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We introduce a prototype tool strategFTO addressing the verification of a security property in critical software. We consider a recent definition of timed opacity where an attacker aims to deduce some secret while having access only to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Étienne André , Shapagat Bolat , Engel Lefaucheux , Dylan Marinho

Network systems often contain vulnerabilities that remain unfixed in a network for various reasons, such as the lack of a patch or knowledge to fix them. With the presence of such residual vulnerabilities, the network administrator should…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Narges Khakpour , David Parker

In this paper, we investigate both qualitative and quantitative synthesis of optimal privacy-enforcing supervisors for partially-observed discrete-event systems. We consider a dynamic system whose information-flow is partially available to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Yifan Xie , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

Opacity is an information flow property that captures the notion of plausible deniability in dynamic systems, that is whether an intruder can deduce that "secret" behavior has occurred. In this paper we provide a general framework of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Andrew Wintenberg , Matthew Blischke , Stéphane Lafortune , Necmiye Ozay

Timing leaks in timed automata (TA) can occur whenever an attacker is able to deduce a secret by observing some timed behaviour. In execution-time opacity, the attacker aims at deducing whether a private location was visited, by observing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Étienne André , Marie Duflot , Laetitia Laversa , Engel Lefaucheux

Opacity is a generic security property, that has been defined on (non probabilistic) transition systems and later on Markov chains with labels. For a secret predicate, given as a subset of runs, and a function describing the view of an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Béatrice Bérard , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Nathalie Sznajder

Timed automata (TAs) are an extension of finite automata that can measure and react to the passage of time, providing the ability to handle real-time constraints using clocks. In 2009, Franck Cassez showed that the timed opacity problem,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Étienne André , Sarah Dépernet , Engel Lefaucheux

Applications of machine learning inform human decision makers in a broad range of tasks. The resulting problem is usually formulated in terms of a single decision maker. We argue that it should rather be described as a two-player learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sebastian Bordt , Ulrike von Luxburg

Intention deception involves computing a strategy which deceives the opponent into a wrong belief about the agent's intention or objective. This paper studies a class of probabilistic planning problems with intention deception and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Jie Fu

Opacity is a general framework modeling security properties of systems interacting with a passive attacker. Initial-and-final-state opacity (IFO) generalizes the classical notions of opacity, such as current-state opacity and initial-state…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Tomáš Masopust , Petr Osička

Transparency and security are both central to Responsible AI, but they may conflict in adversarial settings. We investigate the strategic effect of transparency for agents through the lens of transferable adversarial example attacks. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lucas Fenaux , Christopher Srinivasa , Florian Kerschbaum

In the inference attacks studied in Quantitative Information Flow (QIF), the adversary typically tries to interfere with the system in the attempt to increase its leakage of secret information. The defender, on the other hand, typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Mário S. Alvim , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Yusuke Kawamoto , Catuscia Palamidessi

We consider a multi-adversary version of the supervisory control problem for discrete-event systems, in which an adversary corrupts the observations available to the supervisor. The supervisor's goal is to enforce a specific language in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Masashi Wakaiki , Paulo Tabuada , Joao P. Hespanha

We formulate notions of opacity for cyberphysical systems modeled as discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. A set of secret states is $k$-ISO with respect to a set of nonsecret states if, starting from these sets at time $0$, the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Rance Cleaveland , Steven I. Marcus

Attribute inference - the process of analyzing publicly available data in order to uncover hidden information - has become a major threat to privacy, given the recent technological leap in machine learning. One way to tackle this threat is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Marcin Waniek , Navya Suri , Abdullah Zameek , Bedoor AlShebli , Talal Rahwan

This paper focuses on the problem of cyber attacks for discrete event systems under supervisory control. In more detail, the goal of the supervisor, who has a partial observation of the system evolution, is that of preventing the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Qi Zhang , Carla Seatzu , Zhiwu Li , Alessandro Giua

In the inference attacks studied in Quantitative Information Flow (QIF), the attacker typically tries to interfere with the system in the attempt to increase its leakage of secret information. The defender, on the other hand, typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Mário S. Alvim , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Yusuke Kawamoto , Catuscia Palamidessi

Progressively intricate cyber infiltration mechanisms have made conventional means of defense, such as firewalls and malware detectors, incompetent. These sophisticated infiltration mechanisms can study the defender's behavior, identify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Murat Cubuktepe , Nils Jansen , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Ufuk Topcu

Recent years have witnessed the fast advance of security research for networked dynamical system (NDS). Considering the latest inference attacks that enable stealthy and precise attacks into NDSs with observation-based learning, this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Jianping He , Yushan Li , Lin Cai , Xinping Guan

This paper studies a strategic security problem in networked control systems under stealthy false data injection attacks. The security problem is modeled as a bilateral cognitive security game between a defender and an adversary, each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Anh Tung Nguyen , Quanyan Zhu , André Teixeira