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Timing and cache side channels provide powerful attacks against many sensitive operations including cryptographic implementations. Existing defenses cannot protect against all classes of such attacks without incurring prohibitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Benjamin A. Braun , Suman Jana , Dan Boneh

Over the last two decades, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the efficiency of conflict-driven clause-learning Boolean satisfiability (CDCL SAT) solvers on industrial problems from a variety of domains. The availability of such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Saeed Nejati , Vijay Ganesh

Since compiler optimization is the most common source contributing to binary code differences in syntax, testing the resilience against the changes caused by different compiler optimization settings has become a standard evaluation step for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Xiaolei Ren , Michael Ho , Jiang Ming , Yu Lei , Li Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are deployed in more and more classification systems, but adversarial samples can be maliciously crafted to trick them, and are becoming a real threat. There have been various proposals to improve CNNs'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Ilia Shumailov , Yiren Zhao , Robert Mullins , Ross Anderson

Reverse engineering of binary executables is a critical problem in the computer security domain. On the one hand, malicious parties may recover interpretable source codes from the software products to gain commercial advantages. On the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Cheng Fu , Huili Chen , Haolan Liu , Xinyun Chen , Yuandong Tian , Farinaz Koushanfar , Jishen Zhao

Data contamination presents a critical barrier preventing widespread industrial adoption of advanced software engineering techniques that leverage code language models (CLMs). This phenomenon occurs when evaluation data inadvertently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jialun Cao , Songqiang Chen , Wuqi Zhang , Hau Ching Lo , Shing-Chi Cheung

Current popular phishing prevention techniques mainly utilize reactive blocklists, which leave a ``window of opportunity'' for attackers during which victims are unprotected. One possible approach to shorten this window aims to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Arthur Drichel , Vincent Drury , Justus von Brandt , Ulrike Meyer

Implementations of cryptographic libraries have been scrutinized for secret-dependent execution behavior exploitable by microarchitectural side-channel attacks. To prevent unintended leakages, most libraries moved to constant-time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Florian Sieck , Sebastian Berndt , Jan Wichelmann , Thomas Eisenbarth

Security experts reverse engineer (decompile) binary code to identify critical security vulnerabilities. The limited access to source code in vital systems - such as firmware, drivers, and proprietary software used in Critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dylan Manuel , Nafis Tanveer Islam , Joseph Khoury , Ana Nunez , Elias Bou-Harb , Peyman Najafirad

Just-in-Time software defect prediction (JIT-SDP) plays a critical role in prioritizing risky code changes during code review and continuous integration. However, existing datasets often suffer from noisy labels and low precision in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Doha Nam , Taehyoun Kim , Duksan Ryu , Jongmoon Baik

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently demonstrated exemplary performance on a variety of vision tasks and are being used as an alternative to CNNs. Their design is based on a self-attention mechanism that processes images as a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Akshayvarun Subramanya , Aniruddha Saha , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Ajinkya Tejankar , Hamed Pirsiavash

In conventional PKI, CAs are assumed to be fully trusted. However, in practice, CAs' absolute responsibility for providing trustworthiness caused major security and privacy issues. To prevent such issues, Google introduced the concept of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Murat Yasin Kubilay , Mehmet Sabir Kiraz , Haci Ali Mantar

With the rapid growth of blockchain technology, smart contracts are now crucial to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications. Effective vulnerability detection is vital for securing these contracts against hackers and enhancing the accuracy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jango Zhang

Recent work has shown that Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation can introduce timing side-channels to constant-time programs, which would otherwise be a principled and effective means to counter timing attacks. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Qi Qin , JulianAndres JiYang , Fu Song , Taolue Chen , Xinyu Xing

The code generation modules inside modern compilers such as GCC and LLVM, which use a limited number of CPU registers to store a large number of program variables, may introduce side-channel leaks even in software equipped with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Jingbo Wang , Chungha Sung , Chao Wang

Third-Party Library (TPL) detection, which identifies reused libraries in binary code, is critical for software security analysis. At its core, TPL detection depends on binary decomposition-the process of partitioning a monolithic binary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ang Jia , He Jiang , Zhilei Ren , Xiaochen Li , Zhipeng Yang , Yaxin Duan , Ming Fan , Ting Liu

Binary analysis is traditionally used in the realm of malware detection. However, the same technique may be employed by an attacker to analyze the original binaries in order to reverse engineer them and extract exploitable weaknesses. When…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Novak Boskov , Mihailo Isakov , Michel A. Kinsy

The problem of finding a mediator to compose secured services has been reduced in our former work to the problem of solving deducibility constraints similar to those employed for cryptographic protocol analysis. We extend in this paper the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-23 Tigran Avanesov , Yannick Chevalier , Michaël Rusinowitch , Mathieu Turuani

McEliece encryption scheme which enjoys relatively small key sizes as well as a security reduction to hard problems of coding theory. Furthermore, it remains secure against a quantum adversary and is very well suited to low cost…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Julia Chaulet , Nicolas Sendrier

The advent of quantum computing poses a significant challenge as it has the potential to break certain cryptographic algorithms, necessitating a proactive approach to identify and modernize cryptographic code. Identifying these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Micha Moffie , Omer Boehm , Anatoly Koyfman , Eyal Bin , Efrayim Sztokman , Sukanta Bhattacharjee , Meghnath Saha , James McGugan