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Embedded devices are ubiquitous. However, preliminary evidence shows that attack mitigations protecting our desktops/servers/phones are missing in embedded devices, posing a significant threat to embedded security. To this end, this paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Ruotong Yu , Francesca Del Nin , Yuchen Zhang , Shan Huang , Pallavi Kaliyar , Sarah Zakto , Mauro Conti , Georgios Portokalidis , Jun Xu

One of the biggest attack surfaces of embedded systems is their network interfaces, which enable communication with other devices. Unlike their general-purpose counterparts, embedded systems are designed for specialized use cases, resulting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Moritz Bley , Tobias Scharnowski , Simon Wörner , Moritz Schloegel , Thorsten Holz

With the increased utilization, the small embedded and IoT devices have become an attractive target for sophisticated attacks that can exploit the devices security critical information and data in malevolent activities. Secure boot and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Avani Dave , Nilanjan Banerjee , Chintan Patel

IoT devices are decentralized and deployed in un-stable environments, which causes them to be prone to various kinds of faults, such as device failure and network disruption. Yet, current IoT platforms require programmers to handle faults…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Michael Norris , Berkay Celik , Patrick McDaniel , Gang Tan , Prasanna Venkatesh , Shulin Zhao , Anand Sivasubramaniam

In Internet of Things, where billions of devices with limited resources are communicating with each other, security has become a major stumbling block affecting the progress of this technology. Existing authentication schemes-based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Sekhar Rajendran , Zhi Sun , Feng Lin , Kui Ren

Embedded, smart, and IoT devices are increasingly popular in numerous everyday settings. Since lower-end devices have the most strict cost constraints, they tend to have few, if any, security features. This makes them attractive targets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Sashidhar Jakkamsetti , Youngil Kim , Andrew Searles , Gene Tsudik

With the increasing complexity of embedded systems, the firmware has become a valuable asset. At the same time, pressure for cost reductions in hardware is imminent. These two aspects are united at the heart of the system, i.e., the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Johannes Obermaier , Marc Schink , Kosma Moczek

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become indispensable to our daily lives and work. Unfortunately, developers often reuse software libraries in the IoT firmware, leading to a major security concern. If vulnerabilities or insecure versions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 YongLe Chen , Feng Ma , Ying Zhang , YongZhong He , Haining Wang , Qiang Li

The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in healthcare has revolutionized patient care by enabling real-time monitoring, personalized treatments, and efficient data management. However, this technological advancement introduces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Behnam Rezaei Bezanjani , Seyyed Hamid Ghafouri , Reza Gholamrezaei

Feature engineering is the process of using domain knowledge to extract features from raw data via data mining techniques and is a key step to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms. In the multi-party feature engineering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Pei Fang , Zhendong Cai , Hui Chen , QingJiang Shi

Internet of Things (IoT) consists of a large number of devices connected through a network, which exchange a high volume of data, thereby posing new security, privacy, and trust issues. One way to address these issues is ensuring data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Fatimah Aljaafari , Rafael Menezes , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems have become integral to smart manufacturing, yet their growing connectivity has also exposed them to significant cybersecurity threats. Traditional intrusion detection systems (IDS) often rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Anas Ali , Mubashar Husain , Peter Hans

Embedded devices face an ever-expanding threat landscape: vulnerabilities in application software, operating system kernels, and peripherals threaten the embedded device integrity. Existing computer-architectural defenses fully consider at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Eric Ackermann , Sven Bugiel

This paper addresses efficient hardware/software implementation approaches for the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm and describes the design and performance testing algorithm for embedded system. Also, with the spread of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Zine El Abidine Alaoui Ismaili , Ahmed Moussa

The implementation, deployment and testing of secure services for Internet of Things devices is nowadays still at an early stage. Several frameworks have recently emerged to help developers realize such services, abstracting the complexity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Christian Göttel , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

Microcontroller units (MCUs) are widely used in embedded devices due to their low power consumption and cost-effectiveness. MCU firmware controls these devices and is vital to the security of embedded systems. However, performing dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Chongqing Lei , Zhen Ling , Xiangyu Xu , Shaofeng Li , Guangchi Liu , Kai Dong , Junzhou Luo

This paper presents a framework for securing blockchain-based IoT systems by integrating Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) within a Hyperledger Fabric environment. The proposed framework leverages PUFs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Daniel Commey , Sena Hounsinou , Garth V. Crosby

This paper addresses the problem of designing LDPC decoders robust to transient errors introduced by a faulty hardware. We assume that the faulty hardware introduces errors during the message passing updates and we propose a general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Elsa Dupraz , David Declercq , Bane Vasic , Valentin Savin

The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly changing the number of connected devices and the way they interact with each other. This increases the need for an automated and secure onboarding procedure for IoT devices, systems and services.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Silia Maksuti , Ani Bicaku , Mario Zsilak , Igor Ivkić , Bálint Péceli , Gábor Singler , Kristóf Kovács , Markus Tauber , Jerger Delsing

The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly intertwined with critical industrial processes, yet contemporary IoT devices offer limited security features, creating a large new attack surface. Remote attestation is a well-known technique to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Mahmoud Ammar , Mahdi Washha , Gowri Sankar Ramachandran , Bruno Crispo