Cryptography and Security

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[50]  arXiv:2405.08698 (cross-list from cs.IT) [pdf, other]

Title: Byzantine-Resilient Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning Without Privacy Compromises

Authors: Yue Xia, Christoph Hofmeister, Maximilian Egger, Rawad Bitar

Subjects: Information Theory (cs.IT); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[51]  arXiv:2405.08577 (cross-list from cs.NI) [pdf, other]

Title: Intelligent Control in 6G Open RAN: Security Risk or Opportunity?

Authors: Sanaz Soltani, Mohammad Shojafar, Ali Amanlou, Rahim Tafazolli

Comments: 36 pages, 14 figures, IEEE COMST (in review)

Subjects: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Performance (cs.PF); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[52]  arXiv:2405.08487 (cross-list from cs.CV) [pdf, other]

Title: Semantic Contextualization of Face Forgery: A New Definition, Dataset, and Detection Method

Authors: Mian Zou, Baosheng Yu, Yibing Zhan, Siwei Lyu, Kede Ma

Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

Tue, 14 May 2024

[53]  arXiv:2405.07941 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Efficient and Universal Merkle Tree Inclusion Proofs via OR Aggregation

Authors: Oleksandr Kuznetsov, Alex Rusnak, Anton Yezhov, Dzianis Kanonik, Kateryna Kuznetsova, Oleksandr Domin

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[54]  arXiv:2405.07848 [pdf, other]

Title: Positional-Unigram Byte Models for Generalized TLS Fingerprinting

Authors: Hector A. Valdez, Sean McPherson

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[55]  arXiv:2405.07667 [pdf, other]

Title: Backdoor Removal for Generative Large Language Models

Authors: Haoran Li, Yulin Chen, Zihao Zheng, Qi Hu, Chunkit Chan, Heshan Liu, Yangqiu Song

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computation and Language (cs.CL)

[56]  arXiv:2405.07611 [pdf, other]

Title: Uncovering GNSS Interference with Aerial Mapping UAV

Authors: Marco Spanghero, Filip Geib, Ronny Panier, Panos Papadimitratos

Comments: In proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf)

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[57]  arXiv:2405.07533 [pdf, other]

Title: DID Link: Authentication in TLS with Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials

Authors: Sandro Rodriguez Garzon, Dennis Natusch, Artur Philipp, Axel Küpper, Hans Joachim Einsiedler, Daniela Schneider

Comments: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)

[58]  arXiv:2405.07496 [pdf, other]

Title: Oedipus: LLM-enchanced Reasoning CAPTCHA Solver

Authors: Gelei Deng, Haoran Ou, Yi Liu, Jie Zhang, Tianwei Zhang, Yang Liu

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[59]  arXiv:2405.07419 [pdf, other]

Title: Indoor and Outdoor Crowd Density Level Estimation with Video Analysis through Machine Learning Models

Authors: Mahira Arefin, Md. Anwar Hussen Wadud, Anichur Rahman

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[60]  arXiv:2405.07406 [pdf, other]

Title: Machine Unlearning: A Comprehensive Survey

Authors: Weiqi Wang, Zhiyi Tian, Shui Yu

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

[61]  arXiv:2405.07358 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Value Driven Framework for Cybersecurity Innovation in Transportation & Infrastructure

Authors: Lampis Alevizos, Lalit Bhakuni, Stefan Jaschke

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[62]  arXiv:2405.07232 [pdf, other]

Title: A Flow is a Stream of Packets: A Stream-Structured Data Approach for DDoS Detection

Authors: Raja Giryes, Lior Shafir, Avishai Wool

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[63]  arXiv:2405.07213 [pdf, other]

Title: Challenging Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting Vulnerable JavaScript Functions

Authors: Rudolf Ferenc, Péter Hegedűs, Péter Gyimesi, Gábor Antal, Dénes Bán, Tibor Gyimóthy

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Software Engineering (cs.SE)

[64]  arXiv:2405.07172 [pdf, other]

Title: Observability and Incident Response in Managed Serverless Environments Using Ontology-Based Log Monitoring

Authors: Lavi Ben-Shimol, Edita Grolman, Aviad Elyashar, Inbar Maimon, Dudu Mimran, Oleg Brodt, Martin Strassmann, Heiko Lehmann, Yuval Elovici, Asaf Shabtai

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[65]  arXiv:2405.07145 [pdf, other]

Title: Stable Signature is Unstable: Removing Image Watermark from Diffusion Models

Authors: Yuepeng Hu, Zhengyuan Jiang, Moyang Guo, Neil Gong

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

[66]  arXiv:2405.07094 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Road to Compliance: Executive Federal Agencies and the NIST Risk Management Framework

Authors: Michael Stoltz

Comments: This research paper was showcased at the University of West Florida Student Scholars Symposium and Faculty Research Showcase on April 18, 2024. It is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 1946442. The views, findings, and conclusions presented are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the NSF

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[67]  arXiv:2405.07054 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: LUCID: A Framework for Reducing False Positives and Inconsistencies Among Container Scanning Tools

Authors: Md Sadun Haq, Ali Saman Tosun, Turgay Korkmaz

Comments: 13 pages, 15 figures, 8 tables

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[68]  arXiv:2405.07018 [pdf, other]

Title: Shadow-Free Membership Inference Attacks: Recommender Systems Are More Vulnerable Than You Thought

Authors: Xiaoxiao Chi, Xuyun Zhang, Yan Wang, Lianyong Qi, Amin Beheshti, Xiaolong Xu, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Shuo Wang, Hongsheng Hu

Comments: This paper has been accepted by IJCAI-24

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[69]  arXiv:2405.07007 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A New Algorithm for Computing Branch Number of Non-Singular Matrices over Finite Fields

Authors: P.R. Mishra, Yogesh Kumar, Susanta Samanta, Atul Gaur

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[70]  arXiv:2405.07004 [pdf, other]

Title: Stealthy Imitation: Reward-guided Environment-free Policy Stealing

Authors: Zhixiong Zhuang, Maria-Irina Nicolae, Mario Fritz

Comments: Accepted at ICML 2024. Project page: this https URL

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[71]  arXiv:2405.06842 [pdf, other]

Title: BitVMX: A CPU for Universal Computation on Bitcoin

Authors: Sergio Demian Lerner, Ramon Amela, Shreemoy Mishra, Martin Jonas, Javier Álvarez Cid-Fuentes

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)

[72]  arXiv:2405.06830 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards Browser Controls to Protect Cookies from Malicious Extensions

Authors: Liam Tyler, Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[73]  arXiv:2405.06823 [pdf, other]

Title: PLeak: Prompt Leaking Attacks against Large Language Model Applications

Authors: Bo Hui, Haolin Yuan, Neil Gong, Philippe Burlina, Yinzhi Cao

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[74]  arXiv:2405.06772 [pdf, other]

Title: CANAL -- Cyber Activity News Alerting Language Model: Empirical Approach vs. Expensive LLM

Authors: Urjitkumar Patel, Fang-Chun Yeh, Chinmay Gondhalekar

Comments: Published in 2024 IEEE 3rd International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity (ICAIC), Conference Date: 07-09 February 2024

Journal-ref: 2024 IEEE 3rd International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity (ICAIC), Houston, TX, USA, 2024, pp. 1-12

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)

[75]  arXiv:2405.07803 (cross-list from cs.IT) [pdf, other]

Title: Decoding Geometric Properties in Non-Random Data from First Information-Theoretic Principles

Authors: Hector Zenil, Felipe S. Abrahão

Comments: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2303.16045. substantial text overlap with arXiv:2303.16045

Subjects: Information Theory (cs.IT); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[76]  arXiv:2405.07668 (cross-list from cs.SE) [pdf, other]

Title: CrossCert: A Cross-Checking Detection Approach to Patch Robustness Certification for Deep Learning Models

Authors: Qilin Zhou, Zhengyuan Wei, Haipeng Wang, Bo Jiang, W.K. Chan

Comments: 23 pages, 2 figures, accepted by FSE 2024 (The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering)

Subjects: Software Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[77]  arXiv:2405.07638 (cross-list from cs.NI) [pdf, other]

Title: DoLLM: How Large Language Models Understanding Network Flow Data to Detect Carpet Bombing DDoS

Authors: Qingyang Li, Yihang Zhang, Zhidong Jia, Yannan Hu, Lei Zhang, Jianrong Zhang, Yongming Xu, Yong Cui, Zongming Guo, Xinggong Zhang

Subjects: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[78]  arXiv:2405.07440 (cross-list from cs.HC) [pdf, other]

Title: Maximizing Information Gain in Privacy-Aware Active Learning of Email Anomalies

Authors: Mu-Huan Miles Chung, Sharon Li, Jaturong Kongmanee, Lu Wang, Yuhong Yang, Calvin Giang, Khilan Jerath, Abhay Raman, David Lie, Mark Chignell

Comments: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2303.00870

Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[79]  arXiv:2405.07430 (cross-list from cs.SE) [pdf, other]

Title: Don't Chase Your Tail! Missing Key Aspects Augmentation in Textual Vulnerability Descriptions of Long-tail Software through Feature Inference

Authors: Linyi Han, Shidong Pan, Zhenchang Xing, Jiamou Sun, Sofonias Yitagesu, Xiaowang Zhang, Zhiyong Feng

Subjects: Software Engineering (cs.SE); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[80]  arXiv:2405.07265 (cross-list from cs.DC) [pdf, other]

Title: An Approach for Decentralized Authentication in Networks of UAVs

Authors: Nicholas Jäger, Andreas Aßmuth

Comments: 5 pages

Journal-ref: Proc of the 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (Cloud Computing 2021), Porto Portugal, April 2021, pp. 13-17, ISSN 2308-4294

Subjects: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[81]  arXiv:2405.07196 (cross-list from cs.DB) [pdf, other]

Title: Permissioned Blockchain-based Framework for Ranking Synthetic Data Generators

Authors: Narasimha Raghavan Veeraragavan, Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaei, Severin Elvatun, Vibeke Binz Vallevik, Siri Larønningen, Jan F Nygård

Subjects: Databases (cs.DB); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[82]  arXiv:2405.07061 (cross-list from cs.LG) [pdf, other]

Title: LLMs and the Future of Chip Design: Unveiling Security Risks and Building Trust

Authors: Zeng Wang, Lilas Alrahis, Likhitha Mankali, Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu

Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[83]  arXiv:2405.07020 (cross-list from cs.LG) [pdf, other]

Title: Adaptive Online Bayesian Estimation of Frequency Distributions with Local Differential Privacy

Authors: Soner Aydin, Sinan Yildirim

Comments: Code for experiments available at this https URL

Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[84]  arXiv:2405.06865 (cross-list from cs.CV) [pdf, other]

Title: Disrupting Style Mimicry Attacks on Video Imagery

Authors: Josephine Passananti, Stanley Wu, Shawn Shan, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao

Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[85]  arXiv:2405.06787 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: A computational test of quantum contextuality, and even simpler proofs of quantumness

Authors: Atul Singh Arora, Kishor Bharti, Alexandru Cojocaru, Andrea Coladangelo

Comments: 69 pages, 6 figures. For updates see this https URL

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

Mon, 13 May 2024 (showing first 14 of 21 entries)

[86]  arXiv:2405.06498 [pdf, other]

Title: Implementation Study of Cost-Effective Verification for Pietrzak's Verifiable Delay Function in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Authors: Suhyeon Lee, Euisin Gee, Junghee Lee

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[87]  arXiv:2405.06371 [pdf, other]

Title: Using AI Assistants in Software Development: A Qualitative Study on Security Practices and Concerns

Authors: Jan H. Klemmer (1), Stefan Albert Horstmann (2), Nikhil Patnaik (3), Cordelia Ludden (4), Cordell Burton Jr (4), Carson Powers (4), Fabio Massacci (5 and 6), Akond Rahman (7), Daniel Votipka (4), Heather Richter Lipford (8), Awais Rashid (3), Alena Naiakshina (2), Sascha Fahl (1) ((1) CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, (2) Ruhr University Bochum, (3) University of Bristol, (4) Tufts University, (5) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, (6) University of Trento, (7) Auburn University, (8) University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Comments: 20 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Software Engineering (cs.SE)

[88]  arXiv:2405.06356 [pdf, other]

Title: CRATOR: a Dark Web Crawler

Authors: Daniel De Pascale, Giuseppe Cascavilla, Damian A. Tamburri, Willem-Jan Van Den Heuvel

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[89]  arXiv:2405.06307 [pdf, other]

Title: Smooth Sensitivity for Geo-Privacy

Authors: Yuting Liang, Ke Yi

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[90]  arXiv:2405.06261 [pdf, other]

Title: Improving the Privacy Loss Under User-Level DP Composition for Fixed Estimation Error

Authors: V. Arvind Rameshwar, Anshoo Tandon

Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures, to be submitted to the ACM

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Information Theory (cs.IT)

[91]  arXiv:2405.06242 [pdf, other]

Title: Impedance vs. Power Side-channel Vulnerabilities: A Comparative Study

Authors: Md Sadik Awal, Buddhipriya Gayanath, Md Tauhidur Rahman

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)

[92]  arXiv:2405.06237 [pdf, other]

Title: Risks of Practicing Large Language Models in Smart Grid: Threat Modeling and Validation

Authors: Jiangnan Li, Yingyuan Yang, Jinyuan Sun

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[93]  arXiv:2405.06206 [pdf, other]

Title: Concealing Backdoor Model Updates in Federated Learning by Trigger-Optimized Data Poisoning

Authors: Yujie Zhang, Neil Gong, Michael K. Reiter

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[94]  arXiv:2405.06124 [pdf, other]

Title: Demystifying Behavior-Based Malware Detection at Endpoints

Authors: Yigitcan Kaya, Yizheng Chen, Shoumik Saha, Fabio Pierazzi, Lorenzo Cavallaro, David Wagner, Tudor Dumitras

Comments: Behavior-based malware detection with machine learning. 18 pages, 10 figures, 15 tables. Leaderboard: this https URL

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[95]  arXiv:2405.06074 [pdf, other]

Title: Protocols to Code: Formal Verification of a Next-Generation Internet Router

Authors: João C. Pereira, Tobias Klenze, Sofia Giampietro, Markus Limbeck, Dionysios Spiliopoulos, Felix A. Wolf, Marco Eilers, Christoph Sprenger, David Basin, Peter Müller, Adrian Perrig

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Programming Languages (cs.PL)

[96]  arXiv:2405.05999 [pdf, other]

Title: LLMPot: Automated LLM-based Industrial Protocol and Physical Process Emulation for ICS Honeypots

Authors: Christoforos Vasilatos, Dunia J. Mahboobeh, Hithem Lamri, Manaar Alam, Michail Maniatakos

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[97]  arXiv:2405.05990 [pdf, other]

Title: Special Characters Attack: Toward Scalable Training Data Extraction From Large Language Models

Authors: Yang Bai, Ge Pei, Jindong Gu, Yong Yang, Xingjun Ma

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[98]  arXiv:2405.06447 (cross-list from cs.SE) [pdf, other]

Title: Sandboxing Adoption in Open Source Ecosystems

Authors: Maysara Alhindi, Joseph Hallett

Comments: Published at the 12th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems and Software Ecosystems (SESoS 2024), Co-located with ICSE

Subjects: Software Engineering (cs.SE); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[99]  arXiv:2405.06368 (cross-list from cs.LG) [pdf, other]

Title: DP-DyLoRA: Fine-Tuning Transformer-Based Models On-Device under Differentially Private Federated Learning using Dynamic Low-Rank Adaptation

Authors: Jie Xu, Karthikeyan Saravanan, Rogier van Dalen, Haaris Mehmood, David Tuckey, Mete Ozay

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables

Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)

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