Security and Cryptography
Welcome to the web page for security and cryptography research in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California at San Diego. Our group conducts research in areas spanning from theory to practice: we work on the theoretical foundations of cryptography; the development and analysis of cryptographic protocols and algorithms; and on applied cryptography, systems security, and network security. In line with our broad security-related research interests, we are affiliated and actively collaborate with both the Theory Group and the Systems and Networking Group here at UCSD.
People | News | Publications | Sponsors
Faculty
| Mihir Bellare Russell Impagliazzo |
Daniele Micciancio Stefan Savage |
Hovav Shacham Geoffrey M. Voelker |
Affiliated Faculty
| Ranjit Jhala Sorin Lerner |
Keith Marzullo Alex C. Snoeren |
George Varghese Yuanyuan Zhou |
Postdocs and Research Staff
| Nadia Heninger Brian Kantor |
Kirill Levchenko Damon McCoy |
Stefano Tessaro |
PhD Students
MS Students
- Danny Anderson
- Erik Buchanan
- Stephan Chenette
2011
| David Cash (postdoc 2009–2011) → IBM Research → Rutgers University Michael Vrable (Ph.D. 2011) → Google Sushma Bannur (M.S. 2011) → Microsoft |
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Marti Motoyama Joins FitBit
In the final days of summer, Marti Motoyama successfully defends his dissertation after years of "abuse". Marti also makes a healthy decision to join FitBit this Fall. Congratulations, Marti! -
All USENIX Security Papers Accepted
(6/6/11) In addition to our four USENIX Security papers, we just heard back that both of our WOOT and both of our CSET papers were accepted. Congrats to everyone! -
Damon McCoy Heads to George Mason University
(5/6/11) Damon McCoy, our CIFellow postdoc, has accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University. Congrats to both Damon and GMU! -
Four UCSD Papers Selected by USENIX Security
(4/18/11) USENIX Security paper notifications just came out and four UCSD papers were selected! Congrats to Danny Anderson, Tristan Halvorson, Chris Kanich, Brian Kantor, Kirill Levchenko, Damon McCoy, Sarah Meiklejohn, Marti Motoyama, Keaton Mowrey, Stefan Savage, Hovav Shacham, and Geoff Voelker. We'll see you all there! -
More on How to Hack Cars
(3/13/11) Congratulations to Steve Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, and Danny Anderson and their University of Washington collaborators Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, and Franziska Roesner, whose study of the vulnerability of modern cars to remote compromise was picked up by the press after being presented to the National Academy of Sciences. (We understand some faculty at UCSD and UW were involved as well.) The New York Times’ John Markoff broke the story; catch additional coverage in the Technology Review, PCWorld, Slashdot, Jamie Zawinski’s blog, Boing Boing, and The Volokh Conspiracy. More information at the CEASS site. -
Gross Daily Proceeds of Spammers
(2/28/11) WIRED Magazine explains how to calculate the gross daily proceeds of spammers, based on the work of Chris Kanich and the rest of the Spamalytics crew. -
Challenges in Erasing Data from Flash-based SSDs
(2/17/11) Our colleagues in the Non-volatile Storage Lab have a neat paper about the challenges in erasing data from Flash-based SSDs. Good stuff. Also see Slashdot.
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More History Sniffing News
(2/15/11) In recent history-sniffing news, the Release Candidate for IE9 adds history sniffing protections, and Scott Adams takes on history sniffing in a Dilbert strip.
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David Cash Wins Best Paper Award at Eurocrypt 2011
(1/31/11) Following Stefano’s TCC best student paper last week, David Cash wins the Best Paper award (for the second year running!) at Eurocrypt 2011 for his paper “Efficient Authentication from Hard Learning Problems” (with Eike Kiltz, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Abhishek Jain, and Daniele Venturi). -
"Click Trajectory" Paper Accepted to IEEE Security and Privacy
(1/31/11) Afer two years of effort, spanning two institutions and several person decades of effort, the "Click Trajectory" paper was accepted today to IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland). Congrats to all 15 authors! (also, congrats to UCSD alumn Justin Ma and his Berkeley colleagues on their real-time URL filtering paper which was also accepted).
