Lachlan Gunn

Publications

    2025

  1. Laminator: Verifiable ML Property Cards using Hardware-assisted Attestations
    Vasisht Duddu, Oskari Järvinen, Lachlan J Gunn, and N Asokan,
    ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY). 2025.

    2. 2024

  2. BliMe: Verifiably Secure Outsourced Computation with Hardware-Enforced Taint Tracking
    Hossam ElAtali, Lachlan J. Gunn, Hans Liljestrand, and N. Asokan,
    Network and Distributed Systems Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA. 2024.
    [Preprint]
  3. Data-Oblivious ML Accelerators Using Hardware Security Extensions
    Hossam ElAtali, John Z Jekel, Lachlan J Gunn, and N Asokan,
    IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), Tysons Corner, VA, USA. 2024.
    [Preprint]

    4. 2022

  4. Hardware Platform Security for Mobile Devices
    Lachlan J. Gunn, N. Asokan, Jan-Erik Ekberg, Hans Liljestrand, Vijayanand Nayani, and Thomas Nyman,
    Now Publishers, 2022.
    [Preprint]
  5. Towards cryptographically-authenticated in-memory data structures
    Setareh Ghorshi, Lachlan J. Gunn, Hans Liljestrand, and N. Asokan,
    IEEE Secure Development Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA. 2022.
    [Preprint]

    6. 2021

  6. PACStack: an Authenticated Call Stack
    Hans Liljestrand, Thomas Nyman, Lachlan J. Gunn, Jan-Erik Ekberg, and N. Asokan,
    USENIX Security. 2021.

    7. 2020

  7. Linear measurements from nonlinear sensors: Identifying distortion with incidental noise
    Lachlan J. Gunn, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, 2020. doi:10.1109/MIM.2020.8979524
    [Preprint]

    8. 2019

  8. Circumventing Cryptographic Deniability with Remote Attestation
    Lachlan J. Gunn, Ricardo Vieitez Parra, and N. Asokan,
    Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2019(3), 2019, de Gruyter. doi:10.2478/popets-2019-0051
  9. Game theoretical modelling of network/cybersecurity
    Azhar Iqbal, Lachlan J. Gunn, Mingyu Guo, M. Ali Babar, and Derek Abbott,
    IEEE Access, 2019, IEEE. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2948356
  10. Making Speculative BFT Resilient with Trusted Monotonic Counters
    Lachlan J. Gunn, Jian Liu, Bruno Vavala, and N. Asokan,
    38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'19). 2019, IEEE. doi:10.1109/SRDS47363.2019.00024
    [Preprint]

    11. 2018

  11. Anomaly Detection in Satellite Communications Systems using LSTM Networks
    Lachlan Gunn, Peter Smet, Edward Arbon, and Mark D. McDonnell,
    Proceedings of the 2018 Military Communication and Information Systems Conference, Canberra, Australia. 2018, IEEE. doi:10.1109/MilCIS.2018.8574109

    12. 2017

  12. Geolocation of Tor hidden services: initial results
    Lachlan J. Gunn, Heiki Pikker, Olaf Maennel, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    3rd Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Workshop (ICR2017). 2017, Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Software Science.
  13. Safety in numbers: anonymization makes keyservers trustworthy
    Lachlan J. Gunn, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    10th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs 2017). 2017.
    [Preprint] [Video]
  14. On the use of stochastic systems for sensing and security
    Lachlan J. Gunn,
    Supervisors: Derek Abbott and Andrew Allison
    2017. Ph.D thesis.
  15. Noise reduction circuitry for a metal detector
    Laurentiu Stamatescu, Sergii Shapoval, and Lachlan Gunn,
    US Patent US9557390B2, 2017.

    16. 2016

  16. Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince
    Lachlan J. Gunn, François Chapeau-Blondeau, Mark D. McDonnell, Bruce R. Davis, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Science, 472(2187), 2016, The Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rspa.2015.0748
    [The Washington Post] [The Hindu] [Phys.org] [Lawyers Weekly] [IFLScience] [TED-Ed]
  17. Towards an information-theoretic model of the Allison mixture stochastic process
    Lachlan J. Gunn, François Chapeau-Blondeau, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2016, 2016, IOP. doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2016/05/054041
  18. An output-only nonlinear system identification technique suited to integer arithmetic
    Lachlan J. Gunn, François Chapeau-Blondeau, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, Melbourne, Australia. 2016, IEEE. doi:10.1109/NORBERT.2016.7547454

    19. 2015

  19. A New Transient Attack on the Kish Key Distribution System
    Lachlan J. Gunn, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    IEEE Access, 3, 2015, IEEE. Invited paper. doi:10.1109/access.2015.2480422
  20. Functions of multivector variables
    James M. Chappell, Azhar Iqbal, Lachlan J. Gunn, and Derek Abbott,
    PLOS ONE, 10(3), 2015, PLOS. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116943
  21. Towards quantitative atmospheric water vapor profiling with differential absorption lidar
    Alex Dinovitser, Lachlan J. Gunn, and Derek Abbott,
    Optics Express, 23(17), 2015, OSA. doi:10.1364/OE.23.022907
  22. Decoding suprathreshold stochastic resonance with optimal weights
    Liyan Xu, Tony Vladusich, Fabing Duan, Lachlan J. Gunn, Derek Abbott, and Mark D. McDonnell,
    Physics Letters A, 379(38), 2015, Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2015.05.032

    23. 2014

  23. The double-padlock problem: Is secure classical information transmission possible without key exchange?
    James M. Chappell, Lachlan J. Gunn, and Derek Abbott,
    International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, 33, 2014, World Scientific. doi:10.1142/S201019451460355X
  24. Physical-layer encryption on the public internet: A stochastic approach to the Kish-Sethuraman cipher
    Lachlan J. Gunn, James M. Chappell, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, 33, 2014, World Scientific. doi:10.1142/S2010194514603615
  25. Allison mixtures: Where random digits obey thermodynamic principles
    Lachlan J. Gunn, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, 33, 2014, World Scientific. doi:10.1142/S2010194514603603
  26. Simplified three-cornered-hat technique for frequency stability measurements
    Lachlan J. Gunn, Peter G. Catlow, Waddah A. Al-Ashwal, John G. Hartnett, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 63(4), 2014, IEEE. doi:10.1109/tim.2013.2285796
  27. Geometric Algebra for Electrical and Electronic Engineers
    James M. Chappell, Samuel P. Drake, Cameron M. Seidel, Lachlan J. Gunn, Azhar Iqbal, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    Proceedings of the IEEE, 102(9), 2014, IEEE. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2014.2339299
  28. A directional wave measurement attack against the Kish key distribution system
    Lachlan J. Gunn, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    Scientific Reports, 4, 2014, Nature Publishing Group. doi:10.1038/srep06461
  29. Real-time compensation of static distortion by measurement of differential noise gain
    Lachlan J. Gunn, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott,
    Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Belfast, United Kingdom. 2014, IEEE. doi:10.1109/sips.2014.6986079

    30. 2013

  30. Identification of static distortion by noise measurement
    L. J. Gunn, A. Allison, and D. Abbott,
    Electronics Letters, 49(21), 2013, IEE. doi:10.1049/el.2013.2547

    31. 2011

  31. Polynomial autocorrelation control for memoryless nonlinear transform
    G. V. Weinberg, and L. J. Gunn,
    Electronics Letters, 47(9), 2011, IEE. doi:10.1049/el.2011.0359