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This study investigates the potential of WebAssembly as a more secure and efficient alternative to Linux containers for executing untrusted code in cloud computing with Kubernetes. Specifically, it evaluates the security and performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jasper Alexander Wiegratz

WebAssembly (Wasm) has emerged as a powerful technology for executing high-performance code and reusing legacy code in web browsers. With its increasing adoption, ensuring the reliability of WebAssembly code becomes paramount. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sara Baradaran , Liyan Huang , Mukund Raghothaman , Weihang Wang

Web client fingerprinting has become a widely used technique for uniquely identifying users, browsers, operating systems, and devices with high accuracy. While it is beneficial for applications such as fraud detection and personalized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mordechai Guri , Dor Fibert

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

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a next-generation portable compilation target for deploying applications written in high-level languages on the web. In order to protect their memory from untrusted code, web browser engines confine the execution of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Marco Vassena , Marco Patrignani

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

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

Binary code is pervasive, and binary analysis is a key task in reverse engineering, malware classification, and vulnerability discovery. Unfortunately, while there exist large corpora of malicious binaries, obtaining high-quality corpora of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chang Liu , Rebecca Saul , Yihao Sun , Edward Raff , Maya Fuchs , Townsend Southard Pantano , James Holt , Kristopher Micinski

In recent years, stealthy Android malware has increasingly adopted sophisticated techniques to bypass automatic detection mechanisms and harden manual analysis. Adversaries typically rely on obfuscation, anti-repacking, steganography,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Diego Soi , Silvia Lucia Sanna , Lorenzo Pisu , Leonardo Regano , Giorgio Giacinto

WebAssembly is quickly becoming a popular compilation target for a variety of code. However, vulnerabilities in the source languages translate to vulnerabilities in the WebAssembly binaries. This work proposes a methodology and a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Weiqi Feng

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

Browser fingerprinting defenses have historically focused on detecting JavaScript(JS)-based tracking techniques. However, the widespread adoption of WebAssembly (WASM) introduces a potential blind spot, as adversaries can convert JS to…

WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) has emerged as a cornerstone of web development, offering a compact binary format that allows high-performance applications to run at near-native speeds in web browsers. Despite its advantages, Wasm's binary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Xinyu She , Yanjie Zhao , Haoyu Wang

WebAssembly (Wasm) is an emerging binary format that draws great attention from our community. However, Wasm binaries are weakly protected, as they can be read, edited, and manipulated by adversaries using either the officially provided…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Shangtong Cao , Ningyu He , Yao Guo , Haoyu Wang

The emergence of WebAssembly allows attackers to hide the malicious functionalities of JavaScript malware in cross-language interoperations, termed JavaScript-WebAssembly multilingual malware (JWMM). However, existing anti-virus solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yifan Xia , Ping He , Xuhong Zhang , Peiyu Liu , Shouling Ji , Wenhai Wang

Containerization approaches based on namespaces offered by the Linux kernel have seen an increasing popularity in the HPC community both as a means to isolate applications and as a format to package and distribute them. However, their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mohak Chadha , Nils Krueger , Jophin John , Anshul Jindal , Michael Gerndt , Shajulin Benedict

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 attracted great attention as a portable compilation target for programming languages. To facilitate in-depth studies about this technology, we have deployed Wasmizer, a tool that regularly mines GitHub projects and makes an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Alexander Nicholson , Quentin Stiévenart , Arash Mazidi , Mohammad Ghafari

Interpreted execution of queries, as in the vectorized model, suffers from interpretation overheads. By compiling queries this interpretation overhead is eliminated at the cost of a compilation phase that delays execution, sacrificing…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Immanuel Haffner , Jens Dittrich

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a portable bytecode format that serves as a compilation target for high-level languages, enabling their secure and efficient execution across diverse platforms, including web browsers and embedded systems. To improve…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Byeongjee Kang , Harsh Desai , Limin Jia , Brandon Lucia