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NSDI
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Program Committee Meetings Considered Harmful
This paper discusses various disadvantages of having a program committee meeting.
Robbert van Renesse
NSDI
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Paper Rating vs. Paper Ranking
Within the computer-science community, submitted conference papers are typically evaluated by means of rating, in two respects: First, individual reviewers are asked to provide th...
John R. Douceur
NSDI
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO Security Model
In this paper, we discuss Bitfrost, the security model developed by the One Laptop Per Child project for its XO laptop computers. Bitfrost implements a number of security measures...
Meredith L. Patterson, Len Sassaman, David Chaum
NSDI
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Predicted and Observed User Behavior in the Weakest-link Security Game
We aim to advance the understanding of individual security decision-making, by combining formal and behavioral analysis. We sketch a game-theoretic model of security decision-maki...
Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, John Chuang
NSDI
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Understanding Privacy Settings in Facebook with an Audience View
Users of online social networking communities are disclosing large amounts of personal information, putting themselves at a variety of risks. Our ongoing research investigates mec...
Heather Richter Lipford, Andrew Besmer, Jason Wats...
NSDI
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Centered Discretization with Application to Graphical Passwords
Discretization is used in click-based graphical passwords so that approximately correct entries can be accepted by the system. We show that the existing discretization scheme of B...
Sonia Chiasson, Jayakumar Srinivasan, Robert Biddl...
NSDI
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Ad-hoc Guesting: When Exceptions Are the Rule
People's work days are filled with exceptions to normal routine. These exceptions affect the security and privacy of their information access and sharing. In a recent ethnogr...
Brinda Dalal, Les Nelson, Diana K. Smetters, Natha...
NSDI
2008
13 years 8 months ago
A User Study Design for Comparing the Security of Registration Protocols
We present the design of a user study for comparing the security of two registration mechanisms for initializing credentials in machine authentication protocols, such as SiteKey. ...
Chris Karlof, J. Doug Tygar, David Wagner