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Monthly Archives: August 2016

Research Contract: Submarine Combat System Large Scale Computing Infrastructure Performance and Interoperability Insight, K. Falkner and C. Szabo, DST Group Research Contract ($150,000, 2016-2017)

This new research contract continues our collaborative research work with DST Group to explore research-based methods for Submarine Combat System Large Scale Computing Infrastructure Performance and Interoperability Insight, specifically in the area of SEM GPU worker creation and deployment capabilities. Under this agreement, we will be working with DST Group to expand our GPU capabilities within […]

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CIKM 2016: Efficient Orthogonal Non-negative Matrix Factorization over Stiefel Manifold

This work has been accepted as a full paper by CIKM 2016. Non-negative Matrix Factorization is an important mathematical tool for various data mining applications. In this paper, CDIT researchers develop an efficient orthogonal non-negative matrix factorization over Stiefel manifold, which significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of convergence speed and clustering performance. Efficient Orthogonal Non-negative Matrix Factorization over […]

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UbiComp 2016: Enabling Fine-Grained Hand Gesture Detection by Decoding Echo Signals

Collaborating with researchers from Princeton University and Tsinghua University, we present a work that can accurately decode the hand’s motion by transforming the COTS microphone and speaker of a mobile device into an active sonar system. The paper has been accepted by UbiComp 2016.   AudioGest: Enabling Fine-Grained Hand Gesture Detection by Decoding Echo Signals. Wenjie Ruan, Quan Z. Sheng, Lei Yang, […]

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Announcing Mastik version 0.01 (Scurvy Dog)

Mastik is a new toolkit for performing microarchitectural side channel attacks has been announced in the CHES 2016 rump session. The toolkit provides an implementation of popular side channel attacks. Version 0.01, code name Scurvy Dog, can be downloaded from the Mastik home page. The CHES 2016 rump session presentation is also available.  

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ACSAC 2016: Amplifying Side Channels Through Performance Degradation

In this work, accepted to ACSAC 2016, we show that an adversary can amplify a side channel leakage from a victim by slowing the victim down. We apply the technique against a victim that uses the Bitcoin elliptic curve and show that we need to observe only 6 signatures to completely break the private key.  The […]

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CCS 2016: ECDSA Key Extraction from Mobile Devices via Nonintrusive Physical Side Channels

Working with researchers from the Technion and from Tel Aviv University, we show that undesired electromagnetic emanations from mobile phones allow adversaries to steal cryptographic keys from the phone. The work has been accepted to CCS 2016. D. Genkin, L. Pachmanov, I. Pipman, E. Tromer and Y. Yarom, ECDSA Key Extraction from Mobile Devices via […]

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CDIT research appears at top Ubiquitous Computing conference

Two research papers from CDIT researchers have been accepted by 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016), to be held in Heidelberg, Germany, 12-16 September, 2016. This is a fantastic achievement and UbiComp is arguably the most prestigious conference in the area of ubiquitous computing. Congratulations. Paper 1: AudioGest: Enabling […]

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Land Forces 2016: Claudia Szabo to discuss research ideas during Pitching Event

Claudia Szabo, the Complex Systems project leader will be pitching research ideas during the Land Forces 2016 conference. Come and find her to discuss ways of best modeling human interactions (both in person and online) in areas of conflict, to best identify emerging unwanted behaviors! The work builds on the group’s modeling of complex systems […]

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CCS 2016: “Make Sure DSA Signing Exponentiations Really are Constant-Time”

  Our joint work with researchers from the Tampere University of Technology on a weakness in OpenSSL has been accepted to CCS 2016. C. Pereida García, B. B. Brumley and Y. Yarom, “Make Sure DSA Signing Exponentiations Really are Constant-Time”, Abstract: TLS and SSH are two of the most commonly used protocols for securing Internet traffic. Many of the implementations of […]

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Yuval Yarom to deliver a keynote talk at PROOFS 2016

Yuval Yarom has been invited to present a keynote talk at PROOFS 2016. PROOFS is a security workshop focusing on Security Proofs for Embedded Systems. Title: Thwarting cache-based side-channel attacks Abstract: Cache-based side-channel attacks leak sensitive information through a shared cache. The attacker exploits contention on the cache to trace the victim’s access to memory. These traces […]

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