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Project Management Methodology in Human Resource Management
March 3, 2006, 12:00am PST
The concept of project management methodology can be leveraged to add value to an institution's strategic initiatives. This paper provides an overview of project management methodology, when it...
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Saluki: A High-Performance Wi-Fi Sniffing Program
July 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Building a campus-wide wireless LAN measurement system faces many efficiency, scalability and security challenges. To address these challenges, the authors developed a distributed Wi-Fi sniffing...
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Anatomy of a Proactive Password Changer
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper will describe a new version of the UNIX password changing program called passwd+. This program provides extensions to both the password changing facility and the password checking...
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HIPAA Compliance: An Examination of Institutional and Market Forces
June 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One would think that the enactment of the HIPAA, with its mandates on data security and privacy, would have brought a major shift in the security management practices within the US healthcare....
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HIPAA Compliance in Home Health: A Neo-Institutional Theoretic Perspective
November 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
As the baby boomers age and the focus of healthcare shifts from acute care to chronic care, home healthcare will become increasingly important in controlling cost and improving quality. Health IT...
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Which Hospitals Are Complying With HIPAA: An Empirical Investigation of US Hospitals
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Since the passage of HIPAA regulation, US hospitals have gone on a high gear by investing organizational resources on HIPAA policy and procedures, information technologies, and information privacy...
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Asset Substitution And Structured Financing
August 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper shows how structured financing can be used to solve the asset substitution problem in a dynamic setting. Structuring induces the firm's owner to optimally choose the first best...
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Scalability of Network Simulators Revisited
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
As interest in the networking community turns to increasingly complicated networks run over increasingly long simulation times, performance differences in network simulators increasingly matter....
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A Combined Routing Method for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
June 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
To make ad hoc wireless networks adaptive to different mobility and traffic patterns, this paper proposes an approach to swap from one protocol to another protocol dynamically, while routing...
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PCQoS: Power Controlled QoS in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
June 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobile Ad hoc networks typically use a common transmission power approach for the discovery of routes and the transmission of data packets. In this paper authors present PCQoS, a power-controlled...
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Is Bluetooth the Right Technology for mHealth?
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Many people believe mobile Healthcare (mHealth) would help alleviate the rising cost of healthcare and improve the quality of service. Bluetooth, which is the most popular wireless technology for...
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Nymble: Anonymous IP-Address Blocking
June 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Anonymizing networks such as Tor allow users to access Internet services privately using a series of routers to hide the client's IP address from the server. Tor's success, however, has been...
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Privacy Analysis of User Association Logs in a Large-Scale Wireless LAN
January 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
User association logs collected from a large-scale wireless LAN record where and when a user has used the network. Such information plays an important role in wireless network research. One...
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The Impact of Information Security Rating on Vendor Competition
June 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Security breaches often stem from business partner failures within the value chain. There have been several recent efforts to develop a common reference for rating the information risk posed by...
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The Impact of Professional Information Security Ratings on Vendor Competition
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Security breaches often stem from business partner failures within the value chain. There have been several recent efforts to develop a common reference for rating the information risk posed by...
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Interoperable PKI Data Distribution in Computational Grids
August 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
One of the most successful working examples of virtual organizations, computational grids needs authentication mechanisms that inter-operate across domain boundaries. Public Key Infrastructures...
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Simulation Modeling of Large-Scale Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In the scenario of a natural catastrophe or a terrorist attack, a large number of self-organizing, low-cost sensor devices can be deployed over the affected area. Each device equipped with its own...
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PQR: Finding the PKI Needles in the Internet Haystack
February 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
Public-key cryptography can uniquely enable trust within distributed settings. Employing it usually requires deploying a set of tools and services collectively known as a Public Key Infrastructure...
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MetroTrack: Predictive Tracking of Mobile Events Using Mobile Phones
April 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes to use mobile phones carried by people in their everyday lives as mobile sensors to track mobile events. The authors argue that sensor-enabled mobile phones are best suited to...
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Secure Context-Sensitive Authorization
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
There is a recent trend toward rule-based authorization systems to achieve flexible security policies. Also, new sensing technologies in pervasive computing make it possible to define...
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On Usable Authentication for Wireless Body Area Networks
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine a specific security problem in wireless body area networks (WBANs), what they call the one body authentication problem. That is, how can they ensure that the wireless sensors...
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Can I Access Your Data? Privacy Management in MHealth
June 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Mobile health (mHealth) has become important in the field of healthcare information technology, as patients begin to use mobile medical sensors to record their daily activities and vital signs....
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VirtualWalls: Protecting Digital Privacy in Pervasive Environments
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
As pervasive environments become more commonplace, the privacy of users is placed at increased risk. The numerous and diverse sensors in these environments can record users' contextual...
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Group-Aware Stream Filtering
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors are concerned with disseminating high-volume data streams to many simultaneous context-aware applications over a low-bandwidth wireless mesh network. For bandwidth...
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Application-Controlled Loss-Tolerant Data Dissemination
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Reactive or proactive mobile applications require continuous monitoring of their physical and computational environment to make appropriate decisions in time. These applications need to monitor...
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A Meeting Detector and Its Applications
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors present a context-sensing component that recognizes meetings in a typical office environment. The prototype detects the meeting start and end by combining outputs from...
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A Survey of Context-Aware Mobile Computing Research
February 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
Context-aware computing is a mobile computing paradigm in which applications can discover and take advantage of contextual information (such as user location, time of day, nearby people and...
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Finding Holes in Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of detecting holes in a sensor network. A hole occurs when several adjacent nodes in a sensor network fail, and is defined as the convex hull of the region...
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Risks of Using AP Locations Discovered Through War Driving
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Many pervasive-computing applications depend on knowledge of user location. Because most current location-sensing techniques work only either indoors or outdoors, researchers have started using...
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A Stackelberg Strategy for Routing Flow Over Time
October 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Routing games are used to understand the impact of individual users' decisions on network efficiency. Most prior work on routing games uses a simplified model of network flow where all flow exists...
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Attacking and Defending Networked Embedded Devices
August 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Currently, work on malware attack and defense focuses primarily on PCs. However, as lightweight computing devices with embedded operating systems become more ubiquitous, they present a new and...
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New Directions for Hardware-Assisted Trusted Computing Policies
August 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The basic technological building blocks of the TCG architecture seem to be stabilizing. As a result, the authors believe that the focus of the Trusted Computing (TC) discipline must naturally...
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TOCTOU, Traps, and Trusted Computing
November 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
The security of the standard TCG architecture depends on whether the values in the PCRs match the actual platform configuration. However, this design admits potential for time-of-check time-of-use...
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Dumbots: Unexpected Botnets Through Networked Embedded Devices
May 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Currently, work on botnets focuses primarily on PCs. However, as lightweight computing devices with embedded operating systems become more ubiquitous, they present a new and very disturbing target...
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YASIR: A Low-Latency, High-Integrity Security Retrofit for Legacy SCADA Systems (Extended Version)
April 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors construct a Bump-In-The-Wire (BITW) solution that retrofits security into time-critical communications over bandwidth-limited serial links between devices in legacy Supervisory Control...
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Nymble: Blocking Misbehaving Users in Anonymizing Networks
December 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
Anonymizing networks such as Tor allow users to access Internet services privately by using a series of routers to hide the client's IP address from the server. The success of such networks,...
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Authenticated Streamwise On-Line Encryption
March 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In Blockwise On-line Encryption, encryption and decryption return an output block as soon as the next input block is received. In this paper, the authors introduce Authenticated Streamwise Online...
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Pastures: Towards Usable Security Policy Engineering
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Whether a particular computing installation meets its security goals depends on whether the administrators can create a policy that expresses these goals - security in practice requires effective...
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Information Security in the Ecosystem of Healthcare
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Jekyll and Hyde embodies how information security affects today's healthcare ecosystem. When security works, it promotes patient health and a smooth operating ecosystem (Dr. Jekyll); when it...
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Extending PKI Interoperability in Computational Grids
March 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
One of the most successful working examples of virtual organizations, computational grids need authentication mechanisms that inter-operate across domain boundaries. Public Key Infrastructures...
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Who Wears Me? Bioimpedance as a Passive Biometric
June 25, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Mobile and wearable systems for monitoring health are becoming common. If such an m-Health system knows the identity of its wearer, the system can properly label and store data collected by the...
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XUTools: Unix Commands for Processing Next-Generation Structured Text
November 5, 2012, 12:00am PST
Traditional Unix tools operate on sequences of characters, bytes, fields, lines, and files. However, modern practitioners often want to manipulate files in terms of a variety of language-specific...
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An Overview of Computer Viruses in a Research Environment
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The threat of attack by computer viruses is in reality a very small part of a much more general threat, specifically attacks aimed at subverting computer security. This paper examines computer...
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Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
January 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
Today, people predominately rely on the Internet and cellular network, as well as the plain old telephone system, to communicate with each other. Typically, these communication services are built...
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Social Network Analysis Plugin (SNAP) for Mesh Networks
July 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In a network, bridging nodes are those nodes that from a topological perspective, are strategically located between highly connected regions of nodes. Thus, they have high values of the Bridging...
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Exposing Privacy Concerns in mHealth
July 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Mobile Health (mHealth) sensing devices can help individuals work towards a healthier lifestyle or allow them to share the collected information with their doctor to diagnose health issues or...
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Hide-n-Sense: Privacy-Aware Secure mHealth Sensing
September 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As healthcare in many countries faces an aging population and rising costs, mobile sensing technologies promise a new opportunity. Using mobile Health (mHealth) sensing, which uses medical sensors...
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D'Agents: Security in a Multiple-Language, Mobile-Agent System
February 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
Mobile-agent systems must address three security issues: protecting an individual machine, protecting a group of machines, and protecting an agent. In this paper, the authors discuss these three...
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A Language of Life: Characterizing People Using Cell Phone Tracks
July 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mobile devices can produce continuous streams of data which are often specific to the person carrying them. The authors show that cell phone tracks from the MIT Reality dataset can be used to...
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Saluki: A High-Performance Wi-Fi Sniffing Program
July 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Building a campus-wide wireless LAN measurement system faces many efficiency, scalability and security challenges. To address these challenges, the authors developed a distributed Wi-Fi sniffing...
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Distributed Monitoring of Conditional Entropy for Anomaly Detection in Streams
October 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors consider the problem of monitoring information streams for anomalies in a scalable and efficient manner. They study the problem in the context of network streams where...
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Testing the Greenpass Wireless Security System
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Greenpass, developed by Nick Goffee, Sung Hoon Kim, Meiyuan Zhao and John Marchesini under the supervision of Sean Smith and Punch Taylor, is a wireless security solution that implements SPKI/SDSI...
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A Combined Routing Method for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
Several simulation and real world studies show that certain ad hoc routing protocols perform better than others under specific mobility and traffic patterns. In order to exploit this phenomena,...
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Creating Large Disturbances in the Power Grid: Methods of Attack After Cyber Infiltration
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Researchers are pursuing methods of securing the cyber aspect of the U.S. power grid, one of the country's most critical infrastructures. An attacker who is able to infiltrate an Energy Management...
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IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Security: Self-Assessment Frameworks
June 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the security of networks built upon the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, specifically in regard to the ability of an attacker to manipulate such networks under real-world conditions....
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Exploiting the Hard-Working DWARF: Trojan and Exploit Techniques Without Native Executable Code
June 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The paper of vulnerabilities and exploitation is one of finding mechanisms affecting the flow of computation and of finding new means to perform unexpected computation. In this paper, the authors...
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Exploiting the Hard-Working DWARF: Trojans With No Native Executable Code
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
All binaries compiled by recent versions of GCC from C++ programs include complex data and dedicated code for exception handling support. The data structures describe the call stack frame layout...
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Effects of Network Trace Sampling Methods on Privacy and Utility Metrics
June 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Researchers studying computer networks rely on the availability of traffic trace data collected from live production networks. Those choosing to share trace data with colleagues must first remove...
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YASIR: A Low-Latency, High-Integrity Security Retro T for Legacy SCADA Systems
April 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors construct a Bump-In-The-Wire (BITW) solution that retrofits security into time-critical communications over bandwidth-limited serial links between devices in legacy Supervisory Control...
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Key Management for Secure Power SCADA
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a key management protocol for secure power SCADA systems that seeks to take advantage of the full security capacity of a given network by allowing devices to use public key...
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TwoKind Authentication: Protecting Private Information in Untrustworthy Environments
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose and evaluate TwoKind Authentication, a simple and effective technique that allows users to limit access to their private information in untrustworthy environments. Users often...
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LZfuzz: A Fast Compression-Based Fuzzer for Poorly Documented Protocols
September 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Real-world infrastructure offers many scenarios where protocols (and other details) are not released due to being considered too sensitive or for other reasons. This situation makes it hard to...
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Anchor-Free Localization in Mixed Wireless Sensor Network Systems
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent technological advances have fostered the emergence of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which consist of tiny, wireless, battery-powered nodes that are expected to revolutionize the ways in...
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A Dynamically Refocusable Sampling Infrastructure for 802.11 Networks
May 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The edge of the Internet is increasingly wireless. Enterprises large and small, homeowners, and even whole cities have deployed Wi-Fi networks for their users and many users never need to - or...
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The Weakest Failure Detector to Solve Mutual Exclusion
April 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mutual exclusion is not solvable in an asynchronous message-passing system where processes are subject to crash failures. Delporte-Gallet et.al. determined the weakest failure detector to solve...
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PPAA: Peer-to-Peer Anonymous Authentication
April 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the pursuit of authentication schemes that balance user privacy and accountability, numerous anonymous credential systems have been constructed. However, existing systems assume a client-server...
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Localized Bridging Centrality for Distributed Network Analysis
January 30, 2008, 12:00am PST
Centrality is a concept often used in social network analysis to study different properties of networks that are modeled as graphs. The authors present a new centrality metric called Localized...
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Exclusion and Object Tracking in a Network of Processes
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper concerns two fundamental problems in distributed computing - mutual exclusion and mobile object tracking. For a variant of the mutual exclusion problem where the network topology is...
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A Security Assessment of Trusted Platform Modules
June 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) are becoming ubiquitous devices included in newly released personal computers. Broadly speaking, the aim of this technology is to provide a facility for...
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On the Reliability of Wireless Fingerprinting Using Clock Skews
October 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Determining whether a client station should trust an access point is a known problem in wireless security. Traditional approaches to solving this problem resort to cryptography. But cryptographic...
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Recognizing Whether Sensors Are on the Same Body
March 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
As personal health sensors become ubiquitous, the authors also expect them to become interoperable. That is, instead of closed, end-to-end personal health sensing systems, the authors envision...
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Secure Cryptographic Precomputation With Insecure Memory
February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors propose a solution that provides secure storage for cryptographic precomputation using only insecure memory that is susceptible to eavesdropping and tampering. Specifically, they...
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YASIR: A Low-Latency, High-Integrity Security Retrofit for Legacy SCADA Systems
July 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors construct a Bump-In-The-Wire (BITW) solution that retrofits security into time-critical communications over bandwidth-limited serial links between devices in legacy Supervisory Control...
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A Computational Framework for Certificate Policy Operations
August 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The trustworthiness of any Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) rests upon the expectations for trust, and the degree to which those expectations are met. Policies, whether implicit as in PGP and...
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Using Hierarchal Change Mining to Manage Network Security Policy Evolution
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Managing the security of complex cloud and networked computing environments requires crafting security policy - ranging from natural-language text to highly-structured configuration rules,...
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TwoKind Authentication: Usable Authenticators for Untrustworthy Environments
July 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The ease with which a malicious third party can obtain a user's password when he or she logs into Internet sites (such as bank or email accounts) from an insecure computer creates a substantial...
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TwoKind Authentication: Protecting Private Information in Untrustworthy Environments (Extended Version)
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose and evaluate TwoKind Authentication, a simple and effective technique that allows users to limit access to their private information in untrustworthy environments. Users often...
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BLAC: Revoking Repeatedly Misbehaving Anonymous Users Without Relying on TTPs
September 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Several credential systems have been proposed in which users can authenticate to service providers anonymously. Since anonymity can give users the license to misbehave, some variants allow the...
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Batch Pairing Delegation
July 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Pairing-Based Cryptography (PBC) has enabled the construction of many cryptographic protocols. However, there are scenarios when PBC is too heavyweight to use, such as when the computing devices...
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PEACHES and Peers
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
How to distribute resource locators is a fundamental problem in PKI. The PKI Resource Query Protocol (PRQP), recently presented at IETF, provides a standard method to query for PKI resources...
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