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Afshar Ganjali
dblp:96/10298
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2011
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Hardware security and side channels · 44% Authentication and access control · 28% Systems and software security · 28% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hardware security and side channels › trusted execution environments
remote attestation |
0.1 | 1 | 2011 | Unicorn: two-factor attestation for data security · CCS 2011 |
Systems and software security
trusted computing |
0.1 | 1 | 2011 | Unicorn: two-factor attestation for data security · CCS 2011 |
Hardware security and side channels
trusted execution environments |
0.0 | 1 | 2011 | Unicorn: two-factor attestation for data security · CCS 2011 |
Hardware security and side channels › trusted execution environments
trusted platform module |
0.0 | 1 | 2011 | Unicorn: two-factor attestation for data security · CCS 2011 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
attestation protocol · 0.1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Unicorn: two-factor attestation for data securityabstractMalware and phishing are two major threats for users seeking to perform security-sensitive tasks using computers today. To mitigate these threats, we introduce Unicorn, which combines the phishing protection of standard security tokens and malware protection of trusted computing hardware. The Unicorn security token holds user authentication credentials, but only releases them if it can verify an attestation that the user's computer is free of malware. In this way, the user is released from having to remember passwords, as well as having to decide when it is safe to use them. The user's computer is further verified by either a TPM or a remote server to produce a two-factor attestation scheme. We have implemented a Unicorn prototype using commodity software and hardware, and two Unicorn example applications (termed as uApps, short for Unicorn Applications), to secure access to both remote data services and encrypted local data. Each uApp consists of a small, hardened and immutable OS image, and a single application. Our Unicorn prototype co-exists with a regular user OS, and significantly reduces the time to switch between the secure environment and general purpose environment using a novel mechanism that removes the BIOS from the switch time. Mohammad Mannan, Beom Heyn Kim, Afshar Ganjali, David Lie |
CCS | 3 |