activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

cs.CR2026

It's a Feature, Not a Bug: Secure and Auditable State Rollback for Confidential Cloud Applications

Quinn Burke, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Michael Swift +1

Replay and rollback attacks threaten cloud application integrity by reintroducing authentic yet stale data through an untrusted storage interface to compromise application decision…

cs.CR2025

LibIHT: A Hardware-Based Approach to Efficient and Evasion-Resistant Dynamic Binary Analysis

Changyu Zhao, Yohan Beugin, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand +3

Dynamic program analysis is invaluable for malware detection, debugging, and performance profiling. However, software-based instrumentation incurs high overhead and can be evaded b…

cs.CR2025

Efficient Storage Integrity in Adversarial Settings

Quinn Burke, Ryan Sheatsley, Yohan Beugin +4

Storage integrity is essential to systems and applications that use untrusted storage (e.g., public clouds, end-user devices). However, known methods for achieving storage integrit…

cs.CR2025

On Scalable Integrity Checking for Secure Cloud Disks

Quinn Burke, Ryan Sheatsley, Rachel King +3

Merkle hash trees are the standard method to protect the integrity and freshness of stored data. However, hash trees introduce additional compute and I/O costs on the I/O critical…

cs.CR2024

Securing Cloud File Systems with Trusted Execution

Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Blaine Hoak +7

Cloud file systems offer organizations a scalable and reliable file storage solution. However, cloud file systems have become prime targets for adversaries, and traditional designs…

cs.CR2024

Secure IP Address Allocation at Cloud Scale

Eric Pauley, Kyle Domico, Blaine Hoak +5

Public clouds necessitate dynamic resource allocation and sharing. However, the dynamic allocation of IP addresses can be abused by adversaries to source malicious traffic, bypass…