USENIX Courses

FastKitten - Practical Smart Contracts on Bitcoin

Explore FastKitten, a framework for executing complex smart contracts on Bitcoin using trusted computing environments, offering efficiency and low costs for multi-round applications.

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

The Secret Sharer - Evaluating and Testing Unintended Memorization in Neural Networks

Explore techniques to evaluate and mitigate unintended memorization in neural networks, focusing on privacy risks and practical strategies for deep learning practitioners.

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

AntiFuzz - Impeding Fuzzing Audits of Binary Executables

Explore techniques to protect binary executables against automated bug-finding tools, focusing on impeding fuzzing, symbolic execution, and hybrid fuzzing approaches while maintaining performance.

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

JEDI - Many-to-Many End-to-End Encryption and Key Delegation for IoT

Explore JEDI, a novel end-to-end encryption protocol for IoT systems, addressing security challenges in smart buildings and cities through key delegation and fine-grained access control.

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

Understanding and Improving Security and Privacy in Multi-User Smart Homes - A Design Exploration and In-Home User Study

Explore security and privacy challenges in multi-user smart homes, examining design principles and a prototype solution for respectful usage and user agency.

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

Platforms in Everything - Analyzing Ground-Truth Data on the Anatomy and Economics of Bullet-Proof Hosting

Empirical study on Bullet-Proof Hosting provider Maxided, analyzing business model, supply chain, customers, and finances. Reveals shifts in BPH landscape and potential intervention points for disrupting cybercrime-supporting services.

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

Scalable Scanning and Automatic Classification of TLS Padding Oracle Vulnerabilities

Innovative TLS vulnerability scanning methodology reveals widespread CBC padding oracle vulnerabilities, challenging assumptions about their exploitability and highlighting significant security risks in web infrastructure.

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

The Art of The Scam - Demystifying Honeypots in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Explores honeypot smart contracts in Ethereum, their prevalence, and impact. Presents HoneyBadger tool for detecting honeypots, analyzing 2M+ contracts and identifying 690 honeypots with 240 victims.

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

Multi-Queue Fair Queuing

Introduces MQFQ, a fair and efficient scheduler for multi-queue systems, addressing fairness issues in high-speed devices while maintaining scalability and performance.

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

Your Coflow has Many Flows - Sampling them for Fun and Speed

Innovative coflow scheduling technique using flow sampling to estimate coflow size, improving performance and scalability for data-intensive applications in distributed computing environments.

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

Hodor - Intra-Process Isolation for High-Throughput Data Plane Libraries

Explores intra-process isolation for high-throughput data plane libraries, proposing protected libraries as a new OS abstraction to achieve safety and performance in kernel-bypass approaches for managing high-speed devices.

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

Zanzibar - Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System

Explore Google's Zanzibar, a global authorization system for storing and evaluating access control lists, offering scalability, consistency, and high performance across various services.

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

Scaling the Distributed Actor Runtime - PARTISAN

Presentation on PARTISAN, a runtime system for actor applications offering improved scalability and reduced latency through dynamic overlay selection, named channels, and affinitized parallelism.

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

Everyone Loves File - File Storage Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Explore Oracle Cloud's File Storage Service architecture, featuring scalable block store, B-tree implementation, and nonblocking programming for efficient, elastic NFS service with predictable performance.

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

LegoOS - A Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resource Disaggregation

Explore LegoOS, a revolutionary distributed OS for disaggregated hardware resources in datacenters. Learn about its splitkernel model, improved resource utilization, and enhanced failure handling capabilities.

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