Tapping into the communication between two hosts on a LAN has become quite simple thanks to tools that can be downloaded from the Internet. Such tools use the Address Resolution P...
Distributed systems are typically designed for scale and performance first, which makes it difficult to add security later without affecting the original properties. This paper ...
We present protocols that allow a user Alice, knowing only her name and password, and not carrying a smart card, to "log in to the network" from a "generic" wo...
In peer-to-peer networks, it is very difficult to route query successfully, since nodes in the routing path do not always behave according to pre-established routing protocols. To...
Even though PDAs in general—but smartcards in particular—can be trusted to keep secrets, because they have meager resources, including them in security protocols is difficult...