USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
We address the problem of auditing an election when precincts may have different sizes. Prior work in this field has emphasized the simpler case when all precincts have the same s...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
In User-Based Network Services (UBNS), the process servicing requests from user U runs under U's ID. This enables (operating system) access controls to tailor service authori...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
We analyze several recent schemes for watermarking network flows based on splitting the flow into intervals. We show that this approach creates time dependent correlations that en...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
We tackle the problem of building privacy-preserving device-tracking systems -- or private methods to assist in the recovery of lost or stolen Internet-connected mobile devices. T...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
As the web continues to play an ever increasing role in information exchange, so too is it becoming the prevailing platform for infecting vulnerable hosts. In this paper, we provi...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
We explore the problem of secret-key distribution in unidirectional channels, those in which a sender transmits information blindly to a receiver. We consider two approaches: (1) ...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Voting with cryptographic auditing, sometimes called open-audit voting, has remained, for the most part, a theoretical endeavor. In spite of dozens of fascinating protocols and re...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Hypervisors have been proposed as a security tool to defend against malware that subverts the OS kernel. However, hypervisors must deal with the semantic gap between the low-level...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
The inability of humans to generate and remember strong secrets makes it difficult for people to manage cryptographic keys. To address this problem, numerous proposals have been s...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Antivirus software is one of the most widely used tools for detecting and stopping malicious and unwanted files. However, the long term effectiveness of traditional hostbased anti...