Security is a concern in the design of a wide range of embedded systems. Extensive
research has been devoted to the development of cryptographic algorithms that provide the …

Protecting a digital asset once it leaves the cyber trust boundary of its creator is a
challenging security problem. The creator is an entity which can range from a single person …

Software security with respect to reverse-engineering is a challenging discipline that has
been researched for several years and which is still active. At the same time, this field is …

A “botnet” consists of a network of compromised computers controlled by an attacker
(“botmaster”). Recently, botnets have become the root cause of many Internet attacks. To be …

Cloud computing enables highly scalable services to be easily consumed over the Internet
on an as-needed basis. A major feature of the cloud services is that users' data are usually …

Building automation systems are traditionally concerned with the control of heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning, as well as lighting and shading, systems. They have their …

Security is emerging as an important concern in embedded system design. The security of
embedded systems is often compromised due to vulnerabilities in" trusted" software that they …

Self-checking software tamper resistance mechanisms employing checksums, including
advanced systems as recently proposed by Chang and Atallah (2002) and Horne et …

As increasingly powerful software analysis and attack tools arise, we need increasingly
potent software protections. We generate an unlimited supply of obscuring transforms via …

Many hardware-based defense schemes against speculative execution attacks use special
mechanisms to protect instructions while speculative, and lift the mechanisms when the …