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We consider the problem of securing a multicast network against a wiretapper that can intercept the packets on a limited number of arbitrary network edges of its choice. We assume that the network employs the network coding technique to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-22 Salim El Rouayheb , Emina Soljanin , Alex Sprintson

Context: Software systems are in continuous evolution through source code changes to fixing bugs, adding new functionalities and improving the internal architecture. All these practices are recorded in the version history, which can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Leandro Ungari Cayres , Bruno Santos de Lima , Rogério Eduardo Garcia

Academic research has highlighted the failure of many Internet of Things (IoT) product manufacturers to follow accepted practices, while IoT security best practices have recently attracted considerable attention worldwide from industry and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 David Barrera , Christopher Bellman , Paul C. van Oorschot

A decision tree is an easy-to-understand tool that has been widely used for classification tasks. On the one hand, due to privacy concerns, there has been an urgent need to create privacy-preserving classifiers that conceal the user's input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Andrew Quijano , Spyros T. Halkidis , Kevin Gallagher , Kemal Akkaya , Nikolaos Samaras

Attack trees are considered a useful tool for security modelling because they support qualitative as well as quantitative analysis. The quantitative approach is based on values associated to each node in the tree, expressing, for instance,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Ahto Buldas , Olga Gadyatskaya , Aleksandr Lenin , Sjouke Mauw , Rolando Trujillo-Rasua

Privacy and security are central to the design of information systems endowed with sound data protection and cyber resilience capabilities. Still, developers often struggle to incorporate these properties into software projects as they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra , Sirine Khelifi , Nalin Arachchilage , Riccardo Scandariato

The area of software development and secure coding can benefit significantly from advancements in virtual assistants. Research has shown that many coders neglect security in favor of meeting deadlines. This shortcoming leaves systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Fitzroy D. Nembhard , Marco M. Carvalho

Information-theoretic security is considered in the paradigm of network coding in the presence of wiretappers, who can access one arbitrary edge subset up to a certain size, also referred to as the security level. Secure network coding is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Xuan Guang , Raymond W. Yeung , Fang-Wei Fu

This work mainly addresses continuous-time multiagent consensus networks where an adverse attacker affects the convergence performances of said protocol. In particular, we develop a novel secure-by-design approach in which the presence of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Marco Fabris , Daniel Zelazo

CONTEXT. Attack treesare a recommended threat modeling tool, but there is no established method to compare them. OBJECTIVE. We aim to establish a method to compare "real" attack trees, based on both the structure of the tree itself and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Nathan D. Schiele , Olga Gadyatskaya

The automatic generation of source code is one of the long-lasting dreams in software engineering research. Several techniques have been proposed to speed up the writing of new code. For example, code completion techniques can recommend to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Matteo Ciniselli , Luca Pascarella , Emad Aghajani , Simone Scalabrino , Rocco Oliveto , Gabriele Bavota

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has transformed industries and daily life by enabling widespread connectivity and data exchange. However, this increased interconnection has introduced serious security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hikmat A. M. Abdeljaber , Md. Alamgir Hossain , Sultan Ahmad , Ahmed Alsanad , Md Alimul Haque , Sudan Jha , Jabeen Nazeer

We investigate the construction of weakly-secure index codes for a sender to send messages to multiple receivers with side information in the presence of an eavesdropper. We derive a sufficient and necessary condition for the existence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lawrence Ong , Badri N. Vellambi , Phee Lep Yeoh , Jörg Kliewer , Jinhong Yuan

Chase-like decoding algorithms are a popular choice for soft-input decoding of algebraic codes. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of different test pattern sets using three methods. For test pattern sets with a certain structure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tim Janz , Simon Obermüller , Andreas Zunker , Stephan ten Brink

Security aspects of the Index Coding with Side Information (ICSI) problem are investigated. Building on the results of Bar-Yossef et al. (2006), the properties of linear coding schemes for the ICSI problem are further explored. The notion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-29 Son Hoang Dau , Vitaly Skachek , Yeow Meng Chee

Attack-defense trees are a novel methodology for graphical security modeling and assessment. The methodology includes visual, intuitive tree models whose analysis is supported by a rigorous mathematical formalism. Both, the intuitive and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Barbara Kordy , Sjouke Mauw , Patrick Schweitzer

We propose a security verification framework for cryptographic protocols using machine learning. In recent years, as cryptographic protocols have become more complex, research on automatic verification techniques has been focused on. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Kentaro Ohno , Misato Nakabayashi

This paper characterizes the secret message capacity of three networks where two unicast sessions share some of the communication resources. Each network consists of erasure channels with state feedback. A passive eavesdropper is assumed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

This paper attempts to strengthen the pursued research on social engineering (SE) threat identification, and control, by means of the author's illustrated classification, which includes attack types, determining the degree of possible harm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-25 V. Y. Sokolov , O. Y. Korzhenko

Encoding methods are employed across several process mining tasks, including predictive process monitoring, anomalous case detection, trace clustering, etc. These methods are usually performed as preprocessing steps and are responsible for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Sylvio Barbon , Paolo Ceravolo , Rafael S. Oyamada , Gabriel M. Tavares