Bryan Parno

Bryan Parno

Carnegie Mellon University
ECE Department
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

I am a PhD student in the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon. I work with my advisor, Adrian Perrig, and I am supported by NDSEG, DHS and the National Science Foundation. I studied Computer Science at Harvard University, and I currently focus on network and host-based security, as well as applied cryptography. My CV is available in pdf and postscipt.

Publications

Unidirectional Key Distribution Across Time and Space with Applications to RFID Security Ari Juels, Ravikanth Pappu and Bryan Parno, In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, July 30-August 1, 2008, San Jose, CA.	[pdf] [ps] [bib]
Bootstrapping Trust in a "Trusted" Platform Bryan Parno, In Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), July 29, 2008, San Jose, CA.	[pdf] [ps] [bib]
Flicker: An Execution Infrastructure for TCB Minimization Jonathan M. McCune, Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig, Michael K. Reiter and Hiroshi Isozaki, In Proceedings of the ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), April 1-4, 2008, Glasgow, Scotland.	[pdf] [ps] [bib] [website]
SNAPP: Stateless Network-Authenticated Path Pinning Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig and David Andersen, In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), March 18-20, 2008, Tokyo, Japan. An earlier version is available as Technical Report CMU-CyLab-07-013.	[pdf] [ps] [bib] [pdf] [ps] [bib]
How Low Can You Go?: Recommendations for Hardware-Supported Minimal TCB Code Execution Jonathan M. McCune, Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig, Michael K. Reiter and Arvind Seshadri, In Proceedings of the Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 1-5, 2008, Seattle, WA.	[pdf] [ps] [bib] [website]
Countermeasures against Government-Scale Monetary Forgery Alessandro Acquisti, Nicolas Christin, Bryan Parno, and Adrian Perrig, In Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 12th International Conference, January 27-31, 2008, Cozumel, Mexico. An extended version is available as Technical Report CMU-CyLab-07-016.	[pdf] [ps] [bib] [pdf] [bib]
Portcullis: Protecting Connection Setup from Denial-of-Capability Attacks Bryan Parno, Dan Wendlandt, Elaine Shi, Adrian Perrig, Bruce Maggs, and Yih-Chun Hu, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, August, 2007, Kyoto, Japan.	[pdf] [ps] [bib]
Minimal TCB Code Execution (Extended Abstract) Jonathan M. McCune, Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig, Michael K. Reiter and Arvind Seshadri, In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 20-23, 2007, Oakland, CA.	[pdf] [ps] [bib] [website]
Browser Enhancements for Preventing Phishing Attacks Bryan Parno, Cynthia Kuo and Adrian Perrig, In Phishing and Counter-Measures : Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft., Markus Jakobsson and Steven Myers, Ed. Wiley-Interscience, 2006.	[pdf] [ps] [bib]
Secure Sensor Network Routing: A Clean-Slate Approach Bryan Parno, Mark Luk, Evan Gaustad, and Adrian Perrig, In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Future Networking Technologies (CoNEXT), December 4-7, 2006, Lisboa, Portugal.	[pdf] [ps] [bib] [website]
Phoolproof Phishing Prevention Bryan Parno, Cynthia Kuo and Adrian Perrig, Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 10th International Conference, February 27-March 2, 2006, Anguilla, British West Indies.	[pdf] [ps] [bib] [website]
Challenges in Securing Vehicular Networks Bryan Parno and Adrian Perrig, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-IV), November 14-15, 2005, College Park, MD.	[pdf] [ps] [bib]
FANFARE for the Common Flow Elaine Shi, Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig, Yih-Chun Hu, Bruce Maggs, Technical Report CMU-CS-05-148, February 2005, Updated June 2005.	[pdf] [ps] [bib]
Distributed Detection of Node Replication Attacks in Sensor Networks Updated Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig and Virgil Gligor, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 8-11, 2005, Oakland, CA.	[pdf] [ps] [bib]
Defending a P2P Digital Preservation System Bryan Parno and Mema Rousoppoulos, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Volume 1, Number 4, pp. 209-222, December, 2004.	[pdf] [ps] [bib]
Internet Ballistics: Retrieving Forensic Data From Network Scans Bryan Parno and Tony Bartoletti, Poster Presented at the 13th USENIX Security Symposium, August 9-13, 2004, San Diego, CA.	[pdf] [ps] [bib]
Subverting LOCKSS Bryan Parno, Senior Thesis, April, 2004, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.	[pdf] [ps] [bib]
An Analysis of Database-Driven Mail Servers Nick Elprin and Bryan Parno, Proceedings of the 17th Large Installation Systems Administration Conference, October 26-31, 2003, San Diego, CA.	[pdf] [ps] [bib]

Professional Activities

Program Committee, Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference, 2009
Reviewer:
- 22 Conferences and Workshops, including CCS, EuroSys, ICNP, NDSS, NSDI, OSDI, SenSys, SigComm, SOSP, SRDS, SRUTI, USENIX Security, and WiSe.
- 7 Journals, including IEEE/ACM ToN, ACM TOIT, IEEE TMC, and IEEE TDSC.

Invited Talks

Distributed Detection of Node Replication Attacks in Sensor Networks
ARO Workshop on Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks, June 13-14, 2005, Seattle, WA.

Courses

Quantum Computation and Information Theory (33-758) with Robert Griffiths

Algorithms in the Real World (15-853) with Guy Blelloch and Bruce Maggs
Foundations of Electronic Marketplaces (15-892) with Tuomas Sandholm

Graduate Algorithms (15-750) with Manuel Blum
Applied Cryptography (18-733) with Mike Reiter
Advanced Artificial Intelligence (15-780) with Mike Lewicki and Tuomas Sandholm
Hispanic Literature and Culture (82-345) with Kenya Dworkin

Probability and Statistics (36-625) with Valérie Ventura
Software Security (18-732) with Dawn Song

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant: Network Security (18-731)	Professor Dawn Song
Wrote and graded homeworks assignments and midterm exam. Assisted students with their final course projects. Presented a lecture.

Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Computer Security (18-730)	Professor Mike Reiter
Wrote and graded homeworks assignments, weekly quizes, midterm exam, and final exam. Presented a lecture.

Teaching Fellow: Computer Hardware (CS-141)	Professor Woodward Yang
Led lab sections covering the design, structure, and operation of digital computers, logic circuits and digital electronics, and computer architecture.

Recent Work Experience

Consultant VMware

Advised on Trusted Computing strategy and development.

Research Intern	RSA Laboratories
Designed and formally analyzed protocols for user authentication, as well as for RFID security. Developed new secret-sharing techniques.

Research Intern	Microsoft Research
Investigated the use of virtualization to enhance security software. Developed modifications to Virtual PC and drivers for Windows XP.

Technical Scholar Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Studied the use of wavelet techniques to provide ballistic information on network scanners.

Research Assistant	Professor Michael Rabin
Directed team's efforts to research and implement Professor Rabin's provably unbreakable Hyper-Encryption and Everlasting Security scheme.

Program Manager	Microsoft
Responsible for defining and driving product vision, design, and feature set of two PowerToys for Windows XP Media Center Edition, including the Playlist Editor.

Information Technology Chair	The Harvard Crimson
Led a team to maintain and expand website's offerings and provide support for newspaper's staff.

English as a Second Language (ESL) Instructor	Chester County OIC
Developed and implemented an English curriculum for a class of recent immigrants from Mexico, adapting instruction to accommodate a wide range of skill levels.

Technical Support Analyst	United Messaging
Supported company's wide range of email systems and network solutions and managed and resolved customers' technical problems.

Projects

Graphics project to simulate smoke and fire using volumetric fluid modeling.
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