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most citedA survey and analysis of TLS interception mechanisms and motivations

30 citations · 63 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CR2024

ss2DNS: A Secure DNS Scheme in Stage 2

Ali Sadeghi Jahromi, AbdelRahman Abdou, Paul C. van Oorschot

The absence of security and privacy measures between DNS recursive resolvers and authoritative nameservers has been exploited by both on-path and off-path attackers. Although numer…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

Security Best Practices: A Critical Analysis Using IoT as a Case Study

David Barrera, Christopher Bellman, Paul C. van Oorschot

Academic research has highlighted the failure of many Internet of Things (IoT) product manufacturers to follow accepted practices, while IoT security best practices have recently a…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

A Close Look at a Systematic Method for Analyzing Sets of Security Advice

David Barrera, Christopher Bellman, Paul C. van Oorschot

We carry out a detailed analysis of the security advice coding method (SAcoding) of Barrera et al. (2021), which is designed to analyze security advice in the sense of measuring ac…

cs.CR2022★ 3 cited

"Sign in with ... Privacy'': Timely Disclosure of Privacy Differences among Web SSO Login Options

Srivathsan G. Morkonda, Sonia Chiasson, Paul C. van Oorschot

The number of login options on web sites has increased since the introduction of web single sign-on (SSO) protocols. Web SSO services allow users to grant web sites or relying part…

cs.CR2022

Systematic Analysis and Comparison of Security Advice as Datasets

Christopher Bellman, Paul C. van Oorschot

A long list of documents have been offered as security advice, codes of practice, and security guidelines for building and using security products, including Internet of Things (Io…

cs.CR2020★ 30 cited

A survey and analysis of TLS interception mechanisms and motivations

Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet, Paul C. van Oorschot

TLS is an end-to-end protocol designed to provide confidentiality and integrity guarantees that improve end-user security and privacy. While TLS helps defend against pervasive surv…

cs.CR2018

SoK: Securing Email -- A Stakeholder-Based Analysis (Extended Version)

Jeremy Clark, P. C. van Oorschot, Scott Ruoti +2

While email is the most ubiquitous and interoperable form of online communication today, it was not conceived with strong security guarantees, and the ensuing security enhancements…

cs.NI2017★ 8 cited

A Framework and Comparative Analysis of Control Plane Security of SDN and Conventional Networks

AbdelRahman Abdou, Paul C. van Oorschot, Tao Wan

Software defined networking implements the network control plane in an external entity, rather than in each individual device as in conventional networks. This architectural differ…

cs.CR2016★ 4 cited

Server Location Verification and Server Location Pinning: Augmenting TLS Authentication

AbdelRahman Abdou, P. C. van Oorschot

We introduce the first known mechanism providing realtime server location verification. Its uses include enhancing server authentication (e.g., augmenting TLS) by enabling browsers…

cs.CR2013★ 15 cited

Three-Way Dissection of a Game-CAPTCHA: Automated Attacks, Relay Attacks, and Usability

Manar Mohamed, Niharika Sachdeva, Michael Georgescu +6

Existing captcha solutions on the Internet are a major source of user frustration. Game captchas are an interesting and, to date, little-studied approach claiming to make captcha s…