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Federated Learning allows collaborative training without data sharing in settings where participants do not trust the central server and one another. Privacy can be further improved by ensuring that communication between the participants…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Qiongkai Xu , Trevor Cohn , Olga Ohrimenko

With the rapid proliferation of wireless and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, ensuring secure and reliable device identification has become a significant challenge. Traditional security techniques, such as IP or MAC address-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Liu Yang , Qiang Li , Xiaoyang Ren

In this paper, we study the vulnerability of anti-spoofing methods based on deep learning against adversarial perturbations. We first show that attacking a CNN-based anti-spoofing face authentication system turns out to be a difficult task.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Bowen Zhang , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni

Biometric authentication service providers often claim that it is not possible to reverse-engineer a user's raw biometric sample, such as a fingerprint or a face image, from its mathematical (feature-space) representation. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Gioacchino Tangari , Shreesh Keskar , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Dali Kaafar

Deep learning technologies are pivotal in enhancing the performance of WiFi-based wireless sensing systems. However, they are inherently vulnerable to adversarial perturbation attacks, and regrettably, there is lacking serious attention to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Hangcheng Cao , Wenbin Huang , Guowen Xu , Xianhao Chen , Ziyang He , Jingyang Hu , Hongbo Jiang , Yuguang Fang

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which dramatically alter model output using small input changes. We propose Neural Fingerprinting, a simple, yet effective method to detect adversarial examples by verifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sumanth Dathathri , Stephan Zheng , Tianwei Yin , Richard M. Murray , Yisong Yue

A "wireless fingerprint" which exploits hardware imperfections unique to each device is a potentially powerful tool for wireless security. Such a fingerprint should be able to distinguish between devices sending the same message, and should…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Metehan Cekic , Upamanyu Madhow

In a spoofing attack, an attacker impersonates a legitimate user to access or modify data belonging to the latter. Typical approaches for spoofing detection in the physical layer declare an attack when a change is observed in certain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Daniel Romero , Tien Ngoc Ha , Peter Gerstoft

The imperfections in the RF frontend of different transmitters can be used to distinguish them. This process is called transmitter identification using RF fingerprints. The nonlinearity in the power amplifier of the RF frontend is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-13 Samer S. Hanna , Danijela Cabric

Deep neural networks have been shown to exhibit an intriguing vulnerability to adversarial input images corrupted with imperceptible perturbations. However, the majority of adversarial attacks assume global, fine-grained control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Ameya Joshi , Amitangshu Mukherjee , Soumik Sarkar , Chinmay Hegde

Deepfakes are synthetically generated media often devised with malicious intent. They have become increasingly more convincing with large training datasets advanced neural networks. These fakes are readily being misused for slander,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Nicolas M. Müller , Franziska Dieckmann , Jennifer Williams

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging device authentication technique, which exploits the hardware characteristics of the RF front-end as device identifiers. RFFI is implemented in the wireless receiver and acts…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Roger Woods , Joseph Cavallaro , Liquan Chen

In the wake of increasing numbers of attacks on radio communication systems, a range of techniques are being deployed to increase the security of these systems. One such technique is radio fingerprinting, in which the transmitter can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Joshua Smailes , Edd Salkield , Sebastian Köhler , Simon Birnbach , Martin Strohmeier , Ivan Martinovic

As large language models are increasingly deployed in sensitive environments, fingerprinting attacks pose significant privacy and security risks. We present a study of LLM fingerprinting from both offensive and defensive perspectives. Our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Kevin Kurian , Ethan Holland , Sean Oesch

An over-the-air membership inference attack (MIA) is presented to leak private information from a wireless signal classifier. Machine learning (ML) provides powerful means to classify wireless signals, e.g., for PHY-layer authentication. As…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yi Shi , Yalin E. Sagduyu

We consider a wireless communication system that consists of a transmitter, a receiver, and an adversary. The transmitter transmits signals with different modulation types, while the receiver classifies its received signals to modulation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Brian Kim , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Kemal Davaslioglu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus

Wireless signals contain transmitter specific features, which can be used to verify the identity of transmitters and assist in implementing an authentication and authorization system. Most recently, there has been wide interest in using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Samer Hanna , Samurdhi Karunaratne , Danijela Cabric

In recent years, deep learning has shown itself to be an incredibly valuable tool in cybersecurity as it helps network intrusion detection systems to classify attacks and detect new ones. Adversarial learning is the process of utilizing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jared Mathews , Prosenjit Chatterjee , Shankar Banik , Cory Nance

The intrinsic hardware imperfection of WiFi chipsets manifests itself in the transmitted signal, leading to a unique radiometric fingerprint. This fingerprint can be used as an additional means of authentication to enhance security. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Andreas Baeuml , Gek Hong , Sim , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi

In this paper, we propose Device Authentication Code (DAC), a novel method for authenticating IoT devices with wireless interface by exploiting their radio frequency (RF) signatures. The proposed DAC is based on RF fingerprinting,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Joshua Bassey , Xiangfang Li , Lijun Qian