JOURNALS
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2013
- Acoustic Eavesdropping Attacks on Constrained Wireless Device Pairing
Tzipora Halevi and Nitesh Saxena
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), accepted, February 2013.
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- Acoustic Eavesdropping Attacks on Constrained Wireless Device Pairing
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2012
- Location-Aware and Safer Cards: Enhancing RFID Security and Privacy via Location Sensing
Di Ma, Nitesh Saxena, Tuo Xiang, and Yan Zhu
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, accepted, December 2012.
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- Authenticated Key Exchange with Key Re-Use in the Short Authenticated Strings Model
Stanislaw Jarecki and Nitesh Saxena
American Mathematical Society, Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography and Cyber Security, to appear, 2012 - Secure Initialization of Multiple Constrained Wireless Devices for an Unaided User
Toni Perkovic, Mario Cagalj, Toni Mastelic, Nitesh Saxena, Dinko Begusic
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, February, 2011.
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- Location-Aware and Safer Cards: Enhancing RFID Security and Privacy via Location Sensing
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2011
- A Context-Aware Approach to Defend Against Unauthorized Reading and Relay Attacks in RFID Systems
Di Ma and Nitesh Saxena
Wiley International Journal of Security and Communication Networks, Special Issue on “Protecting the Internet of Things”, December, 2011.
[pdf] - Data Remanence Effects on Memory Based Entropy Collection for RFID Systems
Nitesh Saxena and Jonathan Voris
International Journal of Information Security, Volume 10, Number 4, July 2011.
[pdf] - Secure Device Pairing based on a Visual Channel: Design and Usability Study
Nitesh Saxena, Jan-Erik Ekberg, Kari Kostiainen, and N. Asokan
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2011.
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- A Context-Aware Approach to Defend Against Unauthorized Reading and Relay Attacks in RFID Systems
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2010
- Tree-based HB Protocols for Privacy-Preserving Authentication of RFID Tags
Tzipora Halevi, Nitesh Saxena and Shai Halevi
Journal of Computer Security — Special Issue on RFID System Security, Volume 19, Issue 2, April 2011.
[pdf] - On the Insecurity of Proactive RSA in the URSA Mobile Ad Hoc Network Access Control Protocol
Stanislaw Jarecki and Nitesh Saxena,
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2010
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- Tree-based HB Protocols for Privacy-Preserving Authentication of RFID Tags
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2009
- 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), Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2009
[pdf] - A Comparative Study of Secure Device Pairing Methods
Arun Kumar, Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik and Ersin Uzun
Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC), Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2009.
[pdf] - 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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- Non-Interactive Self-Certification for Long-Lived Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
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2007
- 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
[pdf] - 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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- Threshold Cryptography in P2P and MANETs: the Case of Access Control
CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS
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2013
- Tap-Wave-Rub: Lightweight Malware Prevention for Smartphones using Intuitive Human Gestures
Di Ma, Nitesh Saxena, Babins Shrestha, Yan Zhu, and Haoyu Li
ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), to appear, April 2013
[pdf] - Sensing-Enabled Channels for Hard-to-Detect Command and Control of Mobile Devices
Ragib Hasan, Nitesh Saxena, Tzipora Halevi, Shams Zawoad, and Dustin Rinehart
ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), to appear, May 2013
[pdf] - Exploring Extrinsic Motivation for Better Security: A Usability Study of Scoring-Enhanced Device Pairing
Alexander Gallego, Nitesh Saxena, and Jonathan Voris
International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), to appear, April 2013.
[pdf] - An Investigation of the Usability of a Game for Secure Wireless Device Association
Alexander Gallego, Nitesh Saxena, and Jonathan Voris
6th International Conference on Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technology (CGAT), to appear, April 2013.
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- Tap-Wave-Rub: Lightweight Malware Prevention for Smartphones using Intuitive Human Gestures
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2012
- Secure Proximity Detection for NFC Devices based on Ambient Sensor Data
Tzipora Halevi, Di Ma, Nitesh Saxena, and Tuo Xiang
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), to appear, September 2012
[pdf] - Exploring Mobile Proxies for Better Password Authentication
Nitesh Saxena and Jonathan Voris
International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), to appear, October 2012
[pdf] - A Closer Look at Keyboard Acoustic Emanations: Random Passwords, Typing Styles and Decoding Techniques
Tzipora Halevi and Nitesh Saxena
ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), May 2012
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- Location-Aware and Safer Cards: Enhancing RFID Security and Privacy via Location Sensing
Di Ma, Anudath K Prasad, Nitesh Saxena, and Tuo Xiang
ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), April 2012
[pdf] - Sensing-Enabled Defenses to RFID Unauthorized Reading and Relay Attacks without Changing the Usage Model
Tzipora Halevi, Sein Lin, Di Ma, Anudath K Prasad, Nitesh Saxena, Jonathan Voris and Tuo Xiang
International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 2012
[pdf] - Estimating Age Privacy Leakage in Online Social Networks
Ratan Dey, Cong Tang, Keith Ross and Nitesh Saxena
International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), March 2012
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- Secure Proximity Detection for NFC Devices based on Ambient Sensor Data
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2011
- Password-Protected Secret Sharing
Ali Bagherzandi, Stanislaw Jarecki, Nitesh Saxena and Yanbin Liu
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2011
[pdf] - Cover Locations: Availing Location-Based Services Without Revealing the Location
Sai Teja Peddinti, Avis Dsouza, and Nitesh Saxena
Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2010), co-located with ACM CCS, October, 2011.
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- On the Limitations of Query Obfuscation Techniques for Location Privacy
Sai Teja Peddinti and Nitesh Saxena
International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), September 2011.
[pdf] - Playful Security: A Computer Game for Secure Pairing of Wireless Devices
Alexander Gallego, Nitesh Saxena, and Jonathan Voris
The 16th International Computer Games Conference (CGames): AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational & Serious Games, July 2011.
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- Accelerometers and Randomness: Perfect Together
Jonathan Voris, Nitesh Saxena, and Tzipora Halevi
ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), June 2011.
[pdf] - Vibrate-to-Unlock: Mobile Phone Assisted User Authentication to Multiple Personal RFID Tags
Nitesh Saxena, Md. Borhan Uddin, Jonathan Voris and N. Asokan
International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 2011.
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- What’s in a Name: A Study of Names, Gender Inference, and Gender Behavior in Facebook
Cong Tang, Keith Ross, Nitesh Saxena and Ruichuan Chen
International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Media Mining on the Web (SNSMW), co-located with DASFAA, April 2011.
[pdf] - Pairing Devices for Social Interactions: A Comparative Usability Evaluation
Ersin Uzun, Nitesh Saxena and Arun Kumar
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2011.
[pdf] - On the Effectiveness of Anonymizing Networks for Web Search Privacy
Sai Teja Peddinti and Nitesh Saxena
ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), March 2011.
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- Password-Protected Secret Sharing
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2010
- On Pairing Constrained Wireless Devices Based on Secrecy of Auxiliary Channels: The Case of Acoustic Eavesdropping
Tzipora Halevi and Nitesh Saxena
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2010
[pdf] - A Comparative Usability Evaluation of Traditional Password Managers
Ambarish Karole, Nitesh Saxena and Nicolas Christin
International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC), December 2010
[pdf] - On the Privacy of Peer-Assisted Distribution of Security Patches
Di Wu, Cong Tang, Prithula Dhungel, Nitesh Saxena and Keith W. Ross
IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), August 2010
[pdf] - Authenticated Key Agreement with Key Re-Use in the Short Authenticated Strings Model
Stanislaw Jarecki and Nitesh Saxena
Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN), September 2010.
[pdf] - Groupthink: Usability of Secure Group Association for Wireless Devices
Rishab Nithyanand, Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik and Ersin Uzun
International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), September 2010.
[pdf] - Still and Silent: Motion Detection for Enhanced RFID Security and Privacy without Changing the Usage Model
Nitesh Saxena and Jonathan Voris
Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDSec), June 2010.
[pdf] - On the Privacy of Web Search Based on Query Obfuscation: A Case Study of TrackMeNot
Sai Teja Peddinti and Nitesh Saxena
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), to appear, July 2010.
[pdf] - 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 Pairing Constrained Wireless Devices Based on Secrecy of Auxiliary Channels: The Case of Acoustic Eavesdropping
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2009
- 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.
[pdf] - 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.
[pdf] - Authentication Technologies for the Blind or Visually Impaired
Nitesh Saxena and James Watt
USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Secuirty (HotSec), August 2009.
[pdf] - 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.
[pdf] - 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.
[pdf] - 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.
[pdf] - 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.
[pdf] - 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.
[pdf] - 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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- On the Usability of Secure Association of Wireless Devices Based On Distance Bounding
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2008
- Automated Device Pairing for Asymmetric Pairing Scenarios
Nitesh Saxena and Md. Borhan Uddin
International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), October 2008.
[pdf] - Universal Device Pairing using an Auxiliary Device
Nitesh Saxena, Md. Borhan Uddin and Jonathan Voris
Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), July 2008.
[pdf] - Efficient Device Pairing using Synchronized “Human-Comparable” Audiovisual Patterns
Ramnath Prasad and Nitesh Saxena
Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), June 2008.
[pdf] - 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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- Automated Device Pairing for Asymmetric Pairing Scenarios
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2007
- 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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- The Pollution Attack in P2P Live Video Streaming: Messurement Results and Defenses
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2006 and earlier
- Public Key Cryptography sans Certificates in Ad Hoc Networks (Best Student Paper!)
Nitesh Saxena
Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), June 2006.
[pdf]
- 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.
[pdf] - Self-Configurable Key Pre-distribution in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,
Claude Castellucia, Nitesh Saxena, and Jeong H. Yi,
IFIP Networking Conference, May 2005.
[pdf] - Futher Simplifications in Proactive RSA Signatures,
Stanislaw Jarecki, and Nitesh Saxena,
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC), February 2005.
[pdf] - 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.
[pdf] - 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.
[pdf] - 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.
[pdf] - 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.
[pdf] - 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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- Public Key Cryptography sans Certificates in Ad Hoc Networks (Best Student Paper!)
BOOK CHAPTERS
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Towards Sensing-Enabled RFID Security and Privacy
Di Ma and Nitesh Saxena
Security and Trends in Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform Tags: Advancements in RFID, IGI Global, to appear, 2012. -
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.
DISSERTATIONS
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Decentralized Security Services (Nominated for the 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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