Publications

Economic Incentives for Protecting Digital Rights Online.
N. Boris Margolin, Brian Neil Levine, James D. Miller, and Matthew Wright. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 10(5):553-564, September 2011.
Keywords: security; Sybil attack; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [doi] [link]

Effective Digital Forensics Research is Investigator-Centric.
Robert J. Walls, Brian Neil Levine, Marc Liberatore, and Clay Shields. In Proc. USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), August 2011.
Keywords: forensics; security; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [audio] [video] [link]

Bounds on Service Quality for Networks Subject to Augmentation And Attack.
George Bissias. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, December 2010.
Keywords: security; thesis; wireless; routing; DTN; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Assessing the Vulnerability of Replicated Network Services.
George Bissias, Brian Neil Levine, and Ramesh Sitaraman. In Proc. ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), November 2010.
Keywords: security; wireless; routing; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Auditing and Forensic Analysis.
Brian Neil Levine and Gerome Miklau. In M. Tamer A-Zsu and Ling Liu, editors, Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer-Verlag, June 2009.
Keywords: Auditing; forensics; database security; ; [bibtex] [table_of_contents] [link]

Detecting Denial of Service Attacks in Tor.
Norman Danner, Danny Krizanc, and Marc Liberatore. In Proceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Rockley, Christ Church, Barbados, February 2009.
Keywords: security; anonymity; ; [bibtex] [link]

Low-Latency Anonymity System: Statistical Attacks and New Applications.
Marc Liberatore. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, February 2008.
Keywords: security; Thesis; anonymity; ; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Surviving Attacks on Disruption-Tolerant Networks without Authentication.
John Burgess, George Bissias, Mark D. Corner, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), pages 61--70, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 2007.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; security; routing; DOME; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Threats to Privacy in the Forensic Analysis of Database Systems.
Patrick Stahlberg, Gerome Miklau, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM Intl Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 91--102, June 2007.
Keywords: forensics; database security; Privacy; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Bounding Damage From Link Destruction with Application to the Internet (extended abstract).
George Bissias, Brian Neil Levine, and Arnold L. Rosenberg. In Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, pages 367---368, June 2007.
Keywords: security; routing; [bibtex] [PDF] [poster] [link]

Cheat-Proof Playout for Centralized and Peer-to-Peer Gaming.
Nathaniel E. Baughman, Marc Liberatore, and Brian Neil Levine. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 15(1):1--13, February 2007.
Keywords: security; gaming; peer-to-peer; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Securing History: Privacy and Accountability in Database Systems.
Gerome Miklau, Brian Neil Levine, and Patrick Stahlberg. In Biennial ACM/VLDB Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), pages 387--396, January 2007.
Keywords: database security; forensics; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation] [link]

A Survey of Solutions to the Sybil Attack.
Brian Neil Levine, Clay Shields, and N. Boris Margolin. Tech report 2006-052, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, October 2006.
Keywords: Sybil attack; peer-to-peer; security; anonymity; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Inferring the Source of Encrypted HTTP Connections.
Marc Liberatore and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pages 255--263, October 2006.
Keywords: security; privacy; anonymity; forensics; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Detecting the Sybil Attack in Ad hoc Networks.
Chris Piro, Clay Shields, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), pages 1--11, August 2006.
Keywords: security; Sybil attack; wireless; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

On the Cost-Ineffectiveness of Redundancy in Commercial P2P Computing.
Matthew Yurkewych, Brian Neil Levine, and Arnold L. Rosenberg. In Proc. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pages 280--288, November 2005.
Keywords: security; peer-to-peer; Sybil attack; Synthesis project; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Privacy Vulnerabilities in Encrypted HTTP Streams.
George Bissias, Marc Liberatore, David Jensen, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET), pages 1--11, May 2005.
Keywords: security; anonymity; privacy; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [link]

Authenticated Routing for Ad hoc Networks.
Kimaya Sanzgiri, Bridget Dahill, Daniel LaFlamme, Brian Neil Levine, Clay Shields, and Elizabeth Belding-Royer. IEEE/ACM Journal of Selected Areas in Communications: Special issue on Wireless Ad hoc Networks (JSAC), 23(3):598--610, March 2005.
Keywords: wireless; security; routing; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Passive Logging Attacks Against Anonymous Communications Systems.
Matthew Wright. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, January 2005.
Keywords: anonymity; Thesis; Security; privacy; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Analysis of an Incentives-based Protection System.
N. Boris Margolin, Matthew Wright, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM Digital Rights Management Workshop (DRM), pages 22--30, October 2004.
Keywords: security; Sybil attack; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation] [link]

SPIES: Secrets Protection Incentives-based Escrow System.
N. Boris Margolin, Matthew Wright, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. Workshop on the Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems (p2pEcon), June 2004.
Keywords: security; Sybil attack; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Surviving Attacks on DNS using Ubiquitous Replication.
Daniel LaFlamme and Brian Neil Levine. Technical Report 04-11, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dept. of Computer Science, March 2004.
Keywords: security; Tech report; [bibtex] [tech_report] [link]

A Secure Routing Protocol for Ad hoc Networks.
Kimaya Sanzgiri, Bridget Dahill, Brian Neil Levine, Clay Shields, and Elizabeth Belding-Royer. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pages 78--89, November 2002.
Keywords: security; wireless; routing; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Cheat-Proof Playout for Centralized and Distributed Online Games.
Nathaniel E. Baughman and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. IEEE Infocom, pages 104--113, April 2001.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; gaming; security; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]