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FC
2007
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
A Sense of Security in Pervasive Computing - Is the Light on When the Refrigerator Door Is Closed?
In this paper, we investigate how existing theoretical contributions on usable security can serve to guide the design of a specific system. We illustrate how going through this the...
Jakob Illeborg Pagter, Marianne Graves Petersen
ICALP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Single-Database Private Information Retrieval with Constant Communication Rate
We present a single-database private information retrieval (PIR) scheme with communication complexity O(k+d), where k ≥ log n is a security parameter that depends on the database...
Craig Gentry, Zulfikar Ramzan
IFIP
1992
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria (ITSEC) - a Contribution to Vulnerability?
On initiative of the Commission of the European Communities, the Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria (ITSEC) are designed to provide a yardstick for the evaluation...
Michael Gehrke, Andreas Pfitzmann, Kai Rannenberg
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ACMICEC
2007
ACM
102views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2007»
15 years 1 months ago
Security when people matter: structuring incentives for user behavior
Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives p...
Rick Wash, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
DSS
2006
91views more  DSS 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Matching information security vulnerabilities to organizational security profiles: a genetic algorithm approach
Organizations are making substantial investments in information security to reduce the risk presented by vulnerabilities in their information technology (IT) infrastructure. Howev...
Mukul Gupta, Jackie Rees, Alok R. Chaturvedi, Jie ...