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CCS
2007
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
Dynamic pharming attacks and locked same-origin policies for web browsers
We describe a new attack against web authentication, which we call dynamic pharming. Dynamic pharming works by hijacking DNS and sending the victim’s browser malicious Javascrip...
Chris Karlof, Umesh Shankar, J. Doug Tygar, David ...
STOC
2010
ACM
193views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
Privacy Amplification with Asymptotically Optimal Entropy Loss
We study the problem of "privacy amplification": key agreement between two parties who both know a weak secret w, such as a password. (Such a setting is ubiquitous on th...
Nishanth Chandran, Bhavana Kanukurthi, Rafail Ostr...
WISEC
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Mobile user location-specific encryption (MULE): using your office as your password
Data breaches due to stolen laptops are a major problem. Solutions exist to secure sensitive files on laptops, but are rarely deployed because users view them as inconvenient. Thi...
Ahren Studer, Adrian Perrig
ICALP
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
From Secrecy to Soundness: Efficient Verification via Secure Computation
d Abstract) Benny Applebaum1 , Yuval Ishai2 , and Eyal Kushilevitz3 1 Computer Science Department, Weizmann Institute of Science 2 Computer Science Department, Technion and UCLA 3 ...
Benny Applebaum, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz
SPW
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
One User, Many Hats; and, Sometimes, No Hat: Towards a Secure Yet Usable PDA
How can we design a PDA that is at the same time secure and usable? In current implementations the two properties are mutually exclusive. Because normal users find password entry ...
Frank Stajano