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37
Citations
8750
World Ranking
10520
National Ranking
4406

Overview

David A. McGrew is affiliated with Cisco Systems in the United States and works primarily in the field of computer science. Their research spans several subfields including artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, information systems, hardware and architecture, and signal processing.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics related to network security and intrusion detection, internet traffic analysis, and hardware security. Key recent papers include:

  • Accurate TLS Fingerprinting using Destination Context and Knowledge Bases (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Assessing and Exploiting Domain Name Misinformation (2023, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Detecting Weak Keys in Manufacturing Certificates: A Case Study (2023, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference)

Co-authors frequently collaborating with David A. McGrew include Blake Anderson, Andrew Chi, and Brandon Enright.

The scientist has published mostly in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University) and the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference.

Main topics of their work address areas like internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, network security and intrusion detection, spam and phishing detection, physical unclonable functions (PUFs) and hardware security, advanced malware detection techniques, and electrostatic discharge in electronics. The distribution of research focus includes:

  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Spam and Phishing Detection
  • Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Electrostatic Discharge in Electronics

David A. McGrew's work integrates topics from theoretical aspects of artificial intelligence to practical applications in network communications and hardware security, reflecting a broad and multidisciplinary approach within computer science.

Best Publications

  • The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)

    M. Baugher;D. McGrew;M. Naslund;E. Carrara

  • Key establishment in large dynamic groups using one-way function trees

    A.T. Sherman;D.A. McGrew

  • The security and performance of the galois/counter mode (GCM) of operation

    David A. McGrew;John Viega

  • Key Management for Large Dynamic Groups: One-Way Function Trees and Amortized Initialization

    David Balenson;David McGrew;Alan Sherman

  • Statistical Analysis of the Alleged RC4 Keystream Generator

    Scott R. Fluhrer;David A. McGrew

  • Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Extension to Establish Keys for the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)

    David A. McGrew;Eric Rescorla

  • Machine Learning for Encrypted Malware Traffic Classification: Accounting for Noisy Labels and Non-Stationarity

    Blake Anderson;David McGrew

  • Identifying Encrypted Malware Traffic with Contextual Flow Data

    Blake Anderson;David McGrew

  • Method for self-synchronizing time between communicating networked systems using timestamps

    Brian E. Weis;David A. McGrew

  • An Interface and Algorithms for Authenticated Encryption

    David A. McGrew

  • Deciphering malware’s use of TLS (without decryption)

    Blake Anderson;Subharthi Paul;David A. McGrew

  • AES Galois Counter Mode (GCM) Cipher Suites for TLS

    Abhijit Choudhury;David McGrew;Joseph Salowey

  • Method and apparatus for generating pairwise cryptographic transforms based on group keys

    Mark Baugher;David McGrew;Jan Vilhuber;Brian Weis

  • Security Management In A Group Based Environment

    Andrew Persaud;Kavitha Kamarthy;Shree Murthy;Scott Fanning

  • AES-CCM Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)

    Daniel Bailey;David McGrew

  • Secure virtual machine bootstrap in untrusted cloud infrastructures

    Fabio R. Maino;Pere Monclus;David A. Mcgrew;Robert T. Bell

  • Application-level service access to encrypted data streams

    Michael Herne;David McGrew

  • The Use of Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) in IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)

    John Viega;David A. McGrew

  • Security for remote access vpn

    Philip John Steuart Gladstone;David A. McGrew

  • Fundamental Elliptic Curve Cryptography Algorithms

    David A. McGrew

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramesh Karri
Ramesh Karri New York University
James N. Guichard
James N. Guichard Futurewei Technologies
Radha Poovendran
Radha Poovendran University of Washington
Liang-Gee Chen
Liang-Gee Chen National Taiwan University
Yih-Chun Hu
Yih-Chun Hu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Johannes Buchmann
Johannes Buchmann Technical University of Darmstadt
Adrian Perrig
Adrian Perrig ETH Zurich

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