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USS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Securing the Frisbee Multicast Disk Loader
Robert Ricci, Jonathon Duerig
USS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Defeating Encrypted and Deniable File Systems: TrueCrypt v5.1a and the Case of the Tattling OS and Applications
We examine the security requirements for creating a Deniable File System (DFS), and the efficacy with which the TrueCrypt disk-encryption software meets those requirements. We fin...
Alexei Czeskis, David J. St. Hilaire, Karl Koscher...
USS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: New Directions for Implantable Medical Device Security
A fundamental tension exists between safety in the common case and security under adversarial conditions for wireless implantable medical devices. We propose a class of new, fail-...
Tamara Denning, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno
USS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Security Benchmarking using Partial Verification
Implementation-level vulnerabilities are a persistent threat to the security of computing systems. We propose using the results of partially-successful verification attempts to pl...
Thomas E. Hart, Marsha Chechik, David Lie
USS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Panic Passwords: Authenticating under Duress
Panic passwords allow a user to signal duress during authentication. We show that the well-known model of giving a user two passwords, a `regular' and a `panic' password...
Jeremy Clark, Urs Hengartner
USS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Challenges and Directions for Monitoring P2P File Sharing Networks - or - Why My Printer Received a DMCA Takedown Notice
We reverse engineer copyright enforcement in the popular BitTorrent file sharing network and find that a common approach for identifying infringing users is not conclusive. We desc...
Michael Piatek, Tadayoshi Kohno, Arvind Krishnamur...
USS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Towards Application Security on Untrusted Operating Systems
Complexity in commodity operating systems makes compromises inevitable. Consequently, a great deal of work has examined how to protect security-critical portions of applications f...
Dan R. K. Ports, Tal Garfinkel
USS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Research Challenges for the Security of Control Systems
In this paper we attempt to answer two questions: (1) Why should we be interested in the security of control systems? And (2) What are the new and fundamentally different requirem...
Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Saurabh Amin, Shankar S...
USS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
To Catch a Predator: A Natural Language Approach for Eliciting Malicious Payloads
We present an automated, scalable, method for crafting dynamic responses to real-time network requests. Specifically, we provide a flexible technique based on natural language pro...
Sam Small, Joshua Mason, Fabian Monrose, Niels Pro...
USS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Bootstrapping Trust in a "Trusted" Platform
For the last few years, many commodity computers have come equipped with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Existing research shows that the TPM can be used to establish trust in th...
Bryan Parno