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In this research paper of secure software systems, authors have discussed what the proper development process is when it comes to creating a secure software, which will be suited for developers and relevent stakeholders alike. Secure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Muhammad Danish Roshaidie , William Pang Han Liang , Calvin Goh Kai Jun , Kok Hong Yew , Fatima-tuz-Zahra

This work aims at discussing the complexity aspect of software while demonstrating its relationship with security. Complexity is an essential part of software; however, numerous studies indicate that they increase the vulnerability of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Mamdouh Alenezi , Mohammad Zarour

Secure development process is a procedure taken by developers to ensure the programs developed are following the general security standards and will always be up to date so that the outcomes are well secured and obedient. As a software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Abdul Hadi bin Abdul Rahman , Abdullah Nazir , Kim Tae Hyun , Tan Horng Yarng , Fatima-tuz-Zahra

Awareness of cybersecurity topics facilitates software developers to produce secure code. This awareness is especially important in industrial environments for the products and services in critical infrastructures. In this work, we address…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Tiago Espinha Gasiba , Ulrike Lechner , Maria Pinto-Albuquerque

Secure compilation studies compilers that generate target-level components that are as secure as their source-level counterparts. Full abstraction is the most widely-proven property when defining a secure compiler. A compiler is modular if…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Marco Patrignani , Dominique Devriese , Frank Piessens

As the demand for computational power grows, optimizing code through compilers becomes increasingly crucial. In this context, we focus on fully automatic code optimization techniques that automate the process of selecting and applying code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yacine Hakimi , Riyadh Baghdadi

Evaluating the effectiveness of software protection is crucial for selecting the most effective methods to safeguard assets within software applications. Obfuscation involves techniques that deliberately modify software to make it more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Leonardo Regano , Daniele Canavese , Cataldo Basile , Marco Torchiano

Uncertainty, error, and similar complications add to the many challenges of cyber security. Various disciplines have developed methods for managing these complications, but applying these methods involves disambiguating overlapping…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Antonio Roque

WebAssembly is increasingly used as the compilation target for cross-platform applications. In this paper, we investigate whether one can rely on the security measures enforced by existing C compilers when compiling C programs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Quentin Stiévenart , Coen De Roover , Mohammad Ghafari

Software privacy provides the ability to limit data access to unauthorized parties. Privacy is achieved through different means, such as implementing GDPR into software applications. However, previous research revealed that the lack of poor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Abdulrahman Hassan Alhazmi , Mumtaz Abdul Hameed , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Because loops execute their body many times, compiler developers place much emphasis on their optimization. Nevertheless, in view of highly diverse source code and hardware, compilers still struggle to produce optimal target code. The sheer…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rahim Mammadli , Marija Selakovic , Felix Wolf , Michael Pradel

With the increasing reliance on software and automation nowadays, tight deadlines, limited resources, and prioritization of functionality over security can lead to insecure coding practices. When not handled properly, these constraints…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Chaima Boufaied , Taher Ghaleb , Zainab Masood

Version control systems for source code, such as Git, are key tools in modern software development environments. Many developers use online services, such as GitHub or GitLab, for collaborative software development. While software projects…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Alexander Krause , Jan H. Klemmer , Nicolas Huaman , Dominik Wermke , Yasemin Acar , Sascha Fahl

Java platform and third-party libraries provide various security features to facilitate secure coding. However, misusing these features can cost tremendous time and effort of developers or cause security vulnerabilities in software. Prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Na Meng , Stefan Nagy , Daphne Yao , Wenjie Zhuang , Gustavo Arango Argoty

Obfuscation is the action of making something unintelligible. In software development, this action can be applied to source code or binary applications. The aim of this dissertation was to implement a tool for the obfuscation of C and C++…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Dominik Picheta

Developers spend 70% of their time understanding code. Code that is easy to read can save time, while hard-to-read code can lead to the introduction of bugs. However, it is difficult to establish what makes code more understandable.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Delano Oliveira

Software security has been an important research topic over the years. The community has proposed processes and tools for secure software development and security analysis. However, a significant number of vulnerabilities remains in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Steven Arzt , Linda Schreiber , Dominik Appelt

The ability to identify authors of computer programs based on their coding style is a direct threat to the privacy and anonymity of programmers. While recent work found that source code can be attributed to authors with high accuracy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Aylin Caliskan , Fabian Yamaguchi , Edwin Dauber , Richard Harang , Konrad Rieck , Rachel Greenstadt , Arvind Narayanan

Existing iterative compilation and machine-learning-based optimization techniques have been proven very successful in achieving better optimizations than the standard optimization levels of a compiler. However, they were not engineered to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Kyriakos Georgiou , Zbigniew Chamski , Andres Amaya Garcia , David May , Kerstin Eder

Compilers are used to run programs that are written in a range of designs from text to executable formats. With the advent of the internet, studies related to the development of cloud based compilers are being carried out. There is a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Ramkumar Lakshminarayanan , Balaji Dhanasekaran , Ben George Ephre