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To a large extent, the deployment of edge computing (EC) can reduce the burden of the explosive growth of the Internet of things. As a powerful hub between the Internet of things and cloud servers, edge devices make the transmission of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Peiying Zhang , Chunxiao Jiang , Xue Pang , Yi Qian

The deep learning revolution has been enabled in large part by GPUs, and more recently accelerators, which make it possible to carry out computationally demanding training and inference in acceptable times. As the size of machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Sankha Baran Dutta , Hoda Naghibijouybari , Arjun Gupta , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , Andres Marquez , Kevin Barker

The cloud computing model is rapidly transforming the IT landscape. Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm that delivers computing resources as a set of reliable and scalable internet-based services allowing customers to remotely run…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Amani S. Ibrahim , James Hamlyn-Harris , John Grundy

In modern computer systems, user processes are isolated from each other by the operating system and the hardware. Additionally, in a cloud scenario it is crucial that the hypervisor isolates tenants from other tenants that are co-located on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Michael Schwarz , Samuel Weiser , Daniel Gruss , Clémentine Maurice , Stefan Mangard

Last-level cache side-channel attacks have been mostly demonstrated in highly-controlled, quiescent local environments. Hence, it is unclear whether such attacks are feasible in a production cloud environment. In the cloud, side channels…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zirui Neil Zhao , Adam Morrison , Christopher W. Fletcher , Josep Torrellas

Verifiable Secret-Sharing (VSS) is a fundamental primitive in secure distributed computing. It is used as a building block in several distributed computing tasks, such as Byzantine agreement and secure multi-party computation. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Anirudh Chandramouli , Ashish Choudhury , Arpita Patra

Public infrastructure-as-a-service clouds, such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Microsoft Azure allow clients to run virtual machines (VMs) on shared physical infrastructure. This practice of multi-tenancy brings economies of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Venkatanathan Varadarajan , Yinqian Zhang , Thomas Ristenpart , Michael Swift

We present a software approach to mitigate access-driven side-channel attacks that leverage last-level caches (LLCs) shared across cores to leak information between security domains (e.g., tenants in a cloud). Our approach dynamically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Ziqiao Zhou , Michael K. Reiter , Yinqian Zhang

This paper studies the problem of reasoning about flow security properties in virtualised computing networks with mobility from perspective of formal language. We propose a distributed process algebra CSP_{4v} with security labelled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Chunyan Mu

In Covid-19 pandemic, the number of users connecting to the Internet using mobile devices increased. People are doing there every task using mobile phones [16]. These devices are battery-powered and have limited computation capabilities.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Arsalan Liaqat , Saqib Ilyas , Ghazala Mushtaq

Computers and computer networks have become integral to virtually every aspect of modern life, with the Internet playing an indispensable role. Organizations, businesses, and individuals now store vast amounts of proprietary, confidential,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yuksel Arslan

Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service of Service (DDoS) attacks are commonly used to disrupt network services. Attack techniques are always improving and due to the structure of the internet and properties of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jonah Burgess

High-speed interconnects, such as NVLink, are integral to modern multi-GPU systems, acting as a vital link between CPUs and GPUs. This study highlights the vulnerability of multi-GPU systems to covert and side channel attacks due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yicheng Zhang , Ravan Nazaraliyev , Sankha Baran Dutta , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , Andres Marquez , Kevin Barker

Cloud computing is a new model of computing which provides scalability, flexibility and on-demand service. Virtualization is one of the main components of the cloud, but unfortunately, this technology suffers from many security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Zakaria El Mrabet , Hamid El Ghazi , Tayeb Sadiki , Hassan El Ghazi

This paper presents Packet Chasing, an attack on the network that does not require access to the network, and works regardless of the privilege level of the process receiving the packets. A spy process can easily probe and discover the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Mohammadkazem Taram , Ashish Venkat , Dean Tullsen

Covert channels can be utilized to secretly deliver information from high privileged processes to low privileged processes in the context of a high-assurance computing system. In this case study, we investigate the possibility of covert…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Wolfgang Schmidt , Michael Hanspach , Jörg Keller

Polymorphism and inheritance make C++ suitable for writing complex software, but significantly increase the attack surface because the implementation relies on virtual function tables (vtables). These vtables contain function pointers that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Andre Pawlowski , Victor van der Veen , Dennis Andriesse , Erik van der Kouwe , Thorsten Holz , Cristiano Giuffrida , Herbert Bos

Multi-GPU systems are becoming increasingly important in highperformance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure, providing acceleration for data-intensive applications, including machine learning workloads. These systems consist of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yicheng Zhang , Ravan Nazaraliyev , Sankha Baran Dutta , Andres Marquez , Kevin Barker , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Confidential virtual machines (CVMs) based on trusted execution environments (TEEs) enable new privacy-preserving solutions. Yet, they leave side-channel leakage outside their threat model, shifting the responsibility of mitigating such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Ruiyi Zhang , Albert Cheu , Adria Gascon , Daniel Moghimi , Phillipp Schoppmann , Michael Schwarz , Octavian Suciu

As the use of Voice Processing Systems (VPS) continues to become more prevalent in our daily lives through the increased reliance on applications such as commercial voice recognition devices as well as major text-to-speech software, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Robert Chang , Logan Kuo , Arthur Liu , Nader Sehatbakhsh