PROFILE:
Ersin Uzun
Ersin Uzun is a security researcher and the manager of PARC's security research area. His interests span applied cryptography, nework & systems security, usable security, and privacy. He is currently focusing on security and privacy in content-centric networks, usable identity management & access control, and privacy enhancing technologies.
Before joining PARC, Ersin held researcher affiliations with Nokia Research Center, where he worked on usable methods for secure communication bootsrappring, and HP Labs, where he researched new watermarking/fingerprinting algorithms for relational databases. Ersin was also a co-founder of a startup focusing on secure email solutions and worked as a consultant for various technology firms in the past.
Ersin received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science from University of California, Irvine, and his B.S. degree from Bilkent University in Turkey. Ersin enjoys the creative research environment at PARC very much and likes hiking, road-biking, and snowboarding outside the office.
PARC publications
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2013
Privacy in content-oriented networking: threats and countermeasures
Computer Communication Review
July 2013
Interest flooding attack and countermeasures in Named Data Networking
IFIP/IEEE Networking 2013 Conference
22 May 2013
2012
PiCoDa: privacy-preserving smart coupon delivery architecture
5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy-Preserving Technologies (HotPETS 2012)
13 July 2012
Custodian-based information sharing
IEEE Communications Magazine special issue on Information-Centric Networking
July 2012
Bitter to better - how to make Bitcoin a better currency
16th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security
27 February 2012
ANDaNA: Anonymous Named Data Networking Application
Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
5 February 2012
2011
User-aided reader revocation in PKI-based RFID systems
Journal of Computer Security
15 December 2011
Usability of display-equipped RFID tags for security purposes
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)
13 September 2011
Enhancing cyber-physical security through data patterns
Workshop on Foundations of Dependable and Secure Cyber-Physical Systems
11 April 2011
other publications
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2010
SUDOKU: secure and usable deployment of keys on wireless sensors.
Sixth Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSEC'10)
Groupthink: on the usability of secure group association of wireless devices
12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp'10)
Readers behaving badly: reader revocation in PKI-based RFID systems
15th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS'10)
2009
On the usability of wireless device authentication based on distance bounding
The 8th International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security (CANS'09)
Secure pairing of interface constrained devices
International Journal on Security and Networks
Using audio in secure device pairing
International Journal on Security and Networks
A comparative study of secure device pairing methods
The Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC)
Serial Hook-Ups: a comparative usability study of secure device pairing methods
The Fifth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’09).
Caveat Emptor: a comparative study of secure device pairing methods.
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’09)
2008
Security of relational databases in business outsourcing
HP Labs - Technical Reports
HAPADEP: human-assisted pure audio (secure) device pairing.
The 11th international conference on Information Security (ISC’08)
A reputation-based trust management system for P2P networks.
International Journal of Network Security
2007
BEDA: button enabled device pairing.
International Workshop on Security for Spontaneous Interaction (IWSSI’07)
Framework for comparative usability testing of distributed applications
Nokia Research Center - Technical Reports
Usability analysis of secure pairing methods
Financial Cryptography and Data Security
2006
Loud And Clear: Human-Verifiable Authentication Based on Audio
The 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’06)
2004
A reputation based trust management system for P2P networks
The 4th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID'04)
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in the news
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NSF Announces Future Internet Architecture Awards
27 August 2010 | NSF press release
news releases
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Emerging Networks Consortium Brings Industries Together to Innovate with Content-Centric Networking (CCN)
27 March 2012
events
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ANDaNA: Anonymous Named Data Networking Application
5 February 2012 | San Diego, CA
Security and Privacy in Named Data Networking (NDN)
10 October 2011 | Hyannis, MA