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Don't Trust the Code, Check Its Effects: Runtime Refinement for Regenerated Systems Code Under an Adversarial Generator

Recent work uses large language models to generate systems code from specifications, treating the specification as the durable artifact and the implementation as disposable. Regenerating the implementation specializes it to each workload and device. However, that work lives in a forgiving setting: a component's externally visible effects, its writes and device commands, are recoverable, and the generator is honest, so trust is discharged by re-execution. We target the unforgiving setting: systems code whose effects are irreversible, produced by a generator that may be adversarial. There, re-execution cannot check an effect after the fact, and a proof fails silently when its assumptions do. We take the position that the only safe way to operate here is to deny the generated code the authority to act. The generated code only plans, while a fixed trusted mediator owns every effect and performs one only when the specification would have produced it. Because the guarantee lives in the mediator, not the code, it survives regeneration. We instantiate this as a reference monitor for regenerated device drivers, and characterize the mediability envelope, six conditions on the effect vocabulary: legibility, spec-input observability, correlatability, completeness, outcome enumerability, and explicit durability. They decide when such mediation is possible.

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Capability-Gated Language Models: Security Composes, Utility Does Not

Deployed language model safeguards (safety fine-tuning, filtering, unlearning) vary by principal only outside the model weights: filters are reconfigured, tiers are multiplied, and artefacts are reissued; inside one set of weights every request meets the same model configuration. This motivates us to define capability-gated deployment: per-principal access control inside one set of weights, whose configurations form a lattice - meets accumulate a principal's restrictions and joins pool a coalition's reach. We instantiate it by sparse rank gating over an existing nested-factorisation mechanism, guide profile search with one-pass attribution, and read every result once from a pre-registered held-out split. Security approximately composes: provably exactly at meets under a monotone-elicitation assumption we falsify pointwise. In two lineages the median held-out meet deepens suppression; the one effect surviving correction strengthens it. Utility does not: individually harmless profiles can compose to retention and fluency damage, and no compositional bound exists.

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Does Reasoning Mitigate Backdoor Attacks? A Neuro-Symbolic Perspective

Neuro-Symbolic (NeSy) AI has recently emerged as a novel paradigm to enable trustworthy AI, aiming at integrating sub-symbolic neural perception with grounded symbolic reasoning. The neuro-symbolic integration process that characterizes these models has been proven beneficial to achieve more transparent, explainable and efficient AI systems. Meanwhile, their properties under adversarial settings have been overlooked being frequently deemed robust-by-design. However, the neural-symbolic integration process they leverage constitutes an additional layer of complexity that may provide an attack entry-point. Therefore, in this paper, we claim that an in-depth investigation of the adversarial robustness of NeSy models is necessary and provide the first systematic evaluation of backdoor attacks against NeSy. To this end, we compare the most popular NeSy framework, namely DeepProbLog, against baseline neural networks across a total of eight backdoor settings and four reasoning tasks. Our experimental results show that while NeSy models are indeed more robust than their neural counterpart on average, their robustness vastly depend on the strictness of the reasoning process being enforced and its compatibility with the chosen adversarial target. The source code to reproduce our experiments is made available at https://github.com/marcoantoniocorallo/NeSy-Backdoor.

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TRIS: A Tri-Layer Retrieval Integrity Sieve Against Knowledge Poisoning

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounds large language models in external corpora, but implicit trust in retrieved documents creates a critical attack surface: PoisonedRAG shows that a handful of crafted passages can dominate dense retrieval and steer generation toward attacker-chosen answers. We present the Tri-Layer Sieve, a middleware defense that sanitizes retrieved evidence through cross-embedding-space clustering with an independent judge model, structural filtering of trigger-payload artifacts, and LLM consistency verification. The design exploits a key weakness of retrieval-stage poisoning: a single document must satisfy one embedding geometry, one internal Trigger-Payload structure, and one generation objective - rarely all three simultaneously, a fragility that persists even against an adaptive attacker who paraphrases around it. On Natural Questions, HotpotQA, and MS-MARCO with Contriever retrieval (k=50), the Sieve reduces black-box Attack Success Rate from 67.0/87.0/64.0% to 3.0/14.0/4.0%, mitigates white-box HotFlip attacks from ~74% to 27.8% on NQ with Layer 3 enabled, and drives poisoned-document MRR to 0.000, while restoring clean accuracy from 13-33% under attack to 58-76%. Under an architecture-aware adversary who paraphrases triggers to evade the structural filter, enabling the consistency layer halves adaptive ASR (32.0% to 15.0% on NQ) while raising clean accuracy by 18 points, at an added latency of ~16-19 s/query under live retrieval.

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EvoFlint: An Evolutionary Atlas of Multi-Turn LLM Vulnerabilities

Frontier language models that refuse harmful single-turn prompts often comply when the same intent is reached gradually over many turns, making multi-turn attacks one of the least understood failure modes of large language models. Most automated red-teaming methods treat this as a generation problem: produce attacks that break the model. We argue it is better framed as a search problem: discover, organize, and iteratively refine a diverse archive of attack strategies, producing a structured map of how a target model fails rather than a list of one-off successes. We introduce EvoFlint, which applies evolutionary quality-diversity search to multi-turn red-teaming. Attack strategies are phased conversation plans, not raw prompts, and are evolved through LLM-driven mutation and crossover. A Pareto fitness over attack success rate and peak severity preserves selection signal from near-miss attacks. A risk-indexed archive runs novelty search with local competition over strategy description embeddings inside each cell, maintaining diversity without committing to a predefined style taxonomy. A generation-level memory accumulates target-model insights across the population and feeds them back into strategy generation. On the HarmBench-test split, EvoFlint reaches attack success rates of 35.8% on Claude Sonnet 4.6, 59.7% on GPT-5.4, and 94.3% on Qwen3-32B, alongside 98.7% on the older GPT-4o included as a baseline reference. The resulting archive, organized by risk category, exposes for each target which categories of harm its safety training has and has not covered.

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Context Inference Attacks Without Jailbreaks

Agentic AI systems are increasingly deployed to process sensitive data at inference time, such as healthcare records or financial documents assembled into a hidden \emph{context} before the system answers. Prior work has studied privacy risks primarily through \emph{jailbreaking} attacks that induce models to directly disclose sensitive content, but has largely overlooked the agentic setting where the context is assembled by the agent's own tool calls. We show that the agents we evaluate remain vulnerable to hidden-context leakage despite the controls we test against them, namely an instruction not to disclose the context, logit suppression, and context dilution. For instance, a web-browsing agent answering benign user queries still carries exploitable signals about records silently loaded into its context. We introduce and formalize \emph{context-inference attacks} through a security game and evaluate three settings under decreasing attacker knowledge and increasingly indirect delivery of the context: a known context, an unknown context, and a context the agent retrieves through its own tool calls. We distinguish a grey-box setting, in which the target model is used to score observations, from black-box settings in which the attacker scores with a surrogate it controls. We further characterize how leakage varies with query budget, context size, and target-model size. A single attack carries through all three settings without modification, reaching $100\%$ ASR on small candidate sets and $63\%$ at $1024$ candidates against a known context, $78.9$ AUROC when the template and surrounding records are unknown, $92.5$ AUROC when a 14B surrogate scores a 32B target, and $81.8$ AUROC when the records arrive as an agent's retrieval returns, against chance rates of $1/|\mathcal{Z}|$ and $50$ respectively.

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A Public-Key-Dependent Adversarial-Deletion Ceiling for Fixed-Alphabet Multi-Bit Pseudorandom Codes

A pseudorandom code (PRC) is a keyed error-correcting code whose codewords are computationally indistinguishable from uniform strings. We study public-key PRCs over fixed alphabets against adversarial deletions, where the deletion channel may both depend on the public encoding key and the transmitted codeword. Let $γ_q^{\mathrm{LCS}}$ denote the asymptotic normalised longest-common-subsequence length of two independent uniform $q$-ary strings. We prove that for every fixed $q\ge2$ no multi-message public-key PRC with a single-output decoder is robust against all such $δ$-deletion channels for any $δ>1-γ_q^{\mathrm{LCS}}$. For $q=2$, the current rigorous bound $γ_2\ge0.792665992$ rules out every constant $δ>0.207334008$. The proof uses pseudorandomness only to transfer an LCS event from uniform strings to independently sampled codewords and therefore also the resulting collision argument is information-theoretic and requires no secret key. We also extend the argument to list decoding: for every fixed constant $L$, provided the message space contains at least $L+1$ messages, no such PRC with output lists of size at most $L$ is robust for $δ>1-γ_2^{(L+1)}$. Since $γ_2^{(m)}=1/2+Θ(1/\sqrt m)$, these thresholds approach $1/2$. Our bounds are specific to public-key-dependent adversarial channels and do not apply to oblivious edit channels.

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Privacy-Preserving LLM Embedding Transmission for End-Cloud Collaboration

Recent studies improve on-device language model (LM) inference through end-cloud collaboration, where the end device retrieves useful information from cloud databases to enhance local processing, known as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Typically, to retrieve information from the cloud while safeguarding privacy, the end device transforms original data into embeddings with a local embedding model. However, the recently emerging Embedding Inversion Attacks (EIAs) can still recover the original data from text embeddings (e.g., training a recovery model to map embeddings back to original texts), posing a significant threat to user privacy. To address this risk, we propose EntroGuard, an entropy-driven perturbation-based embedding privacy protection method, which can protect the privacy of text embeddings while maintaining retrieval accuracy during the end-cloud collaboration. Specifically, to defeat various EIAs, we perturb the embeddings to increase the entropy of the recovered text in the common structure of transformer-based recovery models, thus steering the embeddings toward meaningless texts rather than original sensitive texts during the recovery process. To maintain retrieval performance in the cloud, we constrain the perturbations within a bound, applying the strategy of reducing them where redundant and increasing them where sparse. Moreover, EntroGuard can be directly integrated into end devices without requiring any modifications to the embedding model. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that EntroGuard effectively reduces privacy leakage metrics to near-zero levels against learning-based EIAs while also mitigating optimization-based EIAs with negligible loss of retrieval performance.

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Disappearing Ink: Obfuscation Breaks N-gram Code Watermarks in Theory and Practice

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for code generation, making reliable identification of machine-generated code important for attribution, tracking, and misuse detection. Existing code watermarking methods are dominated by N-gram-based schemes, yet their robustness has mostly been evaluated only against simple edits or optimizations. We argue that this significantly overstates security, because software engineering already provides stronger semantics-preserving transformations in the form of code obfuscation. We study N-gram-based code watermarking under obfuscation. We formally model semantics-preserving transformations as a Markov random walk and prove that, under an intuitive and experimentally supported assumption called distribution consistency, obfuscation can nullify the robustness of N-gram-based watermarks. If the original detector has a false positive rate fpr, then after obfuscation, its failure rate on watermarked code approaches 1 - fpr. We validate this theory on three state-of-the-art watermarking schemes, two LLMs, two programming languages, four benchmarks, and four obfuscators. Across all settings, detectors collapse to near-random performance on obfuscated code (AUROC tightly around 0.5), and for each language, at least one attack leaves all post-obfuscation AUROC scores below 0.6. These results jointly show that current N-gram-based code watermarks are not robust to realistic obfuscation attacks and motivate more semantics-aware alternatives.

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Breaking the Code: Security Assessment of AI Code Agents Through Systematic Jailbreaking Attacks

Code-capable large language model (LLM) agents are embedded in software engineering workflows where they can read, write, and execute code, raising "jailbreak" stakes beyond text-only settings. Prior evaluations emphasize refusal or harmful-text detection, leaving open whether agents compile and run malicious programs. We present JAWS-Bench (Jailbreaks Across WorkSpaces), a benchmark spanning three escalating workspace regimes mirroring attacker capability: empty (JAWS-0), single-file (JAWS-1), and multi-file (JAWS-M). We pair it with a hierarchical, executable-aware Judge Framework that tests (i) compliance, (ii) attack success, (iii) syntactic correctness, and (iv) runtime executability to measure deployable harm. Across seven LLM backends from five families, prompt-only attacks in JAWS-0 achieve 61% compliance; 58% are harmful, 52% parse, and 27% run end-to-end. In JAWS-1, compliance reaches ~100% for stronger models with a mean ASR (Attack Success Rate) ~71%; JAWS-M raises mean ASR to ~75%, with 32% runnable attack code. Wrapping an LLM in an agent increases ASR by 1.6$\times$, by overturning initial refusals during planning and tool use. Additional evaluations with SWE-Agent and OpenAI Codex exhibit similar trends, indicating that JAWS-Bench can be reused across multiple agent frameworks. Category analyses identify which attack classes are most vulnerable and deployable, motivating execution-aware defenses and refusal-preserving agent designs.

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Resolving Availability and Run-time Integrity Conflicts in Real-Time Embedded Systems

Run-time integrity enforcement in real-time systems presents a fundamental conflict with availability. Existing approaches in real-time systems primarily focus on minimizing the execution-time overhead of monitoring. After a violation is detected, prior works face a trade-off: (1) prioritize availability and allow a compromised system to continue to ensure applications meet their deadlines, or (2) prioritize security by generating a fault to abort all execution. In this work, we propose PAIR, an approach that offers a middle ground between the stark extremes of this trade-off. PAIR monitors real-time tasks for run-time integrity violations and maintains an Availability Region (AR) of all tasks that are safe to continue. When a task causes a violation, PAIR triggers a non-maskable interrupt to kill the task and continue executing a non-violating task within AR. Thus, PAIR ensures only violating tasks are prevented from execution, while granting availability to remaining tasks. With its hardware approach, PAIR does not cause any run-time overhead to the executing tasks, integrates with real-time operating systems (RTOSs), and is affordable to low-end microcontroller units (MCUs) by incurring +2.3% overhead in memory and hardware usage.

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AgenTRIM: Tool Risk Mitigation for Agentic AI

AI agents are autonomous systems that combine LLMs with external tools to solve complex tasks. While such tools extend capability, improper tool permissions introduce security risks such as indirect prompt injection and tool misuse. We characterize these failures as unbalanced tool-driven agency. Agents may retain unnecessary permissions (excessive agency) or fail to invoke required tools (insufficient agency), amplifying the attack surface and reducing performance. We introduce AgenTRIM, a framework for detecting and mitigating tool-driven agency risks without altering an agent's internal reasoning. AgenTRIM addresses these risks through complementary offline and online phases. Offline, AgenTRIM reconstructs and verifies the agent's tool interface from code and execution traces. At runtime, it enforces per-step least-privilege tool access through adaptive filtering and status-aware validation of tool calls. Evaluating on the AgentDojo benchmark, AgenTRIM substantially reduces attack success while maintaining high task performance. Additional experiments show robustness to description-based attacks and effective enforcement of explicit safety policies. Together, these results show that AgenTRIM provides a practical, capability-preserving approach to safer tool use in LLM-based agents.

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"Setting up TLS authentication was hell": A Usability Study of Client Certificate Authentication

"Cryptography turns a security problem into a key management problem." Despite decades of research effort towards usable key management, it remains unclear whether key management issues are inherent to every cryptographic system or merely artifacts of specific designs. To investigate, this paper presents a user study of mutual TLS (mTLS) usability, tracking 46 senior and graduate computer science students, highly technical users who configured client certificates, used them for routine authentication over a semester-long course, and managed credentials across multiple devices. Our results show that initial setup and setting up credentials on a second device are difficult, while routine authentication is easy once configured. Nevertheless, perceived usability remained low, and alarmingly, only 9 percent of participants fully understood mTLS security implications and key management. Our findings demonstrate that usability challenges shift across the credential lifecycle depending on system architecture. We conclude by offering design recommendations for future key management systems to better support users across the complete credential lifecycle.

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Relevance as a Vulnerability: How Web Retrieval Degrades Safety Alignment in LLM Agents

AI agents augment large language models with external tools such as web retrieval, enabling grounded and up-to-date responses. However, incorporating external content into the generation pipeline can weaken the safety alignment mechanisms that govern model outputs. Prior work shows that enabling retrieval in agents increases compliance with harmful requests. We introduce AgentREVEAL, a diagnostic framework for analyzing retrieval-induced safety degradation in LLM agents. The framework examines two axes: how retrieval is integrated into the agent pipeline and the properties of the retrieved content. Along the integration axis, we find that binding tool invocation and response generation in a single step amplifies harmful outputs. Along the content axis, we uncover the Safe Source Paradox: even oppositional or safety-oriented sources, such as pages containing warnings or risk disclaimers, can increase harmful compliance by an average of 25% compared to the no-retrieval baseline. Finally, we show that relevance acts as a shared activation condition for both vulnerabilities. Similar patterns appear on frontier closed models, and harmful compliance remains elevated under several representative pipeline interventions, with some agents also entering this regime under autonomous retrieval. Because relevance is also what makes retrieval useful, these results expose a safety-utility trade-off for retrieval-enabled agents. We introduce HarmURLBench, a benchmark containing 1,405 real-world URLs paired with 320 harmful behaviors to support future evaluations.

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Privacy-Enhanced Zero-Order Federated Learning via xMK-CKKS over Wireless Channels

Homomorphic encryption (HE) enables privacy-preserving aggregation in federated learning (FL) by allowing the server to operate on encrypted data without decryption. Existing HE-over-the-air (OTA) methods mainly rely on single-key HE schemes and require channel estimation or pre-equalization to compensate for wireless fading. However, single-key HE remains vulnerable to honest-but-curious (HBC) clients holding the shared secret key, while multi-key HE provides stronger client-level security by assigning each device its own secret key. We propose a four-phase protocol that enables the aggregation of xMK-CKKS over a shared wireless channel without channel estimation. The protocol retransmits partial public keys and ciphertexts through the same channel realization, so that the dominant large-modulus encryption terms cancel algebraically during decryption. We integrate this protocol with zero-order FL over slowly varying LoS-dominant channels, where each device transmits a single encrypted scalar per round and the communication/encryption overhead is independent of the model dimension. We show that the residual noise induced by encryption and wireless aggregation preserves the standard convergence rate \(O(1/\sqrt{K})\) up to a negligible noise floor, where $K$ is the number of communication rounds. The protocol assumes a non-trusted server and is secure against HBC clients, preventing any client from recovering the local updates of other participants. Numerical results on MNIST and CIFAR-10 validate the theoretical analysis.

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Single Canonical Prompts Underestimate LLM Safety's Surface-Form Sensitivity

A benchmark score is a measurement instrument, yet most benchmarks read each item at a single canonical surface form. We ask whether that reading is faithful: when an item's intent is held fixed and only its meaning-preserving surface form varies, does the canonical-form score estimate model behavior well, and how much of any variation is decoding/judge noise rather than signal? We instantiate this in safety, a high-stakes setting with no gold label to average toward. To avoid prior confounds, we pre-author the reformulations (refusal-free, mostly non-LLM: machine back-translation and a Matrix-Language-Frame code-switch generator) so an identical surface form reaches every model, score all responses with one human-anchored, vendor-neutral judge (Claude, kappa = 0.86 vs. human on unsafe compliance, stable across languages, cross-checked by GPT-4o), and verify intent preservation. On 370 seeds x 5 surface forms x 5 models, no single transformation is uniformly most dangerous (6 of 20 per-transformation McNemar tests survive correction, most protective). Yet evaluating only the canonical prompt underestimates unsafe compliance: the union of unsafe outcomes across forms exceeds even the worst single form by 3.3-12.9 pp, with bootstrap 95% CIs excluding zero for all five models, and 5-13% of seeds safe on canonical are unsafe under some reformulation -- above a zero stochasticity floor (canonical resampled five times at temperature 0 gives 0/370 new exposures). The size of this gap is model-dependent (largest on Gemini 2.5 Pro). One form recovers only ~53% of a model's observed unsafe surface and about three reach 85% -- a redundancy characterization of this form set, not of a defined population. A benign control (XSTest) suggests the instability is bidirectional, though the benign and harmful pools are not item-matched. We release the dataset, code, and per-response labels.

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Vantage: Availability-Graded Broadcast for Signature-Free BFT

Digital signatures make blocks and votes transferable evidence: one party can prove to another what a third party said. Authenticated channels convince only the direct receiver, so a proposer that references another party's block cannot prove to the voters who published it. High-throughput signature-free protocols therefore complete an availability vote or a reliable broadcast for every published data block before a proposer may reference it. We present Vantage, a partially synchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant protocol for $n \ge 3f+1$ parties, at most $f$ Byzantine, that uses only authenticated channels and collision-resistant hashing. Parties publish blocks on hash-linked author lanes; each view's proposer pairs a core manifest of lane prefixes that a quorum has acknowledged to it with an optimistic tip manifest of blocks it has just received. A new primitive, Availability-Graded Broadcast (AGB), makes the core irrevocable on a quorum of directly received acknowledgments while grading, rather than blocking on, the tip. A view that AGB leaves open or silent is decided by an on-demand instance of information-theoretic agreement. A block may thus be referenced in a proposal one message delay after publication, as in signed optimistic designs. Let $δ$ be the message delay after global stabilization (GST). With all parties correct, a proposal commits within $2δ$ of its send if all $n$ parties support it, and within $3δ$ on the quorum path, so a block published in time for the next proposal is sequenced $3δ$ to $4δ$ after publication. Safety holds under asynchrony; liveness holds after GST. On an emulated ten-region WAN with 100 parties, Vantage has the lowest p50 latency among compared signed and signature-free protocols at every offered load up to its peak, and sequences 250k 512-byte transactions per second at median end-to-end latency below 500 ms.

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MITRE-SAGE: A Multi-Agent Cybersecurity Question-Answering Model

Effective cybersecurity operations require timely and accurate analysis of large-scale heterogeneous security information; however, analysts increasingly struggle with information overload, alert fatigue, and time-constrained decision-making. Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities for question answering (QA), their effectiveness in cybersecurity remains limited by insufficient domain knowledge, a tendency to hallucinate, and difficulties in capturing both semantic and structural relationships. This work proposes MITRE-SAGE, a multi-agent retrieval-augmented generation framework that integrates semantic and structural cybersecurity knowledge to improve the reliability and interpretability of LLM-based QA systems. By decomposing complex tasks into query interpretation, evidence retrieval, and answer synthesis, MITRE-SAGE effectively supports cybersecurity tasks such as vulnerability assessment, threat profiling, and relationship extraction. Furthermore, we propose MITRE-QA, a comprehensive benchmark comprising 3,000 question-answer pairs for evaluating LLMs across diverse cybersecurity knowledge tasks, and use it to systematically evaluate MITRE-SAGE against representative baseline methods. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MITRE-SAGE consistently outperforms standalone LLMs and conventional RAG approaches. Notably, a lightweight configuration comprising Qwen2.5-7B sub-agents and a Qwen2.5-14B orchestrator achieves superior performance on five of the eight benchmark tasks, indicating the effectiveness of the proposed multi-agent framework. The results highlight the potential of MITRE-SAGE as a scalable and interpretable approach for reliable cybersecurity QA, while MITRE-QA provides a standardized benchmark for future research.

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Don't Trust the Code, Check Its Effects: Runtime Refinement for Regenerated Systems Code Under an Adversarial Generator2026-08-312609.00430arxiv
Capability-Gated Language Models: Security Composes, Utility Does Not2026-10-162609.00445arxiv
Does Reasoning Mitigate Backdoor Attacks? A Neuro-Symbolic Perspective2026-08-312609.00464arxiv
TRIS: A Tri-Layer Retrieval Integrity Sieve Against Knowledge Poisoning2026-08-312609.00470arxiv
EvoFlint: An Evolutionary Atlas of Multi-Turn LLM Vulnerabilities2026-08-312609.00487arxiv
Context Inference Attacks Without Jailbreaks2026-08-312609.01663arxiv
A Public-Key-Dependent Adversarial-Deletion Ceiling for Fixed-Alphabet Multi-Bit Pseudorandom Codes2026-08-312609.02943arxiv
Privacy-Preserving LLM Embedding Transmission for End-Cloud Collaboration2026-08-302503.12896arxiv
Disappearing Ink: Obfuscation Breaks N-gram Code Watermarks in Theory and Practice2026-08-302507.05512arxiv
Breaking the Code: Security Assessment of AI Code Agents Through Systematic Jailbreaking Attacks2026-08-302510.01359arxiv
Resolving Availability and Run-time Integrity Conflicts in Real-Time Embedded Systems2026-08-302511.14088arxiv
AgenTRIM: Tool Risk Mitigation for Agentic AI2026-08-302601.12449arxiv
"Setting up TLS authentication was hell": A Usability Study of Client Certificate Authentication2026-08-302604.14330arxiv
Relevance as a Vulnerability: How Web Retrieval Degrades Safety Alignment in LLM Agents2026-08-302605.29224arxiv
Privacy-Enhanced Zero-Order Federated Learning via xMK-CKKS over Wireless Channels2026-08-302605.30123arxiv
Single Canonical Prompts Underestimate LLM Safety's Surface-Form Sensitivity2026-08-302608.02665arxiv
Vantage: Availability-Graded Broadcast for Signature-Free BFT2026-08-302608.16504arxiv
MITRE-SAGE: A Multi-Agent Cybersecurity Question-Answering Model2026-08-302608.16921arxiv

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