Emiliano De Cristofaro, PhD

Research Scientist
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Security and Privacy Group

Publications

The list of publications below is divided into the following categories:
    [Sharing Sensitive Information with Privacy]
    [Web Security and Privacy]
    [Wireless Security and Privacy]
    [Pervasive Services]
    [Posters]

You may also visit my Google Scholar citations page and my entry on DBLP.

Sharing Sensitive Information with Privacy

  • [NEW!] Emiliano De Cristofaro and Gene Tsudik
    Experimenting with Fast Private Set Intersection
    To appear in 5th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST 2012)
    [Related preliminary ePrint report, titled "On the performance of certain Private Set Intersection protocols"]
  • [NEW!] Emiliano De Cristofaro, Claudio Soriente, Gene Tsudik, Andrew Williams
    Hummingbird: Privacy at the time of Twitter
    To appear in 33rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2012)
    [Preprint]
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro
    Sharing Sensitive Information with Privacy
    PhD Dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2011
    [Electronic Version]
  • Pierre Baldi, Roberta Baronio, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Paolo Gasti, Gene Tsudik
    Countering GATTACA: Efficient and Secure Testing of Fully-Sequenced Human Genomes
    18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2011)
    [Updated Version]
    Media Coverage: [MIT Technology Review] [NewScientist] [Kurzweilai]
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro, Yanbin Lu, Gene Tsudik
    Efficient Techniques for Privacy-preserving Sharing of Sensitive Information
    4th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST 2011)
    [Full Version]
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro, Mark Manulis, Bertram Poettering
    Private Discovery of Common Social Contacts
    9th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2011)
    [Full Version]
  • Giuseppe Ateniese, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gene Tsudik
    (If) Size Matters: Size-Hiding Private Set Intersection
    14th IACR Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2011)
    [Full Version]
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro, Jihye Kim, Gene Tsudik
    Linear-Complexity Private Set Intersection Protocols Secure in Malicious Model
    16th IACR Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology (Asiacrypt 2010)
    [Full Version]
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro and Jihye Kim
    Some Like It Private: Sharing Confidential Information Based on Oblivious Authorization
    IEEE Magazine on Security and Privacy, Volume 8, Number 4, 2010
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro and Gene Tsudik
    Practical Private Set Intersection Protocols with Linear Complexity
    Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 14th International Conference (FC 2010)
    [Full Version]
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro, Stanislaw Jarecki, Jihye Kim, Gene Tsudik
    Privacy-preserving Policy-based Information Transfer
    9th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2009)
    [Full Version]

Web Security and Privacy

  • Mishari Almishari, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Karim Eldefrawy, Gene Tsudik
    Harvesting SSL Certificate Data to Identify Web-Fraud
    International Journal of Network Security (IJSN), pending minor revisions
    [Preliminary Version]
  • Claude Castelluccia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Aurelien Francillon, Dali Kafaar
    EphPub: Toward Robust Ephemeral Publishing
    19th IEEE Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2011)
    [Full Version] [Firefox Extension] [Project Page]
  • Claude Castelluccia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Daniele Perito
    Private Information Disclosure from Web Searches
    10th Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium (PETS 2010)
    Media Coverage: [MIT Tech] [Slashdot] [ACM News] [The Register] [Italian]
  • Carlo Blundo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Clemente Galdi, Giuseppe Persiano
    A Distributed Implementation of the Certified Information Access Service
    13th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2008)
    [Full Version]
  • Carlo Blundo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Aniello Del Sorbo, Clemente Galdi, Giuseppe Persiano
    Validating Orchestration of Web Services with BPEL and Aggregate Signatures
    6th IEEE Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2008)

Wireless Security and Privacy

  • Emiliano De Cristofaro and Claudio Soriente
    Participatory Privacy: Enabling Privacy in Participatory Sensing
    To Appear in IEEE Network -- July 2012 Issue
    [Preliminary Version]
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro and Roberto Di Pietro
    Preserving Query Privacy in Urban Sensing Systems
    13th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2012)
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro, Anthony Durussel, Imad Aad
    Reclaiming Privacy for Smartphone Applications
    9th IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2011)
    [Updated Version]
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro and Claudio Soriente
    PEPSI: Privacy-Enhanced Participatory Sensing Infrastructure
    4th ACM Conference on Wireless Security (WiSec 2011)
    [Full version available on project website]
  • Vincenzo Auletta, Carlo Blundo, Angelo De Caro, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Giuseppe Persiano, Ivan Visconti
    Increasing Privacy Threats in the Cyberspace: the Case of Italian E-Passports
    1st International Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Resource-Constrained Devices (WLC 2010)
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro, Jens-Mathias Bohli, Dirk Westhoff
    FAIR: Fuzzy-based Aggregation providing In-network Resilience for real-time Sensor Networks
    2nd ACM Symposium on Wireless Network Security (WiSec 2009)
    [Full Version]
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro, Xuhua Ding, Gene Tsudik
    Privacy-Preserving Querying in Sensor Networks
    18th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2009)
    [Full Version]
  • Emiliano De Cristofaro
    A Secure and Privacy-Protecting Aggregation Scheme for Sensor Networks
    8th IEEE Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile, and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2007)

Pervasive Services

  • Carlo Blundo and Emiliano De Cristofaro
    A Bluetooth-based JXME infrastructure
    Itnernational Symposium on Distributed Objects, Middleware, and Applications (DOA 2007)
  • Vincenzo Auletta, Carlo Blundo, Emiliano De Cristofaro
    A J2ME transparent middleware to support HTTP connections over Bluetooth
    2nd IEEE Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2007)
    Best Student Paper
  • Vincenzo Auletta, Carlo Blundo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Guerriero Raimato
    A Lightweight Framework for Web Services Invocation over Bluetooth
    14th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006)
  • Vincenzo Auletta, Carlo Blundo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Guerriero Raimato
    Performance Evaluation of Web Services invocation over Bluetooth
    9th ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis, Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2006)

Posters

  • Claude Castelluccia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Daniele Perito
    Private Information Disclosure from Web Searches: The Case of Google Web History
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2010)
    [Poster]