Seny Kamara
lab: SPAR@ISI
email: seny@cs.jhu.edu
office: Wyman Park 401
tel: (410) 516-7517
fax: (410) 516-8457
I am a graduate student in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. My interests are in information security and I work in the Security and Privacy Applied Research (SPAR) Lab, which is part of the Hopkins Information Security Institute (ISI). I work with Fabian Monrose.
Research Interests: cryptography, network security, biometrics.
Publications
The Practical Subtleties of Biometric Key Generation. L. Ballard, S. Kamara, M. Reiter. To appear in the proceedings of the 17th Annual USENIX Security Symposium, San Jose, CA, August 2008. [pdf]
How to Encrypt with a Malicious Random Number Generator. S. Kamara, J. Katz. To Appear in the proceedings of the 15th Annual IACR workshop on Fast Software Encryption (FSE '08), Lausanne, Switzerland, February 2008. [pdf]
Searchable Symmetric Encryption: Improved Definitions and Efficient Constructions. R. Curtmola, J. Garay, S. Kamara, R. Ostrovsky. In the Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2006), pp. 79-88, Alexandria, VA, USA. Full version available as IACR ePrint report 2006/210.
A Mechanism for Communication-Efficient Broadcast Encryption Over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. R. Curtmola, S. Kamara. In the proceedings of the Second Workshop on Cryptography in Ad Hoc Networks (WCAN 2006), pp. 57-69. Venice, Italy, 2006. [pdf | ps]
Key Regression: Enabling Efficient Key Distribution for Secure Distributed Storage. K. Fu, S. Kamara, T. Kohno. In the proceedings of the 13th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2006). San Diego, CA, 2006. Full version available as IACR ePrint report 2005/303.
Achieving Efficient Conjunctive Keyword Searches over Encrypted Data. L. Ballard, S. Kamara, F. Monrose. In the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS '05), pp. 414-426, Beijing, China, December 2005. Warning: this is known to contain bugs. Feel free to email me with any questions.
Secret Locking: Exploring New Approaches to Biometric Key Encapsulation. S. Kamara, B. de Medeiros, S. Wetzel. In the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE 2005), pp. 254-261, Reading, U.K., 2005. [pdf | ps].
An Extensible Platform for Evaluating Security Protocols. S. Kamara, D. Davis, L. Ballard, R. Caudy, F. Monrose. In the Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS 2005), pp. 204-213, San Diego, CA, 2005. Full version [pdf | ps]. For source code see the Simnet home page.
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Analysis of Vulnerabilities in Internet Firewalls. S. Kamara, S. Fahmy, E. Schultz, F. Kerschbaum, M. Frantzen. In the Journal of Computers and Security, (22):3, pp. 214-232, April 2003.
ActiveSync, TCP/IP and 802.11 Wireless Vulnerabilities of WinCE-based PDAs P. Meunier, S. Nystrom, S. Kamara, S. Yost, K. Alexander, D. Noland, J. Crane. In the Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2002), pp. 145-152, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2002.
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