Nikita Borisov

Post-doctoral, Former

• Kazuhiro Minami 2007–2010
  co-advised with Marianne Winslett
  Details

  Placement

  National Institute of Informatics, Japan (Associate Professor) → Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Associate Professor)

• Shishir Nagaraja 2008–2010
  Details

  Placement

  Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi → University of Birmingham (Lecturer)

Ph.D., Graduated

• Prateek Mittal 2006–2012
  Details

  M.S. Thesis

  A Security Evaluation of the Salsa Anonymous Communication System (May 2010)

  Ph.D. Thesis

  Trustworthy and scalable anonymous communication (May 2012)

  Placement

  University of California, Berkeley (Post-doctoral Researcher) → Princeton University (Assistant Professor)

• Amir Houmansadr 2006–2012
  Details

  Ph.D. Thesis

  Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Effective Network Flow Watermarking Schemes (June 2012)

  Placement

  University of Texas at Austin (Post-doctoral Researcher) → University of Massachussetts Amherst (Assistant Professor)

• Robin Snader 2007–2009
  Details

  Ph.D. Thesis

  Path Selection for Performance- and Security-Improved Onion Routing (September 2009)

  Placement

  Shook, Hardy, & Bacon, L.L.P.

• Nabíl Schear 2007–2011
  Details

  Ph.D. Thesis

  Preventing Encrypted Traffic Analysis (April 2011)

  Placement

  Los Alamos National Laboratory → MIT Lincoln Lab

• Joshua Juen 2009–2015
  Details

  M.S. Thesis

  Protecting Anonymity in the Presence of Autonomous System and Internet Exchange Level Adversaries (June 2012)

  Ph.D. Thesis

  Maintaining privacy during continuous motion sensing (August 2015)

  Placement

  Yahoo!

• Qiyan Wang 2010–2013
  Details

  Ph.D. Thesis

  Robust Censorship-Resistant Communication (July 2013)

  Placement

  Symantec Research Labs (Principal Research Engineer)

• Sonia Jahid 2010–2013
  co-advised with Carl Gunter
  Details

  Ph.D. Thesis

  Social networking: security, privacy, and applications (August 2013)

  Placement

  VMWare

• Giang Nguyen 2010–2017
  Details

  Ph.D. Thesis

  Performance and security tradeoffs of provable website traffic fingerprinting defenses over Tor (August 2017)

  Placement

  Dropbox

• Anupam Das April 2011–July 2016
  Details

  Placement

  Carnegie Mellon University (Post-Doctoral Researcher) → North Carolina State University (Assistant Professor)

• Hussein Darir 2020–2023
  Details

  Ph.D. Thesis

  Optimization of Load Balancing in Anonymous Dynamical Networks with Application to Tor (2023)

  Placement

  Ford

Ph.D., Current

• Dylen Greenenwald 2025–

M.S., Current

• Vaibhav Mattoo 2026–

Books Edited

• Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 7th International Symposium, PET 2007 Ottawa, Canada, June 20–22, 2007 Revised Selected Papers
  Nikita Borisov and Philippe Golle, editors
  Springer, 2007 DOI
  Details

  Publisher

  Springer

  Series

  Volume 4776 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  DOI

  10.1007/978-3-540-75551-7

• Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 8th International Symposium, PETS 2008 Leuven, Belgium, July 23–25, 2008 Proceedings
  Nikita Borisov and Ian Goldberg, editors
  Springer, 2008 DOI
  Details

  Publisher

  Springer

  Series

  Volume 5134 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  DOI

  10.1007/978-3-540-70630-4

• Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society
  Ting Yu and Nikita Borisov, editors
  Association for Computing Machinery, October 15, 2012
  Details

  Publisher

  Association for Computing Machinery

  ISBN

  978-1-4503-1663-71

Book Chapters

• Challenges in Wireless Security: A Case Study of 802.11
  Nikita Borisov
  Mobile Computing Handbook, 2004
  Details

  In

  Chapter 38 of Mohammad Ilyas and Imad Mahgoub, editors, Mobile Computing Handbook

  Publisher

  CRC Press, December 2004

  Pages

  pp. 923–939

  ISBN

  978-0-8493-1971-6

• WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) Security
  Nikita Borisov
  Handbook of Information Security, 2006
  Details

  In

  In Hossein Bidgoli, editor, Handbook of Information Security

  Publisher

  Wiley, January 2006

  ISBN

  978-0-471-64833-8

• Byzantine Attacks on Anonymity Systems
  Nikita Borisov, George Danezis, and Parisa Tabriz
  Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices, 2007
  Details

  In

  Chapter 4 of Alessandro Acquisti, Stefanos Gritzalis, Costos Lambrinoudakis, and Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, editors, Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices

  Publisher

  Auerbach Press, December 2007

  Pages

  pp. 73–95

  ISBN

  978-1-4200-5217-6

Journal Publications

• The Ninja Architecture for Robust Internet-Scale Systems and Services
  Steven D. Gribble, Matt Welsh, J. Robert von Behren, Eric A. Brewer, David Culler, Nikita Borisov, Steven Czerwinski, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Jason Hill, Anthony Joseph, Randy H. Katz, Z. Morley Mao, Steven Ross, and Ben Y. Zhao
  Computer Networks vol. 35 no. 4, March 2001 PDFDOI
  Awarded Best Paper for 2001
  Details

  Journal

  The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking vol. 35 no. 4

  Pages

  pp. 473–497

  DOI

  10.1016/S1389-1286(00)00179-1

• Attacking and Repairing the Improved ModOnions Protocol-Tagging Approach
  Nikita Borisov, Marek Klonowski, Mirosław Kutyłowski, and Anna Lauks-Dutka
  TIIS vol. 4 no. 3, June 2010 PDFDOI
  Details

  Journal

  KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems vol. 4 no. 3

  Pages

  pp. 380–399

  DOI

  10.3837/tiis.2010.06.011

• Improving Security and Performance in the Tor Network through Tunable Path Selection
  Robin Snader and Nikita Borisov
  TDSC vol. 8 no. 5, September–October 2011 PDFDOI
  Details

  Journal

  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing vol. 8 no. 5

  Pages

  pp. 728–740

  DOI

  10.1109/TDSC.2010.40

• Information Leaks in Structured Peer-to-Peer Anonymous Communication Systems invited paper
  Prateek Mittal and Nikita Borisov
  TISSEC vol. 15 no. 1, March 2012 DOI
  Details

  Journal

  ACM Transactions on Information and System Security vol. 15 no. 1

  Pages

  pp. 5:1–5:28

  DOI

  10.1145/2133375.2133380

• BotMosaic: Collaborative network watermark for the detection of IRC-based botnets
  Amir Houmansadr and Nikita Borisov
  JSS vol. 86 no. 3, March 2013 PaperDOI
  Details

  Journal

  Journal of Systems and Software vol. 86 no. 3

  Pages

  pp. 707–715

  DOI

  10.1016/j.jss.2012.11.005

• Secloud: A cloud-based comprehensive and lightweight security solution for smartphones
  Saman Zonouz, Amir Houmansadr, Robin Berthier, Nikita Borisov, and William H. Sanders
  Computers & Security vol. 37, September 2013 DOI
  Details

  Journal

  Computers & Security vol. 37

  Pages

  pp. 215–227

  DOI

  10.1016/j.cose.2013.02.002

• Non-blind watermarking of network flows
  Amir Houmansadr, Negar Kiyavash, and Nikita Borisov
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking vol. 22 no. 4, 2014 PaperDOI
  Details

  Journal

  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking vol. 22 no. 4

  Pages

  pp. 1232–1244

  DOI

  10.1109/TNET.2013.2272740

• SWEET: Serving the Web by Exploiting Email Tunnels
  Wenxuan Zhou, Amir Houmansadr, Matthew Caesar, and Nikita Borisov
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking vol. 25 no. 3, 2017 PDFDOI
  Details

  Journal

  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking vol. 25 no. 3

  Pages

  pp. 1517–1527

  DOI

  10.1109/TNET.2016.2640238

Conference and Workshop Publications

1. Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11
   Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, and David A. Wagner
   MOBICOM 2001 PDFDOI
   Details

   In

   Mahmoud Naghshineh and Michele Zorzi, editors, Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), Rome, Italy, July 16–21, 2001

   Pages

   pp. 180–189

   DOI

   10.1145/381677.381695

   Acceptance rate

   10% (30/281)

   Press

   • Jared Sandberg. Hackers Can Penetrate Wireless Network, Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2001
   • Jared Sandberg. Hackers poised to land at wireless AirPort, ZDNet, February 5, 2001
   • Wireless networks leave holes for hackers, CNET News, February 5, 2001
   • Stephanie Green. Study Finds Security Flaws In WEP Algorithm, CRN, February 16, 2001
   • Stephen H. Wildstrom. Easy Eavesdropping on Wireless Networks, BusinessWeek, February 27, 2001

2. Multiplicative Differentials
   Nikita Borisov, Monica Chew, Rob Johnson, and David A. Wagner
   FSE 2002 PDFDOI
   Details

   In

   Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, editors, Proceedings of the 9th Fast Software Encryption Workshop (FSE), Leuven, Belgium, February 4–6, 2002

   Pages

   pp. 17–33

   Series

   Volume 2365 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

   DOI

   10.1007/3-540-45661-9_2

   Acceptance rate

   30% (21/70)

3. Active Certificates: A Framework for Delegation
   Nikita Borisov and Eric A. Brewer
   NDSS 2002 PDF
   Details

   In

   Paul C. van Oorschot and Virgil Gligor, editors, Proceedings of the 9th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 6–8, 2002

   Pages

   pp. 155–165

   ISBN

   1-891562-14-2, 1-891562-13-4

   Acceptance rate

   20% (16/79)

4. Ninja: A Framework for Network Services
   J. Robert von Behren, Eric A. Brewer, Nikita Borisov, Mike Y. Chen, Matt Welsh, Josh MacDonald, Jeremy Lau, Steven D. Gribble, and David Culler
   USENIX ATC 2002 PDF
   Details

   In

   Carla Schlatter Ellis, editor, Proceedings of the USENIX Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), June 10–15, 2002

   Pages

   pp. 87–102

   ISBN

   1-880446-00-6

   Acceptance rate

   23% (25/105)

5. Off-the-Record Communications, or, Why Not To use PGP
   Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, and Eric A. Brewer
   WPES 2004 PDFDOI
   Details

   Errata

   The key exchange protocol described here is insecure, see [Di Raimondo et al., WPES'05] for details. Version 2 of the OTR protocol fixes the flaw.

   In

   Paul Syverson and Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society (WPES), Washington, DC, USA, October 28, 2004

   Pages

   pp. 77–84

   DOI

   10.1145/1029179.1029200

   Acceptance rate

   22% (10/45)

   Press

   • Robert Lemos. Making your IM secure—and deniable, CNET News, February 14, 2005
   • Jom Barger. Paradigms for Paranoids, The Register, February 14, 2005
   • Danny O'Brien. Careless emailing will cost you your privacy, The Irish Times, February 18, 2005
   • Chris Soghoian. Secure instant messaging for the masses, CNET News, October 19, 2007

6. Privacy-Preserving Friends Troubleshooting Network
   Qiang Huang, Helen J. Wang, and Nikita Borisov
   NDSS 2005 PDF
   Details

   In

   Dan Boneh and Dan Simon, editors, Proceedings of the 12th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 3–4, 2005

   ISBN

   1-891562-20-7, 1-891562-19-3

   Acceptance rate

   12% (16/124)

7. An Analysis of Parallel Mixing with Attacker-controlled Inputs
   Nikita Borisov
   PET 2005 PDFDOI
   Details

   In

   George Danezis and David Martin, editors, Proceedings of the 5th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET), Dubrovnik (Cavtat), Croatia, May 30–June 1, 2005

   Pages

   pp. 12–25

   Series

   Volume 3856 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

   DOI

   10.1007/11767831_2

   Acceptance rate

   24% (18/73)

8. Fixing Races for Fun and Profit: How to abuse atime
   Nikita Borisov, Rob Johnson, Naveen Sastry, and David A. Wagner
   USENIX Security 2005 PDF
   Details

   In

   Patrick McDaniel, editor, Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Security Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, July 31–August 5, 2005

   ISBN

   1-9319-7134-X

   Acceptance rate

   14% (22/148)

9. Breaking the Collusion Detection Mechanism of MorphMix
   Parisa Tabriz and Nikita Borisov
   PET 2006 PDFDOI
   Details

   In

   George Danezis and Philippe Golle, editors, Proceedings of the 6th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET), Cambridge, UK, June 28–30, 2006

   Pages

   pp. 368–383

   Series

   Volume 4258 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

   DOI

   10.1007/11957454_21

   Acceptance rate

   26% (24/91)

10. Outsourcing Security Analysis with Anonymized Logs
    Jianqing Zhang, Nikita Borisov, and William Yurcik
    SECOVAL 2006 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Brajendra Panda, Richard Anthony, Stephen Marsh, and Jean-Marc Seigneur, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on the Value of Security through Collaboration (SECOVAL), Baltimore, MD, USA, September 1, 2006

    DOI

    10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359577

11. Computational Puzzles as Sybil Defenses
    Nikita Borisov
    IEEE P2P 2006 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Alberto Montresor, Adam Wierzbicki, and Nahid Shahmehri, editors, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (IEEE P2P), Cambridge, UK, October 2–4, 2006

    Pages

    pp. 171–176

    DOI

    10.1109/P2P.2006.10

    Acceptance rate

    21% (29/134)

12. A Privacy-Preserving Interdomain Audit Framework
    Adam J. Lee, Parisa Tabriz, and Nikita Borisov
    WPES 2006 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Roger Dingledine and Ting Yu, editors, Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society (WPES), Alexandria, VA, USA, October 30, 2006

    Pages

    pp. 98–108

    DOI

    10.1145/1179601.1179620

    Acceptance rate

    23% (9/39)

13. Generic Application-Level Protocol Analyzer and its Language
    Nikita Borisov, David Brumley, Helen J. Wang, John Dunagan, Pallavi Joshi, and Chuanxiong Guo
    NDSS 2007 PDF
    Details

    In

    William Arbaugh and Crispin Cowan, editors, Proceedings of the 14th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 28–March 2, 2007

    Acceptance rate

    15% (18/118)

14. Examining Users' Attitude towards Privacy Preserving Collaborative Filtering
    Shlomo Berkovsky, Nikita Borisov, Yaniv Eytani, Tsvi Kuflik, and Francesco Ricci
    K-DUUM 2007
    Details

    In

    Bettina Berendt, Alexander Kröner, Ernestina Menasalvas, and Stephan Weibelzahl, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery for User Modeling (K-DUUM), Corfu, Greece, June 25, 2007

    Pages

    pp. 28–34

15. Denial of Service or Denial of Security? How Attacks on Reliability can Compromise Anonymity
    Nikita Borisov, George Danezis, Prateek Mittal, and Parisa Tabriz
    CCS 2007 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati and Paul Syverson, editors, Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Alexandria, VA, USA, October 28–31, 2007

    Pages

    pp. 92–102

    DOI

    10.1145/1315245.1315258

    Acceptance rate

    18% (55/303)

16. Single-bit Re-encryption
    Nikita Borisov and Kazuhiro Minami
    WPES 2007 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Ting Yu, editor, Proceedings of the 6th ACM Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society (WPES), Alexandria, VA, USA, October 29, 2007

    Pages

    pp. 48–55

    DOI

    10.1145/1314333.1314341

    Acceptance rate

    18% (9/48)

17. Improving Multi-Tier Security Using Redundant Authentication
    Jodie Boyer, Lars E. Olson, Ragib Hasan, Nikita Borisov, Carl Gunter, and David Raila
    CSAW 2007 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Ravi Sandhu and Jon A. Solworth, editors, Proceedings of the 1st ACM Computer Security Architecture Workshop (CSAW), Fairfax, VA, USA, November 2, 2007

    Pages

    pp. 54–62

    DOI

    10.1145/1314466.1314475

    Acceptance rate

    30% (9/30)

18. A Tune-up for Tor: Improving Security and Performance in the Tor Network
    Robin Snader and Nikita Borisov
    NDSS 2008 PDF
    Details

    Errata

    Our router selection method, described in Section 3.2, actually uses a distribution with CDF f_s^-1, and not f_s, as stated.

    In

    Crispin Cowan and Giovanni Vigna, editors, Proceedings of the 15th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 8–11, 2008

    Acceptance rate

    18% (21/115)

19. Deleting Index Entries from Compliance Storage
    Soumyadeb Mitra, Marianne Winslett, and Nikita Borisov
    EDBT 2008 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Alfons Kemper, Patrick Valduriez, Noureddine Mouaddib, Jens Teubner, Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Volker Markl, Laurent Amsaleg, and Ioana Manolsecu, editors, Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Nantes, France, March 25–30, 2008

    Pages

    pp. 109–120

    Series

    Volume 261 of ACM International Conference Proceedings Series

    DOI

    10.1145/1353343.1353361

20. Restricted Queries over an Encrypted Index with Applications to Regulatory Compliance
    Nikita Borisov and Soumyadeb Mitra
    ACNS 2008 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Rosario Gennaro and Steven Bellovin, editors, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), New York, NY, USA, June 3–6, 2008

    Pages

    pp. 373–391

    Series

    Volume 5037 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

    DOI

    10.1007/978-3-540-68914-0_23

    Acceptance rate

    22% (30/131)

21. Multi-flow Attacks Against Network Flow Watermarking Schemes
    Negar Kiyavash, Amir Houmansadr, and Nikita Borisov
    USENIX Security 2008 PDF
    Details

    In

    Paul C. van Oorschot, editor, Proceedings of the 17th USENIX Security Symposium, San Jose, CA, July 28–August 1, 2008

    Pages

    pp. 307–320

    ISBN

    978-1-931971-60-7

    Acceptance rate

    15% (27/170)

22. High-speed Matching of Vulnerability Signatures
    Nabíl Schear, David R. Albrecht, and Nikita Borisov
    RAID 2008 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Richard Lippmann, Engin Kirda, and Ari Trachtenberg, editors, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), Cambridge, MA, USA, September 15–17, 2008

    Pages

    pp. 155–174

    Series

    Volume 5230 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

    DOI

    10.1007/978-3-540-87403-4_9

    Acceptance rate

    25% (20/80)

23. flyByNight: Mitigating the Privacy Risks of Social Networking
    Matthew M. Lucas and Nikita Borisov
    WPES 2008 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Marianne Winslett, editor, Proceedings of the 7th ACM Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society (WPES), Alexandria, VA, USA, October 27, 2008

    Pages

    pp. 1–8

    DOI

    10.1145/1456403.1456405

    Acceptance rate

    21% (9/42)

24. Secure Aggregation in a Publish-Subscribe System
    Kazuhiro Minami, Adam J. Lee, Marianne Winslett, and Nikita Borisov
    WPES 2008 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Marianne Winslett, editor, Proceedings of the 7th ACM Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society (WPES), Alexandria, VA, USA, October 27, 2008

    Pages

    pp. 95–104

    DOI

    10.1145/1456403.1456419

    Acceptance rate

    21% (9/42)

25. Information Leaks in Structured Peer-to-peer Anonymous Communication Systems
    Prateek Mittal and Nikita Borisov
    CCS 2008 PDFDOI
    Selected Outstanding Paper, invited to ACM TISSEC special issue
    Details

    In

    Paul Syverson and Somesh Jha, editors, Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Alexandria, VA, USA, October 27–31, 2008

    Pages

    pp. 267–278

    DOI

    10.1145/1455770.1455805

    Acceptance rate

    18% (51/281)

26. RAINBOW: A Robust And Invisible Non-Blind Watermark for Network Flows
    Amir Houmansadr, Negar Kiyavash, and Nikita Borisov
    NDSS 2009 PDF
    Details

    In

    Giovanni Vigna, editor, Proceedings of the 16th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 8–11, 2009

    Pages

    pp. 223–235

    Acceptance rate

    11% (20/170)

27. Confidentiality-Preserving Distributed Proofs of Conjunctive Queries
    Adam J. Lee, Kazuhiro Minami, and Nikita Borisov
    ASIACCS 2009 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Rei Safavi-Naini and Vijay Varadharajan, editors, Proceedings of the 4th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Sydney, NSW, Australia, March 10–12, 2009

    Pages

    pp. 287–297

    DOI

    10.1145/1533057.1533096

    Acceptance rate

    22% (33/147)

28. Multi-Flow Attack Resistant Watermarks for Network Flows
    Amir Houmansadr, Negar Kiyavash, and Nikita Borisov
    ICASSP 2009 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 19–24, 2009

    Pages

    pp. 1497–1500

    DOI

    10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4959879

    Acceptance rate

    44% (1178/2633)

29. EigenSpeed: Secure Peer-to-peer Bandwidth Evaluation
    Robin Snader and Nikita Borisov
    IPTPS 2009 PDF
    Details

    In

    Rodrigo Rodrigues and Keith Ross, editors, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), Boston, MA, USA, April 21, 2009

    Acceptance rate

    20% (12/59)

30. Safety in Discretionary Access Control for Logic-based Publish-subscribe Systems
    Kazuhiro Minami, Nikita Borisov, and Carl Gunter
    SACMAT 2009 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    James Joshi, editor, Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Stresa, Italy, June 3–5, 2009

    Pages

    pp. 3–12

    DOI

    10.1145/1542207.1542211

    Acceptance rate

    32% (25/76)

31. ShadowWalker: Peer-to-peer Anonymous Communication using Redundant Structured Topologies
    Prateek Mittal and Nikita Borisov
    CCS 2009 PDFDOI
    Details

    Errata

    The routing table maintenance algorithm in this paper is vulnerable to an eclipse attack; see [Schuchard et al., WPES'10] for a detailed analysis and suggested fixes.

    In

    Somesh Jha and Angelos D. Keromytis, editors, Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, IL, USA, November 9–13, 2009

    Pages

    pp. 161–172

    DOI

    10.1145/1653662.1653683

    Acceptance rate

    18% (58/315)

32. Attacking and Repairing the Improved ModOnions Protocol
    Nikita Borisov, Marek Klonowski, Mirosław Kutyłowski, and Anna Lauks-Dutka
    ICISC 2009 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Donghoon Lee and Seokhie Hong, editors, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC), Seoul, Korea, December 2–4, 2009

    Pages

    pp. 258–273

    Series

    Volume 5984 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

    DOI

    10.1007/978-3-642-14423-3_18

33. A Low-Cost Side Channel Traffic Analysis Attack in Packet Networks
    Sachin Kadloor, Xun Gong, Negar Kiyavash, Tolga Tezcan, and Nikita Borisov
    ICC 2010 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Chengshan Xiao and Jan C. Olivier, editors, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa, May 23–27, 2010

    DOI

    10.1109/ICC.2010.5501972

34. Scalable Anonymous Communication with Provable Security
    Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, Carmela Troncoso, and Alfredo Rial
    HotSec 2010 PDF
    Details

    In

    Wietse Venema, editor, Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), Washington, DC, USA, August 10, 2010

    Acceptance rate

    19% (11/57)

35. BotGrep: Finding P2P Bots with Structured Graph Analysis
    Shishir Nagaraja, Prateek Mittal, Chi-Yao Hong, Matthew Caesar, and Nikita Borisov
    USENIX Security 2010 PDF
    Details

    In

    Ian Goldberg, editor, Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Security Symposium, Washington, DC, USA, August 11–13, 2010

    Pages

    pp. 95–110

    ISBN

    978-1-931971-77-5

    Acceptance rate

    14% (30/202)

    Press

    • Michael Cooney. Researchers unsheathe new tool to battle botnets, Network World / Layer 8, July 12, 2010
    • George Lawton. New Weapon in War on Botnets, Computing Now, October 2010

36. In Search of an Anonymous and Secure Lookup
    Qiyan Wang, Prateek Mittal, and Nikita Borisov
    CCS 2010 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Ehab Al-Shaer, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Vitaly Shmatikov, editors, Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, IL, USA, October 4–8, 2010

    Pages

    pp. 308–318

    DOI

    10.1145/1866307.1866343

    Acceptance rate

    17% (55/320)

37. Protecting Location Privacy against Inference Attacks short paper
    Kazuhiro Minami and Nikita Borisov
    WPES 2010 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Keith Frikken, editor, Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society (WPES), Chicago, IL, USA, October 4, 2010

    Pages

    pp. 123–126

    DOI

    10.1145/1866919.1866938

38. SWIRL: A Scalable Watermark to Detect Correlated Network Flows
    Amir Houmansadr and Nikita Borisov
    NDSS 2011 PDF
    Details

    In

    Adrian Perrig, editor, Proceedings of the 18th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 6–9, 2011

    Pages

    pp. 389–403

    Acceptance rate

    20% (28/139)

39. EASiER: Encryption-based Access Control in Social Networks with Efficient Revocation short paper
    Sonia Jahid, Prateek Mittal, and Nikita Borisov
    ASIACCS 2011 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Bruce Cheung, Lucas Chi Kwong Hui, Ravi Sandhu, and Duncan S. Wong, editors, Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Hong Kong, China, March 22–24, 2011

    Pages

    pp. 411–415

    DOI

    10.1145/1966913.1966970

40. Confidentiality-preserving Proof Theories for Distributed Proof Systems
    Kazuhiro Minami, Nikita Borisov, Marianne Winslett, and Adam J. Lee
    ASIACCS 2011 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Bruce Cheung, Lucas Chi Kwong Hui, Ravi Sandhu, and Duncan S. Wong, editors, Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Hong Kong, China, March 22–24, 2011

    Pages

    pp. 145–154

    DOI

    10.1145/1966913.1966933

    Acceptance rate

    16% (35/217)

41. Stegobot: A Covert Social Network Botnet
    Shishir Nagaraja, Amir Houmansadr, Pragya Agarwal, Vijit Kumar, Pratch Piyawongwisal, and Nikita Borisov
    IH 2011 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Tomáš Filler, Tomáš Pevný, Scott Craver, and Andrew D. Ker, editors, Proceedings of the 13th Information Hiding Conference (IH), Prague, Czech Republic, May 18–20, 2011

    Pages

    pp. 299–313

    Series

    Volume 6958 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

    DOI

    10.1007/978-3-642-24178-9_21

    Acceptance rate

    32% (22/68)

    Press

    • Jacob Aron. Stegobot can steal passwords from your Facebook photos, New Scientist, July 20, 2011
    • Matt Liebowitz. 'Stegobot' Steals Passwords, Credit Card Data from Facebook Pics, SecurityNewsDaily, July 29, 2011
    • Kul Bhushan. 'Stegobot' sneaks into your computer through Facebook images, ThinkDigit, August 2, 2011
    • Dan Nowacinski. Stegobot steals passwords from Facebook pics, Examiner.com, August 7, 2011

42. Coco: Coding-Based Covert Timing Channels for Network Flows
    Amir Houmansadr and Nikita Borisov
    IH 2011 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Tomáš Filler, Tomáš Pevný, Scott Craver, and Andrew D. Ker, editors, Proceedings of the 13th Information Hiding Conference (IH), Prague, Czech Republic, May 18–20, 2011

    Pages

    pp. 314–328

    Series

    Volume 6958 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

    DOI

    10.1007/978-3-642-24178-9_22

    Acceptance rate

    32% (22/68)

43. Towards Improving Network Flow Watermarks Using the Repeat-Accumulate Codes
    Amir Houmansadr and Nikita Borisov
    ICASSP 2011 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Alle-Jan van der Veen and Jonathon Chambers, editors, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 22–27, 2011

    Pages

    pp. 1852–1855

    DOI

    10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946866

44. P3CA: Private Anomaly Detection Across ISP Networks
    Virajith Jalaparti, Shishir Nagaraja, Matthew Caesar, and Nikita Borisov
    PETS 2011 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Simone Fischer-Hübner and Nicholas Hopper, editors, Proceedings of the 11th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Waterloo, ON, Canada, July 27–29, 2011

    Pages

    pp. 38–56

    Series

    Volume 6794 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

    DOI

    10.1007/978-3-642-22263-4_3

    Acceptance rate

    24% (15/61)

45. PIR-Tor: Scalable Anonymous Communication Using Private Information Retrieval
    Prateek Mittal, Femi Olumofin, Carmela Troncoso, Nikita Borisov, and Ian Goldberg
    USENIX Security 2011 PDF
    Details

    In

    David A. Wagner, editor, Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Security Symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 10–12, 2011

    Acceptance rate

    17% (35/204)

46. Cirripede: Circumvention Infrastructure using Router Redirection with Plausible Deniability
    Amir Houmansadr, Giang Nguyen, Matthew Caesar, and Nikita Borisov
    CCS 2011 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    George Danezis and Vitaly Shmatikov, editors, Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, IL, USA, October 17–21, 2011

    Pages

    pp. 187–200

    DOI

    10.1145/2046707.2046730

    Acceptance rate

    13% (60/429)

47. Stealthy Traffic Analysis of Low-Latency Anonymous Communication Using Throughput Fingerprinting
    Prateek Mittal, Ahmed Khurshid, Joshua Juen, Matthew Caesar, and Nikita Borisov
    CCS 2011 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    George Danezis and Vitaly Shmatikov, editors, Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, IL, USA, October 17–21, 2011

    Pages

    pp. 215–226

    DOI

    10.1145/2046707.2046732

    Acceptance rate

    13% (60/429)

48. X-Vine: Secure and Pseudonymous Routing Using Social Networks
    Prateek Mittal, Matthew Caesar, and Nikita Borisov
    NDSS 2012 PDF
    Details

    In

    Radu Sion, editor, Proceedings of the 19th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 6–8, 2012

    Acceptance rate

    18% (48/258)

49. DECENT: A Decentralized Architecture for Enforcing Privacy in Online Social Networks
    Sonia Jahid, Shirin Nilizadeh, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, and Apu Kapadia
    SESOC 2012 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Melek Önen and Thorsten Strufe, editors, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Security and Social Networking (SESOC), Lugano, Switzerland, March 19, 2012

    Pages

    pp. 326–332

    DOI

    10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197504

    Acceptance rate

    29% (9/31)

50. Octopus: A Secure and Anonymous DHT Lookup
    Qiyan Wang and Nikita Borisov
    ICDCS 2012 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Xavier Defago and Wang-Chien Lee, editors, Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Macau, China, June 18–21, 2012

    Pages

    pp. 325–334

    DOI

    10.1109/ICDCS.2012.78

    Acceptance rate

    13% (71/515)

51. Website Detection Using Remote Traffic Analysis
    Xun Gong, Negar Kiyavash, Nabíl Schear, and Nikita Borisov
    PETS 2012 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Simone Fischer-Hübner and Matthew Wright, editors, Proceedings of the 12th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Vigo, Spain, July 11–13, 2012

    Pages

    pp. 58–78

    Series

    Volume 7384 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

    DOI

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31680-7_4

    Acceptance rate

    22% (16/72)

52. SybilControl: Practical Sybil Defense with Computational Puzzles
    Frank Li, Prateek Mittal, Matthew Caesar, and Nikita Borisov
    STC 2012 PDF
    Details

    In

    Xinwen Zhang and Xuhua Ding, editors, Proceedings of the 7th ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (STC), Raleign, NC, USA, October 15, 2012

53. CensorSpoofer: Asymmetric Communication using IP Spoofing for Censorship-Resistant Web Browsing
    Qiyan Wang, Xun Gong, Giang Nguyen, Amir Houmansadr, and Nikita Borisov
    CCS 2012 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    George Danezis and Virgil Gligor, editors, Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Raleigh, NC, USA, October 16–18, 2012

    Pages

    pp. 121–132

    DOI

    10.1145/2382196.2382212

    Acceptance rate

    18% (80/423)

54. Cachet: A Decentralized Architecture for Privacy Preserving Social Networking with Caching
    Shirin Nilizadeh, Sonia Jahid, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, and Apu Kapadia
    CoNEXT 2012 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    K. K. Ramakrishnan and Patrick Thiran, editors, Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Nice, France, December 10–13, 2012

    Pages

    pp. 347–348

    DOI

    10.1145/2413176.2413215

    Acceptance rate

    17% (31/177)

55. rBridge: User Reputation based Tor Bridge Distribution with Privacy Preservation
    Qiyan Wang, Zi Lin, Nikita Borisov, and Nicholas Hopper
    NDSS 2013 PDF
    Details

    In

    Peng Ning, editor, Proceedings of the 20th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 24–27, 2013

    Acceptance rate

    18% (47/250)

56. I want my voice to be heard: IP over Voice-over-IP for unobservable censorship circumvention
    Amir Houmansadr, Thomas Riedl, Nikita Borisov, and Andrew C. Singer
    NDSS 2013 PDF
    Details

    In

    Peng Ning, editor, Proceedings of the 20th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 24–27, 2013

    Acceptance rate

    18% (47/250)

57. Pisces: Anonymous Communication Using Social Networks
    Prateek Mittal, Matthew Wright, and Nikita Borisov
    NDSS 2013 PDF
    Details

    In

    Peng Ning, editor, Proceedings of the 20th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 24–27, 2013

    Acceptance rate

    18% (47/250)

58. Securing Anonymous Communication Channels under the Selective DoS Attack short paper
    Anupam Das and Nikita Borisov
    FC 2013 PDF
    Details

    In

    Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, editor, Proceedings of the 17th International Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference (FC), April 1–5, 2013

59. The Need for Flow Fingerprints to Link Correlated Network Flows
    Amir Houmansadr and Nikita Borisov
    PETS 2013 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Matthew Wright and Emiliano de Cristofaro, editors, Proceedings of the 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Bloomington, IN, USA, July 10–12, 2013

    Pages

    pp. 205–224

    Series

    Volume 7981 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

    DOI

    10.1007/978-3-642-39077-7_11

    Acceptance rate

    18% (13/69)

60. The Tangled Web of Password Reuse
    Anupam Das, Joseph Bonneau, Matthew Caesar, Nikita Borisov, and XiaoFeng Wang
    NDSS 2014 PDF
    Details

    In

    Lujo Bauer, editor, Proceedings of the 21st ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 23–26, 2014

    Acceptance rate

    18% (55/295)

    Press

    • Liam Tung. If you think just because you use different passwords for different services you're safe, think again, ZDNet, December 18, 2013
    • Sean Captain. Three Real Online Dangers You Need To Worry About, Fast Company, July 22, 2015

61. Analyzing an Adaptive Reputation Metric for Anonymity Systems
    Anupam Das, Nikita Borisov, and Matthew Caesar
    HotSoS 2014 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Laurie Williams, David Nicol, and Munindar P. Singh, editors, Proceedings of the Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS), Raleigh, NC, USA, April 8–9, 2014

    DOI

    10.1145/2600176.2600187

62. Re³: Relay Reliability Reputation for Anonymity Systems
    Anupam Das, Nikita Borisov, Prateek Mittal, and Matthew Caesar
    ASIACCS 2014 PDFDOI
    Best Paper
    Details

    In

    Trent Jaeger and Kouichi Sakurai, editors, Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Kyoto, Japan, June 4–6, 2014

    DOI

    10.1145/2590296.2590338

    Acceptance rate

    20% (52/260)

63. Do You Hear What I Hear? Fingerprinting Speakers and Microphones of Smart Devices
    Anupam Das, Nikita Borisov, and Matthew Caesar
    CCS 2014 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Moti Yung and Ninghui Li, editors, Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Scottsdale, AZ, USA, November 3–7, 2014

    DOI

    10.1145/2660267.2660325

    Acceptance rate

    19% (114/585)

64. DP5: A Private Presence Service
    Nikita Borisov, George Danezis, and Ian Goldberg
    PETS 2015 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Steven J. Murdoch and Apu Kapadia, editors, Proceedings of the 15th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 2015

    DOI

    10.1515/popets-2015-0008

    Press

    • Richard Chirgwin. Crypto-boffins propose safer buddy list protocol, The Register, June 10, 2014
    • Neal Rauhauser. OTR Team Strikes Again With Dagstuhl Privacy Preserving Presence Protocol P (DP5), Hacked, January 4, 2015

65. Defending Tor from Network Adversaries: A Case Study of Network Path Prediction
    Joshua Juen, Aaron Johnson, Anupam Das, Nikita Borisov, and Matthew Caesar
    PETS 2015 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Steven J. Murdoch and Apu Kapadia, editors, Proceedings of the 15th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 2015

    DOI

    10.1515/popets-2015-0021

66. Tracking Mobile Web Users Through Motion Sensors: Attacks and Defenses
    Anupam Das, Matthew Caesar, and Nikita Borisov
    NDSS 2016 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Srdjan Capkun, editor, Proceedings of the 23rd ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, 2016

    DOI

    10.14722/ndss.2016.23390

67. Enabling Privacy-Preserving Incentives for Mobile Crowd Sensing Systems
    Haiming Jin, Lu Su, Boling Ding, Klara Nahrstedt, and Nikita Borisov
    ICDCS 2016 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Ricardo Bianchini and Hiroshi Shigeno, editors, Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Nara, Japan, June 27–30, 2016

    Pages

    pp. 344–353

    DOI

    10.1109/ICDCS.2016.50

68. SmartCast: An Incentive Compatible Consensus Protocol Using Smart Contracts
    Abhiram Kothapalli, Andrew Miller, and Nikita Borisov
    Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts 2017 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, April 7, 2017

    Pages

    pp. 536–552

    Series

    Volume 10323 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

    DOI

    10.1007/978-3-319-70278-0_34

69. An ISP-Scale Deployment of TapDance
    Sergey Frolov, Fred Douglas, Will Scott, Allison McDonald, Benjamin VanderSloot, Rod Hynes, Adam Kruger, Michalis Kallitsis, David G. Robinson, Nikita Borisov, Alex Halderman, and Eric Wustrow
    FOCI 2017 PDF
    Details

    In

    Jon Penney and Nicholas Weaver, editors, Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI), Washington, DC, USA, August 14, 2017

70. Mining on Someone Else’s Dime? Mitigating Covert Mining Operations in Clouds and Enterprises
    Rashid Tahir, Muhmmad Huzaifa, Anupam Das, Mohammad Ahmad, Carl Gunter, Fareed Zaffar, Matthew Caesar, and Nikita Borisov
    RAID 2017 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Richard Lippmann, Engin Kirda, and Ari Trachtenberg, editors, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), Atlanta, GA, USA, September 18–20, 2017

    Series

    Volume None of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

    DOI

    10.1007/978-3-319-66332-6_13

    Acceptance rate

    20% (21/105)

71. Every Move You Make: Exploring Practical Issues in Smartphone Motion Sensor Fingerprinting and Countermeasures
    Anupam Das, Nikita Borisov, and Edward Chou
    PETS 2018 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 18th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), July 24–27, 2018

    DOI

    10.1515/popets-2018-0005

72. The Web’s Sixth Sense: A Study of Scripts Accessing Smartphone Sensors
    Anupam Das, Gunes Acar, Nikita Borisov, and Amogh Pradeep
    CCS 2018 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Toronto, Canada, October 15–19, 2018

    DOI

    10.1145/3243734.3243860

    Acceptance rate

    17% (134/770)

    Press

    • Lily Hay Newman. Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone's Sensors Without Asking, WIRED, September 26, 2018

73. Property Inference Attacks on Fully Connected Neural Networks using Permutation Invariant Representations
    Karan Ganju, Qi Wang, Wei Yang, Carl Gunter, and Nikita Borisov
    CCS 2018 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Toronto, Canada, October 15–19, 2018

    DOI

    10.1145/3243734.32438341

    Acceptance rate

    17% (134/770)

74. TightRope: Towards Optimal Load-balancing of Paths in Anonymous Networks
    Hussein Darir, Hussein Sibai, Nikita Borisov, Geir Dullerud, and Sayan Mitra
    WPES 2018 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Aaron Johnson, editor, Proceedings of the 17th ACM Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society (WPES), Toronto, Canada, October 15, 2018

    DOI

    10.1145/3267323.3268953

    Acceptance rate

    36% (19/52)

75. OUTGUARD: Detecting In-Browser Covert Cryptocurrency Mining in the Wild
    Amin Kharraz, Zane Ma, Paul Murley, Charles Lever, Joshua Mason, Andrew Miller, Nikita Borisov, Manos Antonakakis, and Michael Bailey
    WWW 2019 PDF
    Best Paper
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the The Web Conference (WWW), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13–17, 2019

76. What can you learn from an IP?
    Simran Patil and Nikita Borisov
    ANRW 2019 DOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the ACM Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW), Montreal, Canada, July 22, 2019

    Pages

    pp. 45–51

    DOI

    10.1145/3340301.3341133

77. Conjure: Summoning Proxies from Unused Address Space
    Sergey Frolov, Jack Wampler, Sze Chuen Tan, J. Alex Halderman, Nikita Borisov, and Eric Wustrow
    CCS 2019 DOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), London, United Kingdom, November 11–15, 2019

    Pages

    pp. 2215–2229

    DOI

    10.1145/3319535.3363218

78. Running Refraction Networking for Real
    Benjamin VanderSloot, Sergey Frolov, Jack Wampler, Sze Chuen Tan, Irv Simpson, Michalis Kallitsis, J. Alex Halderman, Nikita Borisov, and Eric Wustrow
    PETS 2020 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 20th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), July 14–18, 2020

    Pages

    pp. 321–335

    DOI

    10.2478/popets-2020-0075

79. Assessing the Privacy Benefits of Domain Name Encryption
    Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Nikita Borisov, Phillipa Gill, and Michalis Polychronakis
    ASIACCS 2020 PDFDOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Taipei, Taiwan, October 5–9, 2020

    Pages

    pp. 290–304

    DOI

    10.1145/3320269.3384728

80. Detecting AI Trojans Using Meta Neural Analysis
    Xiaojun Xu, Qi Wang, Huichen Li, Nikita Borisov, Carl Gunter, and Bo Li
    SSP 2021 PaperDOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SSP), Virtual Conference, May 24–27, 2021

    Pages

    pp. 103–120

    DOI

    10.1109/SP40001.2021.00034

81. MLEFlow: Learning from History to Improve Load Balancing in Tor
    Hussein Darir, Hussein Sibai, Chin-Yu Cheng, Nikita Borisov, Geir E. Dullerud, and Sayan Mitra
    PETS 2022 DOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), July 11–15, 2022

    Pages

    pp. 75–104

    DOI

    10.2478/popets-2022-0005

82. ProbFlow: Using Probabilistic Programming in Anonymous Communication Networks
    Hussein Darir, Geir E. Dullerud, and Nikita Borisov
    NDSS 2023 PDFVideo
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 30th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 27–March 3, 2023

83. DiProber: Estimating Relays Capacities in Underloaded Anonymous Communication Networks
    Hussein Darir, Nikita Borisov, and Geir E. Dullerud
    ACC 2024 DOI
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Toronto, Canada, July 10–12, 2024

    Pages

    pp. 462–467

    DOI

    10.23919/ACC60939.2024.10644851

84. Prezta: Provable Remote Execution of Zero-Trust Authorization using SNARKs
    Zhongjing Wei, Osaid Muhammad Ameer, Nikita Borisov, and Yupeng Zhang
    USENIX Security 2026 PDF
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 35th USENIX Security Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, August 12–14, 2026

85. Optimizing Very Large Integer Multiplication Using GPUs
    Aarushi Aggrwal and Nikita Borisov
    HPEC 2026
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 30th IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Virtual, September 14–18, 2026

86. Nenya: Efficient zkSNARKs for Z/2^kZ Integer Rings via Reverse Multiplication-Friendly Embeddings
    Tianyu Zhang, Nikita Borisov, and Yupeng Zhang
    SSP 2027
    Details

    In

    Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SSP), Oakland, CA, USA, May 2027

Conferences (Co-)chaired

• 7th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) June 20–22, 2007
  Program Co-chair
• 4th Midwest Security Workshop (MSW) October 6, 2007
  Program Chair
• 8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) July 23–25, 2008
  Program Co-chair
• 11th ACM Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society (WPES) October 15, 2012
  Program Chair
• 25th International Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference (FC) March 1–5, 2021
  Program Co-chair

Conference Organization

• 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) November 9–13, 2009
  Poster and Demo Co-chair, Regional Arrangements Committee Member
• 6th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) March 22–24, 2011
  Session Chair
• 12th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) July 11–13, 2012
  PET Award Committee Co-Chair
• 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) July 10–12, 2013
  PET Award Committee Co-Chair
• 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) June 29–July 2, 2015
  Vice Chair
• 16th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) July 2016
  Stipends Chair
• 17th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) July 2017
  Stipends Committee

Invited Talks

• Analysis of 802.11 Security, or Wired Equivalent Privacy Isn't
  MAC Crypto Workshop, Cupertino, CA, USA, February 2001
• Wireless Privacy: Analysis of 802.11 Security
  2nd CACR Privacy and Security Workshop, Toronto, ON, Canada, November 2001
• Security Challenges for Ubiquitous Wireless Networking
  International Workshop on Future of Information Processing Technologies (IWFIPT), Miyazaki, Japan, November 2003
• Scale and Performance in Anonymous Communications
  3rd U.S.-France Young Engineering Scientists Symposium (YESS), Washington, DC, USA, July 7–9, 2009
• Encrypted Traffic Analysis
  MITACS Workshop on Network Security and Cryptography, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 21–25, 2010
• Successes and Failures Applying to SaTC/TWC/TC/CT
  NSF/DIMACS Workshop for Aspiring PIs in Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, San Diego, CA, USA, August 17, 2014 SlidesVideo
• Your Phone the Spy: Privacy Risks of Smartphone Sensors
  15th Brazilian Symposium on Information and Computational Systems Security (SBSeg), Florianopolis, Brazil, November 9–12, 2015

Contributed Talks

• Off-the-Record Communication, or, Why Not to Use PGP
  Ian Goldberg and Nikita Borisov
  4th CodeCon, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 11–13, 2005
• The State of Secure Messaging
  Nikita Borisov and Sze Chuen Tan
  13th ShmooCon, Washington, DC, USA, January 13–15, 2017 Video

Panels

• Privacy
  Nikita Borisov, Elaine Shi, and Brent Waters
  Panel at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Austin, TX, USA, October 30–November 2, 2012
• What Blockchain offers for Networking Community: From Fundamental Research Challenges to Opportunities for its Applications
  Salil Kanhere, Nikita Borisov, and Klaus Wehrle
  Panel at the 43rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Chicago, IL, USA, October 1–4, 2018 Video
  Details

  Moderator

  Kemal Akkaya

• How AI Is Changing Security Research
  Ethan Cecchetti, Yigitcan Kaya, Jeremiah Blocki, and Nikita Borisov
  Panel at the 11th Midwest Security Workshop (MSW), Madison, WI, USA, October 10, 2026
  Details

  Moderator

  Grant Ho

• Proposal Design Strategies: Structures, Norms, Expectations, Tricks of the Trade
  Apu Kapadia, Nikita Borisov, Nasir Memon, and Yinzhi Cao
  Panel at the NSF SaTC Aspiring PIs Workshop, Washington, DC, USA, October 19–20, 2026