Giuseppe Ateniese

Associate Professor
Information Security Institute and
Department of Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218

Office: 410-516-8051
Fax: 410-516-6134

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Journals and Conferences

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Associate Editor.

Recent Conferences (PC member)

ACM CCS 2006, Alexandria, VA, USA, Oct 30-Nov 3.

2nd Workshop on Cryptography for Ad hoc Networks (WCAN '06), Venice, Italy, July 16, 2006.

The First ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (STC'06), Fairfax, Virginia, USA, Friday Nov. 3, 2006.

ICISC 2006, Busan, Korea, 30 Nov.- 1 Dec., 2006.

International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT-2006), Setubal, Portugal.

CHINACOM 2006, Beijing, October 2006.

MADNES 2006 (Conference on Secure Mobile AD-hoc NEtworks and Sensors)

IEEE SecureComm 2006

Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (Hot-P2P 06), April 2006.

ACM StorageSS Workshop at CCS 2005, November 2005.

ICISC 2005, December 1-2, 2005.

Courses

• 600.341 Basics of Applied Cryptography (Spring 2006).
• 600.442 Cryptography and Network Security (Fall 2005).
• 600.642 Advanced Cryptographic Protocols (Spring 2005).

Brief Bio

Giuseppe Ateniese is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). His research interests include network security, secure and reliable systems, applied cryptography and secure e-commerce. He received a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Salerno (Italy) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Genoa (Italy) in February 2000. Before joining JHU, he was visiting scientist at the Information Sciences Institute (University of Southern California) and researcher (pre-doc) at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. Recognitions: NSF Career Award, member of ACM, IEEE, and IACR.

Research

My research focuses on Applied Cryptography and Network Security.

Recent Papers:

• Provable Data Possession at Untrusted Stores (with R. Burns, R. Curtmola, J. Herring, L. Kissner, Z. Peterson, and D. Song). Cryptology ePrint Archive Report 2007/202.
• Identity-Based Proxy Re-encryption (with M. Green). In 5th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS'07). Cryptology ePrint Archive Report 2006/473.
• Secret Handshakes with Dynamic and Fuzzy Matching (with M. Blanton and J. Kirsch). In 14th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'07).
• Design and Implementation of Verifiable Audit Trails for a Versioning File System (with Z. Peterson, R. Burns, and S. Bono). In 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technolgoies (FAST'07). (Complete version)
• Provably-Secure Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes (with A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci). In 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006. Full version as Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2006/225
• Practical Group Signatures without Random Oracles (with J. Camenisch, S. Hohenberger, and B. de Medeiros). Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2005/385. October 2005.
• Proxy Re-Signatures: New Definitions, Algorithms, and Applications (with Susan Hohenberger), full version of the paper in 12th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2005.
• Untraceable RFID Tags via Insubvertible Encryption (with J. Camenisch and B. de Medeiros), in 12th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2005.
• Verifiable Audit Trails for a Versioning File System (with R. Burns, Z. Peterson, and S. Bono), short paper in ACM Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS'05), ACM PRESS, Aug 2005.
• Sanitizable Signatures (with D. Chou, B. de Medeiros, and G. Tsudik), in ESORICS 2005, LNCS of Springer-Verlag, September 12-14, 2005.
• Survivable Monitoring in Dynamic Networks (with C. Riley and C. Scheideler). Full version accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2005. This is the journal version of the paper with the same title below, that appeared in the 2nd IEEE International Information Assurance Workshop (IWIA 2004).
• Improved Proxy Re-Encryption Schemes with Applications to Secure Distributed Storage (with K. Fu, M. Green, and S. Hohenberger), full version accepted to appear in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC). Conference version of the paper in the Proceedings of 12th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '05), 2005. Also in Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2005/028.
• On the Performance and Analysis of DNS Security Extensions (with R. Curtmola and A. Del Sorbo). Full version of the paper in 4th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2005), LNCS of Springer-Verlag, 2005.
• On the Key Exposure Problem in Chameleon Hashes (with B. de Medeiros), Full version of the paper in the Proceedings of The Fourth Conference on Security in Communication Networks (SCN'04), LNCS of Springer-Verlag, Amalfi, 2004. In Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2004/243.
• A Provably Secure Nyberg-Rueppel Signature Variant with Applications (with B. de Medeiros). Technical Report, 2004. In Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2004/93.
• ID-based Chameleon Hash and Applications (with B. de Medeiros). Final version. In Financial Cryptography 2004, Key West, Florida (USA). Also in Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2003/167.
• Survivable Monitoring in Dynamic Networks (with C. Riley and C. Scheideler). In the 2nd IEEE International Information Assurance Workshop (IWIA 2004), April 8th-9th, 2004 - Charlotte, NC, USA. Proceedings by IEEE press, pp. 33--47, 2004.
• Efficient Group Signatures without Trapdoors (with B. de Medeiros), This is a revised version of the paper that appeared in ASIACRYPT 2003. Also in Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2002/173.
• Verifiable Encryption of Digital Signatures and Applications, In ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Vol. 7, No. 1, February 2004, Pages 1-20. (This is the journal version of two previous papers but with new remarks on the proposed certified e-mail protocol.)
• Anonymous E-Prescriptions (with B. de Medeiros), In ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES02), Washington, DC, USA - November 21, 2002 - Sponsored by ACM SIGSAC.
• Medical Information Privacy Assurance: Cryptographic and System Aspects (with R. Curtmola, B. de Medeiros, and D. Davis), in Third Conference on Security in Communication Networks 2002 (SCN02), September 12-13, 2002, Amalfi (Italy).
• Quasi-efficient Revocation in Group Signatures (with D. Song and G. Tsudik), In Financial Cryptography 2002, Southampton, Bermuda, March 11-14, 2002.
• Stateless-Recipient Certified E-mail System based on Verifiable Encryption (with C. Nita-Rotaru), In RSA 2002, McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA, February 18-22, 2002.
• A New Approach to DNS Security (DNSSEC) (with S. Mangard), In Eighth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, November 5-8, 2001.
• TRICERT: Distributed Certified E-mail Schemes (with B. de Medeiros, M. T. Goodrich), ISOC 2001 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'01), San Diego, CA, USA, February 2001.
• Extended Capabilities for Visual Cryptography, (with C. Blundo, A. De Santis, and D. R. Stinson), in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 250, (2001), pp. 134-161.
• A Practical and Provably Secure Coalition-resistant Group Signature Scheme (with J. Camenisch, M. Joye, G. Tsudik), in CRYPTO 2000, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Aug 20-24, 2000.

Other Papers:

G. Ateniese, C. Blundo, A. De Santis, and D. R. Stinson, Visual Cryptography for General Access Structures, in Information and Computation, Vol. 129, No. 2, (1996), pp. 86--106. Also appears in ECCC, Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (TR96-012). On-line copy available as gzipped postscript and pdf.

G. Ateniese, C. Blundo, A. De Santis, and D. R. Stinson, Constructions and Bounds for Visual Cryptography, in the proceedings of the 23rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP '96), Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide and B. Monien Eds.,Vol. 1099 of "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 416-428, 1996.

G. Ateniese, M. Steiner, and G. Tsudik, Authenticated Group Key Agreement and Friends, in Fifth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, San Francisco, CA, November 1998.

G. Ateniese and G. Tsudik, Group Signatures a' la carte, in Tenth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA'99), Baltimore, Maryland.

G. Ateniese, A. Herzberg, H. Krawczyk, and G. Tsudik, On Traveling Incognito, in journal of Computer Networks (31) 8 (1999) pp. 871-884, April 23, 1999.

G. Ateniese and G. Tsudik, Some Open Issues and New Directions in Group Signatures, Financial Cryptography '99. (FC,'99) (M. Franklin, ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

G. Ateniese, M. Steiner, and G. Tsudik, New Muli-party Authentication Services and Key Agreement Protocols, in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 18, No 4, April 2000.

G. Ateniese, M. Joye, and G. Tsudik, On the Difficulty of Coalition-Resistance in Group Signature Schemes, in Second Workshop on Security in Communication Networks (SCN '99), September 1999.

G. Ateniese, Efficient Verifiable Encryption (and Fair Exchange) of Digital Signatures. In 6th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS'99).

G. Ateniese, O. Chevassut, D. Hasse, Y. Kim, and G. Tsudik, The Design of a Group Key Agreement API, IBM Research Report, and in DARPA DISCEX'2000.

Y. Amir, G. Ateniese, D. Hasse, Y. Kim, C. Nita-Rotaru, T. Schlossnagle, J. Schultz, Jonathan Stanton and Gene Tsudik, Secure Group Communication in Asynchronous Networks with Failures: Integration and Experiments, in 2000 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pp.330--343, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2000.

Lab Information

SPAR Lab @ JHU Information Security Institute
Lab phone: 410-516-7517

Projects:

Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation (DIGARCH) (NSF (Co-PI), PI: Randal Burns, 2005-2008).
Please visit the web page of the Hopkins Storage Systems Lab (HSSL).

Secure and Proactive DNS (NSF, 2002-06).

The MIPA (Medical Information Privacy Assurance) Project (NSF, 2002-07).

Personal

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