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    PhD Confirmed - March 23, 2023
    CONGRATS Dr. Yoshimichi Nakatsuka!
    Best Poster award - March 3, 2023
    "VICEROY: GDPR-/CCPA-compliant Enforcement of Verifiable Accountless Consumer Requests", in NDSS, 2023.
    Paper Accepted - July 14, 2022
    "CASU: Compromise Avoidance via Secure Updates for Low-end Embedded Systems", in ICCAD, 2022.
    Paper Accepted - May 3, 2022
    "We can hear your PIN drop: A new acoustic side channel attack to profile PIN pads keys", in ESORICS, 2022.
    Paper Accepted - March 18, 2022
    "How Byzantine is a Send Corruption?", in ACNS, 2022.
    Paper Accepted - March 18, 2022
    "Vronicle: Verifiable Provenance for Videos from Mobile Devices", in MobiSys, 2022.
    Paper Accepted - March 05, 2022
    "Privacy-from-Birth: Protecting Sensed Data from Malicious Sensors with VERSA", in IEEE S&P (Oakland), 2022.
    Paper Accepted - March 05, 2022
    "V'CER: Efficient Certificate Validation in Constrained Networks", in USENIX Security, 2022.
    Paper Accepted - March 05, 2022
    "SCRAPS: Scalable Collective Remote Attestation for Pub-Sub IoT Networks with Untrusted Proxy Verifier", in USENIX Security, 2022.
    Paper Accepted - January 10, 2022
    "Privacy-Friendly De-authentication with BLUFADE: Blurred Face Detection", in IEEE PERCOM, 2022.
    Paper Accepted - November 20, 2021
    "GAROTA: Generalized Active Root-Of-Trust Architecture", in USENIX Security, 2022.
    Paper Accepted - November 18, 2021
    "Permissionless Consensus in the Research Model", in Financial Cryptography, 2022.
    Paper Accepted - November 15, 2021
    "ROSEN: RObust and SElective Non-repudiation (for TLS)", in ACM CCSW, 2021.
    Paper Accepted - May 06, 2021
    "Delegated Attestation: Scalable Remote Attestation of Commodity CPS by Blending Proofs of Execution with Software Attestation", in WiSec, 2021.
    Paper Accepted - March 22, 2021
    "On the TOCTOU Problem in Remote Attestation", in CCS, 2021.
    Paper Published - February 28, 2021
    "PDoT: Private DNS-over-TLS with TEE Support", in DTRAP, 2021.
    Paper Accepted - February 12, 2021
    "DIALED: Data Integrity Attestation for Low-end Embedded Devices", in DAC, 2021.
    Paper Accepted - January 19, 2021
    "On the Root of Trust Identification Problem", in IPSN, 2021.
    Paper Accepted - December 7, 2020
    "CACTI: Captcha Avoidance via Client-side TEE Integration", in USENIX Security, 2021.
    Paper Accepted - November 13, 2020
    "Tiny-CFA: A Minimalistic Approach for Control Flow Attestation Using Verified Proofs of Execution", in DATE, 2021.
    Paper Accepted - September 17, 2020
    "ProMACs: Progressive and Resynchronizing MACs for Continuous Efficient Authentication of Message Streams", in CCS, 2020.
    Paper Accepted - August 06, 2020
    "De-auth of the Blue! Transparent De-authentication using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon", in ESORICS, 2020.
    Paper Accepted - June 26, 2020
    "Communication-Efficient (Proactive) Secure Computation for Dynamic General Adversary Structures and Dynamic Groups", in SCN, 2020.
    Paper Accepted - June 26, 2020
    "Towards Automated Augmentation and Instrumentation of Legacy Cryptographic Executables", in ACNS, 2020.
    Paper Accepted - June 09, 2020
    "SIMPLE: A Remote Attestation Approach for Resource-Constrained IoT", in ICCPS/CPSWeek, 2020.
    Paper Accepted - June 09, 2020
    "Exploring Effects of Auditory Stimuli on CAPTCHA Performance", AsiaUSEC, 2020.
    Paper Accepted - June 09, 2020
    "A Proactive Cache Privacy Attack on CCN", in IEEE/IFIP NOMS Mini-Conference, 2020.
    Paper Accepted - February 28, 2020
    APEX: A Verified Architecture for Proofs of Execution on Remote Devices Under Full Software Compromise, in USENIX Security 2020.
    Paper Accepted - August 23, 2019
    PDoT: Private DNS-over-TLS with TEE Support, in ACSAC 2019.
    Paper Accepted - August 21, 2019
    Balancing Security and Privacy in Genomic Range Queries, in ACM WPES 2019.
    Paper Accepted - June 4, 2019
    VRASED: A Verified Hardware/Software Co-Design for Remote Attestation, in USENIX Security 2019.
    Paper Accepted - June 4, 2019
    PURE: Using Verified Remote Attestation to Obtain Proofs of Update, Reset and Erasure in Low-End Embedded Systems, in IEEE/ACM ICCAD 2019.
    Paper Accepted - April 19, 2019
    Thermanator: Thermal Residue-Based Post Factum Attacks On Keyboard Data Entry, in ACM AsiaCCS 2019.
    Paper Accepted - April 19, 2019
    Opinion: Advancing Remote Attestation via Computer-aided Formal Verification of Designs and Synthesis of Executables, in ACM WiSec 2019.
    Paper Accepted - March 25, 2019
    SNUSE: A Secure Computation Approach for Large-Scale User Re-Enrollment in Biometric Authentication Systems, at Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Journal - Elsevier, Special Issue on Biometrics and Security, 2019.
    Presentation Accepted - January 15, 2019
    AcuTherm: A Hybrid Attack on Password Entry Based on Both Acoustic and Thermal Side-Channels at Black Hat Asia, 2019.
    Mission Accomplished - December 10, 2018
    Dr. Tyler Kaczmarek successfully defended and turned in his PhD thesis. Congratulations Tyler!
    Paper Accepted - December 01, 2018
    HEALED: HEaling & Attestation for Low-end Embedded Devices, at Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC) 2019.
    Sprout makes the news! - July 10, 2018
    Thermanator: Thermal Residue-Based Post Factum Attacks On Keyboard Password Entry has attracted a lot of media attention.
    Paper Accepted - July 1, 2018
    A paper titled, "US-AID: Unattended Scalable Attestation of IoT Devices" by A. Ibrahim, A. Sadeghi and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 2018
    Paper Accepted - July 1, 2018
    A paper titled, "ASSURED: Architecture for Secure Software Update of Realistic Embedded Devices" by N. Asokan, T. Nyman, N. Rattanavipanon, A-R. Sadeghi and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems - Special Issue ESWEEK 2018, CASES 2018, CODES + ISSS 2018 and EMSOFT 2018
    Paper Accepted - June 18, 2018
    A paper titled, "SILK-TV: Secret Information Leakage from Keystroke Timing Videos" by K. Balagani, M. Conti, P. Gasti, M. Georgiev, T. Gurtler, D. Lain, C. Miller, K. Molas, N. Samarin, E. Saraci, G. Tsudik and L. Wu was accepted for publication at European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2018
    Paper Accepted - June 7, 2018
    A paper titled, "FROG: A Packet Hop Count based DDoS Countermeasure in NDN" by Y. Nakatsuka, J. L. Wijekoon and H. Nishi was accepted for publication at IEEE ISCC 2018
    Paper Accepted - June 7, 2018
    A paper titled, "Secure Non-Interactive User Re-Enrollment in Biometrics-based Identification and Authentication Systems" by I. O. Nunes, K. Eldefrawy, and T. Lepoint was accepted for publication at CSCML 2018
    Paper Accepted - June 7, 2018
    A paper titled, "Invited: Reconciling Remote Attestation and Safety-Critical Operation on Simple IoT Devices" by X. Carpent, K. Eldefrawy, N. Rattanavipanon, A. Sadeghi, and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at DAC 2018
    Paper Accepted - April 10, 2018
    A paper titled, "Assentication: User Deauthentication and Lunchtime Attack Mitigation with Seated Posture Biometric" by T. Kaczmarek, E. Ozturk, and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at ACNS 2018
    Paper Accepted - April 10, 2018
    A paper titled, "KRB-CCN: Lightweight Authentication & Access Control for Private Content-Centric Networks" by I. O. Nunes, and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at ACNS 2018
    Paper Accepted - January 16, 2018
    A paper titled, "Remote Attestation of IoT Devices via SMARM: Shuffled Measurements Against Roving Malware" by X. Carpent, N. Rattanavipanon and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at HOST 2018
    Ph.D. graduate - December 8, 2017
    Congratulations to Dr. Chris Wood for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation titled, "Security and Privacy Challenges in Content-Centric Networking."
    Paper Accepted - November 14, 2017
    A paper titled, "ERASMUS: Efficient Remote Attestation via Self-Measurement for Unattended Settings" by X. Carpent, N. Rattanavipanon and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at DATE 2018
    Paper Accepted - September 27, 2017
    A paper titled, "Private Set Projections & Variants" by Xavier Carpent, Sky Faber, Tomas Sander and Gene Tsudik was accepted for publication at WPES 2017
    Paper Accepted - August 3, 2017
    A paper titled, "Presence Attestation: The Missing Link In Dynamic Trust Bootstrapping" by X. Ding, G. Tsudik, et al. was accepted for publication at ACM CCS 2017
    Paper Accepted - August 3, 2017
    A paper titled, "When Encryption is Not Enough: Privacy Attacks in Content-Centric Networking" by C. Ghali, G. Tsudik and C. Wood was accepted for publication at ACM ICN 2017
    Paper Accepted - July 14, 2017
    A paper titled, "MTRA: Multiple-Tier Remote Attestations in the Internet of Things" by S. Jha, H. Tan and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2017
    Paper Accepted - July 14, 2017
    A paper titled, "Namespace Tunnels in Content-Centric Networks" by I. Oliveira-Nunes, G. Tsudik and C. Wood was accepted for publication at IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2017
    Paper Accepted - July 14, 2017
    A paper titled, "Mitigating On-Path Adversaries in Content-Centric Networks" by C. Ghali, G. Tsudik and C. Wood was accepted for publication at IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2017
    Paper Accepted - July 14, 2017
    A paper titled, "Ditio: Trustworthy Auditing of Sensor Activities in Mobile & IoT Devices" by S. Mirzamohammadi, J. Chen, A. Amiri Sani, S. Mehrotra, and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2017
    Paper Accepted - May 1, 2017
    A paper titled, "HYDRA: HYbrid Design for Remote Attestation (Using a Formally Verified Microkernel)" by K. El Defrawy, N. Rattanavipanon and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at ACM WiSEC 2017
    Paper Accepted - April 24, 2017
    A paper titled, "Closing the Floodgate with Stateless Content-Centric Networking" by Cesar Ghali, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun and Christopher A. Wood was accepted for publication at IEEE ICCCN 2017
    Paper Accepted - April 10, 2017
    A paper titled, "Lights, Camera, Action! Exploring Effects of Visual Distractions on Completion of Security Tasks" by Bruce Berg, Tyler Kaczmarek, Alfred Kobsa and Gene Tsudik was accepted for publication at ACNS 2017
    Paper Accepted - April 8, 2017
    A paper titled, "Protecting the Long Tail: Transparent Packet Security in Content-Centric Networks" by Christopher A. Wood was accepted for publication at IFIP Networking 2017
    Paper Accepted - April 8, 2017
    A paper titled, "Mobile Sessions in Content-Centric Networks" by Marc Mosko, Ersin Uzun, and Christopher A. Wood was accepted for publication at IFIP Networking 2017
    Paper Accepted - January 26, 2017
    A paper titled, "Heterogeneous Rainbow Table Widths Provide Faster Cryptanalyses" by X. Carpent and G. Avoine was accepted for publication at ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2017
    Paper Accepted - January 26, 2017
    A paper titled, "LIghtweight Swarm Attestation: A Tale of Two LISAs" by X. Carpent, K. El Defrawy, N. Rattanavipanon and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2017
    Paper Accepted - January 26, 2017
    A paper titled, "Dont Skype & Type! Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP" by A. Compagno, M. Conti, D. Lain and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2017
    Paper Accepted - July 26, 2016
    A paper titled, "C-FLAT: Control-FLow ATtestation for Embedded Systems Software" by T. Abera, N. Asokan, L. Davi, J. Ekberg, T. Nyman, A. Paverd, A. Sadeghi and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at ACM CCS 2016
    Paper Accepted - June 30, 2016
    A paper titled, "Network Names in Content-Centric Networking: The Joys Of Namelessness" by C. Ghali, G. Tsudik and C. Wood was accepted for publication at ACM Information-Centric Networking (ICN) 2016
    Paper Accepted - June 20, 2016
    A paper titled, "Bounded Size-Hiding Private Set Intersection" by T. Bradley, S. Faber and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at the 2016 Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN)
    Paper Accepted - May 20, 2016
    A paper titled, "DARPA: Device Attestation Resilient to Physical Attacks" by A. Ibrahim, A. Sadeghi, G. Tsudik and S. Zeitouni was accepted for publication at the 2016 ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSEC)
    Paper Accepted - May 8, 2016
    A paper titled, "Trust in Information-Centric Networking: From Theory to Practice" by C. Tschudin, E. Uzun, C. A. Wood was accepted for publication at the 25th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN 2016)
    Paper Accepted - April 1, 2016
    A paper titled, "BEAD: Best Effort Autonomous Deletion in Content-Centric Networking" by C. Ghali, G. Tsudik and C. A. Wood was accepted for publication at The IFIP Networking 2016 Conference (NETWORKING 2016).
    Paper Accepted - February 24, 2016
    A paper titled, "Low-End Device Attestation: the Prover's Perspective" by F. Brasser, K. Rasmussen, A. Sadeghi and G. Tsudik was accepted for publication at the 2016 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) -- the top international conference in its field.
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "Authentication Using Pulse-Response Biometrics" by Ivan Martinovic, Kasper Rasmussen, Marc Roeschlin and Gene Tsudik was accepted for publication at Communications of the ACM (CACM): Research Highlights
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "Three-Party ORAM for Secure Computation" by Sky Faber, Stanislaw Jarecki, Sotirios Kentros, and Boyang Wei was accepted for publication at the Advances in Cryptology (ASIACRYPT)
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "SEDA: Scalable Embedded Device Attestation" by N. Asokan, Ferdinand Brasser, Ahmad Ibrahim, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Matthias Schunter, Gene Tsudik and Christian Wachsmann was accepted for publication at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "UnLinked: Private Proximity-based Off-line OSN Interaction" by Sky Faber, Ronald Petrlic, and Gene Tsudik was accepted for publication at ACM CCS Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "Rich Queries on Encrypted Data: Beyond Exact Matches" by Sky Faber, Stanislaw Jarecki, Hugo Krawczyk, Quan Nguyen, Marcel Rosu and Michael Steiner was accepted for publication at the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "Secure Fragmentation for Content-Centric Networks" by Cesar Ghali, Ashok Narayanan, David Oran, Gene Tsudik and Christopher Wood was accepted for publication at IEEE Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA)
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "Interest-Based Access Control for Content Centric Networks" by Cesar Ghali, Marc Schlosberg, Gene Tsudik and Christopher Wood was accepted for publication at ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN)
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "To NACK or not to NACK? Negative Acknowledgments in Information-Centric Networking" by Alberto Compagno, Mauro Conti, Cesar Ghali and Gene Tsudik was accepted for publication at IEEE Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "Violating Consumer Anonymity: Geo-locating Nodes in Named Data Networking" by Alberto Compagno, Mauro Conti, Paolo Gasti, Luigi Mancini and Gene Tsudik was accepted for publication at Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS)
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "Remote Attestation of Heterogeneous Cyber-Physical Systems: The Automotive Use Case" by Karim El Defrawy, Gavin Holland and Gene Tsudik was accepted for publication at Conference on Embedded Security in Cars (ESCAR)
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "An Unattended Study of Users Performing Security Critical Tasks Under Adversarial Noise" by Tyler Kaczmarek, Alfred Kobsa, Robert Sy and Gene Tsudik was accepted for publication at NDSS Workshop on Usable Security (USEC)
    Paper Accepted - August 26, 2015
    A paper titled, "Whole Genome Sequencing: Revolutionary Medicine or Privacy Nightmare?" by Erman Ayday, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Jean-Pierre Hubaux and Gene Tsudik was accepted for publication at IEEE Computer
    Paper Accepted - October 11, 2014
    A paper titled, "Stylometric Linkability of Tweets" by Mishari Al Mishari, Dali Kaafar, Gene Tsudik and Ekin Oguz was accepted for publication at Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)
    Paper Accepted - August 8, 2014
    A paper titled, "Elements of Trust in Named-Data Networking" by Cesar Ghali, Gene Tsudik and Ersin Uzun was accepted for publication by ACM SIGCOMM CCR (Computer Communications Review)
    Paper Accepted - August 8, 2014
    A paper titled, "Fighting Authorship Linkability with Crowdsourcing" by Mishari Almishari, Ekin Oguz and Gene Tsudik was accepted by 2014 ACM COSN (Conference on Social Networks)
    Paper Accepted - February 20, 2014
    A paper titled, "Covert Ephemeral Communication in Named Data Networking" by Moreno Ambrosin, Mauro Conti, Paolo Gasti and Gene Tsudi was accepted for publication at AsiaCCS 2014.
    Paper Accepted - November 21, 2013
    A paper titled: "Authentication Using Pulse-Response Biometrics" by Kasper Rasmussen, Marc Roeschlin, Ivan Martinovic and Gene Tsudik was accepted by 2014 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium.
    Paper Accepted - November 20, 2013
    A paper titled: "Two-Factor Authentication Resilient to Server Compromise Using Mix-Bandwidth Devices" by Maliheh Shirvanian, Stanislaw Jarecki, Nitesh Saxena and Naveen Nathan was accepted by 2014 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium.
    Paper Accepted - November 19, 2013
    A paper titled: "Optimizing Bi-Directional Low-Latency Communication in Named Data Networking" by Mishari Almishari, Paolo Gasti, Naveen Nathan and Gene Tsudik was accepted for publication by ACM Computer Communication Review.
    Paper Accepted - November 18, 2013
    A paper titled: "A Minimalist Approach to Remote Attestation" by Aurelien Francillon, Quan Nguyen, Kasper Rasmussen and Gene Tsudik was accepted by the 2014 IEEE/ACM Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE).
    Article accepted in IEEE Computer - September 13, 2013
    An article titled "The Chills and Thrills of Whole Genome Sequencing" by E. Ayday, E. De Cristofaro, JP Hubaux and G. Tsudik, as been accepted for publication in IEEE Computer.
    Paper Accepted - September 13, 2013
    A paper titled "Secure Genomic Testing with Size- and Position-Hiding Private Substring Matching" by Emiliano De Cristofaro, Sky Faber, and Gene Tsudik has been accepted for publication at WPES 2013.
    Refereed Discussion Session - September 13, 2013
    A discussion session proposal titled: "Privacy Considerations of Genome Sequencing" co-authored by Emiliano De Cristofaro and Gene Tsudik (with JP Hubeax and Erman Ayday of EPFL) was accepted for presentation at USENIX Summit on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), August 2013.
    Paper Accepted - June 10, 2013
    A paper titled "Privacy-Preserving Matching of Community-Contributed Content" by Mishari Almishari, Paolo Gasti, Ekin Oguz and Gene Tsudik has been accepted for publication at ESORICS 2013.
    Article accepted in IEEE Computer - April 1, 2013
    An article titled "Blindfolded Searching of Data via Secure Pattern Matching" by Karim El Defrawy and Sky Faber, as been accepted for publication in IEEE Computer.
    Paper accepted at NOMEN - April 1, 2013
    A paper titled "Securing Instrumented Environments over Content-Centric Networking: the Case of Lighting Control and NDN", by Jeff Burke, Paolo Gasti, Naveen Nathan, Gene Tsudik, has been accepted for publication at NOMEN 2013.
    Paper accepted at ICDCS 2013 - February 25, 2013
    A paper titled "Cache Privacy in Named-Data Networking", by Gergely Acs, Mauro Conti", Paolo Gasti, Cesar Ghali, and Gene Tsudik has been accepted for publication at ICDCS 2013.
    Sprout makes the news! - January 23, 2013
    GeneDroid Android application gets covered by UCI News, OC Register, KTLA TV, KPCC and PBS SoCal.
    Sprout Makes the News - November 1, 2012
    GeneDroid Android application gets covered by NewScientist.
    Paper accepted at WPES - August 14, 2012
    A paper titled "GenoDroid: Are Privacy-Preserving Genomic Tests Ready for Prime Time?", by Emiliano, Sky, Paolo, and Gene, has been accepted at WPES 2012.
    Paper accepted in ESORICS - June 11, 2012
    A paper titled "On The Security of Password Manager Database Formats", by Kasper Bonne Rasmussen and Paolo Gasti, has been accepted for publication at ESORICS 2012.
    Paper accepted in ESORICS - June 10, 2012
    A paper titled "Exploring Linkablility of User Reviews", by Mishari Almishari and Gene Tsudik, has been accepted for publication at ESORICS 2012.
    Paper accepted in IEEE S&P - February 13, 2012
    A paper titled "Hummingbird: Privacy at the Time of Twitter", by Emiliano De Cristofaro, Claudio Soriente, Gene Tsudik, and Andrew Williams, has been accepted for publication at IEEE S&P 2012.
    Paper accepted in IEEE Network - January 18, 2012
    A paper titled "Participatory Privacy: Enabling Privacy in Participatory Sensing", by Emiliano De Cristofaro and Claudio Soriente, has been accepted for publication in the July 2012 issue of IEEE Network. (Work has been done when Emiliano was with SPROUT).
    Ph.D. graduate - November 29, 2011
    After several years of hard work and determination, SCONCE member Yanbin Lu have succesfully defended his dissertation and is now a Doctor of Philosophy! Congratulations to Dr. Yanbin Lu!
    Paper accepted at NDSS ' 12 - October 23, 2011
    A paper by Karim El Defrawy, Aurelien Francillon, Daniele Perito and Gene Tsudik, titled "SMART: Secure and Minimal Architecture for (Establishing Dynamic) Root of Trust" is accepted by NDSS 2012.
    Paper accepted at NDSS '12 - October 21, 2011
    A paper by "Steven Dibenedetto, Paolo Gasti, Gene Tsudik and Ersin Uzun", titled "ANDaNA: Anonymous Named Data Networking Application" is accepted at NDSS'12.
    Paper accepted at NDSS'12 - October 20, 2011
    A paper by Yanbin LU, titled "Privacy-preserving Logarithmic Search on Encrypted Data in Cloud" is accepted at NDSS'12.
    Jarecki, Tsudik receive $750,000 IARPA grant - September 30, 2011
    Stanislaw Jarecki and Gene Tsudik have been awarded a $750,000 three-year grant as part of a subcontract from IBM Research, by the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). The research project is titled "ESPADA: Efficient Security and Privacy Assurance for Database Access." The goal of ESPADA is to efficiently and securely support a wide range of database queries between mutually mistrustful parties, while minimizing the amount of information learned by either party.
    Paper accepted at ICDCN'12 - September 14, 2011
    A paper by Emiliano De Cristofaro and Roberto Di Pietro, titled "Preserving Query Privacy in Urban Sensing Systems" has been accepted for publication at ICDCN'12.
    HotPETs'12 - August 1, 2011
    Emiliano is appointed to serve as program co-chair at the 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs'12), to be held in Vigo (Spain) next July.
    Paper accepted at ICNP'11 - July 29, 2011
    A paper by Claude Castelluccia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Aurelien Francillon, and Dali Kafaar, titled "EphPub: Toward Robust Ephemeral Publishing" has been accepted for publication at ICNP'11.
    Journal paper accepted - July 28, 2011
    A paper by Karim El Defrawy and Gene Tsudik, titled "ALARM: Anonymous Location-Aided Routing in Suspicious MANETs" has been selected to be the spotlight paper of the September issue of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
    Paper accepted at CCS'11 - July 19, 2011
    A paper coauthored by "Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Christina Popper, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Srdjan Capkun", titled "On the Requirements for Successful GPS Spoofing Attacks", is accepted at ACM CCS'11. Congratulations!
    Paper accepted at CCS'11 - July 18, 2011
    A paper coauthored by "Ali Bagherzandi, Stanislaw Jarecki, Nitesh Saxena and Yanbin Lu" is accepted in CCS 2011. Congratulations!
    Paper accepted at CCS'11 - July 16, 2011
    A paper co-authored by Emiliano, Gene, and Paolo: "Countering GATTACA: Efficient and Secure Testing of Fully-Sequenced Human Genomes" has been accepted for publication in ACM CCS 2011. Great job!
    Journal Paper Accepted - June 4, 2011
    A paper co-authored by Karim El Defrawy: "PRISM: Privacy-friendly Routing In Suspicious MANETs" has been accepted to the IEEE JSAC, Special Issue on Advances in Military Communications and Networking.
    PARC Offer Accepted - May 26, 2011
    Emiliano has accepted an offer as as member of Research Staff from Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Congrats!
    Conference Paper Accepted - May 25, 2011
    A paper by Alfred Kobsa, Rishab Nithyanand, Gene Tsudik and Ersin Uzun, titled "Usability of Display-Equipped RFID Tags for Security Purposes." has been accepted for publication in ESORICS 2011.
    2010 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award - May 23, 2011
    Bryan Parno (a student of Adrian Perrig) won the 2010 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and Gene Tsudik was on his dissertation committee.
    Conference Paper Accepted - May 23, 2011
    A paper by Marina Blanton and Paolo Gasti, titled "Secure and Efficient Protocols for Iris and Fingerprint Identification." has been accepted for publication in ESORICS 2011.
    Conference Paper Accepted - March 31, 2011
    A paper by Emiliano De Cristofaro, Yanbin Lu, and Gene Tsudik, titled "Efficient Techniques for Privacy-Preserving Sharing of Sensitive Information" has been accepted for publication at TRUST 2011.
    Conference Paper Accepted - March 22, 2011
    A paper by Emiliano De Cristofaro, Mark Manulis, and Bertram Poettering, titled "Private Discovery of Common Social Contacts", has been accepted for publication at ACNS'11.
    Conference Paper Accepted - February 15, 2011
    A paper by Emiliano De Cristofaro and Claudio Soriente, titled "PEPSI: Privacy-Enhancing Participatory Sensing Infrastructure" has been accepted for publication at ACM WiSec 2011.
    Conference Paper Accepted - January 19, 2011
    A paper by Ersin Uzun, Nitesh Saxena and Arun Kumar titled "Pairing Devices for Social Interactions: A Comparative Usability Evaluation", was accepted for publication at ACM CHI 2011. This work was done while Ersin was at UCI.
    Conference Paper Accepted - December 23, 2010
    A paper by Emiliano De Cristofaro, Anthony Durussel, and Imad Aad, titled "Reclaiming Privacy for Smartphone Applications", was accepted for publication at IEEE PerCom 2011. This work was done while Emiliano was an intern at Nokia Research Center (Lausanne).
    Conference Paper Accepted - November 24, 2010
    A paper by Giuseppe Ateniese, Emiliano De Cristofaro, and Gene Tsudik, titled "(If) Size Matters: Size-Hiding Private Set Intersection", was accepted for publication at IACR PKC 2011.
    A New Baby! - September 1, 2010
    Mishari Almishari and his family celebrated the birth of their new daughter, Sara Almishari, on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. SPROUT congratulates the two proud parents! May little Sara grow up to be healthy, happy, and wise.
    Conference Paper Accepted - August 20, 2010
    A paper by Emiliano De Cristofaro, Jihye Kim, and Gene Tsudik, titled "Linear-Complexity Private Set Intersection Protocols Secure in Malicious Model", was accepted for publication at Asiacrypt 2010.
    PARC offer accepted - August 17, 2010
    Dr. Ersin Uzun has accepted a job offer as research staff at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). SPROUT congratulates him and wishes him many years of fruitful research.
    Graduating Students - August 16, 2010
    After many years of hard work and determination, SCONCE members Karim El Defrawy, John Solis, and Ersin Uzun have succesfully defended their dissertations to earn their PhDs! Congratulations to Dr. El Defrawy, Dr. Solis, and Dr. Uzun!
    Dean's Dissertation Fellowship - July 19, 2010
    Emiliano De Cristofaro has been awarded the $10,000 UCI Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship. Congrats, Emiliano!
    Prestigious Fellowship Award - July 9, 2010
    Claudio Soriente has been awarded the highly prestigious "Juan de la Cierva" Fellowship. This three year postdoc fellowship, similar to a Fulbright or Marie-Curie, is offered by the government of Spain. Congratulations Claudio!
    Conference Paper Accepted - July 2, 2010
    A paper by Claudio Soriente, Gabriele Oligeri, and Roberto Di Pietro "Securing Mobile Unattended WSNs against a Mobile Adversary", was accepted for publication at IEEE SRDS 2010. This is turning out to be a great summer for the lab! Congrats to everyone!
    Conference Papers Accepted - June 10, 2010
    Two more papers by SPROUT members have been recently accepted for publication: Yanbin Lu, Gene Tsudik "Towards Plugging Privacy Leaks in Domain Name System" to appear at IEEE P2P 2010.
    Rishab Nithyanand, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun, "Readers Behaving Badly: Reader Revocation in PKI-based RFID Systems" to appear at ESORICS 2010.
    Conference Paper Accepted - May 26, 2010
    A paper by Ersin Uzun, Rishab Nithyanand, Nitesh Saxena and Gene Tsudik "Groupthink: On the Usability of Secure Group Association of Wireless Devices", was accepted for publication at ACM UbiComp 2010. ACM Ubicomp is THE premier yearly conference for pervasive and ubiquitous computing and communication.
    SCONCE Seminar Talk - May 17, 2010
    Kasper Bonne Rasmussen from the System Security Group at ETH Zurich will be giving a SCONCE Seminar talk on Monday May 24th. Title: Realization of RF Distance Bounding Location: 11am-12pm in DBH 3011
    MIT Technology Review - April 21, 2010
    Emiliano De Cristofaro, in collaboration with Claude Castelluccia and Daniele Perito of INRIA, investigate how intercepting Google's personalized search suggestions can be used to reconstructed user search histories. See MIT Tech Review
    Paper accepted at PETS'2010 - April 7, 2010
    The paper "Private Information Disclosure From Web Searches" by Emiliano in collaboration with Claude Castelluccia and Daniele Perito (former Sconce visitors) has been accepted for publication at PETS'2010!
    Article accepted in IEEE Security and Privacy magazine! - March 29, 2010
    The article "Some like it private. Sharing confidential information based on oblivious authorization" by Emiliano De Cristofaro and Jihye Kim is accepted for publication in the IEEE Security and Privacy magazine (special issue on Privacy Preserving Sharing of Sensitive Information). Congrats guys!!!
    Upcoming Seminar - March 22, 2010
    Julien Freudiger from EPFL will present "On the Age of Pseudonyms in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", from his Infocom'10 publication. Mon 3-22, 11am in DBH 3011.
    Upcoming Seminar - March 18, 2010
    Mark Felegyhazi from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley will be presenting "Incentives in Networking" on Mon Mar 22 at 2pm in DBH 3011
    Visiting Alumnus Talk - March 15, 2010
    Claudio Soriente, a visiting alumnus now at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (SPAIN), will be giving a talk titled: 'Intrusion-Resilience in Mobile Unattended WSNs' Date: March 15 from 2-3pm Location: DBH 3013
    PhD Dissertation Defended - March 3, 2010
    Yang Wang (advised by Prof. Alfred Kobsa) successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled: "A Privacy-Enhanced Personalization Framework". Yang is now heading for a postdoc position at CMU. Congratulations Yang!!
    AFRL Position Accepted - February 25, 2010
    John Duselis, the first NSF Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) PhD graduate at UCI, is starting his SFS job at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) located in the Dayton Air Force Base, Dayton OH. Congratulations, John!!!
    MS Thesis Defended - February 25, 2010
    Rishab Nithyanand successfully defended his MS thesis titled "Securing Personal RFID Tags and Infrastructures". Congratulations Rishab!!
    Invited Talk - February 24, 2010
    On February 24, Gene Tsudik is giving a keynote talk titled '(RFID) Readers Behaving Badly' at the Symantec Cutting Edge 2010 conference in Culver City, CA.
    Financial Crypto paper to be presented - January 25, 2010
    The paper "Practical Private Set Intersection Protocols with Linear Complexity" by Emiliano De Cristofaro and Gene Tsudik will be presented in the upcoming Fourteen International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, held in Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain), on next January 25-28. Preliminary version of the paper can be found at http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/491
    PhD Advancement - December 1, 2009
    Yanbin Lu has successfully passed his advancement exam and is now officially a PhD Candidate. Congrats Yanbin!
    Google Research Award - November 2, 2009
    Gene Tsudik and Ersin Uzun received a $50K Google Research Award for their proposal titled: Secure and Usable Group Association of Personal Wireless Devices. This proposal focuses on secure and spontaneous association of ubiquitous personal devices in a small group setting where three or more users need to establish a secure group communication channel among their respective devices.
    Infocom paper accepted - October 22, 2009
    Intrusion Resilience in Mobile Unattended WSNs, co-authored by Roberto Di Pietro, Gabriele Oligieri, Claudio Soriente, and Gene Tsudik has been accepted to IEEE Infocom 2010
    Journal paper accepted - September 30, 2009
    Data Security in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks, co-authored by Claudio Soriente and Gene Tsudik, is the featured article in the November issue of IEEE Transactions on Computers.
    Di Ma and Claudio Soriente graduate - August 31, 2009
    After many years of hard work and determination Di Ma and Claudio Soriente have both received their PhDs! Congratulations to Dr. Ma and Dr. Soriente!