Publications related to Universal Windows Platform apps

A RISC-V Extension to Minimize Privileges of Enclave Runtimes

Edouard Bugnion, Neelu Shivprakash Kalani

In confidential computing, the view of the system software is Manichean: the host operating system is untrusted and the TEE runtime system is fully trusted. However, the runtime system is often as complex as a full operating system, and thus is not free fr ...

ACM2023

OPTIMADE, an API for exchanging materials data

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Martin Uhrin, Boris Kozinsky, Christoph Leopold Talirz, Snehal Pramod Kumbhar, Andrius Merkys, Casper Welzel Andersen, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Matthias Scheffler

The Open Databases Integration for Materials Design (OPTIMADE) consortium has designed a universal application programming interface (API) to make materials databases accessible and interoperable. We outline the first stable release of the specification, v ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

HideMyApp: Hiding the Presence of Sensitive Apps on Android

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, John Stephan, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Thi Van Anh Pham, Eleonora Losiouk

Millions of users rely on mobile health (mHealth) apps to manage their wellness and medical conditions. Although the popularity of such apps continues to grow, several privacy and security challenges can hinder their potential. In particular, the simple fa ...

Proceedings of the 28th USENIX Security Symposium2019

HideMyApp : Hiding the Presence of Sensitive Apps on Android

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, John Stephan, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Thi Van Anh Pham, Eleonora Losiouk

Millions of users rely on mobile health (mHealth) apps to manage their wellness and medical conditions. Although the popularity of such apps continues to grow, several privacy and security challenges can hinder their potential. In particular, the simple fa ...

2019

HideMyApp : Hiding the Presence of Sensitive Apps on Android

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, John Stephan, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Eleonora Losiouk

Millions of users rely on mobile health (mHealth) apps to manage their wellness and medical conditions. Although the popularity of such apps continues to grow, several privacy and security challenges can hinder their potential. In particular, the simple fa ...

USENIX ASSOC2019

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Mobile Applications and Services

Thi Van Anh Pham

Over a third of the world 's population owns a smartphone. As generic computing devices that support a large and heterogeneous collection of mobile applications (apps), smartphones provide a plethora of functionalities and services to billions of users. B ...

EPFL2019

"If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them'': A Usability Approach to Interdependent Privacy in Cloud Apps

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous

Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Google Drive, have growing ecosystems of 3rd party apps that are designed to work with users’ cloud files. Such apps often request full access to users’ files, including files shared with collaborators. Hence, whene ...

2017

Data-Driven Privacy Indicators

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman

Third party applications work on top of existing platforms that host users’ data. Although these apps access this data to provide users with specific services, they can also use it for monetization or profiling purposes. In practice, there is a significant ...

2016