Description
Leader of the group Computer Security: Marten van Dijk.
The Computer Security group contributes to making our society a safe place with digital and physical infrastructures that can be trusted to have the best interest of citizens and industry in mind. Our work constructively contributes new mechanisms and solutions to security problems.
We are committed to bringing rigorous cryptographic style thinking to security engineering. We study, analyze, and design secure computing environments from various perspectives such as secure processor architectures and cyber physical system security but also secure machine learning functionalities. We provide a holistic approach and use various techniques for reasoning about security, safety, and resilience ranging from formal methods to cryptographic proofs.
Vacancies
No vacancies currently.
News

Cum laude for PhD student Jurriaan Rot
Infinite data structures can be studied with a simplified technique, thanks to research done by PhD student Jurriaan Rot. He received his PhD degree with honours (cum laude) for his thesis ‘Enhanced Coinduction’ at Leiden University on 15 October 2015. This thesis belongs to the 5% best dissertations in the field of computer science.

TCS journal honours Jan Rutten
Jan Rutten from CWI’s Formal Methods research group was recently awarded by the journal Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) for his much cited article Universal Coalgebra – a theory of systems, on the occasion of the journal’s 40th anniversary.

Java Bug Fixed with Formal Methods CWI
Researchers from CWI fixed a bug in the widely used object-oriented programming language Java in February 2015. They found an error in a broadly applied sorting algorithm, TimSort, which could crash programs.

Minder fouten in features door delta modelling
Bij het programmeren van nieuwe features in software worden makkelijk veel fouten gemaakt. De code van meerdere features grijpt vaak in op dezelfde plek, en zo kan de code van de ene feature soms ongemerkt die van een andere overschrijven.
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Publications
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Dokter, K.P.C, Gadducci, F, Lion, B, & Santini, F. (2021). Soft constraint automata with memory. Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, 118. doi:10.1016/j.jlamp.2020.100615
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de Boer, F.S, Bonsangue, M.M, Johnsen, E.B, Pun, V.K.I, Tapia Tarifa, S.L, & Tveito, L. (2020). SymPaths: Symbolic Execution Meets Partial Order Reduction. In W Ahrendt, B Beckert, R Bubel, R Hähnle, & M Ulbrich (Eds.), Deductive Software Verification: Future Perspectives (pp. 313–338). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64354-6_13
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Hiep, H.A, Bian, J, de Boer, F.S, & de Gouw, C.P.T. (2020). A Tutorial on Verifying LinkedList Using KeY. In Deductive Software Verification: Future Perspectives. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64354-6_9
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Wisiol, N, Mühl, C, Pirnay, N, Nguyen, P.H, Margraf, M, Seifert, J.-P, … Rührmair, U. (2020). Splitting the Interpose PUF: A Novel Modeling Attack Strategy. IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2020(3). doi:10.13154/tches.v2020.i3.97-120
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Hiep, H.A, Maathuis, O, Bian, J, de Boer, F.S, van Eekelen, M, & de Gouw, C.P.T. (2020). Verifying OpenJDK's LinkedList using KeY. In TACAS 2020: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (pp. 217–234). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-45237-7_13
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Serbanescu, V.N, & de Boer, F.S. (2020). On the nature of cooperative scheduling in active objects. In Proceedigns of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (pp. 1322–1329). doi:10.1145/3341105.3373896
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Canetti, R, van Dijk, M.E, Maleki, H, Rührmair, U, & Schaumont, P. (2020). Using Universal Composition to Design and Analyze Secure Complex Hardware Systems. In Proceedings of 2020 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE). doi:10.23919/DATE48585.2020.9116295
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Azadbakht, K. (2019, December 11). Asynchronous programming in the abstract behavioural specification language.
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de Boer, F.S, & Hiep, H.A. (2019). Axiomatic characterization of trace reachability for concurrent objects. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods (pp. 157–174). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34968-4_9
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Esterhuyse, C.A, & Hiep, H.A. (2019). Reowolf: Synchronous multi-party communication over the Internet?. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-40914-2_12
Software
Extensible Coordination Tools: plug-ins for the Eclipse platform
ECT: The Extensible Coordination Tools consist of a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse platform to facilitate development of concurrency protocols and distributed applications based on the coordination language Reo.
SAGA: A run-time verifier for Java programs
SAGA is a run-time verifier for single-threaded as well as multi-threaded Java programs.
Current projects with external funding
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Evolutionary changes in Distributed Analysis (ECiDA)
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Reowolf 2.0: decentralized, synchronous, multi-party Internet communication (Reowolf 2.0)
Related partners
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