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Existing memory reclamation policies on mobile devices may be no longer valid because they have negative effects on the response time of running applications. In this paper, we propose SWAM, a new integrated memory management technique that…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Geunsik Lim , Donghyun Kang , MyungJoo Ham , Young Ik Eom

WebAssembly is a growing technology to build cross-platform applications. We aim to understand the security issues that developers encounter when adopting WebAssembly. We mined WebAssembly questions on Stack Overflow and identified 359…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Pascal Marc André , Quentin Stiévenart , Mohammad Ghafari

Undefined behavior in C often causes devastating security vulnerabilities. One practical mitigation is compartmentalization, which allows developers to structure large programs into mutually distrustful compartments with clearly specified…

High capacity and scalable memory systems play a vital role in enabling our desktops, smartphones, and pervasive technologies like Internet of Things (IoT). Unfortunately, memory systems are becoming increasingly prone to faults. This is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Prashant J. Nair

WebView applications are widely used in mobile applications to display web content directly within the app, enhancing user engagement by eliminating the need to open an external browser and providing a seamless experience. Progressive Web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Sajib Talukder , Nur Imtiazul Haque , Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar

WebAssembly has become a crucial part of the modern web, offering a faster alternative to JavaScript in browsers. While boosting rich applications in browser, this technology is also very efficient to develop cryptojacking malware. This has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Javier Cabrera-Arteaga , Martin Monperrus , Tim Toady , Benoit Baudry

To ensure that secure applications do not leak their secrets, they are required to uphold several security properties such as spatial and temporal memory safety as well as cryptographic constant time. Existing work shows how to enforce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Matthis Kruse , Michael Backes , Marco Patrignani

Studying data memorization in neural language models helps us understand the risks (e.g., to privacy or copyright) associated with models regurgitating training data and aids in the development of countermeasures. Many prior works -- and…

Passwords are still a mainstay of various security systems, as well as the cause of many usability issues. For end-users, many of these issues have been studied extensively, highlighting problems and informing design decisions for better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Alena Naiakshina , Anastasia Danilova , Christian Tiefenau , Marco Herzog , Sergej Dechand , Matthew Smith

Memory-safety errors remain a persistent source of zero-day vulnerabilities in low-level software. The problem is especially acute in embedded systems, where hardware protections are often limited and dynamic analysis is difficult to apply…

New computing paradigms, modern feature-rich programming languages and off-the-shelf software libraries enabled the development of new sophisticated malware families. Evidence of this phenomena is the recent growth of fileless malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sherif Saad , Farhan Mahmood , William Briguglio , Haytham Elmiligi

Almost all modern hardware, from phone SoCs to high-end servers with accelerators, contain memory translation and protection hardware like IOMMUs, firewalls, and lookup tables which make it impossible to reason about, and enforce protection…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Reto Achermann , Nora Hossle , Lukas Humbel , Daniel Schwyn , David Cock , Timothy Roscoe

The bounded quantum storage model aims to achieve security against computationally unbounded adversaries that are restricted only with respect to their quantum memories. In this work, we provide information-theoretic secure constructions in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Mohammed Barhoush , Louis Salvail

Performance debugging in WebAssembly (Wasm) runtimes is essential for ensuring the robustness of Wasm, especially since performance issues have frequently occurred in Wasm runtimes, which can significantly degrade the capabilities of hosted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ruiying Zeng , Shuyao Jiang , Wenxuan Zhao , Yangfan Zhou

In secure summation, $K$ users, each holds an input, wish to compute the sum of the inputs at a server without revealing any information about {\em all the inputs} even if the server may collude with {\em an arbitrary subset of users}. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zhou Li , Yizhou Zhao , Hua Sun

Traditional security mechanisms isolate resources from users who should not access them. We reflect the compositional nature of such security mechanisms back into the structure of LLMs to build a provably secure LLM; that we term SecureLLM.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Abdulrahman Alabdulkareem , Christian M Arnold , Yerim Lee , Pieter M Feenstra , Boris Katz , Andrei Barbu

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

WebAssembly has emerged as a lightweight and portable runtime to execute serverless functions, particularly in heterogeneous and resource-constrained environments such as the Edge Cloud Continuum. However, the performance benefits versus…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Cynthia Marcelino , Noah Krennmair , Thomas Pusztai , Stefan Nastic

Although numerous defenses against memory vulnerability exploits have been studied so far, highly-compatible, precise, and efficient defense is still an open problem. In fact, existing defense methods have at least one of the following…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-16 So Shizukuishi , Yoshitaka Arahori , Katsuhiko Gondow

Environmental noise (e.g.heat, ionized particles, etc.) causes transient faults in hardware, which lead to corruption of stored values. Mission-critical devices require such faults to be mitigated by fault-tolerance --- a combination of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Filippo Del Tedesco , David Sands , Alejandro Russo