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
CWI works on Next Generation Internet
The Next Generation Internet POINTER fund has awarded CWI a grant to work on architectural renovation for the next generation Internet to replace BSD-style socket technology. The results will make a new generation of privacy-respecting, trustworthy and reliable Internet applications possible.
CWI introduces new design methodology for reliable and trustworthy software
To make the development process of software quick, efficient, reliable and automated, researcher Vlad-Nicolae Şerbănescu (CWI and LIACS) studied how to unify modelling and programming languages for reliable and trustworthy software.
Better parallel programming with help of ABS language
Current programming languages cannot use the full potential power of manycore chips. Keyvan Azadbakht studied the formal programming language ABS and extended the programming model and analysis techniques. He defended his PhD thesis on 11 December.
Grant for CWI to improve Next Generation Internet
NLnet Foundation awarded CWI with a grant to develop a replacement for a decades-old application programming technique for communication on the internet. This might result in an alternative to deep packet inspection for network operators that better protects privacy for users.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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Mols, B. (2021). Creating secure computing environments. I/O Magazine : ICT Research Platform Nederland, 18(1), 12–15.
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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
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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Anchormen
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Vitens