Reza Curtmola

Department of Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218

Office: Wyman Park 401
Phone: (410) 516-7517
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About Me

I am a post doctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University.
I work in the DS^2 lab headed by Prof. Cristina Nita-Rotaru and affiliated with CERIAS.

I was a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, in the SPAR lab, under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe Ateniese.
My interests include Information Security and Web Technologies.
Here's my CV


Research Interests

- Applied Cryptography - Privacy in Computing
- Security of Wireless Networks - Network Security

Some topics I have worked on, reflecting my research interests: security of wireless networks, searchable encryption, security of storage systems, security of DNS (SK-DNSSEC).
Other areas of interest in cryptography: broadcast encryption, privacy preserving data-mining.
Other areas I'm (more remotely) interested in: Security of Web Services, Human-Computer Interfaces.

Publications

Journals
- ODSBR: An On-Demand Secure Byzantine Resilient Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
to appear in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
(with Baruch Awerbuch, David Holmer, Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Herbert Rubens)
Conferences and Workshops (reverse chronological order)
- Provable Data Possession at Untrusted Stores
To appear in The 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2007), Alexandria (USA), October 2007
(with Randal Burns, Giuseppe Ateniese, Joseph Herring, Lea Kissner, Zachary Peterson and Dawn Song)
Full version available as IACR ePrint report 2007/202

- BSMR: Byzantine-Resilient Secure Multicast in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
in The Fourth IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2007), San Diego, June 2007
(with Cristina Nita-Rotaru)
Full version (Technical Report CSD-TR-07-005):   Full Version (pdf)   Abstract  
Conference proceedings version:   Full Version (pdf)   Abstract   BibTex

- Searchable Symmetric Encryption: Improved Definitions and Efficient Constructions
in The 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2006), Alexandria (USA), October 2006
(with Juan Garay, Seny Kamara and Rafail Ostrovsky)
Full version available as IACR ePrint report 2006/210 Full Version (pdf)  

- A Mechanism for Communication-Efficient Broadcast Encryption over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
in Workshop on Cryptography for Ad Hoc Networks (WCAN 2006), Venice (Italy), July 2006 (in conjunction with ICALP 2006).
(published in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS), Vol. 171, Issue 1)
(with Seny Kamara)
Available files:   Full Version (pdf)   Abstract   BibTex
- On the Performance and Analysis of DNS Security Extensions
in The Fourth International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2005), Xiamen (China), December 2005; LNCS of Springer-Verlag.
(with Giuseppe Ateniese and Aniello del Sorbo)
Available files:   Full Version (pdf)   Abstract   BibTex
- On the Survivability of Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
(or how to secure routing protocols in ad hoc wireless networks against Byzantine attacks)
in The First IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2005), Athens (Greece), September 2005.
(with Baruch Awerbuch, David Holmer, Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Herbert Rubens)
Available files:   Proceedings Version (pdf)   Abstract   BibTex
- Secure Multi-Hop Infrastructure Access
in NDSS 2005 Wireless and Mobile Security Workshop, San Diego, February 2005
(with Baruch Awerbuch, David Holmer, Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Herbert Rubens)
Available files:  

- ODSBR: An On-Demand Secure Byzantine Routing Protocol
Technical Report, October 2003.
(with Baruch Awerbuch, David Holmer, Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Herbert Rubens)
Available files:  

- Medical Information Privacy Assurance: Cryptographic and System Aspects
in The Third Conference on Security in Communication Networks 2002 (SCN 02), Amalfi (Italy), September 2002; LNCS of Springer-Verlag
(with Giuseppe Ateniese and Breno de Medeiros)
Available files:   Full Version (pdf)   Abstract   BibTex

Posters
- Secure Multicast Routing in Wireless Networks
in MOBICOM 2006, Poster, Los Angeles, CA, September 2006.
(with Cristina Nita-Rotaru)
accepted for publication in ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R)

Miscellaneous

Here's a link to the weekly SPAR security group seminar .