Lessons from the Adoption and Deprecation of the Privacy Sandbox Web APIs Yohan Beugin, Paul Barford, Patrick McDaniel Under submission, 2026 Paper arXiv Code Poster Website@article{beuginLessonsAdoptionDeprecation2026,
title = {Lessons from the Adoption and Deprecation of the Privacy Sandbox Web APIs},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Paul Barford and Patrick McDaniel},
month = jun,
year = {2026},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2606.26390},
note = {Under submission},
}
Longitudinal Analyses of SAST Tools: A CodeQL Case Study Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Kyle Domico, Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel Under submission, 2026 Paper arXiv@article{noirotFerrandLongitudinalAnalysesSASTTools2026,
title = {Longitudinal Analyses of SAST Tools: A CodeQL Case Study},
author = {Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand and Kyle Domico and Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
month = may,
year = {2026},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2605.07900},
note = {Under submission},
}
Honey Configs: Measuring The Emerging Exploitation of Cloud IP Address Reuse Eric Pauley, Yohan Beugin, Paul Barford, Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2026 Code@inproceedings{pauleyHoneyConfigsMeasuringEmerging2026,
title = {Honey Configs: Measuring The Emerging Exploitation of Cloud IP Address Reuse},
author = {Eric Pauley and Yohan Beugin and Paul Barford and Patrick Traynor and Patrick McDaniel},
month = oct,
year = {2026},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Internet Measurement Conference},
doi = {to appear}
}
Targeting Alignment: Extracting Safety Classifiers of Aligned LLMs Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Yohan Beugin, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Patrick McDaniel IEEE Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning Conference (SaTML), 2026 Paper arXiv Code@inproceedings{noirotferrandTargetingAlignmentExtractingSafety2026,
title = {Targeting Alignment: Extracting Safety Classifiers of Aligned LLMs},
author = {Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand and Yohan Beugin and Eric Pauley and Ryan Sheatsley and Patrick McDaniel},
month = mar,
year = {2026},
booktitle = {IEEE Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning Conference (SaTML)},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2501.16534}
}
The 2025 Web Almanac: Cookies Yohan Beugin, Jannis Rautenstrauch, Martina Kraus, Chris Böttger, Brian Smith, Barry Pollard The 2025 Web Almanac, HTTP Archive, 2026 Website@incollection{beuginWebAlmanacCookies2026,
title = {The 2025 Web Almanac: Cookies},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Jannis Rautenstrauch and Martina Kraus and Chris Böttger and Brian Smith and Barry Pollard},
month = jan,
year = {2026},
booktitle = {The 2025 Web Almanac},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18246755},
publisher = {HTTP Archive},
language = {English},
url = {https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/cookies}
}
2025
Technical Report: The Need for a (Research) Sandstorm through the Privacy Sandbox Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel arXiv, 2025 Paper arXiv Code Slides Website@misc{beuginTechnicalReportSandstorm2025,
title = {Technical Report: The Need for a (Research) Sandstorm through the Privacy Sandbox},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
month = dec,
year = {2025},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2512.03207}
}
LibIHT: A Hardware-Based Approach to Efficient and Evasion-Resistant Dynamic Binary Analysis Changyu Zhao, Yohan Beugin, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Quinn Burke, Guancheng Li, Patrick McDaniel Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering (SURE 2025), 2025 Paper arXiv Code Slides@inproceedings{zhaoLibIHTHardwareBasedApproach2025,
title = {LibIHT: A Hardware-Based Approach to Efficient and Evasion-Resistant Dynamic Binary Analysis},
author = {Changyu Zhao and Yohan Beugin and Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand and Quinn Burke and Guancheng Li and Patrick McDaniel},
month = oct,
year = {2025},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering (SURE 2025)},
doi = {10.1145/3733822.3764670}
}
SoK: Advances and Open Problems in Web Tracking Yash Vekaria*, Yohan Beugin*, Shaoor Munir, Gunes Acar, Nataliia Bielova, Steven Englehardt, Umar Iqbal, Alexandros Kapravelos, Pierre Laperdrix, Nick Nikiforakis, Jason Polakis, Franziska Roesner, Zubair Shafiq, Sebastian Zimmeck *Equal contribution. Under submission, 2025 Paper arXiv Code Poster Long Version Lecture Slides@article{beuginSoKAdvancesOpenProblems2025,
title = {SoK: Advances and Open Problems in Web Tracking},
author = {Yash Vekaria* and Yohan Beugin* and Shaoor Munir and Gunes Acar and Nataliia Bielova and Steven Englehardt and Umar Iqbal and Alexandros Kapravelos and Pierre Laperdrix and Nick Nikiforakis and Jason Polakis and Franziska Roesner and Zubair Shafiq and Sebastian Zimmeck},
month = jun,
year = {2025},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2506.14057},
note = {*Equal contribution. Under submission}
}
Efficient Storage Integrity in Adversarial Settings Quinn Burke, Ryan Sheatsley, Yohan Beugin, Eric Pauley, Owen Hines, Michael Swift, Patrick McDaniel 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2025 Paper arXiv Code@inproceedings{burkeEfficientStorageIntegrityAdversarial2025,
title = {Efficient Storage Integrity in Adversarial Settings},
author = {Quinn Burke and Ryan Sheatsley and Yohan Beugin and Eric Pauley and Owen Hines and Michael Swift and Patrick McDaniel},
month = may,
year = {2025},
booktitle = {2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)},
doi = {10.1109/SP61157.2025.00196}
}
On the Robustness Tradeoff in Fine-Tuning Kunyang Li, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Ryan Sheatsley, Blaine Hoak, Yohan Beugin, Eric Pauley, Patrick McDaniel 2025 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025 Paper arXiv Code@inproceedings{liRobustnessTradeoffFineTuning2025,
title = {On the Robustness Tradeoff in Fine-Tuning},
author = {Kunyang Li and Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand and Ryan Sheatsley and Blaine Hoak and Yohan Beugin and Eric Pauley and Patrick McDaniel},
month = oct,
year = {2025},
booktitle = {2025 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
doi = {10.1109/ICCV51701.2025.00466}
}
Secure IP Address Allocation at Cloud Scale Eric Pauley, Kyle Domico, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Engin Kirda, Patrick McDaniel 2025 Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2025 Paper arXiv Code@inproceedings{pauleySecureIPAddressAllocation2025,
title = {Secure IP Address Allocation at Cloud Scale},
author = {Eric Pauley and Kyle Domico and Blaine Hoak and Ryan Sheatsley and Quinn Burke and Yohan Beugin and Engin Kirda and Patrick McDaniel},
month = feb,
year = {2025},
booktitle = {2025 Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS)},
doi = {10.14722/ndss.2025.230374}
}
2024
The 2024 Web Almanac: Cookies Yohan Beugin, Sam Dutton, Yana Dimova, Rowan Merewood, Barry Pollard The 2024 Web Almanac, HTTP Archive, 2024 Website@incollection{beuginWebAlmanacCookies2024,
title = {The 2024 Web Almanac: Cookies},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Sam Dutton and Yana Dimova and Rowan Merewood and Barry Pollard},
month = nov,
year = {2024},
booktitle = {The 2024 Web Almanac},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.14065903},
publisher = {HTTP Archive},
language = {English},
url = {https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/cookies}
}
Securing Cloud File Systems with Trusted Execution Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Blaine Hoak, Rachel King, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Mingli Yu, Ting He, Thomas La Porta, Patrick McDaniel IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2024 Paper arXiv Code@article{burkeSecuringCloudFileSystems2024,
title = {Securing Cloud File Systems with Trusted Execution},
author = {Quinn Burke and Yohan Beugin and Blaine Hoak and Rachel King and Eric Pauley and Ryan Sheatsley and Mingli Yu and Ting He and Thomas La Porta and Patrick McDaniel},
month = sep,
year = {2024},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)},
doi = {10.1109/TDSC.2024.3474423}
}
ParTEETor: A System for Partial Deployments of TEEs within Tor Rachel King, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Blaine Hoak, Kunyang Li, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Patrick McDaniel Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), ACM, 2024 Paper arXiv@inproceedings{kingParTEETorSystemPartialDeployment2024,
title = {ParTEETor: A System for Partial Deployments of TEEs within Tor},
author = {Rachel King and Quinn Burke and Yohan Beugin and Blaine Hoak and Kunyang Li and Eric Pauley and Ryan Sheatsley and Patrick McDaniel},
month = oct,
year = {2024},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2408.14646},
publisher = {ACM}
}
The Need for a (Research) Sandstorm through the Privacy Sandbox Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel 17th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs), 2024 Slides Website Technical Report Slack Invite@inproceedings{beuginNeedResearchSandstormPrivacySandbox2024,
title = {The Need for a (Research) Sandstorm through the Privacy Sandbox},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
month = jul,
year = {2024},
booktitle = {17th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs)},
url = {https://privacysandstorm.com}
}
Interest-disclosing Mechanisms for Advertising are Privacy-Exposing (not Preserving) Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2024 Paper arXiv Code Slides Video PosterArtifact: Reproduced@inproceedings{beuginInterestDisclosingMechanismsAdvertising2024,
title = {Interest-disclosing Mechanisms for Advertising are Privacy-Exposing (not Preserving)},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
month = jul,
year = {2024},
booktitle = {Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)},
doi = {10.56553/popets-2024-0004}
}
A Public and Reproducible Assessment of the Topics API on Real Data Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel IEEE Security and Privacy Workshop on Designing Security for the Web (SecWeb), 2024 Paper arXiv Code Slides Poster@inproceedings{beuginPublicReproducibleAssessmentTopics2024,
title = {A Public and Reproducible Assessment of the Topics API on Real Data},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
month = may,
year = {2024},
booktitle = {IEEE Security and Privacy Workshop on Designing Security for the Web (SecWeb)},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2403.19577}
}
2023
Characterizing the Modification Space of Signature IDS Rules Ryan V Guide, Eric Pauley, Yohan Beugin, Ryan Sheatsley, Patrick McDaniel 2023 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2023 Paper arXiv@inproceedings{guideCharacterizingModificationSpaceSignature2023,
title = {Characterizing the Modification Space of Signature IDS Rules},
author = {Ryan V Guide and Eric Pauley and Yohan Beugin and Ryan Sheatsley and
Patrick McDaniel},
month = oct,
year = {2023},
booktitle = {2023 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)},
doi = {10.1109/MILCOM58377.2023.10356225}
}
Systematic Evaluation of Geolocation Privacy Mechanisms Alban Héon, Ryan Sheatsley, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Eric Pauley, Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel arXiv, 2023 Paper arXiv@misc{heonSystematicEvaluationGeolocationPrivacy2023,
title = {Systematic Evaluation of Geolocation Privacy Mechanisms},
author = {Alban Héon and Ryan Sheatsley and Quinn Burke and Blaine Hoak and Eric Pauley and Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
month = sep,
year = {2023},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2309.06263}
}
2022
Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Smart Cameras and Other IoT Devices Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Patrick McDaniel arXiv, 2022 Paper arXiv@misc{beuginPrivacyPreservingProtocolsJournal2022,
title = {Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Smart Cameras and Other IoT Devices},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Quinn Burke and Blaine Hoak and Ryan Sheatsley and Eric Pauley and Gang Tan and Syed Rafiul Hussain and Patrick McDaniel},
month = aug,
year = {2022},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2208.09776}
}
Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Smart Camera Systems and Other IoT Devices Yohan Beugin 2022 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR), 2022 Slides Video@inproceedings{beuginPrivacyPreservingProtocolsPEPR2022,
title = {Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Smart Camera Systems and Other IoT Devices},
author = {Yohan Beugin},
month = jun,
year = {2022},
booktitle = {2022 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR)},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/pepr22/presentation/beugin}
}
Measuring and Mitigating the Risk of IP Reuse on Public Clouds Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Blaine Hoak, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2022 Paper arXiv Website@inproceedings{pauleyMeasuringMitigatingRiskIP2022,
title = {Measuring and Mitigating the Risk of IP Reuse on Public Clouds},
author = {Eric Pauley and Ryan Sheatsley and Blaine Hoak and Quinn Burke and Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
month = apr,
year = {2022},
booktitle = {2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)},
doi = {10.1109/SP46214.2022.9833784}
}
A Machine Learning and Computer Vision Approach to Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting Kyle Domico, Ryan Sheatsley, Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel Machine Learning in Heliophysics (ML-Helio), 2022 Paper arXiv Poster@inproceedings{domicoMachineLearningComputerVision2022,
title = {A Machine Learning and Computer Vision Approach to Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting},
author = {Kyle Domico and Ryan Sheatsley and Yohan Beugin and Quinn Burke and Patrick McDaniel},
month = apr,
year = {2022},
booktitle = {Machine Learning in Heliophysics (ML-Helio)},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2204.05780}
}
Building a Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Patrick McDaniel Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2022 Paper arXiv Code Slides Video@inproceedings{beuginBuildingPrivacyPreservingSmart2022,
title = {Building a Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Quinn Burke and Blaine Hoak and Ryan Sheatsley and Eric Pauley and Gang Tan and Syed Rafiul Hussain and Patrick McDaniel},
month = jul,
year = {2022},
booktitle = {Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)},
doi = {10.2478/popets-2022-0034}
}
2021
HoneyModels: Machine Learning Honeypots Ahmed Abdou, Ryan Sheatsley, Yohan Beugin, Tyler Shipp, Patrick McDaniel 2021 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2021 Paper arXiv@inproceedings{abdouHoneyModelsMachineLearning2021,
title = {HoneyModels: Machine Learning Honeypots},
author = {Ahmed Abdou and Ryan Sheatsley and Yohan Beugin and Tyler Shipp and Patrick McDaniel},
month = nov,
year = {2021},
booktitle = {2021 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)},
doi = {10.1109/MILCOM52596.2021.9652947}
}
On the Robustness of Domain Constraints Ryan Sheatsley, Blaine Hoak, Eric Pauley, Yohan Beugin, Michael J. Weisman, Patrick McDaniel Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2021 Paper arXiv@inproceedings{sheatsleyRobustnessDomainConstraints2021,
title = {On the Robustness of Domain Constraints},
author = {Ryan Sheatsley and Blaine Hoak and Eric Pauley and Yohan Beugin and Michael J. Weisman and Patrick McDaniel},
month = nov,
year = {2021},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)},
doi = {10.1145/3460120.3484570}
}
Building a Secure and Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System Yohan Beugin The Pennsylvania State University, 2021 Paper Slides@thesis{beuginBuildingSecurePrivacyPreserving2021,
title = {Building a Secure and Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System},
author = {Yohan Beugin},
month = may,
year = {2021},
url = {https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/23611},
school = {The Pennsylvania State University}
}
2020
ReViVD: Exploration and Filtering of Trajectories in an Immersive Environment using 3D Shapes François Homps, Yohan Beugin, Romain Vuillemot 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR), 2020 Paper arXiv Code Video Website@inproceedings{hompsReViVDExplorationFilteringTrajectories2020,
title = {ReViVD: Exploration and Filtering of Trajectories in an Immersive Environment using 3D Shapes},
author = {François Homps and Yohan Beugin and Romain Vuillemot},
month = mar,
year = {2020},
booktitle = {2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR)},
doi = {10.1109/VR46266.2020.00096}
}
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