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FM
2006
Springer
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Formal Methods and Cryptography
Security-critical systems are an important application area for formal methods. However, such systems often contain cryptographic subsystems. The natural definitions of these subsy...
Michael Backes, Birgit Pfitzmann, Michael Waidner
CCS
2010
ACM
15 years 23 days ago
On the soundness of authenticate-then-encrypt: formalizing the malleability of symmetric encryption
A communication channel from an honest sender A to an honest receiver B can be described as a system with three interfaces labeled A, B, and E (the adversary), respectively, where...
Ueli Maurer, Björn Tackmann
ESEM
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Strengthening the empirical analysis of the relationship between Linus' Law and software security
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams
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WSC
2004
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Fast Model-Based Penetration Testing
Traditional approaches to security evaluation have been based on penetration testing of real systems, or analysis of formal models of such systems. The former suffer from the prob...
Sankalp Singh, James Lyons, David M. Nicol
ISSTA
2006
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Coverage metrics for requirements-based testing
In black-box testing, one is interested in creating a suite of tests from requirements that adequately exercise the behavior of a software system without regard to the internal st...
Michael W. Whalen, Ajitha Rajan, Mats Per Erik Hei...