Proactive Data Sharing to Enhance Privacy in Ubicomp Environments (2009)
Discussions about privacy often assume an antagonistic relationship between those who collect data and those about whom data is collected. Those who collect data (the data consumers) want the...
Paper MUMMY – mobile knowledge management (2008)
Martin Klima, Zdenek Mikovec, Pavel Slavik, Dirk Balfanz
Commission develops means to improve the efficiency of mobile business processes through mobile, personalized knowledge management. MUMMY approaches the challenges of modern mobile work processes. To...
Abstract WindowBox: A Simple Security Model for the Connected Desktop (2008)
Breaches in computer security do not just exploit bugs in applications; they are often also the result of mismanaged protection mechanisms. The tools available to protect sensitive resources and...
Video presentation systems currently available provide users with only a few functionality options. With the introduction of an Internet-based back channel, the way is now open for wide-spread...
Rogue Java applets are currently a major concern for big companies and private users alike. While the best protection against them is to turn off Java support in the WWW browser, this “solution ”...
An Interactive Video System for Live Coverage Transmission using Real Time Video Hyperlinks (2008)
Reiner Wichert, Matthias Finke, Dirk Balfanz
Abstract:- In this paper, we present a system developed for getting additional information from real time video hyperlinks within a live video. It is realized by introducing markers in the scene,...
Abstract Extensible Security Architectures for Java (2008)
Dan S. Wallach, Dirk Balfanz, Drew Dean, Edward W. Felten
Mobile code technologies such as Java, JavaScript, and ActiveX generally limit 911 programs to a single restrictive security policy. However, software-based protection can allow for more extensi-ble...
Jessica Staddon, Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee
In sensor networks, nodes commonly rely on each other to route messages to a base station. Although this practice conserves power it can obscure the cause of a measurement outage in a portion of the...
Posture-Based Data Protection (2008)
Glenn Durfee, D. K. Smetters, Dirk Balfanz
Organizations deal with an ever-increasing amount of sensitive data. To get their jobs done, employees copy such data to mobile and home devices – making it vulnerable to device theft and malware....
Instant Matchmaking: Simple and Secure Integrated Ubiquitous Computing Environments (2008)
D. K. Smetters, Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee, Trevor F. Smith, Kyung-hee Lee
Abstract. Effective ubiquitous computing applications need to integrate users ’ personal devices and data with the devices and resources they encounter around them. Previous work addressed this...
Balfanz, Dirk, Klein, Michael, Schmidt, Andreas, Santi, Marco
This paper describes the main features of a middleware for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications, exemplified along the SOPRANO research project. The contribution outlines main requirements...
A Reference Model for Mobile Knowledge Management (2005)
Matthias Grimm, Mohammad-reza Tazari, Dirk Balfanz
Abstract: Although mobile knowledge management is being perceived as an emerging R&D field, its concepts and approaches are not well-settled, as opposed to the general field of knowledge...
A reference architecture for mobile knowledge management (2005)
Dirk Balfanz, Matthias Grimm, Mohammad-reza Tazari
Abstract: Although mobile knowledge management (mKM) is being perceived as an emerging R&D field, its concepts and approaches are not well-established, as compared to the general field of...
A Reference Architecture for Mobile Knowledge Management (2005)
Balfanz, Dirk, Grimm, Matthias, Tazari, Mohammad-Reza
Although mobile knowledge management (mKM) is being perceived as an emerging R&D field, its concepts and approaches are not well-settled, as opposed to the general field of Knowledge Management (KM)....
Network-in-a-box: How to set up a secure wireless network in under a minute (2004)
Dirk Balfanz, Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee, Glenn Durfee, Rebecca E. Grinter, Rebecca E. Grinter, ...
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Building an Encrypted and Searchable Audit Log (2004)
Brent R. Waters, Brent R. Waters, Dirk Balfanz, Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee, Glenn Durfee, ...
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Securing a Remote Terminal Application with a Mobile Trusted Device (2004)
Alina Oprea, Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee, D. K. Smetters
Many real-world applications use credentials such as passwords as means of user authentication. When accessed from untrusted public terminals, such applications are vulnerable to credential sniffing...
Building an Encrypted and Searchable Audit Log (2004)
Brent R. Waters, Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee, D. K. Smetters
Audit logs are an important part of any secure system, and they need to be carefully designed in order to give a faithful representation of past system activity. This is especially true in the...
search of usable security: Five lessons from the field (2004)
Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee, Palo Alto, Rebecca E
A new system reduces the time to enroll in a secure wireless network by two orders of magnitude, and it also gets high marks for usability and user satisfaction. This real-world example reveals five...
Network-in-a-box: How to set up a secure wireless network in under a minute (2004)
Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee, Rebecca E. Grinter, D. K. Smetters, Paul Stewart
Security for mobile and wireless devices must be highly usable. Yet combining effective security and usability is often considered impossible. For example, deploying effective security for wireless...
Mobile liquid 2d scatter space (ml2dss (2004)
A visual interactive information space (ispace) for displaying large amounts of information and allowing simple vision-based knowledge discovery on small screen sizes
Secret handshakes from pairing-based key agreements (2003)
Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee, Narendar Shankar, Diana Smetters, Jessica Staddon, Hao-chi Wong
Consider a CIA agent who wants to authenticate herself to a server, but does not want to reveal her CIA credentials unless the server is a genuine CIA outlet. Consider also that the CIA server does...
Secret Handshakes from Pairing-Based Key Agreements (2003)
Dirk Balfanz, Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee, Glenn Durfee, Narendar Shankar, Narendar Shankar, ...
Consider a CIA agent who wants to authenticate herself to a server, but does not want to reveal her CIA credentials unless the server is a genuine CIA outlet. Consider also that the CIA server does...
Secret handshakes from pairing-based key agreements (2003)
Dirk Balfanz, Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee, Glenn Durfee, Narendar Shankar, Narendar Shankar, ...
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Towards a Framework for Mobile Knowledge Management (2002)
Matthias Grimm, Mohammad-reza Tazari, Dr. Dirk Balfanz
Abstract. Mobile devices, such as PDAs, evolve rapidly from digital calendars and address books to hosts of more complex functionality. Screen quality, processing power and mobile networks allow for...
Self-healing key distribution with revocation (2002)
Sara Miner, Michael Malkin, Matt Franklin, U. C. Davis, Drew Dean, Jessica Staddon, ...
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Talking to strangers: Authentication in ad-hoc wireless networks (2002)
Dirk Balfanz, D. K. Smetters, Paul Stewart, H. Chi Wong
In this paper we address the problem of secure communication and authentication in ad-hoc wireless networks. This is a difficult problem, as it involves bootstrapping trust between strangers. We...
Talking to strangers: Authentication in ad-hoc wireless networks (2002)
Dirk Balfanz, Dirk Balfanz, D. K. Smetters, D. K. Smetters, Paul Stewart, Paul Stewart, ...
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Efficient tracing of failed nodes in sensor networks (2002)
Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee, Jessica Staddon, Jessica Staddon
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Using Speakeasy for Ad Hoc Peer-to-Peer Collaboration (2002)
Keith Edwards Mark, Mark W. Newman, Jana Z. Sedivy, Trevor F Smith, Dirk Balfanz, D. K. Smetters, ...
Peer-to-peer systems appear promising in terms of their ability to support ad hoc, spontaneous collaboration. However, current peer-to-peer systems suffer from several deficiencies that diminish...
Using Speakeasy for Ad Hoc Peer-to-Peer Collaboration (2002)
W. Keith Edwards, W. Keith Edwards, Mark W. Newman, Mark W. Newman, Jana Z. Sedivy, Jana Z. Sedivy, ...
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R.: An interactive Video System supporting ECommerce (2001)
Dirk Balfanz, Matthias Finke, Christoph Jung, Reiner Wichert
Abstract:- Based on the technological progress within the Internet, content like digital video has become more and more popular for any kind of user. Because of these new technologies a merging...
A security infrastructure for distributed Java applications (2000)
We describe the design and implementation of a security infrastructure for a distributed Java application. This work is inspired by SDSI/SPKI, but has a few twists of its own. We define a logic for...
WindowBox: A Simple Security Model for the Connected Desktop (2000)
Breaches in computer security do not just exploit bugs in applications; they are often also the result of mismanaged protection mechanisms. The tools available to protect sensitive resources and...
Protecting the Privacy of Individuals in Terrorist Tracking Applications (1998)
Lunt, Teresa, Aoki, Paul, Balfanz, Dirk, Durfee, Glenn, Golle, Philippe, Smetters, Diana, ...
Countering terrorism involves gathering information from a wide diversity of sources to discover key facts and relationships, develop models of hypotheses, and support human reasoning on likely...
Experience with Secure Multi-Processing in Java (1998)
As Java is the preferred platform for the deployment of network computers, it is appealing to run multiple applications on a single Java desktop. We experimented with using the Java platform as a...
Experience with Secure Multi-Processing in Java (1998)
As the Java ¡£¢ platform is the preferred environment for the deployment of network computers, it is appealing to run multiple applications on a single Java-enabled desktop. We experimented with...
Experience with Secure Multi-Processing in Java (1998)
As Java TM is the preferred platform for the deployment of network computers, it is appealing to run multiple applications on a single Java desktop. We experimented with using the Java platform as a...
Bibliography of Mobile Programs, Extensible Operatings Systems, and Policy Papers (1998)
Brant Hashii, Kenneth M. Walker, Daniel F. Sterne, Lee Badger, Karen A. Oostendorp, Michael J. Petkac, ...
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Experience with Secure Multi-Processing in Java (1998)
As the Java TM platform is the preferred environment for the deployment of network computers, it is appealing to run multiple applications on a single Java-enabled desktop. We experimented with using...
Experience with Secure Multi-Processing in Java (1998)
As Java TM is the preferred platform for the deployment of network computers, it is appealing to run multiple applications on a single Java desktop. We experimented with using the Java platform as a...
Experience with Secure Multi-Processing in Java (1998)
As the Java platform is the preferred environment for the deployment of network computers, it is appealing to run multiple applications on a single Java-enabled desktop. We experimented with using...
Java security: Web browsers and beyond (1997)
Drew Dean, Edward W. Felten, Dan S. Wallach, Dirk Balfanz
The introduction of Java applets has taken the World Wide Web by storm. Java allows web creators to embellish their content with arbitrary programs which execute in the web browser, whether for...
Extensible Security Architectures for Java (1997)
Dan S. Wallach, Dirk Balfanz, Drew Dean, Edward W. Felten
As the World Wide Web has been used to build increasingly complex applications, developers have been constrained by the Web’s static document model. “Active ” content can add simple animations...
Extensible Security Architectures for Java (1997)
Dan Wallach Princeton, Dan S. Wallach, Dirk Balfanz, Drew Dean, Edward W. Felten
Windowing Toolkit. The solution to luring attacks is to use a more restricted stack-frame searching algorithm in checkPrivilege(). This algorithm, which both Netscape and Microsoft use, is shown in...
Extensible Security Architectures for Java (1997)
Dan S. Wallach, Dirk Balfanz, Drew Dean, Edward W. Felten
Windowing Toolkit. The solution to luring attacks is to use a more restricted stack-frame searching algorithm in checkPrivilege(). This algorithm, which both Netscape and Microsoft use, is shown in...
Extensible Security Architectures for Java (1997)
Dan Wallach, Dirk Balfanz, Drew Dean, Edward W. Felten
Mobile code technologies such as Java, JavaScript, and ActiveX generally limit all programs to a single security policy. However, software-based protection can allow for more flexible security...
Dirk Balfanz, Edward W. Felten
Rogue Java applets are currently a major concern for big companies and private users alike. While the best protection against them is to turn off Java support in the WWW browser, this...