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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.32

Provably Secure Virus Detection: Using The Observer Effect Against Malware

Authors: Richard J. Lipton, Rafail Ostrovsky, and Vassilis Zikas

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 55, 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016)

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Protecting software from malware injection is one of the biggest challenges of modern computer science. Despite intensive efforts by the scientific and engineering community, the number of successful attacks continues to increase. This work sets first footsteps towards a provably secure investigation of malware detection. We provide a formal model and cryptographic security definitions of attestation for systems with dynamic memory, and suggest novel provably secure attestation schemes. The key idea underlying our schemes is to use the very insertion of the malware itself to allow for the systems to detect it. This is, in our opinion, close in spirit to the quantum Observer Effect. The attackers, no matter how clever, no matter when they insert their malware, change the state of the system they are attacking. This fundamental idea can be a game changer. And our system does not rely on heuristics; instead, our scheme enjoys the unique property that it is proved secure in a formal and precise mathematical sense and with minimal and realistic CPU modification achieves strong provable security guarantees. We envision such systems with a formal mathematical security treatment as a venue for new directions in software protection.

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Richard J. Lipton, Rafail Ostrovsky, and Vassilis Zikas. Provably Secure Virus Detection: Using The Observer Effect Against Malware. In 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 55, pp. 32:1-32:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{lipton_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.32,
  author =	{Lipton, Richard J. and Ostrovsky, Rafail and Zikas, Vassilis},
  title =	{{Provably Secure Virus Detection: Using The Observer Effect Against Malware}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-013-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{55},
  editor =	{Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Mitzenmacher, Michael and Rabani, Yuval and Sangiorgi, Davide},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-63113},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Cryptography, Software Attestation, Provable Security}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2303

Algorithms for Message Ferrying on Mobile ad hoc Networks

Authors: Mostafa Ammar, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Atish Das Sarma, Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram, and Richard J. Lipton

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 4, IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (2009)

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Message Ferrying is a mobility assisted technique for working around the disconnectedness and sparsity of Mobile ad hoc networks. One of the importantquestions which arise in this context is to determine the routing of the ferry,so as to minimize the buffers used to store data at the nodes in thenetwork. We introduce a simple model to capture the ferry routingproblem. We characterize {\em stable} solutions of the system andprovide efficient approximation algorithms for the {\sc Min-Max Buffer Problem} for the case when the nodes are onhierarchically separated metric spaces.

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Mostafa Ammar, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Atish Das Sarma, Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram, and Richard J. Lipton. Algorithms for Message Ferrying on Mobile ad hoc Networks. In IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 4, pp. 13-24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2009)

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@InProceedings{ammar_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2303,
  author =	{Ammar, Mostafa and Chakrabarty, Deeparnab and Sarma, Atish Das and Kalyanasundaram, Subrahmanyam and Lipton, Richard J.},
  title =	{{Algorithms for Message Ferrying on Mobile ad hoc Networks}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science},
  pages =	{13--24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-13-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2009},
  volume =	{4},
  editor =	{Kannan, Ravi and Narayan Kumar, K.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2303},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-23031},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2303},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algorithms, Network Algorithms, Routing, TSP, Buffer Optimization}
}

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