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In vulnerability assessments, software component-based CVE attribution is a common method to identify possibly vulnerable systems at scale. However, such version-centric approaches yield high false-positive rates for binary distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-13 René Helmke , Johannes vom Dorp

Finding software vulnerabilities in concurrent programs is a challenging task due to the size of the state-space exploration, as the number of interleavings grows exponentially with the number of program threads and statements. We propose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Fatimah K. Aljaafari , Rafael Menezes , Edoardo Manino , Fedor Shmarov , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Rust supports type conversions and safe Rust guarantees the security of these conversions through robust static type checking and strict ownership guidelines. However, there are instances where programmers need to use unsafe Rust for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Hung-Mao Chen , Xu He , Shu Wang , Xiaokuan Zhang , Kun Sun

Patch reviewing is critical for software development, especially in distributed open-source development, which highly depends on voluntary work, such as Linux. This paper studies the past 10 years of patch reviews of the Linux memory…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Chih-En Lin , Attreyee Mukherjee , Ajay Rawat , Ruqi Zhang , Pedro Fonseca

Bug reproduction is critical in the software debugging and repair process, yet the majority of bugs in open-source and industrial settings lack executable tests to reproduce them at the time they are reported, making diagnosis and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Lara Khatib , Noble Saji Mathews , Meiyappan Nagappan

Context. Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) suites in Gherkin accumulate step-text duplication with documented maintenance cost. Prior detectors either require runnable tests or are single-organisation, leaving a gap: a static,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ali Hassaan Mughal , Noor Fatima , Muhammad Bilal

Ransomware and other forms of malware cause significant financial and operational damage to organizations by exploiting long-standing and often difficult-to-detect software vulnerabilities. To detect vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Gary A. McCully , John D. Hastings , Shengjie Xu , Adam Fortier

The increase in HPC systems size and complexity, together with increasing on-chip transistor density, power limitations, and number of components, render modern HPC systems subject to soft errors. Silent data corruptions (SDCs) are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Aurélien Cavelan , Florina M. Ciorba

Automating C-to-Rust migration for industrial software remains difficult because build-critical context is scattered across compile configurations, macros, external symbols, and cross-module dependencies, while reusable migration knowledge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shengbo Wang , Mingwei Liu , Guangsheng Ou , Yuwen Chen , Zike Li , Yanlin Wang , Zibin Zheng

Confidential high-performance computing orchestrates workloads across federated domains, yet existing frameworks rely on high-overhead user-space library operating systems or assume single-host execution. We propose \codename, an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hung Dang , Tue Nguyen

Internet of Things (IoT) consists of a large number of devices connected through a network, which exchange a high volume of data, thereby posing new security, privacy, and trust issues. One way to address these issues is ensuring data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Fatimah Aljaafari , Rafael Menezes , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

BusyBox, an open-source software bundling over 300 essential Linux commands into a single executable, is ubiquitous in Linux-based embedded devices. Vulnerabilities in BusyBox can have far-reaching consequences, affecting a wide array of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Asmita , Yaroslav Oliinyk , Michael Scott , Ryan Tsang , Chongzhou Fang , Houman Homayoun

Existing tamper-evident logging systems suffer from high overhead and severe data loss in high-load settings, yet only provide coarse-grained tamper detection. Moreover, installing such systems requires recompiling kernel code. To address…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Rui Zhao , Muhammad Shoaib , Viet Tung Hoang , Wajih Ul Hassan

Remote attestation is a crucial security service particularly relevant to increasingly popular IoT (and other embedded) devices. It allows a trusted party (verifier) to learn the state of a remote, and potentially malware-infected, device…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Tigist Abera , N. Asokan , Lucas Davi , Jan-Erik Ekberg , Thomas Nyman , Andrew Paverd , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Gene Tsudik

We report our experience in the formal verification of the reference implementation of the Beacon Chain. The Beacon Chain is the backbone component of the new Proof-of-Stake Ethereum 2.0 network: it is in charge of tracking information…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Franck Cassez , Joanne Fuller , Aditya Asgaonkar

Virtual machines (VM) are widely used to host and isolate software modules. However, extremely small memory and low-energy budgets have so far prevented wide use of VMs on typical microcontroller-based IoT devices. In this paper, we explore…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Koen Zandberg , Emmanuel Baccelli

We develop quantum protocols for anomaly detection and apply them to the task of credit card fraud detection (FD). First, we establish classical benchmarks based on supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods, where average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-03 Oleksandr Kyriienko , Einar B. Magnusson

While third-party libraries are extensively reused to enhance productivity during software development, they can also introduce potential security risks such as vulnerability propagation. Software composition analysis, proposed to identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ling Jiang , Junwen An , Huihui Huang , Qiyi Tang , Sen Nie , Shi Wu , Yuqun Zhang

Rust is a strong contender for a memory-safe alternative to C as a "systems" language, but porting the vast amount of existing C code to Rust remains daunting. In this paper, we evaluate the potential of large language models (LLMs) to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Muhammad Farrukh , Baris Coskun , Tapti Palit , Michalis Polychronakis

Third-party Python libraries introduce dependency management overhead, supply chain risk, and deployment friction in constrained environments. A natural question is how much of this ecosystem can be replicated using only Python's standard…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Peng Ding , Rick Stevens