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Smart contract (SC) fuzzing is a critical technique for detecting vulnerabilities in blockchain applications. However, its adoption remains challenging for practitioners due to fundamental differences between SCs and traditional software…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Guanming Qiao , Partha Protim Paul

We examine the power of statistical zero knowledge proofs (captured by the complexity class SZK) and their variants. First, we give the strongest known relativized evidence that SZK contains hard problems, by exhibiting an oracle relative…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Adam Bouland , Lijie Chen , Dhiraj Holden , Justin Thaler , Prashant Nalini Vasudevan

Exponential growth in embedded systems is driving the research imperative to develop fuzzers to automate firmware testing to uncover software bugs and security vulnerabilities. But, employing fuzzing techniques in this context present a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Guy Farrelly , Michael Chesser , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Zero-knowledge and multi-prover systems are both central notions in classical and quantum complexity theory. There is, however, little research in quantum multi-prover zero-knowledge systems. This paper studies complexity-theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Yusuke Kinoshita

Machine learning models are increasingly used in societal applications, yet legal and privacy concerns demand that they very often be kept confidential. Consequently, there is a growing distrust about the fairness properties of these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chhavi Yadav , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Dan Boneh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

In a proof of knowledge (PoK), a verifier becomes convinced that a prover possesses privileged information. In combination with zero-knowledge proof systems, PoKs play an important role in security protocols such as in digital signatures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Anne Broadbent , Alex B. Grilo , Nagisa Hara , Arthur Mehta

Recent advances in the cryptographic field of "Zero-Knowledge Proofs" have sparked a new wave of research, giving birth to many exciting theoretical approaches in the last few years. Such research has often overlapped with the need for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Mario Alessandro Barbara

Fuzzing is a promising technique for detecting security vulnerabilities. Newly developed fuzzers are typically evaluated in terms of the number of bugs found on vulnerable programs/binaries. However,existing corpora usually do not capture…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Xiaogang Zhu , Xiaotao Feng , Tengyun Jiao , Sheng Wen , Yang Xiang , Seyit Camtepe , Jingling Xue

Fuzzing is a highly effective automated testing method for uncovering software vulnerabilities. Despite advances in fuzzing techniques, such as coverage-guided greybox fuzzing, many fuzzers struggle with coverage plateaus caused by fuzz…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Wentao Gao , Renata Borovica-Gajic , Sang Kil Cha , Tian Qiu , Van-Thuan Pham

Fuzzing is the process of finding security vulnerabilities in input-processing code by repeatedly testing the code with modified inputs. In this paper, we formalize fuzzing as a reinforcement learning problem using the concept of Markov…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Konstantin Böttinger , Patrice Godefroid , Rishabh Singh

Fuzzing has become a commonly used approach to identifying bugs in complex, real-world programs. However, interpreters are notoriously difficult to fuzz effectively, as they expect highly structured inputs, which are rarely produced by most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Christopher Salls , Chani Jindal , Jake Corina , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna

Makaro is a logic puzzle with an objective to fill numbers into a rectangular grid to satisfy certain conditions. In 2018, Bultel et al. developed a physical zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) protocol for Makaro using a deck of cards, which allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Suthee Ruangwises , Toshiya Itoh

GPUs have gained significant popularity over the past decade, extending beyond their original role in graphics rendering. This evolution has brought GPU security and reliability to the forefront of concerns. Prior research has shown that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Saurabh Singh , Ruobing Han , Jaewon Lee , Seonjin Na , Yonghae Kim , Taesoo Kim , Hyesoon Kim

Continuous fuzzing is an increasingly popular technique for automated quality and security assurance. Google maintains OSS-Fuzz: a continuous fuzzing service for open source software. We conduct the first empirical study of OSS-Fuzz,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhen Yu Ding , Claire Le Goues

The on-demand mobility market, including ridesharing, is becoming increasingly important with e-hailing fares growing at a rate of approximately 130% per annum since 2013. By increasing utilization of existing vehicles and empty seats,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Wanxin Li , Collin Meese , Hao Guo , Mark Nejad

In this paper we show E-FuzzEdge, a novel fuzzing architecture targeted towards improving the throughput of fuzzing campaigns in contexts where scalability is unavailable. E-FuzzEdge addresses the inefficiencies of hardware-in-the-loop…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Davide Rusconi , Osama Yousef , Mirco Picca , Flavio Toffalini , Andrea Lanzi

Network-facing applications are commonly exposed to all kinds of attacks, especially when connected to the internet. As a result, web servers like Nginx or client applications such as curl make every effort to secure and harden their code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Nils Bars , Moritz Schloegel , Nico Schiller , Lukas Bernhard , Thorsten Holz

Modern computing systems heavily rely on hardware as the root of trust. However, their increasing complexity has given rise to security-critical vulnerabilities that cross-layer at-tacks can exploit. Traditional hardware vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Mohamadreza Rostami , Marco Chilese , Shaza Zeitouni , Rahul Kande , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Patch fuzzing is a technique aimed at identifying vulnerabilities that arise from newly patched code. While researchers have made efforts to apply patch fuzzing to testing JavaScript engines with considerable success, these efforts have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Junjie Wang , Yuhan Ma , Xiaofei Xie , Xiaoning Du , Xiangwei Zhang

In quantum zero knowledge, the assumption was made that the verifier is only using unitary operations. Under this assumption, many nice properties have been shown about quantum zero knowledge, including the fact that Honest-Verifier Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-27 André Chailloux , Iordanis Kerenidis