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Hardware-software leakage contracts have emerged as a formalism for specifying side-channel security guarantees of modern processors, yet verifying that a complex hardware design complies with its contract remains a major challenge. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gideon Geier , Pariya Hajipour , Jan Reineke

Implementations of network protocols are often prone to vulnerabilities caused by developers' mistakes when accessing memory regions and dealing with arithmetic operations. Finding practical approaches for checking the security of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Kaled Alshmrany , Lucas Cordeiro

Smart contract transactions are increasingly interleaved by cross-contract calls. While many tools have been developed to identify a common set of vulnerabilities, the cross-contract vulnerability is overlooked by existing tools.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yinxing Xue , Jiaming Ye , Wei Zhang , Jun Sun , Lei Ma , Haijun Wang , Jianjun Zhao

The Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines processor operations and serves as the interface between hardware and software. As an open ISA, RISC-V lowers the barriers to processor design and encourages widespread adoption, but also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hao Lyu , Jingzheng Wu , Xiang Ling , Yicheng Zhong , Zhiyuan Li , Tianyue Luo

The threat of attack faced by cyber-physical systems (CPSs), especially when they play a critical role in automating public infrastructure, has motivated research into a wide variety of attack defence mechanisms. Assessing their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Yuqi Chen , Christopher M. Poskitt , Jun Sun , Sridhar Adepu , Fan Zhang

Along with the development of intelligent manufacturing, especially with the high connectivity of the industrial control system (ICS), the network security of ICS becomes more important. And in recent years, there has been much research on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yang Li , Shihao Wu , Quan Pan

The rapid integration of IoT with edge computing has revolutionized various domains, particularly healthcare, by enabling real-time data sharing, remote monitoring, and decision-making. However, it introduces critical challenges, including…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Khushbakht Farooq , Muhammad Ibrahim , Irsa Manzoor , Mukhtaj Khan , Wei Song

Ever-increasing design complexity of System-on-Chips (SoCs) led to significant verification challenges. Unlike software, bugs in hardware design are vigorous and eternal i.e., once the hardware is fabricated, it cannot be repaired with any…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Deepak Narayan Gadde , Aman Kumar , Djones Lettnin , Sebastian Simon

Multi-robot swarms play an essential role in complex missions including battlefield reconnaissance, agricultural pest monitoring, as well as disaster search and rescue. Unfortunately, given the complexity of swarm algorithms, logical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ruoyu Zhou , Zhiwei Zhang , Haocheng Han , Xiaodong Zhang , Zehan Chen , Jun Sun , Yulong Shen , Dehai Xu

Billions of people rely on essential utility and manufacturing infrastructures such as water treatment plants, energy management, and food production. Our dependence on reliable infrastructures makes them valuable targets for cyberattacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Efrén López-Morales , Ulysse Planta , Carlos Rubio-Medrano , Ali Abbasi , Alvaro A. Cardenas

Collaborative fuzzing combines multiple individual fuzzers and dynamically chooses appropriate combinations for different programs. Unlike individual fuzzers that rely on specific assumptions, collaborative fuzzing relaxes assumptions on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Wenxuan Shi , Hongwei Li , Jiahao Yu , Xinqian Sun , Wenbo Guo , Xinyu Xing

The security of Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) is critical to ensuring the safety of industrial processes and personnel. The rapid adoption of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies has expanded system functionality but also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Francesco Aurelio Pironti , Angelo Furfaro , Francesco Blefari , Carmelo Felicetti , Matteo Lupinacci , Francesco Romeo

Greybox protocol fuzzing is a random testing approach for stateful protocol implementations, where the input is protocol messages generated from mutations of seeds, and the search in the input space is driven by the feedback on coverage of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yu Wang , Yang Xiang , Chandra Thapa , Hajime Suzuki

Fuzzing is a powerful software testing technique renowned for its effectiveness in identifying software vulnerabilities. Traditional fuzzing evaluations typically focus on overall fuzzer performance across a set of target programs, yet few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Miao Miao

Industrial control systems (ICSs) increasingly rely on digital technologies vulnerable to cyber attacks. Cyber attackers can infiltrate ICSs and execute malicious actions. Individually, each action seems innocuous. But taken together, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Arthur Amorim , Trevor Kann , Max Taylor , Lance Joneckis

Fuzzing is a security testing methodology effective in finding bugs. In a nutshell, a fuzzer sends multiple slightly malformed messages to the software under test, hoping for crashes or weird system behaviour. The methodology is relatively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Cristian Daniele , Seyed Behnam Andarzian , Erik Poll

Fuzzing is a technique widely used in vulnerability detection. The process usually involves writing effective fuzz driver programs, which, when done manually, can be extremely labor intensive. Previous attempts at automation leave much to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Mingrui Zhang , Jianzhong Liu , Fuchen Ma , Huafeng Zhang , Yu Jiang

Cybersecurity of industrial control system is a very complex and challenging research topic, due to the integration of these systems in national critical infrastructures. The control systems are now interconnected in industrial networks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Emil Pricop , Sanda Florentina Mihalache

Timing vulnerabilities in processors have emerged as a potent threat. As processors are the foundation of any computing system, identifying these flaws is imperative. Recently fuzzing techniques, traditionally used for detecting software…

Fuzz testing to find semantic control vulnerabilities is an essential activity to evaluate the robustness of autonomous driving (AD) software. Whilst there is a preponderance of disparate fuzzing tools that target different parts of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Andrew Roberts , Lorenz Teply , Mert D. Pese , Olaf Maennel , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst