0020-0255/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2013.06.042 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Departament d’Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili., Av., Països Catalans, 2 Tarragona, Spain. Tel.: +34 977 559657; fax: +34 977 559710. E-mail address: [email protected] (D. Sánchez). David Sánchez ⇑, Montserrat Ba...

We present a series of related patterns for aligning security and usability based on a substantial body of prior work. These patterns cover the issue of data sanitization, secure messaging, secure operation, and protection from covert monitoring.

Privacy and security concerns have adversely affected the usefulness of many types of techniques that leverage information gathered from deployed applications. To address this issue, we present a new approach for automatically sanitizing failure-inducing inputs. Given an input I that causes a failure f , our technique can generate a sanitized input I ′ that is different from I but still causes ...