The purpose of a reputation system is to hold the users of a distributed application
accountable for their behavior. The reputation of a user is computed as an aggregate of the …

Owing to the advancements in communication and computation technologies, the dream of
commercialized connected and autonomous cars is becoming a reality. However, among …

The key barrier to widespread uptake of cloud computing is the lack of trust in clouds by
potential customers. While preventive controls for security and privacy are actively …

An Ironclad App lets a user securely transmit her data to a remote machine with the
guarantee that every instruction executed on that machine adheres to a formal abstract …

This paper announces a new software side-channel attack—enabled by the branch
prediction capability common to all modern high-performance CPUs. The penalty paid (extra …

Current mechanisms for authenticating communication between devices that share no prior
context are inconvenient for ordinary users, without the assistance of a trusted authority. We …

Remote attestation is the activity of making a claim about properties of a target by supplying
evidence to an appraiser over a network. We identify five central principles to guide …

Very recently, a new software side-channel attack, called Branch Prediction Analysis (BPA)
attack, has been discovered and also demonstrated to be practically feasible on popular …

As used herein, the term “personal data'is intended to include data such as identity data and
profile data (for example, preference data and financial data) of a party to which the data …

We describe a privacy manager for cloud computing, which reduces the risk to the cloud
computing user of their private data being stolen or misused, and also assists the cloud …