Paolo Gasti

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I am a research scholar at the Information and Computer Sciences department of University of California, Irvine.

My research focuses on applied cryptography and network security.

I am currently working on the Named Data Networking project, founded by NSF, as part of the SPROUT group at UC Irvine



Grants and Scholarships

NSF grant CNS-1040802, December 2010 - Present
Fulbright Scholarship, October 2007 to October 2008
Cini Research Grant, 2006

Selected Publications

ANDaNA: Anonymous Named Data Networking Application
(with Steven DiBenedetto, Gene Tsudik and Ersin Uzun)
19th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2012), 2012

Countering GATTACA: Efficient and Secure Testing of Fully-Sequenced Human Genomes
(with Pierre Baldi, Roberta Baronio, Emiliano De Cristofaro and Gene Tsudik)
18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2011), 2011

Secure and Efficient Protocols for Iris and Fingerprint Identification
(with Marina Blanton)
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2011), 2011

On Re-use of Randomness in Broadcast Encryption
(with Alessio Merlo)
Ninth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2011), 2011.

A New Approach to Securing Audio Conference Tools
(with Zhenkai Zhu, Yanbin Lu, Jeffrey Burke, Van Jacobson and Lixia Zhang)
Asia Workshop on Future Internet Technologies (AWFIT2011), 2011.

Deniable Cloud Storage: Sharing Files via Public-key Deniability
(with Giuseppe Ateniese and Marina Blanton)
Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (CCS WPES 2010), 2010.

On the Integrity of Network Coding-based Anonymous P2P File Sharing Networks
(with Alessio Merlo, Giuseppe Ciaccio and Giovanni Chiola)
The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA 2010), 2010.

Breaking and Fixing the Self Encryption Scheme for Data Security in Mobile Devices
(with Yu Chen)
2010 18th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2010), 2010.

Resource Management with X.509 Inter-domain Authorization Certificates (InterAC)
(with Vishwas Patil, Luigi V Mancini and Giovanni Chiola)
The 2009 European PKI Workshop (EuroPKI'09), 2009.

Universally Anonymous IBE based on the Quadratic Residuosity Assumption
(with Giuseppe Ateniese).
RSA Conference 2009, Cryptographers' Track (CT-RSA '09), 2009.

StemCerts-2: Pairs of X.509 v3 Certificates for Greater Security, Flexibility and Convenience
(with Giovanni Chiola)
6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, 2009.

Dynamic Inter-domain Authorizations via X.509, source code
(with Giovanni Chiola, Luigi V. Mancini and Vishwas Patil)
Technical Report, 2007

StemCerts: customizable X.509 v3 certificates for higher security, flexibility, and convenience
(with Giovanni Chiola)
Prise, Workshop Italiano su Privacy e Security, 2006.


Invited Talks


Program Committee