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This paper presents composable attestation as a generalized cryptographic framework for Continuous and Incremental Trust in Distributed Systems,such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) computation, and Open Source Software (OSS) supply chain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sheng Sun , Sarah Evans

Micro-controller units (MCUs) implement the de facto interface between the physical and digital worlds. As a consequence, they appear in a variety of sensing/actuation applications, from smart personal spaces to complex industrial control…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Liam Tyler , Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly common in everyday homes, from smart speakers to security cameras. Along with their benefits come potential privacy and security threats. To limit these threats we must implement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Oliver Thompson , Anna Maria Mandalari , Hamed Haddadi

A botnet is an army of zombified computers infected with malware and controlled by malicious actors to carry out tasks such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are primarily targeted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Angela Grace Famera , Raj Mani Shukla , Suman Bhunia

In recent years, networked IoT systems have revolutionized connectivity, portability, and functionality, offering a myriad of advantages. However, these systems are increasingly targeted by adversaries due to inherent security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Sreenitha Kasarapu , Sanket Shukla , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

Firmware updates remain the primary line of defense for IoT devices; however, the update channel itself has become a well-established attack vector. Existing defenses mainly focus on securing monolithic firmware images, leaving module-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Weihao Chen , Yansong Gao , Boyu Kuang , Jin B. Hong , Yuqing Zhang , Anmin Fu

Efficient and secure revocable attribute-based encryption (RABE) is vital for ensuring flexible and fine-grained access control and data sharing in cloud storage and outsourced data environments within the Internet of Things (IoT). However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yongjiao Li , Liang Zhu , Yalin Deng , Qikun Zhang , Zhenlei Wang , Zhu Cao

Lower-end IoT devices typically have strict cost constraints that rule out usual security mechanisms available in general-purpose computers or higher-end devices. To secure low-end devices, various low-cost security architectures have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ivan De Oliveira Nunes , Sashidhar Jakkamsetti , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Gene Tsudik

Internet of Things and its applications are becoming commonplace with more devices, but always at risk of network security. It is therefore crucial for an IoT network design to identify attackers accurately, quickly and promptly. Many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Truong Thu Huong , Ta Phuong Bac , Dao M. Long , Bui D. Thang , Nguyen T. Binh , Tran D. Luong , Tran Kim Phuc

In-storage computing with modern solid-state drives (SSDs) enables developers to offload programs from the host to the SSD. It has been proven to be an effective approach to alleviate the I/O bottleneck. To facilitate in-storage computing,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Luyi Kang , Yuqi Xue , Weiwei Jia , Xiaohao Wang , Jongryool Kim , Changhwan Youn , Myeong Joon Kang , Hyung Jin Lim , Bruce Jacob , Jian Huang

Temporal memory corruptions are commonly exploited software vulnerabilities that can lead to powerful attacks. Despite significant progress made by decades of research on mitigation techniques, existing countermeasures fall short due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Reza Mirzazade Farkhani , Mansour Ahmadi , Long Lu

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, Fog computing, mobile edge computing and wireless grids has resulted in the widespread deployment of relatively immature technology. These technologies, which will primarily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Tyson Brooks

For trusted execution environments (TEEs), remote attestation permits establishing trust in software executed on a remote host. It requires that the measurement of a remote TEE is both complete and fresh: We need to measure all aspects that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Franz Gregor , Robert Krahn , Do Le Quoc , Christof Fetzer

Remote run-time attestation methods, including Control Flow Attestation (CFA) and Data Flow Attestation (DFA), have been proposed to generate precise evidence of execution's control flow path (in CFA) and optionally execution data inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Adam Caulfield , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has expanded the attack surface, necessitating efficient intrusion detection systems (IDSs) for network protection. This paper presents FLARE, a feature-based lightweight aggregation for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Bradley Boswell , Seth Barrett , Swarnamugi Rajaganapathy , Gokila Dorai

We describe a framework and tool specification that represents a step towards cybersecurity testing and monitoring of IoT ecosystems. We begin with challenges from a previous paper and discuss an integrated approach and tools to enable…

There is an urgent demand for privacy-preserving techniques capable of supporting compute and data intensive (CDI) computing in the era of big data. However, none of existing TEEs can truly support CDI computing tasks, as CDI requires high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Jianping Zhu , Rui Hou , XiaoFeng Wang , Wenhao Wang , Jiangfeng Cao , Lutan Zhao , Fengkai Yuan , Peinan Li , Zhongpu Wang , Boyan Zhao , Lixin Zhang , Dan Meng

The Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly expanded across various sectors, with consumer IoT devices - such as smart thermostats and security cameras - experiencing growth. Although these devices improve efficiency and promise additional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Pascal Schöttle , Matthias Janetschek , Florian Merkle , Martin Nocker , Christoph Egger

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

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) connected in the form of Internet of Things (IoT) are vulnerable to various security threats, due to the infrastructure-less deployment of IoT devices. Device-to-Device (D2D) authentication of these networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Muhammad Adil , Mian Ahmad Jan , Spyridon Mastorakis , Houbing Song , Muhammad Mohsin Jadoon , Safia Abbas , Ahmed Farouk