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Citations
12715
World Ranking
4071
National Ranking
157

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2010 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Ian Goldberg is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and works primarily in computer science. Their research spans several subfields including artificial intelligence, information systems, computer networks and communications, sociology and political science, and signal processing.

The main topics covered in their work involve cryptography and data security, privacy-preserving technologies in data, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, security and verification in computing, blockchain technology applications and security, network security and intrusion detection, and privacy, security, and data protection.

Frequent co-authors in Ian Goldberg's publications include Sajin Sasy, Chelsea Komlo, Lindsey Tulloch, Rob Jansen, and Justin Tracey.

The scientist has contributed papers to several notable venues. These include:

  • SoK: Privacy-Preserving Reputation Systems (2020), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Fast Fully Oblivious Compaction and Shuffling (2022), Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • Mitigator: Privacy policy compliance using trusted hardware (2020), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • SoK: Metadata-Protecting Communication Systems (2023), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Once is Never Enough: Foundations for Sound Statistical Inference in Tor Network Experimentation (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)

Other frequent publication venues where their work appears include arXiv (Cornell University), Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Ian Goldberg has been recognized with the ACM Distinguished Member award in 2017 and the ACM Senior Member award in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Intercepting mobile communications: the insecurity of 802.11

    Nikita Borisov;Ian Goldberg;David Wagner

  • A secure environment for untrusted helper applications confining the Wily Hacker

    Ian Goldberg;David Wagner;Randi Thomas;Eric A. Brewer

  • Constant-size commitments to polynomials and their applications

    Aniket Kate;Gregory M. Zaverucha;Ian Goldberg

  • Off-the-record communication, or, why not to use PGP

    Nikita Borisov;Ian Goldberg;Eric Brewer

  • A Secure Environment for Untrusted Helper Applications

    Ian Goldberg;David A. Wagner;Randi Thomas;Eric A. Brewer

  • Effective attacks and provable defenses for website fingerprinting

    Tao Wang;Xiang Cai;Rishab Nithyanand;Rob Johnson

  • Improved website fingerprinting on Tor

    Tao Wang;Ian Goldberg

  • A Systematic Approach to Developing and Evaluating Website Fingerprinting Defenses

    Xiang Cai;Rishab Nithyanand;Tao Wang;Rob Johnson

  • SkypeMorph: protocol obfuscation for Tor bridges

    Hooman Mohajeri Moghaddam;Baiyu Li;Mohammad Derakhshani;Ian Goldberg

  • Privacy-enhancing technologies for the Internet

    I. Goldberg;D. Wagner;E. Brewer

  • Louis, Lester and Pierre: three protocols for location privacy

    Ge Zhong;Ian Goldberg;Urs Hengartner

  • Improving the Robustness of Private Information Retrieval

    I. Goldberg

  • SoK: Secure Messaging

    Nik Unger;Sergej Dechand;Joseph Bonneau;Sascha Fahl

  • Telex: anticensorship in the network infrastructure

    Eric Wustrow;Scott Wolchok;Ian Goldberg;J. Alex Halderman

  • Settling Payments Fast and Private: Efficient Decentralized Routing for Path-Based Transactions.

    Stefanie Roos;Pedro Moreno-Sanchez;Aniket Kate;Ian Goldberg

  • On Realistically Attacking Tor with Website Fingerprinting

    Tao Wang;Ian Goldberg

  • Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format

    George Danezis;Ian Goldberg

  • Experience with Top Gun Wingman: a proxy-based graphical web browser for the 3Com PalmPilot

    Armando Fox;Ian Goldberg;Steven D. Gribble;David C. Lee

  • Revisiting the computational practicality of private information retrieval

    Femi Olumofin;Ian Goldberg

  • Walkie-talkie: an efficient defense against passive website fingerprinting attacks

    Tao Wang;Ian Goldberg

  • Proceedings of the 19th USENIX conference on Security

    Ian Goldberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Aniket Kate
Aniket Kate Purdue University West Lafayette
David Wagner
David Wagner University of California, Berkeley
Nikita Borisov
Nikita Borisov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eric Brewer
Eric Brewer University of California, Berkeley
Douglas R. Stinson
Douglas R. Stinson University of Waterloo
George Danezis
George Danezis University College London
Urs Hengartner
Urs Hengartner University of Waterloo
Florian Kerschbaum
Florian Kerschbaum University of Waterloo
Dawn Song
Dawn Song University of California, Berkeley

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