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USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Helios: Web-based Open-Audit Voting
Voting with cryptographic auditing, sometimes called open-audit voting, has remained, for the most part, a theoretical endeavor. In spite of dozens of fascinating protocols and re...
Ben Adida
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Hypervisor Support for Identifying Covertly Executing Binaries
Hypervisors have been proposed as a security tool to defend against malware that subverts the OS kernel. However, hypervisors must deal with the semantic gap between the low-level...
Lionel Litty, H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, Davi...
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
The Practical Subtleties of Biometric Key Generation
The inability of humans to generate and remember strong secrets makes it difficult for people to manage cryptographic keys. To address this problem, numerous proposals have been s...
Lucas Ballard, Seny Kamara, Michael K. Reiter
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
CloudAV: N-Version Antivirus in the Network Cloud
Antivirus software is one of the most widely used tools for detecting and stopping malicious and unwanted files. However, the long term effectiveness of traditional hostbased anti...
Jon Oberheide, Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Security Study of the Native Code in the JDK
It is well known that the use of native methods in Java defeats Java's guarantees of safety and security, which is why the default policy of Java applets, for example, does n...
Gang Tan, Jason Croft
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Measurement and Classification of Humans and Bots in Internet Chat
The abuse of chat services by automated programs, known as chat bots, poses a serious threat to Internet users. Chat bots target popular chat networks to distribute spam and malwa...
Steven Gianvecchio, Mengjun Xie, Zhengyu Wu, Haini...
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
An Improved Clock-skew Measurement Technique for Revealing Hidden Services
The Tor anonymisation network allows services, such as web servers, to be operated under a pseudonym. In previous work Murdoch described a novel attack to reveal such hidden servi...
Sebastian Zander, Steven J. Murdoch
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Practical Symmetric Key Cryptography on Modern Graphics Hardware
Graphics processors are continuing their trend of vastly outperforming CPUs while becoming more general purpose. The latest generation of graphics processors have introduced the a...
Owen Harrison, John Waldron
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Selective Versioning in a Secure Disk System
Making vital disk data recoverable even in the event of OS compromises has become a necessity, in view of the increased prevalence of OS vulnerability exploits over the recent yea...
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Gopalan Sivathanu, Erez ...