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  Designing password policies for strength and usability
Shay R., Komanduri S., Durity A., Huh P., Mazurek M., Segreti S., Ur B., Bauer L., Christin N., Cranor L. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 18(4): Article No. 13, 2016.  Type: Article

Have you ever wondered why some websites use really annoying password policies? Or have you been responsible for designing a password policy for your organization, and been caught between the users’ demands for easy-to-rememb...

Jun 27 2017
  Cryptographic theory meets practice: efficient and privacy-preserving payments for public transport
Rupp A., Baldimtsi F., Hinterwälder G., Paar C. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 17(3): 1-31, 2015.  Type: Article

Electronic devices for executing transactions in real time for applications such as transit systems and vending machines require safekeeping mechanisms for users. But how should customers who use low-cost devices with scarce storage se...

Sep 15 2015
  Gatling: automatic performance attack discovery in large-scale distributed systems
Lee H., Seibert J., Fistrovic D., Killian C., Nita-Rotaru C. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 17(4): 1-34, 2015.  Type: Article

A distributed system consists of many individual and independent nodes interacting with one another using a standardized set of protocols. Since the scale of nodes is often thousands or even millions, it is very hard, if not impossible...

Aug 18 2015
  Mutual authentication and trust bootstrapping towards secure disk encryption
Götzfried J., Müller T. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 17(2): 1-23, 2014.  Type: Article

The data on storage devices for laptops and mobile devices need protection from theft and misplacement, and require reliable security schemes. How can users securely access encrypted data on storage devices? The authors offer a tamper-...

Mar 30 2015
  SpartanRPC: remote procedure call authorization in wireless sensor networks
Chapin P., Skalka C. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 17(2): 1-30, 2014.  Type: Article

Communications in mobile reconnaissance mission systems require secure wireless sensor networks (WSNs). How should efficient and secure remote procedure calls (RPCs) be designed and implemented to allow servers to stipulate access poli...

Feb 17 2015
  CPM: masking code pointers to prevent code injection attacks
Philippaerts P., Younan Y., Muylle S., Piessens F., Lachmund S., Walter T. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 16(1): 1-27, 2013.  Type: Article

One way for an attacker to take control of a computer is to replace the value of a code pointer or return address with the address of the attacker’s program. Code pointer masking (CPM) guards against this kind of attack by AN...

Sep 19 2013
  On two RFID privacy notions and their relations
Li Y., Deng R., Lai J., Ma C. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 14(4): 1-23, 2011.  Type: Article

As radio frequency identification (RFID) technology becomes widespread, such as for high-speed highway toll payments, ensuring user security and privacy is paramount. At issue is the unauthorized accessing of RFID user tags through an ...

Jun 20 2012
  Practical and efficient cryptographic enforcement of interval-based access control policies
Crampton J. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 14(1): 1-30, 2011.  Type: Article

Cryptography-based hierarchical access control has received considerable attention, particularly in recent years. Since its conception, various enforcement schemes have been proposed that address the performance issues and various acce...

Dec 12 2011
  Empowering end users to confine their own applications: the results of a usability study comparing SELinux, AppArmor, and FBAC-LSM
Schreuders Z., McGill T., Payne C. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 14(2): 1-28, 2011.  Type: Article

Application security is at the core of current computing usage. This paper describes a Linux-based software product that may help organizations confine applications without consuming excessive support resources. It is for people with r...

Nov 29 2011
  Remote data checking using provable data possession
Ateniese G., Burns R., Curtmola R., Herring J., Khan O., Kissner L., Peterson Z., Song D. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 14(1): 1-34, 2011.  Type: Article

As we increasingly embrace the concept of cloud computing, the risks of losing data could not be greater. This paper describes those risks, and offers a solution by providing a model for provable data possession....

Aug 25 2011
 
 
 
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