Dissertations

 Decentralized Security Services (Nominated for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award!)

Nitesh Saxena,

Ph.D Dissertation, UC Irvine, August 2006

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 Cryptanalysis of the Schlusselzusatz

Nitesh Saxena,

M.S. Dissertation, UC Santa Barbara, March 2002

Also appears in the chapter on "The Emergence of Cipher Machines" of the book Computer Security and Crypgraphy, by Alan G. Konheim

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Journals

 Non-Interactive Self-Certification for Long-Lived Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

    Nitesh Saxena, and Jeong H. Yi,

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), to appear, late 2009

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Pollution in P2P Live Video Streaming

  Prithula Dhungel, Xiaojun Hei, Keith W. Ross, and Nitesh Saxena

  International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC), 2009

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  A Comparative Study of Secure Device Pairing Methods

  Arun Kumar, Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik and Ersin Uzun

  Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC), to appear, late 2009.

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 Efficient Node Admission and Certificate-less Secure Communication in Short-lived MANETs

Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik and Jeong H. Yi,

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 20, Issue 2, February 2009

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 Threshold Cryptography in P2P and MANETs: the Case of Access Control

Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik and Jeong H. Yi,

Elsevier Computer Networks, Volume 51 , Issue 12, August 2007

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 Robust Self-Keying Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,

Claude Castellucia, Nitesh Saxena, and Jeong H. Yi,

Elsevier Computer Networks, Volume 51, Issue 4, March 2007

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Book Chapters

 Expermenting with Admission Control in P2P Networks

Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik and Jeong H. Yi,

Computer Security in the 21st Century (ISBN: 0-387-24005-5), Springer, 2005.

Conferences/Workshops

  Shoulder Surfing Safe Login in a Partially Observable Attacker Model

  Toni Perkovic, Mario Cagalj and Nitesh Saxena

  Financial Cryptography (FC), January 2010.

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  On the Usability of Secure Association of Wireless Devices Based On Distance Bounding

  Mario Cagalj, Nitesh Saxena and Ersin Uzun

  Cryptology and Network Security (CANS), December 2009.

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  Blink 'Em All: Secure, Scalable and User-Friendly Initialization of Sensor Nodes

  Nitesh Saxena and Md. Borhan Uddin

  Cryptology and Network Security (CANS), December 2009.

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  Authentication Technologies for the Blind or Visually Impaired  

  Nitesh Saxena and James Watt

  USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Secuirty (HotSec), August 2009.

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  We Can Remember It for You Wholesale: Implications of Data Remanence on the Use of RAM for True Random Number Generation on RFID Tags  

  Nitesh Saxena and Jonathan Voris

  Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDSec), July 2009.

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  Using HB Family of Protocols for Privacy-Preserving Authentication of RFID Tags in a Population

    Tzipora Halevi, Nitesh Saxena and Shai Halevi

  Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDSec), July 2009.

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  Improving the Robustness of Wireless Device Pairing Using Hyphen-Delimited Numeric Comparison  

  Ambarish Karole and Nitesh Saxena

  International Symposium on Emerging Ubiquitous and Pervasive Systems (EUPS), August 2009.

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  Bootstrapping Key Pre-Distribution: Secure, Scalable and User-Friendly Initialization of Sensor Nodes

  Nitesh Saxena and Md. Borhan Uddin

  Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), Industrial Track paper, June 2009.

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  Secure Pairing of "Interface-Constrained" Devices Resistant Against Rushing User Behavior  

  Nitesh Saxena and Md. Borhan Uddin

  Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), June 2009.

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  Caveat Emptor: A Comparative Study of Secure Device Pairing Methods

  Arun Kumar, Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik and Ersin Uzun

  International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), to appear, March 2009.

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  Automated Device Pairing for Asymmetric Pairing Scenarios

  Nitesh Saxena and Md. Borhan Uddin

  International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), October 2008.

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  Universal Device Pairing using an Auxiliary Device

  Nitesh Saxena, Md. Borhan Uddin and Jonathan Voris

  Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), July 2008.

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  Efficient Device Pairing using Synchronized "Human-Comparable" Audiovisual Patterns

  Ramnath Prasad and Nitesh Saxena

  Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), June 2008.

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  Pairing Devices with Good Quality Output Interfaces

  Nitesh Saxena and Jonathan Voris

  International Workshop on Wireless Security and Privacy (WISP) (co-located with ICDCS).

  June 2008.

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The Pollution Attack in P2P Live Video Streaming: Messurement Results and Defenses

  Prithula Dhungel, Xiaojun Hei, Keith W. Ross, and Nitesh Saxena

  Peer-to-Peer Streaming and IP-TV Workshop (P2P-TV) (co-located with SIGCOMM),

  August 2007

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  Public Key Cryptography sans Certificates in Ad Hoc Networks (Best Student Paper!)

  Nitesh Saxena

  Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), June 2006.

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  Secure Device Pairing based on a Visual Channel

     Nitesh Saxena, Jan-Erik Ekberg, Kari Kostiainen, and N. Asokan

  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, appeared as short paper (6 pages),

  May 2006.

  [full paper: pdf]

  [short paper: pdf]

 Securing Communication in Various Ad Hoc Network Settings

  Nitesh Saxena

  IEEE Infocom Student Workshop, to appear, April 2006.

 Efficient Node Admission for Short-lived Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

  Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, and Jeong H. Yi,

  IEEE Conference on Networking Protocols (ICNP), November 2005.

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 Self-Configurable Key Pre-distribution in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,

Claude Castellucia, Nitesh Saxena, and Jeong H. Yi,

IFIP Networking Conference, May 2005.

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 Futher Simplifications in Proactive RSA Signatures,

Stanislaw Jarecki, and Nitesh Saxena, 

Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC), February 2005.

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 Identity-based Access Control for Ad Hoc Groups,

Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, and Jeong H. Yi,

International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC), December 2004.

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 An Attack on the Proactive RSA Signature Scheme in the URSA Ad Hoc Network Access Control Protocol,

Stanislaw Jarecki, Nitesh Saxena, and Jeong Hyun Yi,

ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN), pp.1-9, Washington, DC, USA, October 25, 2004.

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 Access Control in Ad Hoc Groups,

Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, and Jeong H. Yi,

International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOT-P2P), Volendam, The Netherlands, October 2004.

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Experimenting with Admission Control in P2P,

Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, and Jeong H. Yi,

International Workshop on Advanced Developments in System and Software Security (WADIS), Taipei, Taiwan, December 2003.

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 Admission Control in Peer-to-Peer: Design and Performance Evaluation,

Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, and Jeong H. Yi,

ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN), pp.104-114, Fairfax, VA, USA,  October 31, 2003.

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