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Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jämes Ménétrey , Marcelo Pasin , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

As JavaScript has been criticized for performance and security issues in web applications, WebAssembly (Wasm) was proposed in 2017 and is regarded as the complementation for JavaScript. Due to its advantages like compact-size, native-like…

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Application virtual machines provide strong isolation properties and are established in the context of software portability. Those opportunities make them interesting for scalable and secure IoT deployments. WebAssembly is an application…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Stefan Wallentowitz , Bastian Kersting , Dan Mihai Dumitriu

WebAssembly seeks to provide an alternative to running large and untrusted binaries within web browsers by implementing a portable, performant, and secure bytecode format for native web computation. However, WebAssembly is largely unstudied…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Aron Szanto , Timothy Tamm , Artidoro Pagnoni

WebAssembly (Wasm), as a compact, fast, and isolation-guaranteed binary format, can be compiled from more than 40 high-level programming languages. However, vulnerabilities in Wasm binaries could lead to sensitive data leakage and even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Ningyu He , Zhehao Zhao , Hanqin Guan , Jikai Wang , Shuo Peng , Ding Li , Haoyu Wang , Xiangqun Chen , Yao Guo

WebAssembly (abbreviated WASM) has emerged as a promising language of the Web and also been used for a wide spectrum of software applications such as mobile applications and desktop applications. These applications, named as WASM…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yixuan Zhang , Shangtong Cao , Haoyu Wang , Zhenpeng Chen , Xiapu Luo , Dongliang Mu , Yun Ma , Gang Huang , Xuanzhe Liu

WebAssembly has become a crucial part of the modern web, offering a faster alternative to JavaScript in browsers. While boosting rich applications in browser, this technology is also very efficient to develop cryptojacking malware. This has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Javier Cabrera-Arteaga , Martin Monperrus , Tim Toady , Benoit Baudry

WebAssembly is designed to be an alternative to JavaScript that is a safe, portable, and efficient compilation target for a variety of languages. The performance of high-level languages depends not only on the underlying performance of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Donald Pinckney , Arjun Guha , Yuriy Brun

WebAssembly has gained significant traction as a high-performance, secure, and portable compilation target for the Web and beyond. However, its growing adoption has also introduced new security challenges. One such threat is cryptojacking,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Håkon Harnes , Donn Morrison

Existing binary corpora typically capture only one or two axes of binary variation: they either provide cross-compiler builds without a temporal axis, or CVE labels for single-build binaries. None combine cross-build diversity,…

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The software build process transforms source code into deployable artifacts, representing a critical yet vulnerable stage in software development. Build infrastructure security poses unique challenges: the complexity of multi-component…

When implementing secure software, developers must ensure certain requirements, such as the erasure of secret data after its use and execution in real time. Such requirements are not explicitly captured by the C language and could…

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Disassembly of binary code is hard, but necessary for improving the security of binary software. Over the past few decades, research in binary disassembly has produced many tools and frameworks, which have been made available to researchers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Chengbin Pang , Ruotong Yu , Yaohui Chen , Eric Koskinen , Georgios Portokalidis , Bing Mao , Jun Xu

WebAssembly is the fourth officially endorsed Web language. It is recognized because of its efficiency and design, focused on security. Yet, its swiftly expanding ecosystem lacks robust software diversification systems. We introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Javier Cabrera-Arteaga , Nicholas Fitzgerald , Martin Monperrus , Benoit Baudry

WebAssembly (Wasm) has become a key compilation target for portable and efficient execution across diverse platforms. Benchmarking its performance, however, is a multi-dimensional challenge: it depends not only on the choice of runtime…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Riccardo Carissimi , Ben L. Titzer

Memory corruption vulnerabilities are endemic to unsafe languages, such as C, and they can even be found in safe languages that themselves are implemented in unsafe languages or linked with libraries implemented in unsafe languages. Robust…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ana Nora Evans

Program safety (i.e., absence of undefined behaviors) is critical for correct operation of computer systems. It is usually verified at the source level (e.g., by separation logics) and preserved to the target by verified compilers (e.g.,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jinhua Wu , Yuting Wang , Liukun Yu , Linglong Meng

Developers rely on online tutorials to learn web application security, but tutorial quality varies. We reviewed 132 free security tutorials to examine topic coverage, authorship, and technical depth. Our analysis shows that most tutorials…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bhagya Chembakottu , Martin P. Robillard

WebAssembly (Wasm) has risen as a widely used technology to distribute computing workloads on different platforms. The platform independence offered through Wasm makes it an attractive solution for many different applications that can run…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Markus Berthilsson , Christian Gehrmann

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is one of the most critical vulnerabilities exist in web applications. XSS can be prevented by encoding untrusted data that are loaded into browser content of web applications. Security Application Programming…

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