Recent advances have given rise to the popularity and success of cloud computing.
However, when outsourcing the data and business application to a third party causes the …

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) state-machine replication makes it possible to design systems
that are resilient against arbitrary faults, a requirement considered crucial for an increasing …

Chainspace is a decentralized infrastructure, known as a distributed ledger, that supports
user defined smart contracts and executes user-supplied transactions on their objects. The …

Important decisions about people are increasingly made by algorithms: Votes are counted;
voter rolls are purged; financial aid decisions are made; taxpayers are chosen for audits; air …

The exponential growth of the Internet interconnections has led to a significant growth of
cyber attack incidents often with disastrous and grievous consequences. Malware is the …

The decentralized currency network Bitcoin is emerging as a potential new way of
performing financial transactions across the globe. Its use of pseudonyms towards protecting …

Security architectures such as Intel SGX need protection against rollback attacks, where the
adversary violates the integrity of a protected application state by replaying old persistently …

Every tectonic technological change-from the first grain domesticated to the first smartphone
set abuzz'-begets a new society. Among the ensuing birth pangs are novel anxieties about …

We introduce a saliency model based on two key ideas. The first one is considering local
and global image patch rarities as two complementary processes. The second one is based …

Today's technical and legal landscape presents formidable challenges to personal data
privacy. First, our increasing reliance on Web services causes personal data to be cached …