Research Interests
I'm currently working on a variety of projects, primarily focused on the
usability
of security. They include technologies for
secure sharing of information and usable access control, and the development
of new approaches to mobile networking.
My general research interests include:
- usability of security
- wireless security
- key distribution and key management
- cryptography for P2P and ubicomp environments
- cryptographic engineering
- smart cards and embedded devices
- new approaches to authentication and PKI
- network security, particularly IPsec
- threshold cryptography, group signatures, and anonymous credentials
Publications
Balfanz, D., Durfee, G., and Smetters, D. K. (2005)
"Making the Impossible Easy: Usable PKI."
In "Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems
that People Can Use", Cranor, L. F. and Garfinkel, S., eds., pp. 319-334.
O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA.
(BiBTeX)
Oprea, A. Balfanz, D., Durfee, G., and Smetters, D. K. (2004)
"Securing a Remote Terminal Application with a Mobile Trusted Device."
Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. Phoenix, AZ, December 2004.
(PDF)
(BiBTeX)
Balfanz, D., Durfee, G., Grinter, R. E. and Smetters, D. K. (2004)
"In Search of Usable Security -- Five Lessons from the Field."
IEEE Journal on Security and Privacy. 2(5) 2004.
(PDF)
(BiBTeX)
Balfanz, D., Durfee, G., Grinter, R. E., Smetters, D. K. and Stewart, P. (2004)
"Network-in-a-Box: How to Set Up a Secure Wireless Network in Under a Minute."
13th Usenix Security Symposium, August, 2004, San Diego, CA.
(PDF)
(BiBTeX)
Waters, B. R., Balfanz, D., Durfee, G., and Smetters, D. K. (2004)
"Building an Encrypted and Searchable Audit Log."
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, Internet Society.
February 4-6, 2004, San Diego, CA.
(PDF)
(BiBTeX)
Smetters, D. K. and Durfee, G. (2003) "Domain-based authentication of
identity-based cryptosystems for secure email and IPsec." 12th Usenix Security Symposium,
August 4-8, 2003, Washington, D. C..
(PDF)
(BiBTeX)
Balfanz, D., Durfee, G., Shankar, N., Smetters, D. K., Staddon, J. and Wong, H. C. (2003)
"Secret handshakes for group membership authentication." IEEE Conference on
Security and Privacy, May 14-17, 2003, Oakland, CA.
(PDF)
(BiBTeX)
Grinter, R. E. and Smetters, D. K. (2003) "Three challenges for embedding
security into applications." Workshop on HCI and Security Systems, ACM Computer-Human
Interactions Conference. 2003.
(BiBTeX)
Smetters, D. K. and Grinter, R. E. (2002) "Moving from the design of usable
security technologies to the design of useful secure applications."
New Security Paradigms Workshop. September 23-26, 2002, Virginia Beach, VA.
(PDF)
(BiBTeX)
Edwards, W. K., Newman, M., Smith, T. F., Sedivy, J., Balfanz, D., Smetters, D. K.,
Wong, H. C. and Izadi, S. (2002) "Using Speakeasy for ad-hoc peer-to-peer
collaboration."
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. ACM Press, pp. 256-265.
November 16-20, 2002, New Orleans, LA.
(PDF)
(BiBTeX)
Balfanz, D., Smetters, D. K., Stewart, P. and Wong, H. C. (2002)
"Talking to strangers: authentication in ad-hoc wireless networks."
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. Internet Society.
February 6-8, 2002, San Diego, CA.
(PDF)
(BiBTeX)
Berson, T. A., Dean, D., Franklin, M. K., Smetters, D. K. and Spreitzer, M. J. (2001)
"Cryptography as a network service."
Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium.
Internet Society. February 7-9, 2001, San Diego, CA.
(PDF)
(BiBTeX)
Publications in neuroscience.
Professional
Program committees: NDSS 2004, CEAS 2004,2005,2006, WISA 2004, SOUPS 2005
Program chair: SOUPS 2006 (technical papers co-chair)
Reviewer:
UIST 2002, 2004
Ubicomp 2003
Crypto 2002, 2003
NDSS 2005
PKC 2005
Asiacrypt 2002
ISC 2002, 2004
ACNS 2004
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
IEEE Internet Computing
Memberships: IACR, ACM, Usenix
Email Contact: smetters_at_parc.com
Last modified: Tue Jun 15 15:12:50 PDT 2004
