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Security requirements are at the heart of developing secure, invulnerable software. Without embedding security principles in the software development life cycle, the likelihood of producing insecure software increases, putting the consumers of that software at great risk. For large-scale software development, this problem is complicated as there may be hundreds

Security requirements are at the heart of developing secure, invulnerable software. Without embedding security principles in the software development life cycle, the likelihood of producing insecure software increases, putting the consumers of that software at great risk. For large-scale software development, this problem is complicated as there may be hundreds or thousands of security requirements that need to be met, and it only worsens if the software development project is developed by a distributed development team. In this thesis, an approach is provided for software security requirement traceability for large-scale and complex software development projects being developed by distributed development teams. The approach utilizes blockchain technology to improve the automation of security requirement satisfaction and create a more transparent and trustworthy development environment for distributed development teams. The approach also introduces immutability, auditability, and non-repudiation into the security requirement traceability process. The approach is evaluated against existing software security requirement solutions.
ContributorsKulkarni, Adi Deepak (Author) / Yau, Stephen S. (Thesis advisor) / Banerjee, Ayan (Committee member) / Wang, Ruoyu (Committee member) / Baek, Jaejong (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
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The lack of fungibility in Bitcoin has forced its userbase to seek out tools that can heighten their anonymity. Third-party Bitcoin mixers utilize obfuscation techniques to protect participants from blockchain analysis. In recent years, various centralized and decentralized Bitcoin mixing implementations have been proposed in academic literature. Although these methods

The lack of fungibility in Bitcoin has forced its userbase to seek out tools that can heighten their anonymity. Third-party Bitcoin mixers utilize obfuscation techniques to protect participants from blockchain analysis. In recent years, various centralized and decentralized Bitcoin mixing implementations have been proposed in academic literature. Although these methods depict a threat-free environment for users to preserve their anonymity, public Bitcoin mixers continue to be associated with theft and poor implementation.

This research explores the public Bitcoin mixer ecosystem to identify if today's mixing services have adopted academically proposed solutions. This is done through real-world interactions with publicly available mixers to analyze both implementation and resistance to common threats in the mixing landscape. First, proposed decentralized and centralized mixing protocols found in literature are outlined. Then, data is presented from 19 publicly announced mixing services available on the deep web and clearnet. The services are categorized based on popularity with the Bitcoin community and experiments are conducted on five public mixing services: ChipMixer, MixTum, Bitcoin Mixer, CryptoMixer, and Sudoku Wallet.

The results of the experiments highlight a clear gap between public and proposed Bitcoin mixers in both implementation and security. Today's mixing services focus on presenting users with a false sense of control to gain their trust rather then employing secure mixing techniques. As a result, the five selected services lack implementation of academically proposed techniques and display poor resistance to common mixer-related threats.
ContributorsPakki, Jaswant (Author) / Doupe, Adam (Thesis advisor) / Shoshitaishvili, Yan (Committee member) / Wang, Ruoyu (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020
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DescriptionA two-way deterministic finite pushdown automaton ("2PDA") is developed for the Lua language. This 2PDA is evaluated against both a purpose-built Lua syntax test suite and the test suite used by the reference implementation of Lua, and fully passes both.
ContributorsStevens, Kevin A (Author) / Shoshitaishvili, Yan (Thesis director) / Wang, Ruoyu (Committee member) / School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05