Dan Simon

Dan Simon is a SENIOR RESEARCHER in the Distributed Systems and Security group within the Systems and Networking area.

Research Interests

Systems and Network Security, Usability of Security, Cryptography, Quantum Computation

Publications

Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proof of Knowledge and Chosen Ciphertext Attack

Charles W. Rackoff and Daniel R. Simon, Proc. CRYPTO '91

 

Cryptographic Defense against Traffic Analysis

Charles W. Rackoff and Daniel R. Simon, Proc. ACM STOC '93

 

On the Power of Quantum Computation

Daniel R. Simon, SIAM J. Computing v. 26, no. 5 (prelim. version IEEE FOCS '94)

 

Anonymous Communication and Anonymous Cash

Daniel R. Simon, Proc. CRYPTO '96

 

Finding Collisions on a One-Way Street: Can Secure Hash Functions Be Based on General Assumptions?

Daniel R. Simon, Proc. EUROCRYPT '98

 

Limits on the Efficiency of One-Way Permutation-Based Hash Functions

Jeong Han Kim, Daniel R. Simon, and Prasad Tetali, Proc. IEEE FOCS '99

 

Windowbox:  A Simple Security Model for the Connected Desktop

Dirk Balfanz and Daniel R. Simon, Proc. USENIX Windows Systems Symposium '00

 

Statistical Identification of Encrypted Web Browsing Traffic

Qixiang Sun, Daniel R. Simon, Yi-Min Wang, Wilf Russell, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, and Lili Qiu, Proc. IEEE Symp. Security & Privacy '02

 

Secure Traceroute to Detect Faulty or Malicious Routing

Venkata N. Padmanabhan and Daniel R. Simon, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM HotNets I, 2002

 

Inkblot Authentication

Adam Stubblefield and Daniel R. Simon, MSR Tech Report 2004-85

 

An Evaluation of Extended Validation and Picture-in-Picture Phishing Attacks

Collin Jackson, Daniel R. Simon, Desney S. Tan, and Adam Barth, Proc. USEC '07

 

AS-Based Accountability as a Cost-Effective DDoS Defense

Daniel R. Simon, Sharad Agarwal, and David A. Maltz, Proc. USENIX HotBots '07

 

 

 

 

 

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