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The growing popularity and adoption of differential privacy in academic and industrial settings has resulted in the development of increasingly sophisticated algorithms for releasing information while preserving privacy. Accompanying this…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Danfeng Zhang , Daniel Kifer

Formal verification is crucial for ensuring the robustness of security protocols against adversarial attacks. The Needham-Schroeder protocol, a foundational authentication mechanism, has been extensively studied, including its integration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kangfeng Ye , Roberto Metere , Jim Woodcock , Poonam Yadav

This paper presents the Soda language for verifying multi-agent systems. Soda is a high-level functional and object-oriented language that supports the compilation of its code not only to Scala, a strongly statically typed high-level…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Julian Alfredo Mendez , Timotheus Kampik

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm that allows to set large networks of small and independent devices. To ensure their integrity, practitioners employ so-called Remote Attestation (RA) schemes. Classic RA schemes require a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Alessandro Visintin , Flavio Toffalini , Mauro Conti , Jianying Zhou

We present a new and practical framework for security verification of secure architectures. Specifically, we break the verification task into external verification and internal verification. External verification considers the external…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Jakub Szefer , Tianwei Zhang , Ruby B. Lee

We present Chameleon, a novel hybrid (mixed-protocol) framework for secure function evaluation (SFE) which enables two parties to jointly compute a function without disclosing their private inputs. Chameleon combines the best aspects of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-11 M. Sadegh Riazi , Christian Weinert , Oleksandr Tkachenko , Ebrahim M. Songhori , Thomas Schneider , Farinaz Koushanfar

Large language models are often adapted through parameter efficient fine tuning, but current release practices provide weak assurances about what data were used and how updates were computed. We present Verifiable Fine Tuning, a protocol…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hasan Akgul , Daniel Borg , Arta Berisha , Amina Rahimova , Andrej Novak , Mila Petrov

Performance increase with general-purpose processors has come to a halt. We can no longer depend on Moore's Law to increase computing performance. The only way to achieve higher performance or lower energy consumption is by building…

We present a security framework that strengthens distributed machine learning by standardizing integrity protections across CPU and GPU platforms and significantly reducing verification overheads. Our approach co-locates integrity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Marcin Spoczynski , Marcela S. Melara

Ensuring correctness is a pivotal aspect of software engineering. Among the various strategies available, software verification offers a definitive assurance of correctness. Nevertheless, writing verification proofs is resource-intensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Lichen Zhang , Shuai Lu , Nan Duan

Gradually-typed programming languages permit the incremental addition of static types to untyped programs. To remain sound, languages insert run-time checks at the boundaries between typed and untyped code. Unfortunately, performance…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Cameron Moy , Phúc C. Nguyen , Sam Tobin-Hochstadt , David Van Horn

Operating system kernels are the security keystone of most computer systems, as they provide the core protection mechanisms. Kernels are in particular responsible for their own security, i.e. they must prevent untrusted user tasks from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Olivier Nicole , Matthieu Lemerre , Sébastien Bardin , Xavier Rival

Semi-quantum key distribution protocols are designed to allow two users to establish a secure secret key when one of the two users is limited to performing certain "classical" operations. There have been several such protocols developed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-17 Walter O. Krawec

We develop DroidCCT, a distributed test framework to evaluate the scale of a wide range of failures/bugs in cryptography for end users. DroidCCT relies on passive analysis of artifacts from the execution of cryptographic operations in the…

Verifiable credentials are a digital analogue of physical credentials. Their authenticity and integrity are protected by means of cryptographic techniques, and they can be presented to verifiers to reveal attributes or even predicates about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Andrea Flamini , Giada Sciarretta , Mario Scuro , Amir Sharif , Alessandro Tomasi , Silvio Ranise

A recent line of work initiated by Chiesa and Gur and further developed by Herman and Rothblum investigates the sample and communication complexity of verifying properties of distributions with the assistance of a powerful, knowledgeable,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Elbert Du , Cynthia Dwork , Pranay Tankala , Linjun Zhang

We introduce SecRef*, a secure compilation framework protecting stateful programs verified in F* against linked unverified code, with which the program dynamically shares ML-style mutable references. To ease program verification in this…

Most of the security services in the connected world of cyber-physical systems necessitate authenticating a large number of nodes privately. In this paper, the private authentication problem is considered which consists of a certificate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Narges Kazempour , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Mohammad Reza Aref

In recent times, many protocols have been proposed to provide security for various information and communication systems. Such protocols must be tested for their functional correctness before they are used in practice. Application of formal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-01-11 Suvansh Lal , Mohit Jain , Vikrant Chaplot

Software verification tools have become a lot more powerful in recent years. Even verification of large, complex systems is feasible, as demonstrated in the L4.verified and Verisoft XT projects. Still, functional verification of large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-11-28 Christoph Baumann , Bernhard Beckert , Holger Blasum , Thorsten Bormer