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Recent Publications

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Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Quorum Systems

X. Li, M. Lesani
The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), October 2024.

I/O-Efficient Dynamic Searchable Encryption meets Forward & Backward Privacy

P. Mondal, JG Chamani, I. Demertzis, D.Papadopoulos
Proceedings of USENIX 2024, August 2024.

SoK: Security of Programmable Logic Controllers.

E. López-Morales, U. Planta, C. Rubio-Medrano, A. Abbasi, A. Cardenas
Proceedings of USENIX 2024, August 2024.

Distributed & Scalable Oblivious Sorting and Shuffling

N. Ngai, I. Demertzis, JG Chamani, D.Papadopoulos
Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) 2024, May 2024.

A Tale of Two Industroyers: It was the Season of Darkness.

L. Salazar, S. Castro, J. Lozano, K. Koneru, E. Zambon, B. Huang, R. Baldick, M. Krotofil, A. Rojas, A. Cardenas
Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) 2024, May 2024.

Data Enclave: A Data-Centric Trusted Execution Environment

Yuanchao Xu, James Pangia, Chencheng Ye, Yan Solihin, and Xipeng Shen
The 30th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), March 2024

A Cross-chain Payment Channel Network

X. Zhang, C. Qian
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, October 2023.

Quorum Subsumption for Heterogeneous Quorum Systems

X. Li, E. Chan, M. Lesani
The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), October 2023.

Pantheon: Private Retrieval from Public Key-Value Store

I. Ahmad, D. Agrawal, A. E. Abbadi, T. Gupta
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 2023

Global, Passive Detection of Connection Tampering

R. Raman, L. Merino, K. Bock, M. Fayed, D. Levin, N. Sullivan, L. Valenta
ACM SIGCOMM, August 2023

Network Responses to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in 2022: A Cautionary Tale for Internet Freedom

R. Ramesh, R. Raman, A. Virkud, A. Dirksen, A. Huremagic, D. Fifield, D. Rodenburg, R. Hynes, D. Madory, R. Ensafi
USENIX Security Symposium, August 2023

LOIS: Low-cost Packet Header Protection for IoT Devices

M. Wang, S. Shi, X. Zhang, S. Han, and C. Qian
Proceedings of ACM IoTDI 2023, May 2023.

Unstick Yourself: Recoverable Byzantine Fault Tolerant Services.

T. Tran, F. Nawab, P. Alvaro, O. Arden
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, May 2023.

Lethe: Secure Deletion by Addition.

E. Chou, L. Conrad-Shah, A. Barker, A. Quinn, E. Miller, D. Long
CHEOPS, May 2023

Paradise: Real-Time, Generalized, and Distributed Provenance-Based Intrusion Detection.

Y. Wu, Y. Xie, X. Liao, P. Zhou, D. Feng, L. Wu, X. Li, A. Wildani, D. Long
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing,

Cross-Layer Device Fingerprinting and Its Applications to Network Security.

L. Xue, K. Obraczka, Z. Rezki
IEEE International Conference on Communications, May 2023.

SpecPMT: Speculative Logging for Resolving Crash Consistency Overhead of Persistent Memory

C. Ye, Y. Xu, X. Shen, Y. Sha, X. Liao, H. Jin, Y. Solihin
The 28th ACM International Conference on Architecture Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2023.

Turn on, Tune in, Listen up: Maximizing Side-Channel Recovery in Time-to-Digital Converters.

C. Drewes, O. Weng, K. Ryan, B. Hunter, C. McCarty, R. Kastner, D. Richmond
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, February 2023