real life due to the big development and progress of the computers and other intelligent devices. Algorithms based on artificial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Desislav Andreev , Simona Petrakieva , Ina Taralova

In this work, we propose a profile matching (or deanonymization) attack for unstructured online social networks (OSNs) in which similarity in graphical structure cannot be used for profile matching. We consider different attributes that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Anisa Halimi , Erman Ayday

The obstacles of each security system combined with the increase of cyber-attacks, negatively affect the effectiveness of network security management and rise the activities to be taken by the security staff and network administrators. So,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mamoon A. Al Jbaar , Adel Jalal Yousif , Qutaiba I. Ali

Implementing a security mechanism on top of APIs requires clear understanding of the semantics of each API, to ensure that security entitlements are enforced consistently and completely across all APIs that could perform the same function…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Somesh Jha , Mihai Christodorescu , Anh Pham

Key substitution vulnerable signature schemes are signature schemes that permit an intruder, given a public verification key and a signed message, to compute a pair of signature and verification keys such that the message appears to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-10-31 Yannick Chevalier , Mounira Kourjieh