The Summer Research Institute (SuRI) is a premier venue to discuss recent research results. Each year we invite the top faculty in a given topic to present their research in front of an interested crowd of students, faculty, researchers, fellows from EPFL, the Vaud area, Switzerland, and abroad.

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What a great time at the NDSS Symposium in San Diego. While it is always about meeting friends, catching up on projects, discussing new and exciting research and looking for potential collaborations, the HexHive lab also had the pleasure to present a total of four research papers at this conference …

The C++ language combines a massive potential for raw power with the massive risk of type and memory safety violations. The developer is inherently responsible for securing all executed code and to guarantee type safety and memory safety. We are particularly focused on type safety. In C++, developers can cast …

JavaScript engines face a dilemma: on one end, they need to be extremely efficient as they are processing millions of lines of JavaScript code, dynamically translating complex programs into efficient code. On the other end, the code may be controlled by an attacker that is trying to exploit bugs in …

Sanitizers serve as the primary bug detection Oracle during automated testing. They "crash" the program gracefully and tell the fuzzer when and where a bug was triggered. The most well-known sanitizer is ASan or AddressSanitizer which adds redzones around memory objects to detect whenever an access is out-of-bounds. MSan or …

Hypervisors power not just the cloud but are becoming a commodity in mobile phones and desktops as well. They separate virtual machines from each other, enabling strong isolation and security guarantees. In cloud environments, hypervisors separate non-trusting virtual machines and an attacker may try to compromise and gain access to …

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Another year, another CCC. It's been a long road from Berlin to Leipzig and Hamburg. Each year, I repeat the ritual of going to the "Kongress", the most amazing hacker get together in the world. The Kongress is special, hackers of all denominations meet, engage, hack, and enjoy a few …

2024 was an active year for the HexHive research group, marked by tireless efforts to enhance the security of various complex systems. A key trend throughout the year was the continued evolution of fuzzing research. Notably, we observed a gradual shift away from general-purpose fuzzing as a primary research focus …

Niklaus Wirth, known for his work on programming languages and systems, died on January 1st, 2024 (ETH Zurich). Wirth was known for his work on programming languages and systems with a keen focus on simplicity and functionality for which he was awarded the 1984 Turing Award. His most well-known language …