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

New technique detects bugs in object-oriented languages
CWI researcher Stijn de Gouw has developed a new technique for the detection of bugs in software written in object-oriented languages like Java. In a first test case, the technique was able to determine the correctness of complex software of marketing software company SDL Fredhopper.
CWI joins Sino-European research network LIAMA
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has officially joined research network LIAMA. The Sino-European Laboratory in Computer Science, Automation and Applied Mathematics (LIAMA) is a research lab consisting of European and Chinese research institutes in the field of mathematics and computer science. LIAMA conducts research, training and transfer projects in these fields. CWI will join the lab as one of the founding members.

Matteo Mio wins Ackermann Award
Researcher Matteo Mio, who is currently hosted at CWI in the Formal Methods group as an ERCIM postdoctoral fellow, received the 2013 Ackermann Award for his PhD thesis 'Game Semantics for Probabilistic mu-Calculi'.

Two EU projects for Formal Methods group at CWI
At the end of August, the Formal Methods research group at CWI acquired two EU projects: Envisage and Upscale. At CWI, both FP7 projects each comprise two PhD students for three years. Envisage, starting on 1 October, investigates the development of new software techniques for cloud applications, in a consortium together with innovative industries.
Members
Associated Members
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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