James Howe

41 papers A* 1A 1B 3C 5Journal 23Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Martin R. Albrecht, Nicolas Gama, James Howe, Anand Kumar Narayanan
2025 B conf
CT-RSA
Martin R. Albrecht, Nicolas Gama, James Howe, Anand Kumar Narayanan
2024 B conf
CT-RSA
Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Martin R. Albrecht, Thomas Bailleux, Nina Bindel, James Howe, Andreas Hülsing, David Joseph, Marc Manzano
2024 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Sanjay Deshpande, James Howe, Jakub Szefer, Dongze Yue
2024 J jnl
IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst.
Sanjay Deshpande, James Howe, Jakub Szefer, Dongze Yue
2023 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Martin R. Albrecht, Thomas Bailleux, Nina Bindel, James Howe, Andreas Hülsing, David Joseph, Marc Manzano
2023 conf
AFRICACRYPT
James Howe, Bas Westerbaan
2023 conf
EUROCRYPT (5)
Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Nicolas Gama, James Howe, Andreas Hülsing, David Joseph, Dongze Yue
2022 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
James Howe, Bas Westerbaan
2022 J jnl
ACM Comput. Surv.
Prasanna Ravi, James Howe, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Shivam Bhasin
2022 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Nicolas Gama, James Howe, Andreas Hülsing, David Joseph, Dongze Yue
2022 conf
CBCrypto
Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Jean-Christophe Deneuville, Arnaud Dion, James Howe, Romain Malmain, Vincent Migliore, Mamuri Nawan, Kashif Nawaz
2022 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Jean-Christophe Deneuville, Arnaud Dion, James Howe, Romain Malmain, Vincent Migliore, Mamuri Nawan, Kashif Nawaz
2021 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
James Howe, Marco Martinoli, Elisabeth Oswald, Francesco Regazzoni
2021 J jnl
J. Cryptogr. Eng.
James Howe, Marco Martinoli, Elisabeth Oswald, Francesco Regazzoni
2021 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
James Howe, Thomas Prest, Daniel Apon
2021 B conf
CT-RSA
James Howe, Thomas Prest, Daniel Apon
2020 C conf
PQCrypto
James Howe, Thomas Prest, Thomas Ricosset, Mélissa Rossi
2020 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Prasanna Ravi, James Howe, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Shivam Bhasin
2019 conf
ICETE (2)
Sarah McCarthy, James Howe, Neil Smyth, Séamus Brannigan, Máire O'Neill
2019 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Sarah McCarthy, James Howe, Neil Smyth, Séamus Brannigan, Máire O'Neill
2019 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Prasanna Ravi, Mahabir Prasad Jhanwar, James Howe, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Shivam Bhasin
2019 A conf
AsiaCCS
Prasanna Ravi, Mahabir Prasad Jhanwar, James Howe, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Shivam Bhasin
2019 C conf
ISCAS
James Howe, Ayesha Khalid, Marco Martinoli, Francesco Regazzoni, Elisabeth Oswald
2019 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
James Howe, Ayesha Khalid, Marco Martinoli, Francesco Regazzoni, Elisabeth Oswald
2019 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
James Howe, Thomas Prest, Thomas Ricosset, Mélissa Rossi
2018 C conf
ISCAS
Ayesha Khalid, James Howe, Ciara Rafferty, Francesco Regazzoni, Máire O'Neill
2018 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Ayesha Khalid, James Howe, Ciara Rafferty, Francesco Regazzoni, Máire O'Neill
2018 conf
APCCAS
Ayesha Khalid, Ciara Rafferty, James Howe, Séamus Brannigan, Weiqiang Liu, Máire O'Neill
2018 conf
APCCAS
Sailong Fan, Weiqiang Liu, James Howe, Ayesha Khalid, Máire O'Neill
2018 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Computers
James Howe, Ayesha Khalid, Ciara Rafferty, Francesco Regazzoni, Máire O'Neill
2018 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Prasanna Ravi, Mahabir Prasad Jhanwar, James Howe, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Shivam Bhasin
2018 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
James Howe, Tobias Oder, Markus Krausz, Tim Güneysu
2018 J jnl
IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst.
James Howe, Tobias Oder, Markus Krausz, Tim Güneysu
2017 C conf
ISCAS
James Howe, Ciara Rafferty, Ayesha Khalid, Máire O'Neill
2017 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
James Howe, Máire O'Neill
2017 C conf
SECRYPT
James Howe, Máire O'Neill
2016 conf
Conf. Computing Frontiers
Máire O'Neill, Elizabeth O'Sullivan, Gavin McWilliams, Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen, Ciara Moore, Ayesha Khalid, James Howe, Rafaël del Pino, Michel Abdalla, Francesco Regazzoni, Felipe Valencia, Tim Güneysu, Tobias Oder, Adrian Waller, Glyn Jones, Anthony Barnett, Robert Griffin, Andrew Byrne, Bassem Ammar, David Lund
2016 A* conf
DAC
James Howe, Ciara Moore, Máire O'Neill, Francesco Regazzoni, Tim Güneysu, K. Beeden
2016 conf
FPT
Ayesha Khalid, James Howe, Ciara Rafferty, Máire O'Neill
2015 J jnl
ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst.
James Howe, Thomas Pöppelmann, Máire O'Neill, Elizabeth O'Sullivan, Tim Güneysu
tests/unit/test_macho_dataclasses.py
← Index tests/unit/test_macho_dataclasses.py python
"""
Unit tests for Mach-O dataclasses.
"""
import pytest
from typing import List, Dict, Optional

pytestmark = [pytest.mark.unit, pytest.mark.dataclass, pytest.mark.macho]


class TestMachODataclass:
    """Tests for MachO dataclass."""

    def test_macho_required_fields(self):
        """Test MachO dataclass with required fields."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachO

        macho = MachO(
            magic=0xFEEDFACF,
            cputype=0x01000007,
            cpusubtype=0x00000003,
            filetype=2,
            ncmds=15,
            sizeofcmds=1024,
            flags=0x00200085,
            architecture=0x01000007,
            architectures=[0x01000007],
            magic_str="MH_MAGIC_64",
            cputype_str="CPU_TYPE_X86_64",
            cpusubtype_str="CPU_SUBTYPE_X86_64_ALL",
            filetype_str="MH_EXECUTE",
            flags_str=["MH_NOUNDEFS", "MH_DYLDLINK", "MH_TWOLEVEL", "MH_PIE"],
            architecture_str="x86_64",
            architectures_str=["x86_64"],
            is_64bit=True,
            is_signed=True
        )

        assert macho.magic == 0xFEEDFACF
        assert macho.cputype == 0x01000007
        assert macho.is_64bit is True
        assert macho.is_signed is True
        assert macho.magic_str == "MH_MAGIC_64"
        assert macho.filetype_str == "MH_EXECUTE"

    def test_macho_optional_fields_defaults(self):
        """Test MachO dataclass optional fields default to correct values."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachO

        macho = MachO(
            magic=0xFEEDFACF,
            cputype=0x01000007,
            cpusubtype=0x00000003,
            filetype=2,
            ncmds=15,
            sizeofcmds=1024,
            flags=0x00200085,
            architecture=0x01000007,
            architectures=[0x01000007],
            magic_str="MH_MAGIC_64",
            cputype_str="CPU_TYPE_X86_64",
            cpusubtype_str="CPU_SUBTYPE_X86_64_ALL",
            filetype_str="MH_EXECUTE",
            flags_str=["MH_NOUNDEFS"],
            architecture_str="x86_64",
            architectures_str=["x86_64"],
            is_64bit=True,
            is_signed=False
        )

        assert macho.number_of_load_commands == 0
        assert macho.load_commands_set is None
        assert macho.number_of_segments == 0
        assert macho.number_of_dylibs == 0
        assert macho.number_of_imports == 0
        assert macho.number_of_exports == 0
        assert macho.entry_point is None
        assert macho.uuid is None
        assert macho.version_info is None
        assert macho.version_info_str is None

    def test_macho_with_all_fields(self):
        """Test MachO dataclass with all fields populated."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachO

        macho = MachO(
            magic=0xFEEDFACF,
            cputype=0x01000007,
            cpusubtype=0x00000003,
            filetype=2,
            ncmds=15,
            sizeofcmds=1024,
            flags=0x00200085,
            architecture=0x01000007,
            architectures=[0x01000007],
            magic_str="MH_MAGIC_64",
            cputype_str="CPU_TYPE_X86_64",
            cpusubtype_str="CPU_SUBTYPE_X86_64_ALL",
            filetype_str="MH_EXECUTE",
            flags_str=["MH_PIE"],
            architecture_str="x86_64",
            architectures_str=["x86_64"],
            is_64bit=True,
            is_signed=True,
            number_of_load_commands=15,
            load_commands_set=["LC_SEGMENT_64", "LC_DYLD_INFO_ONLY"],
            number_of_segments=4,
            number_of_dylibs=5,
            number_of_imports=100,
            number_of_exports=10,
            entry_point=0x100001234,
            uuid="12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012",
            version_info={"min_os": "10.15"},
            version_info_str={"min_os": "macOS 10.15"}
        )

        assert macho.number_of_load_commands == 15
        assert macho.uuid == "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012"
        assert macho.entry_point == 0x100001234


class TestMachOSegmentDataclass:
    """Tests for MachOSegment dataclass."""

    def test_segment_creation(self):
        """Test MachOSegment dataclass creation."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOSegment

        segment = MachOSegment(
            segment_name="__TEXT",
            segment_vaddr=0x100000000,
            segment_vsize=0x1000,
            segment_offset=0,
            segment_size=0x1000,
            segment_max_vm_protection=7,
            segment_initial_vm_protection=5,
            segment_nsects=4,
            segment_flags=0,
            segment_entropy=6.5,
            segment_sha256="abc123def456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234"
        )

        assert segment.segment_name == "__TEXT"
        assert segment.segment_vaddr == 0x100000000
        assert segment.segment_entropy == 6.5


class TestMachOImportDataclass:
    """Tests for MachOImport dataclass."""

    def test_import_creation(self):
        """Test MachOImport dataclass creation."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOImport

        import_info = MachOImport(
            macho_imports_total=50,
            macho_import_libraryName=["libSystem.B.dylib", "CoreFoundation"],
            macho_import_functions=["_printf", "_malloc", "_free"]
        )

        assert import_info.macho_imports_total == 50
        assert len(import_info.macho_import_libraryName) == 2
        assert "_printf" in import_info.macho_import_functions

    def test_import_optional_fields(self):
        """Test MachOImport with optional fields as None."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOImport

        import_info = MachOImport(macho_imports_total=0)

        assert import_info.macho_imports_total == 0
        assert import_info.macho_import_libraryName is None
        assert import_info.macho_import_functions is None


class TestMachOExportDataclass:
    """Tests for MachOExport dataclass."""

    def test_export_creation(self):
        """Test MachOExport dataclass creation."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOExport

        export_info = MachOExport(
            macho_exports_total=10,
            macho_export_symbols=["_main", "_helper_func"]
        )

        assert export_info.macho_exports_total == 10
        assert "_main" in export_info.macho_export_symbols


class TestMachODylibDataclass:
    """Tests for MachODylib dataclass."""

    def test_dylib_creation(self):
        """Test MachODylib dataclass creation."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachODylib

        dylib = MachODylib(
            dylib_name="/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib",
            dylib_timestamp=2,
            dylib_current_version=0x04E10200,
            dylib_compat_version=0x00010000
        )

        assert dylib.dylib_name == "/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib"
        assert dylib.dylib_timestamp == 2


class TestMachOLoadCommandDataclass:
    """Tests for MachOLoadCommand dataclass."""

    def test_load_command_creation(self):
        """Test MachOLoadCommand dataclass creation."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOLoadCommand

        lc = MachOLoadCommand(
            load_command=0x19,
            load_command_str="LC_SEGMENT_64",
            load_command_size=72
        )

        assert lc.load_command == 0x19
        assert lc.load_command_str == "LC_SEGMENT_64"
        assert lc.load_command_size == 72


class TestMachOUniversalDataclass:
    """Tests for MachOUniversal dataclass."""

    def test_universal_fat_binary(self):
        """Test MachOUniversal for FAT binary."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOUniversal

        universal = MachOUniversal(
            is_fat=True,
            architecture_count=2,
            architectures=["x86_64", "arm64"],
            architecture_info=[
                {"arch": "x86_64", "offset": 0x1000},
                {"arch": "arm64", "offset": 0x10000}
            ],
            fat_hash="abc123def456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234",
            fat_md5="abc123def456789012345678901234",
            fat_sha1="abc123def456789012345678901234567890"
        )

        assert universal.is_fat is True
        assert universal.architecture_count == 2
        assert "x86_64" in universal.architectures
        assert "arm64" in universal.architectures

    def test_universal_single_arch(self):
        """Test MachOUniversal for single-architecture binary."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOUniversal

        universal = MachOUniversal(
            is_fat=False,
            architecture_count=1,
            architectures=["arm64"],
            architecture_info=[{"arch": "arm64", "offset": 0}]
        )

        assert universal.is_fat is False
        assert universal.architecture_count == 1
        assert universal.fat_hash is None


class TestMachOCertificateDataclass:
    """Tests for MachOCertificate dataclass."""

    def test_certificate_creation(self):
        """Test MachOCertificate dataclass creation."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOCertificate

        cert = MachOCertificate(
            subject="CN=Apple Development",
            issuer="CN=Apple Worldwide Developer Relations",
            serial_number="123456789",
            not_before="2023-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            not_after="2024-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            thumbprint="abc123def456789012345678901234567890",
            certificate_type="leaf",
            order=0,
            algorithm="sha256WithRSAEncryption",
            common_name="Apple Development",
            organizational_unit="Development",
            organization="Apple Inc."
        )

        assert cert.subject == "CN=Apple Development"
        assert cert.certificate_type == "leaf"
        assert cert.order == 0


class TestMachOCodeDirectoryDataclass:
    """Tests for MachOCodeDirectory dataclass."""

    def test_code_directory_creation(self):
        """Test MachOCodeDirectory dataclass creation."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOCodeDirectory

        cd = MachOCodeDirectory(
            identifier="com.example.app",
            team_id="ABC123DEF",
            flags=0x10000,
            cd_hash="abc123def456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234"
        )

        assert cd.identifier == "com.example.app"
        assert cd.team_id == "ABC123DEF"
        assert cd.flags == 0x10000


class TestMachOCodeSigningInfoDataclass:
    """Tests for MachOCodeSigningInfo dataclass."""

    def test_code_signing_info_unsigned(self):
        """Test MachOCodeSigningInfo for unsigned binary."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOCodeSigningInfo

        info = MachOCodeSigningInfo(
            _id="abc123def456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234",
            signing_type="unsigned",
            has_signature=False,
            number_of_certificates=0
        )

        assert info.signing_type == "unsigned"
        assert info.has_signature is False
        assert info.number_of_certificates == 0

    def test_code_signing_info_signed(self):
        """Test MachOCodeSigningInfo for signed binary."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOCodeSigningInfo, MachOCodeDirectory

        cd = MachOCodeDirectory(
            identifier="com.example.app",
            team_id="ABC123DEF"
        )

        info = MachOCodeSigningInfo(
            _id="abc123def456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234",
            signing_type="certificate",
            has_signature=True,
            number_of_certificates=3,
            code_directories=[cd],
            entitlements={"com.apple.security.app-sandbox": True},
            has_hardened_runtime=True,
            has_library_validation=True
        )

        assert info.signing_type == "certificate"
        assert info.has_signature is True
        assert info.number_of_certificates == 3
        assert info.has_hardened_runtime is True

    def test_code_signing_info_adhoc(self):
        """Test MachOCodeSigningInfo for ad-hoc signed binary."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOCodeSigningInfo

        info = MachOCodeSigningInfo(
            _id="abc123def456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234",
            signing_type="ad-hoc",
            has_signature=True,
            number_of_certificates=0,
            arch_identifier="x86_64"
        )

        assert info.signing_type == "ad-hoc"
        assert info.number_of_certificates == 0
        assert info.arch_identifier == "x86_64"


class TestMachOEntitlementDataclass:
    """Tests for MachOEntitlement dataclass."""

    def test_entitlement_boolean(self):
        """Test MachOEntitlement with boolean value."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOEntitlement

        ent = MachOEntitlement(
            key="com.apple.security.app-sandbox",
            value_type="boolean",
            value_bool=True
        )

        assert ent.key == "com.apple.security.app-sandbox"
        assert ent.value_type == "boolean"
        assert ent.value_bool is True

    def test_entitlement_string(self):
        """Test MachOEntitlement with string value."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOEntitlement

        ent = MachOEntitlement(
            key="com.apple.developer.team-identifier",
            value_type="string",
            value_string="ABC123DEF"
        )

        assert ent.key == "com.apple.developer.team-identifier"
        assert ent.value_type == "string"
        assert ent.value_string == "ABC123DEF"

    def test_entitlement_array(self):
        """Test MachOEntitlement with array value."""
        from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOEntitlement

        ent = MachOEntitlement(
            key="com.apple.security.application-groups",
            value_type="array",
            value_array=["group.com.example.app", "group.com.example.shared"]
        )

        assert ent.key == "com.apple.security.application-groups"
        assert ent.value_type == "array"
        assert len(ent.value_array) == 2