Pub Crawl #30
Pub Crawl summarizes, by hard problems, sets of publications that have been peer reviewed and presented at SoS conferences or referenced in current work. The topics are chosen for their usefulness for current researchers. Select the topic name to view the corresponding list of publications. Submissions and suggestions are welcome.
Cryptology, the use of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversaries, is one of the primary subjects of the Science of Security and impacts study into all of the hard problems.
Quantum Computing Security 2018 (all)
While quantum computing is still in its early stage of development, large-scale quantum computers promise to be able to solve certain problems much more quickly than any classical computer using the best currently known algorithms. Quantum algorithms, such as Simon's algorithm, run faster than any possible probabilistic classical algorithm. For the Science of Security, the speed, capacity, and flexibility of qubits over digital processing offers still greater promise and relate to the hard problems of resilience, predictive metrics and composability. To the Science of Security community, they are interest in terms of scalability.
Random Key Generation 2018 (all)
Random and pseudorandom numbers can be used for the generation, exchange, storage, use, and replacement of keys, key servers, cryptographic protocols, and user procedures. For researchers, random key generation is a challenge to create larger scale and faster systems to operate within the cloud and other complex environments, while ensuring validity and not adding weight to the process. For the Science of Security community, it is relevant to scalability, resilience, metrics, and human behavior.
“Ransomware” is the name given to malicious software that locks a computer until an extorted fee or ransom is paid for the key to unlock it. This ransom is usually paid in bitcoin. For the Science of Security community, there are implications for resiliency, composability, and metrics.
Recommender Systems 2018 (all)
Recommender systems are rating systems filters used to predict a user’s preferences for a particular item. Frequently they are used to identify related objects of interest based on a user’s preference to market similar items. As such they create a problem for cybersecurity and privacy related to the hard problems of human factors, scalability, and resilience.
Magnetic remanence is the property that allows an attacker to recreate files that have been overwritten. For the Science of Security community, it is a topic relevant to the hard problems of resilience and compositionality and has major implications for the Internet of Things and other cyber physical systems.
Repudiation and non-repudiation are core topics in cybersecurity. For the Science of Security community, they relate to resilience, human behavior, metrics, and composability.
Resiliency is one of the five identified hard problems in the Science of Security.
Return Oriented Programming 2018 (all)
Memory corruption attacks account for many security breaches afflicting software systems. Return-oriented programming (ROP) techniques are often used to bypass the most common memory protection systems. For the Science of Security community, this research is related to resilience, scalability, composability and human factors.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) has become a ubiquitous identification system used to provide positive identification for items as diverse as cheese and pets. Research into RFID technologies continues and the security of RFID tags is being increasingly questioned. This work is related to the Science of Security issues of resiliency and human behaviors.
Security Policies Analysis 2018 (all)
Policy-based access controls and security policies are intertwined in most commercial systems. Analytics use abstraction and reduction to improve policy-based security. For the Science of Security community, policy-based governance is one of the five Hard Problems.
Security Risk Estimation 2018 (all)
Calculating risk in cyberphysical systems is a complex process. The work cited here approaches the problem relative to the Science of Security hard problems of human factors, scalability, resilience, and metrics.
The Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is designed to ensure the security of electronic transactions and the exchange of sensitive information through cryptographic keys and certificates. Several SSL trust models are proposed in the literature to model trust relationship and trust propagation. The research cited here looks at several of those models, particularly in the area of ad hoc networks. For the Science of Security community, this work is relevant to the hard problems of resiliency, scalability, human behavior, and metrics.
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Pub Crawl contains bibliographical citations, abstracts if available, links on specific topics, and research problems of interest to the Science of Security community.
How recent are these publications?
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How are topics selected?
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- - Scalability and Composability: Develop methods to enable the construction of secure systems with known security properties from components with known security properties, without a requirement to fully re-analyze the constituent components.
- - Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration: Develop methods to express and enforce normative requirements and policies for handling data with differing usage needs and among users in different authority domains.
- - Security Metrics Driven Evaluation, Design, Development, and Deployment: Develop security metrics and models capable of predicting whether or confirming that a given cyber system preserves a given set of security properties (deterministically or probabilistically), in a given context.
- - Resilient Architectures: Develop means to design and analyze system architectures that deliver required service in the face of compromised components.
- - Understanding and Accounting for Human Behavior: Develop models of human behavior (of both users and adversaries) that enable the design, modeling, and analysis of systems with specified security properties.