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Quantum computers create new security risks for today's encryption systems. This paper presents an improved version of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that uses quantum technology to strengthen protection. Our approach offers two…

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In this work, we outline a cross-domain assurance process for safety-relevant software in embedded systems. This process aims to be applied in various different application domains and in conjunction with any development methodology. With…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Marc Zeller , Kai Hoefig , Martin Rothfelder

Formal verification of memory-manipulating programs critically depends on precise function specifications that capture memory states written by experts. This requirement has become a major bottleneck as large language models (LLMs)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Liao Zhang , Tong Chen , Xiwei Wu , Qi Liu , Xiyu Zhai , Xinqi Wang , Qinxiang Cao

Designing and implementing secure software is inarguably more important than ever. However, despite years of research into privilege separating programs, it remains difficult to actually do so and such efforts can take years of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Ioannis Agadakos , Manuel Egele , William Robertson

Agile and DevOps are widely adopted by the industry. Hence, integrating security activities with industrial practices, such as continuous integration (CI) pipelines, is necessary to detect security flaws and adhere to regulators' demands…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Florian Angermeir , Markus Voggenreiter , Fabiola Moyón , Daniel Mendez

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a new electromagnetic response control solution, which can proactively reshape the characteristics of wireless channel environments. In RIS-assisted communication systems, the acquisition of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Zhiheng Yu , Jiancheng An , Ertugrul Basar , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

This paper summarizes the ideas and key concepts in MISE (Memory Interference-induced Slowdown Estimation), which was published in HPCA 2013 [97], and examines the work's significance and future potential. Applications running concurrently…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Lavanya Subramanian , Vivek Seshadri , Yoongu Kim , Ben Jaiyen , Onur Mutlu

Centralized electrical/electronic architectures and High-Performance Computers (HPCs) are redefining automotive software development, challenging traditional microcontroller-based approaches. Ensuring real-time, safety, and scalability in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Lucas Mauser , Eva Zimmermann , Pavel Nedvědický , Tobias Eisenreich , Moritz Wäschle , Stefan Wagner

In-Memory Computing (IMC) introduces a new paradigm of computation that offers high efficiency in terms of latency and power consumption for AI accelerators. However, the non-idealities and defects of emerging technologies used in advanced…

The rise of cloud computing demands secure memory systems that ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and freshness against replay attacks. Existing schemes such as AES-XTS, AES-GCM, and AES-CTR each trade performance for security, with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Haoran Geng , Yuezhi Che , Dazhao Chen , Michael Niemier , Xiaobo Sharon Hu

Covert channel attacks have been continuously studied as severe threats to modern computing systems. Software-based covert channels are a typically hard-to-detect branch of these attacks, since they leverage virtual resources to establish…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez , Jose Alejandro Ibarra-Campos , Jesus Yamir Sandoval-Morales , Lars Bauer , Jörg Henkel

Over the past decade, focus on the security and privacy aspects of implantable medical devices (IMDs) has intensified, driven by the multitude of cybersecurity vulnerabilities found in various existing devices. However, due to their strict…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Muhammad Ali Siddiqi , Christian Doerr , Christos Strydis

Atomicity or strong consistency is one of the fundamental, most intuitive, and hardest to provide primitives in distributed shared memory emulations. To ensure survivability, scalability, and availability of a storage service in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Nicolas Nicolaou , Viveck Cadambe , N. Prakash , Andria Trigeorgi , Kishori M. Konwar , Nancy Lynch , Muriel Medard

This study evaluates the adoption of DevSecOps among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), identifying key challenges, best practices, and future trends. Through a mixed methods approach backed by the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jayaprakashreddy Cheenepalli , John D. Hastings , Khandaker Mamun Ahmed , Chad Fenner

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a widely adopted cryptographic algorithm, yet its practical implementations remain susceptible to side-channel and fault injection attacks. In this work, we propose a comprehensive framework that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Nishant Chinnasami , Rye Stahle-Smith , Rasha Karakchi

To provide data and code confidentiality and reduce the risk of information leak from memory or memory bus, computing systems are enhanced with encryption and decryption engine. Despite massive efforts in designing hardware enhancements for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Jingyao Zhang , Hoda Naghibijouybari , Elaheh Sadredini

In critical software engineering, structured assurance cases (ACs) are used to demonstrate how key properties (e.g., safety, security) are supported by evidence artifacts (e.g., test results, proofs). ACs can also be studied as formal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Logan Murphy , Torin Viger , Alessio Di Sandro , Marsha Chechik

WebAssembly, or Wasm, is a low-level binary language that enables execution of near-native-performance code in web browsers. Wasm has proven to be useful in applications including gaming, audio and video processing, and cloud computing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Mohammad Robati Shirzad , Patrick Lam

Cryptographic algorithms such as AES-128 and SHA-256 are fundamental to ensuring data security and integrity. Although these algorithms are computationally efficient, their performance is often constrained by the processor-centric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nicola Barcarolo , Brahmaiah Gandham , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Roberto Passerone , Onur Mutlu , Flavio Vella

AI chips commonly employ SRAM memory as buffers for their reliability and speed, which contribute to high performance. However, SRAM is expensive and demands significant area and energy consumption. Previous studies have explored replacing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Duy-Thanh Nguyen , Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda