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Code agents are increasingly trusted to autonomously fix bugs on platforms such as GitHub, yet their security evaluation focuses almost exclusively on functional correctness. In this paper, we reveal a novel type of threat to real-world…

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Cybersecurity research increasingly depends on reproducible evidence, such as traffic traces, logs, and labeled datasets, yet most public datasets remain static and offer limited support for controlled re-execution and traceability,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Leonardo Bitzki , Diego Kreutz , Tiago Heinrich , Douglas Fideles , Leandro Bertholdo , Silvio Quincozes , Angelo Diniz

Bitcoin recently introduced a new protocol for the encryption of peer-to-peer (P2P) communication. The protocol, known as V2 P2P transport, represents a big step towards securing the overlay network against various previously-known attack…

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The IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) was recently introduced as the new routing standard for the Internet of Things. Although RPL defines basic security modes, it remains vulnerable to topological attacks which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Heiner Perrey , Martin Landsmann , Osman Ugus , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

Software supply chains (SSCs) are complex systems composed of dynamic, heterogeneous technical and social components which collectively achieve the production and maintenance of software artefacts. Attacks on SSCs are increasing, yet…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Thomas Welsh , Kristófer Finnsson , Brynjólfur Stefánsson , Helmut Neukirchen

We consider the problem of securing a given control loop implementation of a cyber-physical system (CPS) in the presence of Man-in-the-Middle attacks on data exchange between plant and controller over a compromised network. To this end,…

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) was introduced in 2001 as a multipath variant to traditional transport protocols, i.e. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Concurrent Multipath Transfer (CMT) has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Samar Shailendra , R. Bhattacharjee , Sanjay K. Bose

In this work we present and formally analyze CHAT-SRP (CHAos based Tickets-Secure Registration Protocol), a protocol to provide interactive and collaborative platforms with a cryptographically robust solution to classical security issues.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Jesus Diaz , David Arroyo , Francisco B. Rodriguez

In a hostile network environment, users must communicate without being detected. This involves blending in with the existing traffic. In some cases, a higher degree of secrecy is required. We present a proof-of-concept format transforming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Jonathan Oakley , Lu Yu , Xingsi Zhong , Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy , Richard Brooks

Hardware (HW) security issues have been emerging at an alarming rate in recent years. Transient execution attacks, in particular, pose a genuine threat to the security of modern computing systems. Despite recent advances, understanding the…

This paper systematizes knowledge about secure software supply chain patterns. It identifies four stages of a software supply chain attack and proposes three security properties crucial for a secured supply chain: transparency, validity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Chinenye Okafor , Taylor R. Schorlemmer , Santiago Torres-Arias , James C. Davis

We analyze security aspects of the SecureDNA system regarding its system design, engineering, and implementation. This system enables DNA synthesizers to screen order requests against a database of hazards. By applying novel cryptography,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Alan T. Sherman , Jeremy J. Romanik Romano , Edward Zieglar , Enis Golaszewski , Jonathan D. Fuchs , William E. Byrd

Robotic Vehicles (RVs) have gained great popularity over the past few years. Meanwhile, they are also demonstrated to be vulnerable to sensor spoofing attacks. Although a wealth of research works have presented various attacks, some key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yuan Xu , Xingshuo Han , Gelei Deng , Jiwei Li , Yang Liu , Tianwei Zhang

We introduce CTCP, a novel multi-path transport protocol using network coding. CTCP is designed to incorporate TCP's good features, such as congestion control and reliability, while improving on TCP's performance in lossy and/or dynamic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-12-11 MinJi Kim , Ali ParandehGheibi , Leonardo Urbina , Muriel Meedard

As the complexity and destructiveness of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) increase, there is a growing tendency to identify a series of actions undertaken to achieve the attacker's target, called attack investigation. Currently, analysts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jie Ying , Tiantian Zhu , Wenrui Cheng , Qixuan Yuan , Mingjun Ma , Chunlin Xiong , Tieming Chen , Mingqi Lv , Yan Chen

With the increasing adoption of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines, securing software supply chains has become a critical challenge for modern DevOps teams. This study addresses these challenges by applying a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sowmiya Dhandapani

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a standard for connecting large language models (LLMs) with external tools. However, this MCP ecosystem introduces new security risks across hosts, servers, and registries. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xiaofan Li , Xing Gao

Proving secure compilation of partial programs typically requires back-translating an attack against the compiled program to an attack against the source program. To prove back-translation, one can syntactically translate the target…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Akram El-Korashy , Roberto Blanco , Jérémy Thibault , Adrien Durier , Deepak Garg , Catalin Hritcu

New speculation-based attacks that affect large numbers of modern systems are disclosed regularly. Currently, CPU vendors regularly fall back to heavy-handed mitigations like using barriers or enforcing strict programming guidelines…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ali Hajiabadi , Archit Agarwal , Andreas Diavastos , Trevor E. Carlson

DoIP, which is defined in ISO 13400, is a transport protocol stack for diagnostic data. Diagnostic data is a potential attack vector at vehicles, so secure transmission must be guaranteed to protect sensitive data and the vehicle. Previous…

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