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SVLAN: Secure & Scalable Network Virtualization

Jonghoon Kwon (ETH), Taeho Lee (ETH), Claude Hähni (ETH), Adrian Perrig (ETH)

Network isolation is a critical modern Internet service. To date, network operators have created a logical network of distributed systems to provide communication isolation between different parties. However, the current network isolation is limited in scalability and flexibility. It limits the number of virtual networks and it only supports isolation at host (or virtual-machine) granularity. In this paper, we introduce Scalable Virtual Local Area Networking (SVLAN) that scales to a large number of distributed systems and offers improved flexibility in providing secure network isolation. With the notion of destination-driven reachability and packet-carrying forwarding state, SVLAN not only offers communication isolation but isolation can be specified at different granularities, e.g., per-application or per-process. Our proof-of-concept SVLAN implementation demonstrates its feasibility and practicality for real-world applications.

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Jared M. Smith (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Kyle Birkeland (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Tyler McDaniel (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Max Schuchard (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

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Towards Plausible Graph Anonymization

Yang Zhang (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Mathias Humbert (armasuisse Science and Technology), Bartlomiej Surma (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Praveen Manoharan (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Jilles Vreeken (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Michael Backes (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)

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ConTExT: A Generic Approach for Mitigating Spectre

Michael Schwarz (Graz University of Technology), Moritz Lipp (Graz University of Technology), Claudio Canella (Graz University of Technology), Robert Schilling (Graz University of Technology and Know-Center GmbH), Florian Kargl (Graz University of Technology), Daniel Gruss (Graz University of Technology)

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