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We provide formal definitions and efficient secure techniques for - turning noisy information into keys usable for any cryptographic application, and, in particular, - reliably and securely authenticating biometric data. Our techniques…

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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

Fuzz testing has enjoyed great success at discovering security critical bugs in real software. Recently, researchers have devoted significant effort to devising new fuzzing techniques, strategies, and algorithms. Such new ideas are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-22 George Klees , Andrew Ruef , Benji Cooper , Shiyi Wei , Michael Hicks

Text Classification is a challenging and a red hot field in the current scenario and has great importance in text categorization applications. A lot of research work has been done in this field but there is a need to categorize a collection…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-11 Shalini Puri

Testing a program's capability to effectively handling errors is a significant challenge, given that program errors are relatively uncommon. To solve this, Software Fault Injection (SFI)-based fuzzing integrates SFI and traditional fuzzing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jin Wei , Ping Chen , Jun Dai , Xiaoyan Sun , Zhihao Zhang , Chang Xu , Yi Wanga

Bounded model checking (BMC) and fuzzing techniques are among the most effective methods for detecting errors and security vulnerabilities in software. However, there are still shortcomings in detecting these errors due to the inability of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Kaled M. Alshmrany , Mohannad Aldughaim , Ahmed Bhayat , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Greybox fuzzing has made impressive progress in recent years, evolving from heuristics-based random mutation to approaches for solving individual path constraints. However, they have difficulty solving path constraints that involve deeply…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Peng Chen , Jianzhong Liu , Hao Chen

Firmware fuzzing has gained attention for identifying firmware bugs. However, current approaches often directly integrate fuzzing tools for general software. General software receives input as it encounters I/O functions, but firmware input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shandian Shen , Wei Zhou , Keming Zhao , Peng Liu , Chung Hwan Kim , Le Guan

Hybrid testing approaches that involve fuzz testing and symbolic execution have shown promising results in achieving high code coverage, uncovering subtle errors and vulnerabilities in a variety of software applications. In this paper we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yannic Noller , Rody Kersten , Corina S. Păsăreanu

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Kaled M. Alshmrany , Rafael S. Menezes , Mikhail R. Gadelha , Lucas C. Cordeiro

The ever-increasing complexity of design specifications for processors and intellectual property (IP) presents a formidable challenge for early bug detection in the modern IC design cycle. The recent advancements in hardware fuzzing have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Raghul Saravanan , Sai Manoj P D

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Gangho Yoon , Eunseok Lee

Fuzzing is an effective bug-finding technique but it struggles with complex systems like JavaScript engines that demand precise grammatical input. Recently, researchers have adopted language models for context-aware mutation in fuzzing to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jueon Eom , Seyeon Jeong , Taekyoung Kwon

Fuzz Testing is a largely automated testing technique that provides random and unexpected input to a program in attempt to trigger failure conditions. Much of the research conducted thus far into Fuzz Testing has focused on developing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Matthew Kelly , Christoph Treude , Alex Murray

Fuzzing is widely used for software vulnerability detection. There are various kinds of fuzzers with different fuzzing strategies, and most of them perform well on their targets. However, in industry practice and empirical study, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Yuanliang Chen , Yu Jiang , Fuchen Ma , Jie Liang , Mingzhe Wang , Chijin Zhou , Zhuo Su , Xun Jiao

The eBPF technology in the Linux kernel has been widely adopted for different applications, such as networking, tracing, and security, thanks to the programmability it provides. By allowing user-supplied eBPF programs to be executed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Hsin-Wei Hung , Ardalan Amiri Sani

FuSeBMC is a test generator for finding security vulnerabilities in C programs. In earlier work [4], we described a previous version that incrementally injected labels to guide Bounded Model Checking (BMC) and Evolutionary Fuzzing engines…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Kaled M. Alshmrany , Mohannad Aldughaim , Ahmed Bhayat , Lucas C. Cordeiro

The importance of addressing security vulnerabilities is indisputable, with software becoming crucial in sectors such as national defense and finance. Consequently, The security issues caused by software vulnerabilities cannot be ignored.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Liqun Yang , Chunan Li , Yongxin Qiu , Chaoren Wei , Jian Yang , Hongcheng Guo , Jinxin Ma , Zhoujun Li

Many protocol implementations are reactive systems, where the protocol process is in continuous interaction with other processes and the environment. If a bug can be exposed only in a certain state, a fuzzer needs to provide a specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jinsheng Ba , Marcel Böhme , Zahra Mirzamomen , Abhik Roychoudhury

Code reuse in software development frequently facilitates the spread of vulnerabilities, making the scope of affected software in CVE reports imprecise. Traditional methods primarily focus on identifying reused vulnerability code within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Siyuan Li , Yuekang Li , Zuxin Chen , Chaopeng Dong , Yongpan Wang , Hong Li , Yongle Chen , Hongsong Zhu