Browsing by Author "Swearingen, Nathan"

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    Efficient Secure E-Voting and its Application in Cybersecurity Education
    (2022-05) Swearingen, Nathan; Zou, Xukai; Li, Feng; Hu, Qin
    As the need for large elections increases and computer networking becomes more widely used, e-voting has become a major topic of interest in the field of cryptography. However, lack of cryptography knowledge among the general public is one obstacle to widespread deployment. In this paper, we present an e-voting scheme based on an existing scheme. Our scheme features an efficient location anonymization technique built on homomorphic encryption. This technique does not require any participation from the voter other than receiving and summing location shares. Moreover, our scheme is simplified and offers more protection against misbehaving parties. We also give an in-depth security analysis, present performance results, compare our scheme with existing schemes, and describe how our research can be used to enhance cybersecurity education.
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    Hardware Speculation Vulnerabilities and Mitigations
    (IEEE, 2021-10) Swearingen, Nathan; Hosler, Ryan; Zou, Xukai; Computer and Information Science, School of Science
    This paper will discuss speculation vulnerabilities, which arise from hardware speculation, an optimization technique. Unlike many other types of vulnerabilities, these are very difficult to patch completely, and there are techniques developed to mitigate them. We will look at many of the variants of this type of vulnerability. We will look at the techniques mitigating those vulnerabilities and the effectiveness and scope of each. Finally, we will compare and evaluate different vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques and recommend how various mitigation techniques apply to different situations.