Virgil D. Gligor

Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
University of Maryland at College Park

Education

• B.Sc ('72),  M.Sc. ('73), Ph.D ('76),  University of California, Berkeley

Teaching

• Security in Distributed Systems and Networks ENEE757

Research Interests

• Network and Distributed Systems Security
• Distributed systems

Recent Research

• Security of Emergent Properties in Ad-Hoc Networks (.ps) (.pdf) (Proc. of the Security Protocols Workshop, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK, April, 2004. To appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2005.)

• Guaranteeing Access in Spite of Service-Flooding Attacks (.ps) (.pdf) (Proc. of the Security Protocols Workshop, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK, April 2-4, 2003. To appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2004.)

• A Key-Management Scheme for Distributed Sensor Networks (.ps) (Proc. of the 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Washington D.C., November 2002.)

• Bootstrapping Security Associations for Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (.ps) Institute for Systems Research, ISR Technical Report 2002-44, May 2002.(also available at http://bellatrix.isr.umd.edu/TechReports/ISR/2002/TR_2002-44/TR_2002-44.pdf)

• On Trust Establishment in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (.ps) (Proc. of the Security Protocols Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 2002. To appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2003.)

• Reasoning about Joint Administration of Access Policies for Coalition Resources (.pdf) (Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. On Distr. Computing (ICDCS), pp. 429, Vienna, Austria, July 2002)

• On Message Integrity in Symmetric Encryption (.ps) (unpublished manuscript) February 2002.

• A Note on NSA's Dual Counter Mode of Encryption (.ps) (.pdf)
  Specification of Dual Counter Mode (.pdf)
  and NSA's response (.html)         

• On Message Integrity in Symmetric Encryption (.ps) (Presented at the NIST Workshop on AES Modes of Operation, Baltimore, Maryland, October 20, 2000)

• Fast Encryption and Authentication: XCBC Encryption and XECB Authentication Modes (.ps) (Presented at the 2nd NIST Workshop on AES Modes of Operation, Santa Barbara, CA, August 24, 2001)

• On the Negotiation of Access Control Policies (.ps) (Proc. of the Security Protocols Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2002.)

• Enforcing Dependencies between PKI Certificates in ad-hoc Networks, (.ps)  (IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications, Bucharest, Romania, June 2001, pp. 293-298.)

• Review and Revocation of Access Privileges Distributed with PKI Certificates (.ps)  (Proc. of the Security Protocols Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 2000, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2133, Springer-Verlag, 2001.)

•  Application-Oriented Security Policies and their Composition (.ps) (Proc. of the Security Protocols Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 1998, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol 1550, Springer-Verlag 1999)
   
•  On the Formal Definition of Separation of Duty Policies and their Composition (.ps) (Proc. of the 1998 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Berkeley, CA. May 1998.)

Recent Projects

• PROJECTS: DARPA IA&S - Dynamic Coalition Management

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Mailing Address:

Virgil D. Gligor

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

Phone: (301) 405-3647

gligor@eng.umd.edu

http://www.ee.umd.edu/~gligor

            

Last Update 16 July 2003