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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - ACM Fellow For contributions to and leadership in the theory and practice of privacy and security.

Overview

Paul Syverson is affiliated with the United States Naval Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research contributions primarily lie within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Control and Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research encompasses a variety of main topics such as Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, Cryptography and Data Security, Security and Verification in Computing, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Smart Grid Security and Resilience, Security in Wireless Sensor Networks, and User Authentication and Security Systems.

Paul Syverson has authored publications in notable venues, including the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, arXiv (Cornell University), and Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Key recent publications include:

  • "Privacy-Preserving & Incrementally-Deployable Support for Certificate Transparency in Tor" (2021), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • "Throwing Your Weight Around: Fixing Tor's Positional Weighting" (2023), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • "Principles of Remote Sattestation" (2021), Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  • "Privacy-Protecting COVID-19 Exposure Notification Based on Cluster Events" (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "A Logic of Sattestation" (2024), arXiv (Cornell University)

The list of frequent co-authors for Paul Syverson includes Tobias Pulls, Aaron D. Jaggard, Rasmus Dahlberg, Tom Ritter, and Aaron Johnson.

Among recognitions, Paul Syverson was awarded the title of ACM Fellow in 2014 for contributions to and leadership in the theory and practice of privacy and security.

Best Publications

  • Tor: the second-generation onion router

    Roger Dingledine;Nick Mathewson;Paul Syverson

  • Anonymous connections and onion routing

    M.G. Reed;P.F. Syverson;D.M. Goldschlag

  • Onion routing

    David Goldschlag;Michael Reed;Paul Syverson

  • Anonymous connections and onion routing

    P.F. Syverson;D.M. Goldschlag;M.G. Reed

  • Hiding Routing Information

    David M. Goldschlag;Michael G. Reed;Paul F. Syverson

  • Universal Re-encryption for Mixnets

    Philippe Golle;Markus Jakobsson;Ari Juels;Paul F. Syverson

  • On unifying some cryptographic protocol logics

    P.F. Syverson;P.C. van Oorschot

  • A taxonomy of replay attacks [cryptographic protocols]

    P. Syverson

  • Towards an analysis of onion routing security

    Paul Syverson;Gene Tsudik;Michael Reed;Carl Landwehr

  • Locating hidden servers

    L. Overlier;P. Syverson

  • Onion Routing for Anonymous and Private Internet Connections

    David Goldschlag;Michael Reed;Paul Syverson

  • Users get routed: traffic correlation on tor by realistic adversaries

    Aaron Johnson;Chris Wacek;Rob Jansen;Micah Sherr

  • A Taxonomy of Replay Attacks

    Paul F. Syverson

  • From a Trickle to a Flood: Active Attacks on Several Mix Types

    Andrei Serjantov;Roger Dingledine;Paul F. Syverson

  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC TRANSLATIONS

    Syverson Paul F;Stubblebine Stuart Gerald;Goldschlag David M

  • Preventing wormhole attacks on wireless ad hoc networks: a graph theoretic approach

    L. Lazos;R. Poovendran;C. Meadows;P. Syverson

  • On the Economics of Anonymity

    Alessandro Acquisti;Roger Dingledine;Paul F. Syverson

  • The Logic of Authentication Protocols

    Paul F. Syverson;Iliano Cervesato

  • Proxies for anonymous routing

    M.G. Reed;P.F. Syverson;D.M. Goldschlag

  • Computer Security – ESORICS 2005

    Sabrina de Capitani di Vimercati;Paul Syverson;Dieter Gollmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Meadows
Catherine Meadows United States Naval Research Laboratory
Joan Feigenbaum
Joan Feigenbaum Yale University
George Danezis
George Danezis University College London
Nicholas Hopper
Nicholas Hopper University of Minnesota
Claudia Diaz
Claudia Diaz KU Leuven
Gene Tsudik
Gene Tsudik University of California, Irvine
Alessandro Acquisti
Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie Mellon University
Peng Ning
Peng Ning Google (United States)
Radha Poovendran
Radha Poovendran University of Washington

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