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

 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), to appear

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

Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik and Jeong H. Yi,

Elsevier Computer Networks, to appear

 Robust Self-Keying Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,

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

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

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

  Automated Device Pairing for Asymmetric Pairing Scenarios

  Nitesh Saxena and Md. Borhan Uddin

  International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), to appear 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), to appear 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), to appear 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).

  to appear, June 2009.

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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

  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.

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 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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