Top-100 Security Papers

This webpage is an attempt to assemble a ranking of top-cited papers from the area of computer security. The ranking has been created based on citations of papers published at top security conferences. More details are available here.

Top 100 papers from 1980 to 2025 ⌄

  1. 1
    Nicholas Carlini and David A. Wagner:
    Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Neural Networks.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2017
    11403 cites at Google Scholar
    6950% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Vipul Goyal, Omkant Pandey, Amit Sahai, and Brent Waters:
    Attribute-based encryption for fine-grained access control of encrypted data.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006
    7275 cites at Google Scholar
    3892% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    John Bethencourt, Amit Sahai, and Brent Waters:
    Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2007
    7152 cites at Google Scholar
    3316% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway:
    Random Oracles are Practical: A Paradigm for Designing Efficient Protocols.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 1993
    6912 cites at Google Scholar
    4549% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and Paul F. Syverson:
    Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2004
    6666 cites at Google Scholar
    2731% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Reza Shokri, Marco Stronati, Congzheng Song, and Vitaly Shmatikov:
    Membership Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2017
    6097 cites at Google Scholar
    3670% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Laurent Eschenauer and Virgil D. Gligor:
    A key-management scheme for distributed sensor networks.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002
    5594 cites at Google Scholar
    1980% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Dawn Xiaodong Song, David A. Wagner, and Adrian Perrig:
    Practical Techniques for Searches on Encrypted Data.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2000
    5458 cites at Google Scholar
    2912% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Nicolas Papernot, Patrick D. McDaniel, Somesh Jha, Matt Fredrikson, Z. Berkay Celik, and Ananthram Swami:
    The Limitations of Deep Learning in Adversarial Settings.
    IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2016
    5457 cites at Google Scholar
    3253% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Nicolas Papernot, Patrick D. McDaniel, Ian J. Goodfellow, Somesh Jha, Z. Berkay Celik, and Ananthram Swami:
    Practical Black-Box Attacks against Machine Learning.
    ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2017
    4733 cites at Google Scholar
    2826% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Haowen Chan, Adrian Perrig, and Dawn Xiaodong Song:
    Random Key Predistribution Schemes for Sensor Networks.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2003
    4449 cites at Google Scholar
    1530% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Vern Paxson:
    Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 1998
    4202 cites at Google Scholar
    2037% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Nicolas Papernot, Patrick D. McDaniel, Xi Wu, Somesh Jha, and Ananthram Swami:
    Distillation as a Defense to Adversarial Perturbations Against Deep Neural Networks.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2016
    4190 cites at Google Scholar
    2474% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Giuseppe Ateniese, Randal C. Burns, Reza Curtmola, Joseph Herring, Lea Kissner, Zachary N. J. Peterson, and Dawn Xiaodong Song:
    Provable data possession at untrusted stores.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
    4185 cites at Google Scholar
    1899% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Yao Liu, Michael K. Reiter, and Peng Ning:
    False data injection attacks against state estimation in electric power grids.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
    4010 cites at Google Scholar
    2082% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Kallista A. Bonawitz, Vladimir Ivanov, Ben Kreuter, Antonio Marcedone, H. Brendan McMahan, Sarvar Patel, Daniel Ramage, Aaron Segal, and Karn Seth:
    Practical Secure Aggregation for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2017
    3922 cites at Google Scholar
    2325% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Matt Fredrikson, Somesh Jha, and Thomas Ristenpart:
    Model Inversion Attacks that Exploit Confidence Information and Basic Countermeasures.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2015
    3831 cites at Google Scholar
    2673% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov:
    Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2008
    3736 cites at Google Scholar
    2214% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Paul Kocher, Jann Horn, Anders Fogh, Daniel Genkin, Daniel Gruss, Werner Haas, Mike Hamburg, Moritz Lipp, Stefan Mangard, Thomas Prescher, Michael Schwarz, and Yuval Yarom:
    Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2019
    3562 cites at Google Scholar
    3133% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Reza Curtmola, Juan A. Garay, Seny Kamara, and Rafail Ostrovsky:
    Searchable symmetric encryption: improved definitions and efficient constructions.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006
    3528 cites at Google Scholar
    1836% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  21. 21
    Matt Blaze, Joan Feigenbaum, and Jack Lacy:
    Decentralized Trust Management.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 1996
    3445 cites at Google Scholar
    2104% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  22. 22
    Ahmed E. Kosba, Andrew Miller, Elaine Shi, Zikai Wen, and Charalampos Papamanthou:
    Hawk: The Blockchain Model of Cryptography and Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2016
    3400 cites at Google Scholar
    1989% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  23. 23
    Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross:
    Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook.
    International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), 2006
    3380 cites at Google Scholar
    1755% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  24. 24
    Stephanie Forrest, Alan S. Perelson, Lawrence Allen, and Rajesh Cherukuri:
    Self-nonself discrimination in a computer.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 1994
    3315 cites at Google Scholar
    3313% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  25. 25
    Reza Shokri and Vitaly Shmatikov:
    Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2015
    3223 cites at Google Scholar
    2233% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  26. 26
    Joseph A. Goguen and José Meseguer:
    Security Policies and Security Models.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 1982
    3210 cites at Google Scholar
    1402% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  27. 27
    Stephanie Forrest, Steven A. Hofmeyr, Anil Somayaji, and Thomas A. Longstaff:
    A Sense of Self for Unix Processes.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 1996
    3131 cites at Google Scholar
    1903% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  28. 28
    Yajin Zhou and Xuxian Jiang:
    Dissecting Android Malware: Characterization and Evolution.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2012
    3115 cites at Google Scholar
    1703% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  29. 29
    Daniel Arp, Michael Spreitzenbarth, Malte Hubner, Hugo Gascon, and Konrad Rieck:
    DREBIN: Effective and Explainable Detection of Android Malware in Your Pocket.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2014
    3090 cites at Google Scholar
    1989% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  30. 30
    Thomas Ristenpart, Eran Tromer, Hovav Shacham, and Stefan Savage:
    Hey, you, get off of my cloud: exploring information leakage in third-party compute clouds.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
    3068 cites at Google Scholar
    1570% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  31. 31
    Ari Juels and Burton S. Kaliski Jr.:
    Pors: proofs of retrievability for large files.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
    2997 cites at Google Scholar
    1331% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  32. 32
    Manos Antonakakis, Tim April, Michael D. Bailey, Matt Bernhard, Elie Bursztein, Jaime Cochran, Zakir Durumeric, J. Alex Halderman, Luca Invernizzi, Michalis Kallitsis, Deepak Kumar, Chaz Lever, Zane Ma, Joshua Mason, Damian Menscher, Chad Seaman, Nick Sullivan, Kurt Thomas, and Yi Zhou:
    Understanding the Mirai Botnet.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2017
    2983 cites at Google Scholar
    1744% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  33. 33
    Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Thomas Prescher, Werner Haas, Anders Fogh, Jann Horn, Stefan Mangard, Paul Kocher, Daniel Genkin, Yuval Yarom, and Mike Hamburg:
    Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2018
    2928 cites at Google Scholar
    2044% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  34. 34
    Loi Luu, Duc-Hiep Chu, Hrishi Olickel, Prateek Saxena, and Aquinas Hobor:
    Making Smart Contracts Smarter.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2016
    2918 cites at Google Scholar
    1693% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  35. 35
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer, and Madars Virza:
    Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2014
    2893 cites at Google Scholar
    1856% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  36. 36
    Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, and Sushil Jajodia:
    LEAP: efficient security mechanisms for large-scale distributed sensor networks.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2003
    2796 cites at Google Scholar
    924% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  37. 37
    Martín Abadi, Mihai Budiu, Úlfar Erlingsson, and Jay Ligatti:
    Control-flow integrity.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2005
    2706 cites at Google Scholar
    1335% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  38. 38
    Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Shwetak N. Patel, Tadayoshi Kohno, Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, and Stefan Savage:
    Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2010
    2691 cites at Google Scholar
    1541% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  39. 39
    Donggang Liu and Peng Ning:
    Establishing pairwise keys in distributed sensor networks.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2003
    2662 cites at Google Scholar
    875% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  40. 40
    Úlfar Erlingsson, Vasyl Pihur, and Aleksandra Korolova:
    RAPPOR: Randomized Aggregatable Privacy-Preserving Ordinal Response.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2014
    2600 cites at Google Scholar
    1658% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  41. 41
    Florian Tramèr, Fan Zhang, Ari Juels, Michael K. Reiter, and Thomas Ristenpart:
    Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2016
    2557 cites at Google Scholar
    1471% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  42. 42
    Nicholas Carlini, Florian Tramèr, Eric Wallace, Matthew Jagielski, Ariel Herbert-Voss, Katherine Lee, Adam Roberts, Tom B. Brown, Dawn Song, Úlfar Erlingsson, Alina Oprea, and Colin Raffel:
    Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2021
    2538 cites at Google Scholar
    4774% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  43. 43
    Payman Mohassel and Yupeng Zhang:
    SecureML: A System for Scalable Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2017
    2514 cites at Google Scholar
    1454% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  44. 44
    Crispin Cowan, Calton Pu, Dave Maier, Heather Hintony, Jonathan Walpole, Peat Bakke, Steve Beattie, Aaron Grier, Perry Wagle, and Qian Zhang:
    StackGuard: Automatic Adaptive Detection and Prevention of Buffer-Overflow Attacks.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 1998
    2479 cites at Google Scholar
    1161% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  45. 45
    James Newsome and Dawn Xiaodong Song:
    Dynamic Taint Analysis for Automatic Detection, Analysis, and SignatureGeneration of Exploits on Commodity Software.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2005
    2472 cites at Google Scholar
    1211% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  46. 46
    Robin Sommer and Vern Paxson:
    Outside the Closed World: On Using Machine Learning for Network Intrusion Detection.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2010
    2449 cites at Google Scholar
    1394% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  47. 47
    Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno:
    Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2011
    2430 cites at Google Scholar
    1349% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  48. 48
    Weilin Xu, David Evans, and Yanjun Qi:
    Feature Squeezing: Detecting Adversarial Examples in Deep Neural Networks.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2018
    2403 cites at Google Scholar
    1660% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  49. 49
    Ralph C. Merkle:
    Protocols for Public Key Cryptosystems.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 1980
    2392 cites at Google Scholar
    1223% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  50. 50
    Steven M. Bellovin and Michael Merritt:
    Encrypted key exchange: password-based protocols secure against dictionary attacks.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 1992
    2308 cites at Google Scholar
    2365% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  51. 51
    Tal Garfinkel and Mendel Rosenblum:
    A Virtual Machine Introspection Based Architecture for Intrusion Detection.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2003
    2305 cites at Google Scholar
    745% above average of year
    Visited: Apr-2025
    Paper: DOI
  52. 52
    Ari Juels and Martin Wattenberg:
    A Fuzzy Commitment Scheme.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 1999
    2300 cites at Google Scholar
    1378% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  53. 53
    Blaise Gassend, Dwaine E. Clarke, Marten van Dijk, and Srinivas Devadas:
    Silicon physical random functions.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002
    2292 cites at Google Scholar
    752% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  54. 54
    David Moore, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage:
    Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2001
    2246 cites at Google Scholar
    1005% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  55. 55
    Arthur Gervais, Ghassan O. Karame, Karl Wüst, Vasileios Glykantzis, Hubert Ritzdorf, and Srdjan Capkun:
    On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2016
    2240 cites at Google Scholar
    1276% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  56. 56
    Luca Melis, Congzheng Song, Emiliano De Cristofaro, and Vitaly Shmatikov:
    Exploiting Unintended Feature Leakage in Collaborative Learning.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2019
    2221 cites at Google Scholar
    1916% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  57. 57
    Yuval Yarom and Katrina Falkner:
    FLUSH+RELOAD: A High Resolution, Low Noise, L3 Cache Side-Channel Attack.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2014
    2208 cites at Google Scholar
    1393% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  58. 58
    Giuseppe Ateniese, Kevin Fu, Matthew Green, and Susan Hohenberger:
    Improved Proxy Re-Encryption Schemes with Applications to Secure Distributed Storage.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2005
    2199 cites at Google Scholar
    1066% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  59. 59
    Adrienne Porter Felt, Erika Chin, Steve Hanna, Dawn Song, and David A. Wagner:
    Android permissions demystified.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2011
    2174 cites at Google Scholar
    1196% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  60. 60
    Wenke Lee and Salvatore J. Stolfo:
    Data Mining Approaches for Intrusion Detection.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 1998
    2167 cites at Google Scholar
    1002% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  61. 61
    Mahmood Sharif, Sruti Bhagavatula, Lujo Bauer, and Michael K. Reiter:
    Accessorize to a Crime: Real and Stealthy Attacks on State-of-the-Art Face Recognition.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2016
    2118 cites at Google Scholar
    1201% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  62. 62
    Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, Gene Tsudik, and Steven Tuecke:
    A Security Architecture for Computational Grids.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 1998
    2112 cites at Google Scholar
    974% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  63. 63
    Wenke Lee, Salvatore J. Stolfo, and Kui W. Mok:
    A Data Mining Framework for Building Intrusion Detection Models.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 1999
    2109 cites at Google Scholar
    1255% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  64. 64
    Hovav Shacham:
    The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone: return-into-libc without function calls (on the x86).
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
    2109 cites at Google Scholar
    907% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  65. 65
    David D. Clark and D. R. Wilson:
    A Comparison of Commercial and Military Computer Security Policies.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 1987
    2045 cites at Google Scholar
    1215% above average of year
    Visited: Apr-2025
    Paper: DOI
  66. 66
    Alma Whitten and J. Doug Tygar:
    Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 1999
    2042 cites at Google Scholar
    1212% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  67. 67
    Oleg Sheyner, Joshua W. Haines, Somesh Jha, Richard Lippmann, and Jeannette M. Wing:
    Automated Generation and Analysis of Attack Graphs.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2002
    1997 cites at Google Scholar
    643% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  68. 68
    Min Du, Feifei Li, Guineng Zheng, and Vivek Srikumar:
    DeepLog: Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis from System Logs through Deep Learning.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2017
    1961 cites at Google Scholar
    1112% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  69. 69
    Joseph Bonneau, Andrew Miller, Jeremy Clark, Arvind Narayanan, Joshua A. Kroll, and Edward W. Felten:
    SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2015
    1944 cites at Google Scholar
    1307% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  70. 70
    C. Christopher Erway, Alptekin Küpçü, Charalampos Papamanthou, and Roberto Tamassia:
    Dynamic provable data possession.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
    1942 cites at Google Scholar
    957% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  71. 71
    J. Alex Halderman, Seth D. Schoen, Nadia Heninger, William Clarkson, William Paul, Joseph A. Calandrino, Ariel J. Feldman, Jacob Appelbaum, and Edward W. Felten:
    Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2008
    1933 cites at Google Scholar
    1097% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  72. 72
    Ilya Mironov:
    Rényi Differential Privacy.
    IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), 2017
    1908 cites at Google Scholar
    1080% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  73. 73
    Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov:
    De-anonymizing Social Networks.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2009
    1894 cites at Google Scholar
    931% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  74. 74
    Christina Warrender, Stephanie Forrest, and Barak A. Pearlmutter:
    Detecting Intrusions using System Calls: Alternative Data Models.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 1999
    1886 cites at Google Scholar
    1112% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  75. 75
    Loi Luu, Viswesh Narayanan, Chaodong Zheng, Kunal Baweja, Seth Gilbert, and Prateek Saxena:
    A Secure Sharding Protocol For Open Blockchains.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2016
    1874 cites at Google Scholar
    1051% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  76. 76
    Milad Nasr, Reza Shokri, and Amir Houmansadr:
    Comprehensive Privacy Analysis of Deep Learning: Passive and Active White-box Inference Attacks against Centralized and Federated Learning.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2019
    1860 cites at Google Scholar
    1588% above average of year
    Visited: Apr-2025
    Paper: DOI
  77. 77
    Bolun Wang, Yuanshun Yao, Shawn Shan, Huiying Li, Bimal Viswanath, Haitao Zheng, and Ben Y. Zhao:
    Neural Cleanse: Identifying and Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Neural Networks.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2019
    1859 cites at Google Scholar
    1587% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  78. 78
    Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. Levin, and David A. Molnar:
    Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing.
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