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Logic locking secures hardware designs in untrusted foundries by incorporating key-driven gates to obscure the original blueprint. While this method safeguards the integrated circuit from malicious alterations during fabrication, its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Lennart M. Reimann , Evgenii Rezunov , Dominik Germek , Luca Collini , Christian Pilato , Ramesh Karri , Rainer Leupers

The smartphone and laptop can be unlocked by face or fingerprint recognition, while neural networks which confront numerous requests every day have little capability to distinguish between untrustworthy and credible users. It makes model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Ge Ren , Jun Wu , Gaolei Li , Shenghong Li

We propose a framework by which websites can coordinate to detect credential stuffing on individual user accounts. Our detection algorithm teases apart normal login behavior (involving password reuse, entering correct passwords into the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Ke Coby Wang , Michael K. Reiter

In recent decades, criminals have increasingly used the web to research, assist and perpetrate criminal behaviour. One of the most important ways in which law enforcement can battle this growing trend is through accessing pertinent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Aikaterini Kanta , Iwen Coisel , Mark Scanlon

We introduce a simple, practical approach with probabilistic information-theoretic security to solve one of quantum key distribution's major security weaknesses: the requirement of an authenticated classical channel to prevent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-27 Travis R. Beals , Kevin P. Hynes , Barry C. Sanders

This paper addresses the security allocation problem in a networked control system under stealthy injection attacks. The networked system is comprised of interconnected subsystems which are represented by nodes in a digraph. An adversary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

Human-chosen passwords are the a dominant form of authentication systems. Passwords strength estimators are used to help users avoid picking weak passwords by predicting how many attempts a password cracker would need until it finds a given…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Liron David , Avishai Wool

Although sharing data across organizations is often advocated as a promising way to enhance cybersecurity, collaborative initiatives are rarely put into practice owing to confidentiality, trust, and liability challenges. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Julien Freudiger , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Alex Brito

The safety alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) is vulnerable to both manual and automated jailbreak attacks, which adversarially trigger LLMs to output harmful content. However, current methods for jailbreaking LLMs, which nest entire…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Xirui Li , Ruochen Wang , Minhao Cheng , Tianyi Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Logic locking protects an IC from threats such as piracy of design IP and unauthorized overproduction throughout the IC supply chain. Out of the several techniques proposed by the research community, provably-secure logic locking (PSLL) has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Satwik Patnaik , Nimisha Limaye , Ozgur Sinanoglu

Fraudulent activities on digital banking services are becoming more intricate by the day, challenging existing defenses. While older rule driven methods struggle to keep pace, even precision focused algorithms fall short when new scams are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Karthikeyan V. R. , Premnath S. , Kavinraaj S. , J. Sangeetha

Cyber attacks has always been of a great concern. Websites and services with poor security layers are the most vulnerable to such cyber attacks. The attackers can easily access sensitive data like credit card details and social security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Soumyatattwa Kar , Abhishek Bamotra , Bhavya Duvvuri , Radhika Mohanan

Passwords are the primary authentication method online, but even with password policies and meters, users still find it hard to create strong and memorable passwords. In this paper, we propose DPAR: a Data-driven PAssword Recommendation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Assaf Morag , Liron David , Eran Toch , Avishai Wool

Among the various means of available resource protection including biometrics, password based system is most simple, user friendly, cost effective and commonly used. But this method having high sensitivity with attacks. Most of the advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-10-13 Manoj Kumar Singh

In September 2017, McAffee Labs quarterly report estimated that brute force attacks represent 20\% of total network attacks, making them the most prevalent type of attack ex-aequo with browser based vulnerabilities. These attacks have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Salman Salamatian , Wasim Huleihel , Ahmad Beirami , Asaf Cohen , Muriel Médard

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been extensively used across diverse domains, including virtual assistants, automated code generation, and scientific research. However, they remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, which manipulate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Haoran Gu , Handing Wang , Yi Mei , Mengjie Zhang , Yaochu Jin

A malicious attempt to exhaust a victim's resources to cause it to crash or halt its services is known as a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. DDOS attacks stop authorized users from accessing specific services available on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Azadeh Golduzian

Designing an efficient protocol for avoiding the threat of recording based attack in presence of a powerful eavesdropper remains a challenge for more than two decades. During authentication, the absence of any secure link between the prover…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Nilesh Chakraborty , Samrat Mondal

Data breaches have begun to take on new dimensions and their prediction is becoming of great importance to organizations. Prior work has addressed this issue mainly from a technical perspective and neglected other interfering aspects such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Hicham Hammouchi , Narjisse Nejjari , Ghita Mezzour , Mounir Ghogho , Houda Benbrahim

Using the computational resources of an untrusted third party to crack a password hash can pose a high number of privacy and security risks. The act of revealing the hash digest could in itself negatively impact both the data subject who…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Norbert Tihanyi , Tamas Bisztray , Bertalan Borsos , Sebastien Raveau