Alex Nosenko, Yuan Cheng and Haiquan Chen, Password and Passphrase Guessing with Recurrent Neural Networks. Information Systems Frontiers, August 2022. PDF

Anyi Liu, Selena Haidar, Yuan Cheng and Yingjiu Li, Confidential State Verification for the Delegated Cloud Jobs with Confidential Audit Log. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety, December 2019. PDF

Yuan Cheng, Jaehong Park and Ravi Sandhu, An Access Control Model for Online Social Networks Using User-to-User Relationships. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 13(4): 424-436, July/August 2016. PDF

Jaehong Park, Ravi Sandhu and Yuan Cheng, A User-Activity-Centric Framework for Access Control in Online Social Networks. IEEE Internet Computing, 15(5): 62-65, September 2011. PDF
Xinli Wang, Vijay Bhuse and Yuan Cheng, A Zero Trust Module for Cybersecurity Education. To appear in 28th CISSE (The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education), 2024.

Arun Reddy and Yuan Cheng, User Perceptions of CAPTCHAs: University vs. Internet Users. In 38th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2024), San Jose, California, July 15-17, 2024. (An extended version of this paper with survey questions and additional results is available at arXiv:2405.18547) PDF

Chandana Sai Thondebhavi Shanthakumar, Aishwarya Chawariya, Yuan Cheng and Mohammed E. Eltayeb, Detecting Location Spoofing Attacks using Multiple Angle of Signal Arrivals. In 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference, Singapore, June 24-27, 2024. PDF

Anyi Liu, Bruce Maxim, Xiaohong Yuan and Yuan Cheng, Exploring Cybersecurity Hands-on Labs in Pervasive Computing: Design, Assessment, and Reflection. In 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon, June 23-26, 2024. PDF

Stephen Ly, Yuan Cheng, Haiquan Chen and Ted Krovetz, A Secure Distributed Learning Framework Using Homomorphic Encryption. In 20th International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST2023), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 21-23, 2023. PDF

Joshua Vega, Daniel Shevchyk and Yuan Cheng, A Literature Survey of Phishing and Its Countermeasures. In 2nd Computer Science Conference for CSU Undergraduates (CSCSU 2022), March 12, 2022. PDF

Alex Nosenko, Yuan Cheng and Haiquan Chen, Learning Password Modification Patterns with Recurrent Neural Networks. In International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in the Artificial Intelligence Era (SKM 2021), San Antonio, Texas, October 8, 2021. PDF

Stephen Ly and Yuan Cheng, A Data-based Protocol for One-way Trust in Inter-vehicular Communication. In 1st ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (SaT-CPS 2021), April 28, 2021. PDF

Jericho Rivero, Tran Ngoc Bao Huynh, Angelica Smith-Evans, Ong Thao and Yuan Cheng, Analyzing the Efficiency of Lightweight Symmetric Ciphers on IoT Devices. In 1st Computer Science Conference for CSU Undergraduates (CSCSU 2021), March 6, 2021. PDF

Jeffrey Byrnes, Thomas Hoang, Nihal Nitin Mehta and Yuan Cheng, A Modern Implementation of System Call Sequence Based Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems. In 2nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS 2020), December 1-3, 2020. PDF

Kanwardeep Singh Walia, Shweta Shenoy and Yuan Cheng, An Empirical Analysis on the Usability and Security of Passwords. In 21st IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI 2020), Las Vegas, Nevada, August 11-13, 2020. (Winner of The Best Paper Award; acceptance ratio 28%) PDF

Pranavi Appana, Xiaoyan Sun and Yuan Cheng, What To Do First: Ranking the Mission Impact Graph for Effective Mission Assurance. In International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2019), Honolulu, Hawaii, February 18-21, 2019, 6 pages. PDF

Yuan Cheng, Khalid Bijon and Ravi Sandhu, Extended ReBAC Administrative Models with Cascading Revocation and Provenance Support. In 21th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Shanghai, China, June 6-8, 2016, 10 pages. PDF

Yuan Cheng, Jaehong Park and Ravi Sandhu, Attribute-aware Relationship-based Access Control for Online Social Networks. In 28th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2014), Vienna, Austria, July 14-16, 2014, 16 pages. (acceptance ratio 22/63 for full papers) PDF

Yuan Cheng, Jaehong Park and Ravi Sandhu, Preserving User Privacy from Third-party Applications in Online Social Networks. In 2nd International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 14, 2013, 6 pages. (Runner-up of The Best Paper Award) PDF

Yuan Cheng, Dang Nguyen, Khalid Bijon, Ram Krishnan, Jaehong Park and Ravi Sandhu, Towards Provenance and Risk-awareness in Social Computing. In 1st International Workshop on Secure and Resilient Architectures and Systems, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 19, 2012, 6 pages. PDF

Yuan Cheng, Jaehong Park and Ravi Sandhu, Relationship-based Access Control for Online Social Networks: Beyond User-to-User Relationships. In 4th IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT), Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 3-5, 2012, 10 pages. (Winner of The Best Paper Award) PDF

Yuan Cheng, Jaehong Park and Ravi Sandhu, A User-to-User Relationship-based Access Control Model for Online Social Networks. In 26th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2012), Paris, France, July 11-13, 2012, 18 pages. (acceptance ratio 17/50 for full papers) PDF

Jaehong Park, Ravi Sandhu and Yuan Cheng, ACON: Activity-Centric Access Control for Social Computing. In 5th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), Vienna, Austria, August 22-26, 2011, 6 pages. PDF

Jaehong Park, Yuan Cheng and Ravi Sandhu, Towards A Framework for Cyber Social Status Based Trusted Open Collaboration. In 5th IEEE International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration (TrustCol 2010), Chicago, Illinois, October 9, 2010, 8 pages. PDF
Steven Mackey, Ivan Mihov, Alex Nosenko, Francisco Vega and Yuan Cheng, A Performance Comparison of WireGuard and OpenVPN. In 10th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2020), New Orleans, Louisiana, March 16-18, 2020.

Eduardo Anaya, Jimil Patel, Prerak Shah, Vrushank Shah and Yuan Cheng, A Performance Study on Cryptographic Algorithms for IoT Devices. In 10th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2020), New Orleans, Louisiana, March 16-18, 2020.