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Emerging Information Infrastructures: Cooperation in Disasters
September 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Disasters are characterised by their devastating effect on human lives and the society's ability to function. Unfortunately, rescue operations and the possibility to re-establish a working society...
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A Metamodel-Based Classification of Variability Modeling Approaches
October 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is an emerging paradigm taking momentum that proposes to address flexibility and shorter time-to-market by maximizing software reuse. The key...
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A Multi-Objective GRASP Algorithm for Joint Optimization of Energy Consumption and Schedule Length of Precedence-Constrained Applications
October 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors address the problem of scheduling precedence-constrained scientific applications on a heterogeneous distributed processor system with the twin objectives of minimizing simultaneously...
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Energy-Aware Fast Scheduling Heuristics in Heterogeneous Computing Systems
May 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In heterogeneous computing systems it is crucial to schedule tasks in a manner that exploits the heterogeneity of the resources and applications to optimize systems performance. Moreover, the...
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Energy-Efficient Scheduling on Milliclusters With Performance Constraints
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Today's datacenters and large scale enterprise computing are power hungry. A lot of research effort is devoted in industry and academy to address this challenging issue. In this paper, a new type...
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A Review on Task Performance Prediction in Multi-Core Based Systems
June 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Operators of data centers are faced with the challenging goal of hosting applications that meet agreed service levels, at minimal operating costs. A significant part of these costs is energy...
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Scalable and Energy-Efficient Scheduling Techniques for Large-Scale Systems
June 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The scalability of a computing system can be identified by at least three components: size, geographical distribution, and administrative constraints. Newer paradigms, such as clouds, grids, and...
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Cleaning Your House First: Shifting the Paradigm on How to Secure Networks
August 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The standard paradigm when securing networks is to filter ingress traffic to the domain to be protected. Even though many tools and techniques have been developed and employed over the recent...
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Efficient Java Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography for J2ME-Enabled Mobile Devices
December 31, 2011, 12:00am PST
The Micro Edition is of the Java 2 platform (J2ME) provides an application environment specifically designed to address the demands of embedded devices like cell phones, PDAs or set-top boxes....
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Cryptanalysis of the Full AES Using GPU-Like Special-Purpose Hardware
December 30, 2011, 12:00am PST
The block cipher Rijndael has undergone more than ten years of extensive cryptanalysis since its submission as a candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in April 1998. To date, most...
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Cryptanalysis of the Atmel Cipher in SecureMemory, CryptoMemory and CryptoRF
December 23, 2011, 12:00am PST
SecureMemory (SM), CryptoMemory (CM) and CryptoRF (CR) are the Atmel chip families with wide applications in practice. They implement a proprietary stream cipher, which the authors call the Atmel...
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Identity-Based Encryption With Master Key-Dependent Message Security and Applications
March 16, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce the concept of Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) with master Key-Dependent Chosen-Plaintext (mKDM-sID-CPA) security. These are IBE schemes that remain secure even after the...
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Extended Security Arguments for (Ring) Signature Schemes
February 23, 2012, 12:00am PST
The well-known forking lemma by Pointcheval and Stern has been used to prove the security of the so-called generic signature schemes. These signature schemes are obtained via the Fiat-Shamir...
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Vicinity Resource Cartography for Delay-Tolerant Networks: A Holistic Perspective
September 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a distributed approach to construct vicinity resource maps at each node in a delay tolerant network. The scheme uses recent encounters to estimate the...
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Optimising Replication Versus Redundancy In Window-Aware Opportunistic Routing
March 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors address the replication versus redundancy optimisation problem for a class of intermittently connected ad hoc networks with the following three characteristics: routing...
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Automatically Securing Permission-Based Software by Reducing the Attack Surface: An Application to Android
May 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A common security architecture, called the permission-based security model (used e.g. in Android and Blackberry), entails intrinsic risks. For instance, applications can be granted more...
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Improving Privacy on Android Smartphones Through In-Vivo Bytecode Instrumentation
June 5, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors claim that a widely applicable and efficient means to fight against malicious mobile Android applications is: to perform runtime monitoring, by instrumenting the...
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Torinj : Automated Exploitation Malware Targeting Tor Users
August 14, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose in this paper a new propagation vector for malicious software by abusing the Tor network. Tor is particularly relevant, since operating a Tor exit node is easy and involves low...
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Minimal Message Complexity of Asynchronous Multi-Party Contract Signing
April 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Contract signing protocols deal with the situation where parties wish to sign a publicly-known contract text C, in a fair manner. Informally, fairness means that either every honest party obtains...
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On the Generic Construction of Identity-Based Signatures With Additional Properties
October 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It has been demonstrated by Bellare, Neven, and Namprempre (Eurocrypt 2004) that identity-based signature schemes can be generically constructed from standard digital signature schemes. In this...
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Attacks on the DECT Authentication Mechanisms
February 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) is a standard for connecting cordless telephones to a fixed telecommunications network over a short range. The cryptographic algorithms used in...
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Fault Attacks on RSA Signatures With Partially Unknown Messages
June 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Fault attacks exploit hardware malfunctions to recover secrets from embedded electronic devices. In the late 90's, Boneh, DeMillo and Lipton introduced fault-based attacks on CRT-RSA. These...
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Password Based Key Exchange With Hidden Elliptic Curve Public Parameters
April 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors here describe a new Password-based Authenticated Key Exchange (PAKE) protocol based on elliptic curve cryptography. They prove it secure in the Bellare-Pointcheval-Rogaway (BPR) model....
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Rotational Rebound Attacks on Reduced Skein
October 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors combine the recent rotational cryptanalysis with the rebound attack, which results in the best cryptanalysis of Skein, a candidate for the SHA-3 competition. The rebound...
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Statistical Analysis of Second Order Differential Power Analysis
December 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
Second Order Differential Power Analysis (2ODPA) is a powerful side channel attack that allows an attacker to bypass the widely used masking countermeasure. To thwart 2ODPA, higher order masking...
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Cryptanalysis of the RSA Subgroup Assumption From TCC 2005
December 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
At TCC 2005, Groth underlined the usefulness of working in small RSA subgroups of hidden order. In assessing the security of the relevant hard problems, however, the best attack considered for a...
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On the Impossibility of Instantiating PSS in the Standard Model
December 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors consider the problem of securely instantiating Probabilistic Signature Scheme (PSS) in the standard model. PSS, proposed by Bellare and Rogaway is a widely deployed...
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Improved Identity-Based Identification Using Correcting Codes
February 28, 2009, 12:00am PST
One of the most critical points of Public Key Cryptography (PKC) is that of the management of the authenticity of the public key. It is the very single point that anchors public key cryptography...
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An Introduction to Software Engineering and Fault Tolerance
November 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Building systems that are trustful is one of the main challenges which soft-ware developers are facing. Dependability-related concerns have accompanied system developers since the first day these...
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J-PAKE: Authenticated Key Exchange Without PKI
August 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Password Authenticated Key Exchange (PAKE) is one of the important topics in cryptography. It aims to address a practical security problem: how to establish secure communication between two...
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Untraceable RFID Protocols Are Not Trivially Composable: Attacks on the Revision of EC-RAC
July 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is well-known that protocols that satisfy a security property when executed in isolation do not necessarily satisfy the same security property when they are executed in an environment...
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Attacks on RFID Protocols
August 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper consists of a description of attack methodologies and a collection of detailed attacks upon RFID protocols. It is meant to serve as a quick and easy reference and it will be updated as...
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On a New Formal Proof Model for RFID Location Privacy
December 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses a recently proposed formal proof model for RFID location privacy. The authors show that protocols which intuitively and in several other models are considered not to be...
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Interoperable Networking Applications for Emergency Services
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Efficient communication is a major requirement in crisis situations. This research is motivated by the need to develop new communication tools to enhance the coordination and response time of...
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Distinguisher and Related-Key Attack on the Full AES-256
August 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper constructs a chosen-key distinguisher and a related-key attack on the full 256-bit key AES. It define a notion of differential q-multicollision and show that for AES-256...
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Algebraic Attacks on RFID Protocols
June 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This work aims to identify the algebraic problems which enable many attacks on RFID protocols. Toward this goal, three emerging types of attacks on RFID protocols, concerning authentication,...
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