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Record W3182478035 · doi:10.1145/3464971.3468418

Ensuring correct cryptographic algorithm and provider usage at compile time

2021· article· en· W3182478035 on OpenAlexaff
Weitian Xing, Yuanhui Cheng, Werner Dietl

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceCryptographyCryptographic primitiveAndroid (operating system)Cryptographic protocolHash functionEncryptionService providerComputer securityJavaKey encapsulationSecurity of cryptographic hash functionsKey managementSymmetric-key algorithmAlgorithmPublic-key cryptographyOperating systemService (business)

Abstract

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Using cryptographic APIs to encrypt and decrypt data, calculate digital signatures, or compute hashes is error prone. Weak or unsupported cryptographic algorithms can cause information leakage and runtime exceptions, such as a NoSuchAlgorithmException in Java. Using the wrong cryptographic service provider can also lead to unsupported cryptographic algorithms. Moreover, for Android developers who want to store their key material in the Android Keystore, misused cryptographic algorithms and providers make the key material unsafe.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.044
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.045

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.044
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0060.014
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.020

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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