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We describe and evaluate a novel white-box fuzzer for C programs named FuSeBMC, which combines fuzzing and symbolic execution, and applies Bounded Model Checking (BMC) to find security vulnerabilities in C programs. FuSeBMC explores and…

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Despite being more secure and strongly promoted, two-factor (2FA) or multi-factor (MFA) schemes either fail to protect against recent phishing threats such as real-time MITM, controls/relay MITM, malicious browser extension-based phishing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sneha Shukla , Gaurav Varshney , Shreya Singh , Swati Goel

Due to the rise of the Internet of Things, there are many new chips and platforms available for hobbyists and industry alike to build smart devices. The SDKs for these new platforms usually include closed-source binaries containing wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Katharina Bogad , Manuel Huber

Solid-State Drive (SSD) firmware manages complex internal states, including flash memory maintenance. Due to nondeterministic I/O operations, traditional testing methods struggle to rapidly achieve coverage of firmware code areas that…

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Radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) is a promising device identification technology, with recent research shifting from robustness to security due to growing concerns over vulnerabilities. To date, while the security of RFF against basic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhou Xu , Guyue Li , Zhe Peng , Aiqun Hu

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is a key technique for wireless network security, leveraging intrinsic hardware imperfections to enable transmitter identification. Although deep neural networks are effective at extracting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuhao Pan , Xiucheng Wang , Fushuo Huo , Nan Cheng , Wenchao Xu

Powered by new advances in sensor development and artificial intelligence, the decreasing cost of computation, and the pervasiveness of handheld computation devices, biometric user authentication (and identification) is rapidly becoming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Abhishek Jana , Bipin Paudel , Md Kamruzzaman Sarker , Monireh Ebrahimi , Pascal Hitzler , George T Amariucai

In recent years, the increasing awareness of cybersecurity has led to a heightened focus on information security within hardware devices and products. Incorporating Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) into product designs has become a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Chun-I Fan , Li-En Chang , Cheng-Han Shie

Phishing as one of the most well-known cybercrime activities is a deception of online users to steal their personal or confidential information by impersonating a legitimate website. Several machine learning-based strategies have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Mahdieh Zabihimayvan , Derek Doran

Rust is a promising programming language that focuses on concurrency, usability, and security. It is used in production code by major industry players and got recommended by government bodies. Rust provides strong security guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 David Paaßen , Jens-Rene Giesen , Lucas Davi

Cryptographic protocols form the backbone of modern security systems, yet vulnerabilities persist within their implementations. Traditional testing techniques, including fuzzing, have struggled to effectively identify vulnerabilities in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-20 S Mahmudul Hasan , Polina Kozyreva , Endadul Hoque

File-based encryption (FBE) schemes have been developed by software vendors to address security concerns related to data storage. While methods of encrypting data-at-rest may seem relatively straightforward, the main proponents of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 David Galindo , Jia Liu , Chris McMahon Stone , Mihai Ordean

Greybox fuzzing is one of the most useful and effective techniques for the bug detection in large scale application programs. It uses minimal amount of instrumentation. American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) is a popular coverage based evolutionary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ketan Patil , Aditya Kanade

Kernel fuzzing is important for finding critical kernel vulnerabilities. Close-source (e.g., Windows) operating system kernel fuzzing is even more challenging due to the lack of source code. Existing approaches fuzz the kernel by modeling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zian Liu , Chao Chen , Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed , Jun Zhang , Dongxi Liu

In future nuclear arms control treaties, it will be necessary to authenticate the hardware and software components of verification measurement systems, i.e., to ensure these systems are functioning as intended and have not been tampered…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-14 Jayson R Vavrek , Luozhong Zhou , Joshua Boverhof , Elisa R Heymann , Barton P Miller , Sean Peisert

Fuzzing has become the de facto standard technique for finding software vulnerabilities. However, even state-of-the-art fuzzers are not very efficient at finding hard-to-trigger software bugs. Most popular fuzzers use evolutionary guidance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Dongdong She , Kexin Pei , Dave Epstein , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray , Suman Jana

Fuzzing is one of the most effective technique to identify potential software vulnerabilities. Most of the fuzzers aim to improve the code coverage, and there is lack of directedness (e.g., fuzz the specified path in a software). In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Xiaogang Zhu , Shigang Liu , Xian Li , Sheng Wen , Jun Zhang , Camtepe Seyit , Yang Xiang

Directed fuzzing focuses on automatically testing specific parts of the code by taking advantage of additional information such as (partial) bug stack trace, patches or risky operations. Key applications include bug reproduction, patch…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Manh-Dung Nguyen , Sébastien Bardin , Richard Bonichon , Roland Groz , Matthieu Lemerre

The Android ecosystem relies on either TrustZone (e.g., OP-TEE, QTEE, Trusty) or trusted hypervisors (pKVM, Gunyah) to isolate security-sensitive services from malicious apps and Android bugs. TrustZone allows any secure world code to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Mark Kuhne , Supraja Sridhara , Andrin Bertschi , Nicolas Dutly , Srdjan Capkun , Shweta Shinde

Communication protocols form the bedrock of our interconnected world, yet vulnerabilities within their implementations pose significant security threats. Recent developments have seen a surge in fuzzing-based research dedicated to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xiaohan Zhang , Cen Zhang , Xinghua Li , Zhengjie Du , Bing Mao , Yuekang Li , Yaowen Zheng , Yeting Li , Li Pan , Yang Liu , Robert H. Deng