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Real-time Self-contact Retargeting of Avatars down to Finger Level

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Mathias Guy Delahaye

We interact with the world through a body that includes hands and fingers. Likewise, providing an avatar allowing the control of a virtual body with fingers is an important step to improve the user experience in VR. When the user and their avatar skeleton ...

The Eurographics Association2023

The Universal Gossip Fighter

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Rafaël Benjamin Pinot, Anastasiia Kucherenko

The notion of adversary is a staple of distributed computing. An adversary typically models “hostile” assumptions about the underlying distributed environment, e.g., a network that can drop messages, an operating system that can delay processes or an attac ...

IEEE2022

Safeguarding the IoT From Malware Epidemics: A Percolation Theory Approach

Ainur Zhaikhan

The upcoming Internet of Things (IoT) is foreseen to encompass massive numbers of connected devices, smart objects, and cyber-physical systems. Due to the large scale and massive deployment of devices, it is deemed infeasible to safeguard 100% of the devic ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Drynx: Decentralized, Secure, Verifiable System for Statistical Queries and Machine Learning on Distributed Datasets

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, David Jules Froelicher

Data sharing has become of primary importance in many domains such as big-data analytics, economics and medical research, but remains difficult to achieve when the data are sensitive. In fact, sharing personal information requires individuals' unconditiona ...

2020

RetroWrite: Statically Instrumenting COTS Binaries for Fuzzing and Sanitization

Mathias Josef Payer

Analyzing the security of closed source binaries is currently impractical for end-users, or even developers who rely on third-party libraries. Such analysis relies on automatic vulnerability discovery techniques, most notably fuzzing with sanitizers enable ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Reducing Metadata Leakage from Encrypted Files and Communication with PURBs

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Ludovic Barman, Wouter Lueks, Kirill Nikitin, Matthew Joshua Underwood

Most encrypted data formats leak metadata via their plaintext headers, such as format version, encryption schemes used, number of recipients who can decrypt the data, and even the recipients’ identities. This leakage can pose security and privacy risks to ...

Sciendo2019

Labeled PSI from Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Malicious Security

Zhicong Huang

Private Set Intersection (PSI) allows two parties, the sender and the receiver, to compute the intersection of their private sets without revealing extra information to each other. We are interested in the unbalanced PSI setting, where (1) the receiver's s ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Elastic Program Transformations : Automatically Optimizing the Reliability/Performance Trade-off in Systems Software

Jonas Benedict Wagner

Performance and reliability are important yet conflicting properties of systems software. Software today often crashes, has security vulnerabilities and data loss, while many techniques that could address such issues remain unused due to performance concer ...

EPFL2017

Enhancing Bitcoin Security and Performance with Strong Consistency via Collective Signing

Bryan Alexander Ford, Linus Gasser, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic, Nicolas Gailly, Ismail Khoffi

While showing great promise, Bitcoin requires users to wait tens of minutes for transactions to commit, and even then, offering only probabilistic guarantees. This paper introduces ByzCoin, a novel Byzantine consensus protocol that leverages scalable colle ...

USENIX Association2016

High System-Code Security with Low Overhead

George Candea, Johannes Kinder, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Jonas Benedict Wagner

Security vulnerabilities plague modern systems because writing secure systems code is hard. Promising approaches can retrofit security automatically via runtime checks that implement the desired security policy; these checks guard critical operations, like ...

2015

Mitigating Crime Risks in the International Logistics Network : the Case of Swiss Post

Toni Antero Männistö

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 raised major concerns about the vulnerability of global transportation systems to transnational crime and terrorism. Although the attacks occurred in the context of passenger transport, they spurred unprecedented ...

EPFL2015

Scrambling-based tool for secure protection of JPEG images

Touradj Ebrahimi

JPEG scrambling tool is a flexible web-based tool with an intuitive and simple to use GUI and interface to secure visual information in a region of interest (ROI) of JPEG images. The tool demonstrates an efficient integration and use of security tools in J ...

2014

Finding Trojan Message Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems

Rachid Guerraoui, George Candea, Radu Banabic

Trojan messages are messages that seem correct to the receiver but cannot be generated by any correct sender. Such messages constitute major vulnerability points of a distributed system---they constitute ideal targets for a malicious actor and facilitate f ...

ACM2014

Automated Side-Channel Vulnerability Discovery and Hardening : No-Cost Security Expertise for All

Ali Galip Bayrak

In traditional cryptography, an attacker tries to infer a mathematical relationship between the inputs and outputs of a cryptosystem to recover secret information. With the advances in the theoretical basis of the cryptographic algorithms, this task became ...

EPFL2014

Security Vulnerabilities of the Cisco IOS Implementation of the MPLS Transport Profile

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Miroslav Popovic, Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay, Sergio Barreto Andrade

We are interested in the security of the MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP), in the context of smart-grid communication networks. The security guidelines of the MPLS-TP standards are written in a complex and indirect way, which led us to pose as hypothesis t ...

2014

Fine-grained disclosure control for app ecosystems

Christoph Koch

The modern computing landscape contains an increasing number of app ecosystems, where users store personal data on platforms such as Facebook or smartphones. APIs enable third-party applications (apps) to utilize that data. A key concern associated with ap ...

ACM Press2013

Game Theory Meets Network Security and Privacy

Jean-Pierre Hubaux

This survey provides a structured and comprehensive overview of research on security and privacy in computer and communication networks that use game-theoretic approaches. We present a selected set of works to highlight the application of game theory in ad ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2013

Securing Every Bit: Authenticated Broadcast in Radio Networks

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert, Zarko Milosevic, Dan Alistarh

This paper studies non-cryptographic authenticated broad- cast in radio networks subject to malicious failures. We in- troduce two protocols that address this problem. The first, NeighborWatchRB, makes use of a novel strategy in which honest devices monito ...

Acm Order Department, P O Box 64145, Baltimore, Md 21264 Usa2010

Flexible Hardware Acceleration for Instruction-Grain Lifeguards

Babak Falsafi, Evangelos Vlachos

Instruction-grain lifeguards monitor executing programs at the granularity of individual instructions to quickly detect bugs and security attacks, but their fine-grain nature incurs high monitoring overheads. This article identifies three common sources of ...

2009

Flexible hardware acceleration for instruction-grain program monitoring

Babak Falsafi, Evangelos Vlachos

Instruction-grain program monitoring tools, which check and analyze executing programs at the granularity of individual instructions, are invaluable for quickly detecting bugs and security attacks and then limiting their damage (via containment and/or reco ...

2008