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A key challenge in censorship-resistant web browsing is being able to direct legitimate users to redirection proxies while preventing censors, posing as insiders, from discovering their addresses and blocking them. We propose a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-12 Qiyan Wang , Xun Gong , Giang T. K. Nguyen , Amir Houmansadr , Nikita Borisov

This paper provides a unified framework to study the performance of successive interference cancellation (SIC) in wireless networks with arbitrary fading distribution and power-law path loss. An analytical characterization of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Xinchen Zhang , Martin Haenggi

Side-channel attacks pose serious threats to many security models, especially sandbox-based browsers. While transient-execution side channels in out-of-order processors have previously been blamed for vulnerabilities such as Spectre and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Haocheng Xiao , Sam Ainsworth

We analyzed the generation of protocol header fields in the implementations of multiple TCP/IP network stacks and found new ways to leak information about global protocol states. We then demonstrated new covert channels by remotely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Amit Klein

This paper was designed to provide Intranet traffic monitoring by sniffing the packets at the local Area Network (LAN) server end to provide security and control. It was implemented using five computer systems configured with static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Henry N. Ogbu , Moses Adah Agana

It starts out innocently enough - users want to monitor Online data and so run their own copies of the detector control GUIs in their offices and at home. But over time, the number of processes making requests for values to display on GUIs,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Karen D. Kotturi

Hardware caches are essential performance optimization features in modern processors to reduce the effective memory access time. Unfortunately, they are also the prime targets for attacks on computer processors because they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Guangyuan Hu , Ruby B. Lee

The side-channel attack is an attack method based on the information gained about implementations of computer systems, rather than weaknesses in algorithms. Information about system characteristics such as power consumption, electromagnetic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Guanlin Li , Chang Liu , Han Yu , Yanhong Fan , Libang Zhang , Zongyue Wang , Meiqin Wang

Network neutrality (NN) is a principle of equal treatment of data in network infrastructures with fairness and universality being the primary outcomes of the NN management practice. For networks, the accomplishment of NN management practice…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-17 David S. Barreto , Rafael F. Reale , Joberto S. B. Martins

The various benefits of multi-tenanting, such as higher device utilization and increased profit margin, intrigue the cloud field-programmable gate array (FPGA) servers to include multi-tenanting in their infrastructure. However, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Nithyashankari Gummidipoondi Jayasankaran , Hao Guo , Satwik Patnaik , Jeyavijayan , Rajendran , Jiang Hu

The widespread adoption of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in resource-constrained scenarios has driven the development of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) system. However, this approach is susceptible to privacy leakage, as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jinyu Lu , Xinrong Sun , Yunting Tao , Tong Ji , Fanyu Kong , Guoqiang Yang

Operating Systems enforce logical isolation using abstractions such as processes, containers, and isolation technologies to protect a system from malicious or buggy code. In this paper, we show new types of side channels through the file…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Cheng Gu , Yicheng Zhang , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Despite increasing advancements in today's information exchange infrastructure, the preservation of user data and privacy still remains a problem. Both insecure baselines and secure solutions leak user data. For example, Certificate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Vy-An Phan

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is an internetworking paradigm that offers an alternative to the current IP\nobreakdash-based Internet architecture. ICN's most distinguishing feature is its emphasis on information (content) instead of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Alberto Compagno , Mauro Conti , Cesar Ghali , Gene Tsudik

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) plays a crucial role in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), serving as a key factor in enhancing driving safety and traffic efficiency. To address the security challenges of the confidential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kaixuan Li , Kan Yu , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Dong Li

Cloud networks increasingly rely on machine learning based Network Intrusion Detection Systems to defend against evolving cyber threats. However, real-world deployments are challenged by limited labeled data, non-stationary traffic, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Anasuya Chattopadhyay , Daniel Reti , Hans D. Schotten

Cache randomization has recently been revived as a promising defense against conflict-based cache side-channel attacks. As two of the latest implementations, CEASER-S and ScatterCache both claim to thwart conflict-based cache side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Wei Song , Boya Li , Zihan Xue , Zhenzhen Li , Wenhao Wang , Peng Liu

A malicious cloud user may exploit outsourced data involved in online communication, co-residency, and hypervisor vulnerabilities to breach and hamper sensitive information, and inject malicious traffic-based congestion, rendering services…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Deepika Saxena , Ashutosh Kumar Singh

Caches on the modern commodity CPUs have become one of the major sources of side-channel leakages and been abused as a new attack vector. To thwart the cache-based side-channel attacks, two types of countermeasures have been proposed:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Jaehyuk Lee , Fan Sang , Taesoo Kim

The USB protocol has become a ubiquitous standard for connecting peripherals to computers, making its security a critical concern. A recent research study demonstrated the potential to exploit weaknesses in well-established protocols, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Davis Ranney , Yufei Wang , A. Adam Ding , Yunsi Fei