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Explaining the use of cryptographic API in Android malware
Full text linkCryptography allows for guaranteeing secure communications, concealing critical data from reverse engineering, or ensuring mobile users’ privacy. Android malware developers extensively leveraged cryptographic libraries to obfuscate and hide malicious behavior. Various system-based and third-party libraries provide cryptographic functionalities for Android, and their use and misuse by application developers have already been documented. This paper analyzes the use of cryptographic APIs in Android malware by comparing them to benign Android applications. In particular, Android applications released between 2012 and 2020 have been analyzed, and more than 1 million cryptographic API expressions have been gathered. We created a processing pipeline to produce a report to reveal trends and insights on how and why cryptography is employed in Android malware. Results showed that the usage of cryptographic APIs in malware differs from that made in benign applications. The different patterns in the use of cryptographic APIs in malware and benign applications have been further analyzed through the explanations of Android malware detectors based on machine learning approaches, showing how crypto-related features can improve detection performances. We observed that the transition to more robust cryptographic techniques is slower in Android malware than in benign applications
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Hardware generated keys for cryptographic systems and protocols
Full text linkThe main topic of this dissertation thesis is the generation of cryptographic keys in hardware and embedded systems. For lightweight and embedded devices, the True Random Number Generators (TRNGs) are usually implemented, utilizing non-deterministic eects in analogue or digital circuits, since this is resource and power ecient way. In the dissertation thesis we propose and analyze the secure TRNG design, as well as we deal with the proper testing of hardware based TRNG, attempting also attacking the device. Further, we present the authentication protocols based on Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) as the PUFs usage is promising to solve the issue of secure storage of cryptographic keys. Instead of storing the key in memory, the key is generated at the time it is needed. We designed combined PUF/TRNG circuit as a suitable alternative for the purpose of key generation and authentication. We show the possibilities of securing communication and authentication of the embedded systems and simple micro-controllers used in Internet of Things (IoT) devices, using PUF and TRNG for secure key generation, without requirement to store secrets on the device itself, thus allowing to signicantly simplify the problem of key management on the simple hardware devices and micro-controllers.The main topic of this dissertation thesis is the generation of cryptographic keys in hardware and embedded systems. For lightweight and embedded devices, the True Random Number Generators (TRNGs) are usually implemented, utilizing non-deterministic eects in analogue or digital circuits, since this is resource and power ecient way. In the dissertation thesis we propose and analyze the secure TRNG design, as well as we deal with the proper testing of hardware based TRNG, attempting also attacking the device. Further, we present the authentication protocols based on Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) as the PUFs usage is promising to solve the issue of secure storage of cryptographic keys. Instead of storing the key in memory, the key is generated at the time it is needed. We designed combined PUF/TRNG circuit as a suitable alternative for the purpose of key generation and authentication. We show the possibilities of securing communication and authentication of the embedded systems and simple micro-controllers used in Internet of Things (IoT) devices, using PUF and TRNG for secure key generation, without requirement to store secrets on the device itself, thus allowing to signicantly simplify the problem of key management on the simple hardware devices and micro-controllers
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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