USENIX Courses

AFL++ - Combining Incremental Steps of Fuzzing Research

AFL++: A community-driven fuzzing tool combining state-of-the-art research, offering novel features like Custom Mutator API. Enhances fuzzing process, enables quick testing of new techniques, and evaluates effectiveness individually and in combination.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Unearthing the TrustedCore - A Critical Review on Huawei’s Trusted Execution Environment

Unveils critical security flaws in Huawei's TrustedCore, exposing vulnerabilities in trusted execution environments and demonstrating weaknesses in hardware-backed cryptography on mobile devices.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Confessions of a Systems Engineer - Learning from My 20+ Years of Failure

Insights from a seasoned systems engineer on designing and running large-scale online services, drawing from 20+ years of failures and lessons learned in the tech industry.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Faasm - Lightweight Isolation for Efficient Stateful Serverless Computing

Lightweight isolation technique for serverless computing, enabling efficient stateful processing and memory sharing between functions, resulting in improved performance and reduced resource usage.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

AC-Key - Adaptive Caching for LSM-based Key-Value Stores

Adaptive caching technique for LSM-based key-value stores, improving read performance by managing multiple cache components and adjusting sizes based on workload demands.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Future of the Past - Challenges in Archival Storage

Explores challenges and advancements in long-term digital data preservation, discussing media technologies, data integrity, and semantic interpretation for future generations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

A Decentralized Blockchain with High Throughput and Fast Confirmation

Explore a novel blockchain system with high throughput and fast confirmation, featuring an optimistic consensus protocol and adaptive weight mechanism to enhance scalability and security.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Reexamining Direct Cache Access to Optimize I-O Intensive Applications for Multi-hundred-gigabit Networks

Optimizing direct cache access for high-speed networks: Analyzes DDIO implementation, demonstrates latency reduction for 100 Gbps networks, and highlights challenges at 200 Gbps, offering insights for system optimization.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

BatchCrypt - Efficient Homomorphic Encryption for Cross-Silo Federated Learning

Efficient homomorphic encryption system for cross-silo federated learning, reducing encryption and communication overhead while maintaining privacy and accuracy in collaborative machine learning.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

MatrixKV - Reducing Write Stalls and Write Amplification in LSM-tree Based KV Stores

Innovative LSM-tree based key-value store design using NVM to reduce write stalls and amplification. Introduces matrix container, column compaction, and cross-row hint search for improved performance in multi-tier storage systems.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

BASTION - A Security Enforcement Network Stack for Container Networks

Innovative security enforcement network stack for containers, enhancing visibility and isolation while improving performance. Mitigates attacks and optimizes inter-container communication.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

SweynTooth - Unleashing Mayhem over Bluetooth Low Energy

Explores vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy protocol implementations, presenting a systematic fuzzing framework that discovered 11 new vulnerabilities across various devices and IoT products.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

coIOMMU - A Virtual IOMMU with Cooperative DMA Buffer Tracking for Efficient Memory Management in Direct I/O

Explore efficient memory management in direct I/O virtualization through coIOMMU, a novel virtual IOMMU architecture with cooperative DMA buffer tracking for improved performance and resource utilization.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Twizzler - A Data-Centric OS for Non-Volatile Memory

Explore Twizzler, an innovative OS redesign for non-volatile memory, offering efficient data persistence, simplified programming, and improved performance over traditional systems.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Can Applications Recover from fsync Failures?

Análisis de cómo sistemas de archivos y aplicaciones modernas reaccionan ante fallos de fsync, revelando vulnerabilidades críticas en la durabilidad de datos y sugiriendo mejoras de diseño.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk