2025

  1. Quinn Burke, Ryan Sheatsley, Yohan Beugin, Eric Pauley, Owen Hines, Michael Swift and Patrick McDaniel, Efficient Storage Integrity in Adversarial Settings, 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), May, 2025.
  2. Zhengyue Zhao, Xiaogeng Liu, Somesh Jha, Patrick McDaniel, Bo Li and Chaowei Xiao, Can Watermarks be Used to Detect LLM IP Infringement For Free?, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April, 2025. Singapore.
  3. Xiaogeng Liu, Peiran Li, Edward Suh, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Zhuoqing Mao, Somesh Jha, Patrick McDaniel, Huan Sun, Bo Li and Chaowei Xiao, AutoDAN-Turbo: A Lifelong Agent for Strategy Self-Exploration to Jailbreak LLMs, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April, 2025. Singapore. [Link]
  4. Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley and Patrick McDaniel, Err on the Side of Texture: Texture Bias on Real Data, IEEE Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning Conference (SaTML 2025), IEEE, April, 2025. Copenhagen, Denmark. [Link]
  5. Eric Pauley, Kyle Domico, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Ryan, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Engin Kirda and Patrick McDaniel, Secure IP Address Allocation at Cloud Scale, 2025 Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), Internet Society, February, 2025. San Diego, CA. [Link]
  6. Quinn Burke, Ryan Sheatsley, Rachel King, Owen Hines, Michael Swift and Patrick McDaniel, On Scalable Integrity Checking For Secure Cloud Disks, 23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '25), USENIX Association, February, 2025.

Technical Reports

  • Kyle Domico, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Josiah Hanna and Patrick McDaniel, Adversarial Agents: Black-Box Evasion Attacks with Reinforcement Learning, Technical Report 2503.01734 cs.CV, arXiv preprint, March, 2025. [Link]
  • Blaine Hoak, Kunyang Li and Patrick McDaniel, Alignment and Adversarial Robustness: Are More Human-Like Models More Secure?, Technical Report 2502.12377 cs.CV, arXiv preprint, February, 2025. [Link]
  • Bruno Kreyssig, Timothée Riom, Sabine Houy, Alexandre Bartel and Patrick McDaniel, Deserialization Gadget Chains are not a Pathological Problem in Android:an In-Depth Study of Java Gadget Chains in AOSP, Technical Report 2502.0847 cs.CR, arXiv preprint, February, 2025. [Link]
  • Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Yohan Beugin, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley and Patrick McDaniel, Targeting Alignment: Extracting Safety Classifiers of Aligned LLMs, Technical Report 2409.10297 cs.CV, arXiv preprint, January, 2025. [Link]

2024

  1. Syed Rafiul Hussain, Patrick McDaniel, Anshul Gandhi, Kanad Ghose, Kartik Gopalan, Dongyoon Lee, Yu David Liu, Zhenhua Liu, Shuai Mu and Erez Zadok, Verifiable Sustainability in Data Centers, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, Vol.22, November, 2024. [Link]
  2. Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Blaine Hoak, Rachel King, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Mingli Yu, Ting He, Thomas La Porta and Patrick McDaniel, Securing Cloud File Systems with Shielded Execution, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), September, 2024. (
    to appear
    ) [Link]
  3. Mingli Yu, Quinn Burke, Thomas La Porta and Patrick McDaniel, Stealthy Misreporting Attacks Against Load Balancing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2024. (
    to appear
    )
  4. Jiongxiao Wang, Jiazhao Li, Yiquan Li, Xiangyu Qi, Junjie Hu, Yixuan Li, Patrick McDaniel, Muhao Chen, Bo Li and Chaowei Xiao, Mitigating Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack with Backdoor Enhanced Safety Alignment, Proceedings of Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December, 2024.
  5. Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel, Interest-disclosing Mechanisms for Advertising are Privacy-Exposing (not Preserving), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), July, 2024. (
    Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award (runner-up)
    ) [Link]
  6. Blaine Hoak and Patrick McDaniel, Explorations in Texture Learning, 12th International Conference on Learning Representations, Tiny Papers Track (ICLR), May, 2024. [Link]
  7. Yujin Nam, Rachel King, Quinn Burke, Minxuan Zhou, Patrick McDaniel and Tajana Rosing, Efficient Host Intrusion Detection using Hyperdimensional Computing, Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data workshop Cyber Threat Intelligence and Hunting, IEEE, December, 2024.
  8. Rachel King, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Blaine Hoak, Kunyang Li, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley and Patrick McDaniel, ParTEETor: A System for Partial Deployments of TEEs within Tor, Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), ACM, October, 2024. Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
  9. Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel, A Public and Reproducible Assessment of the Topics API on Real Data, SecWeb 2024 Workshop, IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), May, 2024. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Blaine Hoak and Patrick McDaniel, On Synthetic Texture Datasets: Challenges, Creation, and Curation, Technical Report 2409.10297 cs.CV, arXiv preprint, 2024. [Link]
  • Rachel King, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Blaine Hoak, Kunyang Li, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley and Patrick McDaniel, ParTEETor: A System for Partial Deployments of TEEs within Tor, Technical Report 2408.14646, arXiv preprint, August, 2024. [Link]
  • Quinn Burke, Ryan Sheatsley, Rachel King, Michael Swift and Patrick McDaniel, Cloud Storage Integrity at Scale: A Case for Dynamic Hash Trees, Technical Report 2405.03830, arXiv preprint, May, 2024. [Link]

2023

  1. Anshul Gandhi, Dongyoon Lee, Zhenhua Liu, Shuai Mu, Erez Zadok, Kanad Ghose, Kartik Gopalan, David Yu Liu, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Patrick McDaniel, Metrics for Sustainability in Data Centers, SIGENERGY Energy Inform. Rev., ACM, Vol.3, No.3, Pages 40–46, October, 2023. [Link]
  2. Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel, Thomas La Porta, Mingli Yu and Ting He, Misreporting Attacks Against Load Balancers in Software-Defined Networking, Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer, 2023. (
    to appear
    )
  3. Tian Xie, Sanchal Thakkar, Ting He, Patrick McDaniel and Quinn Burke, Joint Caching and Routing in Cache Networks with Arbitrary Topology, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, May, 2023. (
    to appear
    )
  4. Ya Xiao, Wenjia Song, Jingyuan Qi, Bimal Viswanath, Patrick McDaniel and Danfeng Yao, Specializing Neural Networks for Cryptographic Code Completion Applications, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE, 2023. (
    to appear
    )
  5. Tian Xie, Sanchal Thakkar, Ting He, Novella Bartolini and Patrick McDaniel, Host-based Flow Table Size Inference in Multi-hop SDN, Proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE, December, 2023. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  6. Eric Pauley, Paul Barford and Patrick McDaniel, The CVE Wayback Machine: Measuring Coordinated Disclosure from Exploits Against Two Years of Zero-Days, Proceedings of the ACM 2023 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October, 2023. Montreal, Canada. (
    Best paper (runner up)
    ) [Link]
  7. Mingli Yu, Quinn Burke, Thomas La Porta and Patrick McDaniel, mMLSnet: Multilevel Security Network With Mobility, Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), IEEE, October, 2023. Boston, MA. [Link]
  8. Ryan Guide, Eric Pauley, Yohan Beugin, Ryan Sheatsley and Patrick McDaniel, Characterizing the Modification Space of Signature IDS Rules, MILCOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), IEEE, October, 2023. Boston, MA. [Link]
  9. Eric Pauley, Paul Barford and Patrick McDaniel, DScope: A Cloud-Native Internet Telescope, 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23), USENIX Association, August, 2023. Anaheim, CA. (
    CSAW ARC Finalist
    ) [Link]
  10. Ryan Sheatsley, Blaine Hoak, Eric Pauley and Patrick McDaniel, The Space of Adversarial Strategies, 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23), USENIX Association, August, 2023. [Link]
  11. Kunyang Li, Kyle Domico, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand and Patrick McDaniel, The Efficacy of Transformer-Based Adversarial Attacks in Security Domains, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber (MILCOM 2023, October, 2023. Boston, MA.
  12. Eric Pauley and Patrick McDaniel, Understanding the Ethical Frameworks of Internet Measurement Studies, The 2nd International Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security (EthiCS 2023), February, 2023. San Diego, CA. (
    Best paper
    ) [Link]
  13. Patrick McDaniel and Farinaz Koushanfar, NSF Secure and Trustworthy Computing 2.0 Vision Statement, Public Report, August, 2023. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Alban Héon, Ryan Sheatsley, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Eric Pauley, Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel, Systematic Evaluation of Geolocation Privacy Mechanisms, Technical Report 2309.06263, arXiv preprint, September, 2023. [Link]
  • Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel, Interest-disclosing Mechanisms for Advertising are Privacy-Exposing (Not Preserving), Technical Report 2306.03825, arXiv preprint, May, 2023. [Link]
  • Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Blaine Hoak, Rachel King, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Mingli Yu, Ting He, Thomas La Porta and Patrick McDaniel, Securing Cloud File Systems using Shielded Execution, Technical Report 2305.18639, arXiv preprint, May, 2023. [Link]

2022

  1. Matthew Durbin, Ryan Sheatsley, Patrick McDaniel and Azaree Lintereur, Experimental tests of Gamma-ray Localization Aided with Machine-learning (GLAM) capabilities, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol.1038, 2022. [Link]
  2. Amit Kumar Sikder, Leonardo Babun, Z. Berkay Celik, Hidayet Aksu, Patrick McDaniel, Engin Kirda and Selcuk Uluagac, Who's Controlling My Device? Multi-User Multi-Device-Aware Access Control System for Shared Smart Home Environment, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, Association for Computing Machinery, May, 2022. [Link]
  3. Michael Norris, Z. Berkay Celik, Prasanna Venkatesh, Shulin Zhao, Patrick McDaniel, Anand Sivasubramaniam and Gang Tan, IoTRepair: Flexible Fault Handling in Diverse IoT Deployments, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, ACM, 2022. [Link]
  4. Tian Xie, Namitha Nambiar, Ting He and Patrick McDaniel, Attack Resilience of Cache Replacement Policies: A Study Based on TTL Approximation, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2022. [Link]
  5. Quinn Burke, Fidan Mehmeti, Rahul George, Kyle Ostrowski, Trent Jaeger, Thomas La Porta and Patrick Mcdaniel, Enforcing Multilevel Security Policies in Unstable Networks, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE, June, 2022. [Link]
  6. Ryan Sheatsley, Nicolas Papernot, Michael J. Weisman, Gunjan Verma and Patrick McDaniel, Adversarial Examples for Network Intrusion Detection Systems, Journal of Computer Security (JCS), IOS Press, January, 2022. [Link]
  7. Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Danfeng Zhang and Patrick McDaniel, Performant Binary Fuzzing without Source Code using Static Instrumentation, Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), IEEE, October, 2022. [Link]
  8. Patrick McDaniel, Keynote Address: Sustainability is a Security Problem (extended abstract), Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, November, 2022. [Link]
  9. Kyle Domico, Ryan Sheatsley, Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke and Patrick McDaniel, A Machine Learning and Computer Vision Approach to Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting, Machine Learning in Heliophysics (ML-Helio), AGU, November, 2022. [Link]
  10. Tian Xie, Sanchal Thakkar, Ting He, Patrick Mcdaniel and Quinn Burke, Joint Caching and Routing in Cache Networks with Arbitrary Topology, Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July, 2022. [Link]
  11. Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Patrick McDaniel, Building a Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), July, 2022. [Link]
  12. Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Blaine Hoak, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel, Measuring and Mitigating the Risk of IP Reuse on Public Clouds, 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), IEEE, May, 2022. San Francisco, CA. [Link]
  13. Anshul Gandhi, Kanad Ghose, Kartik Gopalan, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Dongyoon Lee, David Liu, Zhenhua Liu, Patrick McDaniel, Shuai Mu and Erez Zadok, Metrics for Sustainability in Data Centers, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems Design and Implementation (HotCarbon'22), USENIX, July, 2022. San Diego, CA. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Patrick McDaniel, Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Smart Cameras and Other IoT Devices, Technical Report 2208.09776, arXiv preprint, August, 2022. [Link]
  • Pauley, Eric, Domico, Kyle, Hoak, Blaine, Sheatsley, Ryan, Burke, Quinn, Beugin, Yohan and McDaniel, Patrick, EIPSIM: Modeling Secure IP Address Allocation at Cloud Scale, Technical Report arXiv:2210.14999, arXiv preprint, 2022. [Link]
  • Bolor-Erdene Zolbayarn, Ryan Sheatsley, Patrick McDaniel, Michael J. Weisman, Sencun Zhu, Shitong Zhu and Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, Generating Practical Adversarial Network Traffic Flows using NIDSGAN, Technical Report arXiv:2203.06694, arXiv preprint, March, 2022. [Link]

2021

  1. Bolor-Erdene Zolbayar , Ryan Sheatsley and Patrick McDaniel, Evading Machine Learning based Network Intrusion Detection Systems with GANs, Game Theory and Machine Learning for Cyber Security, John Wiley & Sons, 2021. Eds. Charles A Kamhoua and Christopher D. Kiekintveld and Fei Fang and Quanyan Zhu. Hoboken, New Jersey.
  2. Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel, Thomas La Porta, Mingli Yu and Ting He, Misreporting Attacks Against Load Balancers in Software-Defined Networking, Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer, 2021. [Link]
  3. Daniel E. Krych and Patrick McDaniel, Exposing Android Social Applications: Linking Data Leakage to Privacy Policies, Journal of Cyber Security Technology, Taylor & Francis, Vol.5, No.3-4, 2021. [Link]
  4. Alejandro Andrade Salazar, Ryan Sheatsley, Jonathan Petit and Patrick McDaniel, Physics-based Misbehavior Detection System for V2X Communications, SAE International Journal of Connected and Automated Vehicles, SAE International, June, 2021. [Link]
  5. Mingli Yu, Tian Xie, Ting He, Patrick McDaniel and Quinn Burke, Flow Table Security in SDN: Adversarial Reconnaissance and Intelligent Attacks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.29, No.6, Pages 1063-6692, December, 2021. [Link]
  6. Leonardo Babun, Kyle Denney, Z. Berkay Celik, Patrick McDaniel and Selcuk Uluagac, A Survey on IoT Platforms: Communication, Security, and Privacy Perspectives, Computer Networks, Vol.192, No.19, June, 2021. [Link]
  7. Ryan Sheatsley, Matthew Durbin, Azaree Lintereur and Patrick McDaniel, Improving Radioactive Material Localization by Leveraging Cyber-Security Model Optimizations, IEEE Sensors, Vol.21, No.8, April, 2021. [Link]
  8. Stefan Achleitner, Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel, Trent Jaeger, Thomas La Porta and Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, MLSNet: A Policy Complying Multilevel Security Framework for Software Defined Networking, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol.18, No.1, March, 2021. [Link]
  9. Ahmed Abdou, Ryan Sheatsley, Yohan Beugin, Tyler Shipp and Patrick McDaniel, HoneyModels: Machine Learning Honeypots, Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), IEE, November, 2021. [Link]
  10. Ryan Sheatsley, Blaine Hoak, Eric Pauley, Yohan Beugin, Michael J. Weisman and Patrick McDaniel, On the Robustness of Domain Constraints, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, November, 2021. [Link]
  11. Tian Xie, Ting He, Patrick McDaniel and Namitha Nambiar, Attack Resilience of Cache Replacement Policies, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), IEEE, May, 2021. [Link]
  12. Adrien Cosson, Amit Kumar Sikder, Leonardo Babun, Z. Berkay Celik, Patrick McDaniel and Selcuk Uluagac, Sentinel: A Robust Intrusion Detection System for IoT Networks Using Kernel-Level System Information, In 6th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), April, 2021. [Link]
  13. Leonardo Babun, Z. Berkay Celik, Patrick McDaniel and Selcuk Uluagac, Real-time Analysis of Privacy-(un)aware IoT Applications, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2021. [Link]
  14. Patrick McDaniel, Thorsten Holz, Indra Spiecker, Genannt Dohmann, Christopher Burchard, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Konrad Rieck, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Somesh Jha, Andrea Matwyshyn, David Evans, Felix Freiling and Amy Hasan, Cybersecurity and Machine Learning: Vision Document, Report on the joint NSF/DFG Cybersecurity and Machine Learning Research Workshop, Public Report, National Science Foundation/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaf, December, 2021. [Link]

2020

  1. Dan Boneh, Andrew J. Grotto, Patrick McDaniel and Nicolas Papernot, Preparing for the Age of Deepfakes and Disinformation, Stanford HAI Policy Brief, 2020. [Link]
  2. Matthew Durbin, Ryan Sheatlsey, Patrick McDaniel and Azaree Lintereur, A Multi-Step Machine Learning Approach to Directional Gamma Ray Detection, 2020 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), October, 2020. [Link]
  3. Sayed M. Saghaian, Thomas La Porta, Simone Silvestri and Patrick McDaniel, Improving Robustness of a Popular Probabilistic Clustering Algorithm Against Insider Attacks, International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2020), EAI, October, 2020. [Link]
  4. Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel, Thomas La Porta, Mingli Yu and Ting He, Misreporting Attacks in Software-Defined Networking, International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2020), EAI, October, 2020. [Link]
  5. Amit Kumar Sikder, Leonardo Babun, Z. Berkay Celik, Abbas Acar, Hidayet Aksu, Patrick McDaniel, Engin Kirda and Selcuk Uluagac, KRATOS: Multi-User Multi-Device-Aware Access Control System for the Smart Home, 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '20), ACM, July, 2020. [Link]
  6. Mingli Yu, Ting He, Patrick McDaniel and Quinn Burke, Flow Table Security in SDN: Adversarial Reconnaissance and Intelligent Attacks, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, June, 2020. Beijing, China. [Link]
  7. Michael Norris, Z. Berkay Celik, Prasanna Venkatesh, Shulin Zhao, Patrick McDaniel, Anand Sivasubramaniam and Gang Tan, IoTRepair: Systematically addressing device faults in commodity IoT, In 5th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), April, 2020. [Link]
  8. Sushrut Shringarputale, Patrick McDaniel, Kevin Butler and Thomas La Porta, Co-residency Attacks on Containers are Real, The ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW 2020), 2020. [Link]
  9. Patrick McDaniel and John Launchbury, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Opportunities and Challenges 2019 Technical Workshop Report, Public Report, Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Subcommittee, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee, and the Special Cyber Operations Research and Engineering Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council, 2020. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Ryan Sheatsley, Nicolas Papernot, Michael J. Weisman, Gunjan Verma and Patrick McDaniel, Adversarial Examples in Constrained Domains, Technical Report arXiv:2011.01183, arXiv preprint, 2020. [Link]

2019

  1. Dan Boneh, Andrew J. Grotto, Patrick McDaniel and Nicolas Papernot, How Relevant Is the Turing Test in the Age of Sophisbots?, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Vol.17, Pages 64-71, Nov/Dec, 2019. [Link]
  2. Z. Berkay Celik, Earlence Fernandes, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan and Patrick McDaniel, Program Analysis of Commodity IoT Applications for Security and Privacy: Opportunities and Challenges, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), ACM, Vol.42, No.4, 2019. [Link]
  3. Z. Berkay Celik, Patrick McDaniel, Gang Tan, Leonardo Babun and Selcuk Uluagac, Verifying IoT Safety and Security in Physical Spaces, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, IEEE, Vol.17, No.5, Pages 30-37, 2019. [Link]
  4. Ahmed Atya, Zhiyun Qian, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, Thomas La Porta, Patrick McDaniel and Lisa Marvel, Catch Me if You Can: Malicious Co-Residency on the Cloud, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.27, No.2, April, 2019. [Link]
  5. Raquel Alvarez, Jake Levenson, Ryan Sheatsley and Patrick McDaniel, Application Transiency: Towards a Fair Trade of Personal Information for Application Services, Proceedings of the EAI Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), October, 2019. Orlando, FL. [Link]
  6. Giuseppe Petracca, Yuqiong Sun, Ahmad-Atamli Reineh, Jens Grossklags, Patrick McDaniel and Trent Jaeger, EnTrust: Regulating Sensor Access by Cooperating Programs via Delegation Graphs, Proceedings of the 28th USENIX Security Symposium, Augus, 2019. Santa Clara, CA. [Link]
  7. Matthew Durbin, Ryan Sheatsley, Christopher Balbier, Tristan Grieve, Patrick McDaniel and Azaree Lintereur, Development of Machine Learning Algorithms for Directional Gamma Ray Detection, Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Annual Meeting (INMM), July, 2019. Palm Desert, CA. (
    J. D. Williams student paper award, Nuclear Security and Physical Protection division
    ) [Link]
  8. Z. Berkay Celik, Abbas Acar, Hidayet Aksu, Abbas Acar, Ryan Sheatsley, Selcuk Uluagac and Patrick McDaniel, Curie: Policy-based Secure Data Exchange, ACM Conference on Data and Applications Security (CODASPY), March, 2019. Dallas, TX. [Link]
  9. Z. Berkay Celik, Gang Tan and Patrick McDaniel, IoTGuard: Dynamic Enforcement of Security and Safety Policy in Commodity IoT, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February, 2019. San Diego, CA. [Link]

2018

  1. Ian Goodfellow, Patrick McDaniel and Nicolas Papernot, Making machine learning robust against adversarial inputs, Communications of the ACM, ACM, Vol.61, No.7, Pages 56-6, June/July, 2018. [Link]
  2. Dang Tu Nguyen, Chengyu Song, Zhiyun Qian, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, Edward J. M. Colbert and Patrick McDaniel, IoTSan: Fortifying the Safety of IoT Systems, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT '18), December, 2018. [Link]
  3. Z. Berkay Celik, Leonardo Babun, Amit Kumar Sikder, Hidayet Aksu, Gang Tan, Patrick McDaniel and Selcuk Uluagac, Sensitive Information Tracking in Commodity IoT, Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium, August, 2018. Baltimore, MD. [Link]
  4. Rauf Izmailov, Shridatt Sugrim, Ritu Chadha, Patrick McDaniel and Ananthram Swami, Enablers Of Adversarial Attacks in Machine Learning, Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), IEEE, October, 2018. [Link]
  5. Sayed M. Saghaian, Thomas La Porta, Trent Jaeger, Z. Berkay Celik and Patrick McDaniel, Mission-oriented Security Model, Incorporating Security Risk, Cost and Payout, EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM), August, 2018. (
    Best paper
    ) [Link]
  6. Z. Berkay Celik, Patrick McDaniel and Gang Tan, Soteria: Automated IoT Safety and Security Analysis, USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), July, 2018. Boston, MA. [Link]
  7. Z. Berkay Celik, Patrick McDaniel, Rauf Izmailov, Nicolas Papernot, Ryan Sheatsley, Raquel Alvarez and Ananthram Swami, Detection under Privileged Information, ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), June, 2018. [Link]
  8. Florian Tramer, Alexey Kurakin, Nicolas Papernot, Ian Goodfellow, Dan Boneh and Patrick McDaniel, Ensemble Adversarial Training: Attacks and Defenses, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2018. Vancouver, Canada. [Link]
  9. Nicolas Papernot, Patrick McDaniel, Arunesh Sinha and Michael Wellman, SoK: Security and Privacy in Machine Learning, Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2018 IEEE European Symposium on on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), IEEE, April, 2018. London, UK. [Link]
  10. Z. Berkay Celik and Patrick McDaniel, Extending Detection with Privileged Information via Generalized Distillation, IEEE Security & Privacy Workshop on Deep Learning and Security (IEEE S&P DLS), 2018. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Chun-Ming Lai, Xiaoyun Wang, Jon W. Chapman, Yu-Cheng Lin, Yu-Chang Ho, Felix Wu, Patrick McDaniel and Hasan Cam, More or Less? Predict the Social Influence of Malicious URLs on Social Media, Technical Report arXiv:1812.02978, arXiv preprint, 2018. [Link]
  • Giuseppe Petracca, Jens Grossklags, Patrick McDaniel and Trent Jaeger, Regulating Access to System Sensors in Cooperating Programs, Technical Report arXiv:1808.05579, arXiv preprint, 2018. [Link]
  • Nicolas Papernot and Patrick McDaniel, Deep k-Nearest Neighbors: Towards Confident, Interpretable and Robust Deep Learning, Technical Report arXiv:1803.04765, arXiv preprint, 2018. [Link]

2017

  1. Z. Berkay Celik, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas Bowen, Malware Modeling and Experimentation through Parameterized Behavior, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (JDMS), Vol.15, No.1, Pages 31-48, 2017. [Link]
  2. Dave Tian, Kevin Butler, Joseph Choi, Patrick McDaniel and Padma Krishnaswamy, Securing ARP/NDP From the Ground Up, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol.12, No.9, Pages 2131-2143, April, 2017. [Link]
  3. Stefan Achleitner, Thomas La Porta, Patrick McDaniel, Shridatt Sugrim, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy and Ritu Chada, Deceiving Network Reconnaissance Unsing SDN-based Virtual Topologies, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Special Issue on Advances in Management of Softwarized Networks, Vol.14, No.4, July, 2017. [Link]
  4. Chaz Lever, Robert Walls, Yacin Nadji, David Dagon, Patrick McDaniel and Manos Antonakakis, Dawn of the Dead Domain: Measuring the Exploitation of Residual Trust in Domains, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine (Secure Systems issue column), April, 2017. [Link]
  5. Patrick McDaniel and Ananthram Swami, The Cyber Security Collaborative Research Alliance:Unifying Detection, Agility, and Risk in Mission-Oriented Cyber Decision Making, CSIAC Journal, Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Cyber Science and Technology, Vol.5, No.1, January, 2017. [Link]
  6. Chun-Ming Lai, Xiaoyun Wang, Yunfeng Hong, Yu-Cheng Lin, Felix Wu , Patrick McDaniel and Hasan Cam, Attacking Strategies and Temporal Analysis Involving Facebook Discussion Groups, 13th IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management, November, 2017. Tokyo, Japan. [Link]
  7. Kathrin Grosse, Nicolas Papernot, Praveen Manoharan, Michael Backes and Patrick McDaniel, Adversarial Examples for Malware Detection, 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS '17), September, 2017. Oslo, Norway. [Link]
  8. Z. Berkay Celik, David Lopez-Paz and Patrick McDaniel, Patient-Driven Privacy Control through Generalized Distillation, Proceedings of the Privacy-Aware Computing (PAC), IEEE, 2017. [Link]
  9. Abbas Acar, Z. Berkay Celik, Hidayet Aksu, Selcuk Uluagac and Patrick McDaniel, Achieving Secure and Differentially Private Computations in Multiparty Settings, Proceedings of the Privacy-Aware Computing (PAC), IEEE, 2017. [Link]
  10. Vaibhav Rastogi, Drew Davidson, Lorenzo De Carli, Somesh Jha and Patrick McDaniel, Cimplifier: Automatically Debloating Containers, 11Th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the Acm Sigsoft Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, September, 2017. Paderborn, Germany. [Link]
  11. Yunfeng Hong, Yongjian Hu, Chun-Ming Lai, Felix Wu, Iulian Neamtiu, Yu Paul, Patrick McDaniel, Hasan Cam and Gail-Joon Ahn, Defining and Detecting Environment Discrimination in Android Apps, The 13th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 17), October, 2017. [Link]
  12. Nicolas Papernot, Patrick McDaniel, Ian Goodfellow, Somesh Jha, Z. Berkay Celik and Ananthram Swami, Practical Black-Box Attacks against Machine Learning, ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2017, April, 2017. [Link]
  13. Stefan Achleitner, Thomas La Porta, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Adversarial Network Forensics in Software Defined Networking, ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), ACM, April, 2017. (
    Best student paper
    ) [Link]
  14. Stefan Achleitner, Thomas La Porta, Patrick McDaniel, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, Alexander Poylisher and Constantin Serban, Stealth Migration: Hiding Virtual Machines on the Network, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), IEEE, 2017. [Link]
  15. Ahmed Atya, Zhiyun Qian, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, Thomas La Porta, Patrick McDaniel and Lisa Marvel, Malicious Co-Residency on the Cloud: Attacks and Defense, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), IEEE, 2017. [Link]
  16. Alexander Alexeev, Diane Henshel, Karl Levitt, Patrick McDaniel, Brian Rivera, Steve Templeton and Michael J. Weisma, Constructing a Science of Cyber-Resilience for Military Systems, Information Systems and Technology (IST) Panel, IST-153/RWS-21, CEUR Workshop Proceeding, Pages 30-42, October, 2017. [Link]
  17. Z. Berkay Celik, Patrick McDaniel and Rauf Izmailov, Feature Cultivation in Privileged Information-augmented Detection, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Security And Privacy Analytics (IWSPA 2017), 2017. (
    Invited Paper
    ) [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Nicolas Papernot and Patrick McDaniel, Extending Defensive Distillation, Technical Report arXiv:1705.05264, arXiv preprint, 2017. [Link]
  • Florian Tramer, Nicolas Papernot, Ian Goodfellow, Dan Boneh and Patrick McDaniel, The Space of Transferable Adversarial Examples, Technical Report arXiv:1704.03453, arXiv preprint, 2017. [Link]
  • Kathrin Grosse, Praveen Manoharan, Nicolas Papernot, Michael Backes and Patrick McDaniel, On the (Statistical) Detection of Adversarial Examples, Technical Report arXiv:1702.06280, arXiv preprint, 2017. [Link]

2016

  1. Patrick McDaniel, Nicolas Papernot and Z. Berkay Celik, Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Vol.14, No.3, May/June, 2016. [Link]
  2. Damien Octeau, Daniel Luchaup, Somesh Jha and Patrick McDaniel, Composite Constant Propagation and its Application to Android Program Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.42, No.11, Pages 999-1014, 2016. [Link]
  3. Nathaniel Lageman, Eric Kilmer, Robert Walls and Patrick McDaniel, BinDNN: Resilient Function Matching Using Deep Learning, 2016 International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM), October, 2016. [Link]
  4. Z. Berkay Celik, Nan Hu, Yun Li, Nicolas Papernot, Patrick McDaniel, Jeff Rowe, Robert Walls, Karl Levitt, Novella Bartolini, Thomas La Porta and Ritu Chadha, Mapping Sample Scenarios to Operational Models, Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), IEEE, 2016. [Link]
  5. Nicolas Papernot, Patrick McDaniel, Ananthram Swami and Richard Harang, Crafting Adversarial Input Sequences for Recurrent Neural Networks, Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), IEEE, 2016. [Link]
  6. Michael Backes, Sven Bugiel, Erik Derr, Patrick McDaniel, Damien Octeau and Sebastian Weisgerber, On Demystifying the Android Application Framework: Re-Visiting Android Permission Specification Analysis, Proceedings of the 25th USENIX Security Symposium, August, 2016. [Link]
  7. Devin Pohly and Patrick McDaniel, Modeling Privacy and Tradeoffs in Multichannel Secret Sharing Protocols, 46th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June, 2016. [Link]
  8. Chaz Lever, Robert Walls, Yacin Nadji, David Dagon, Patrick McDaniel and Manos Antonakakis, Domain-Z: 28 Registrations Later, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May, 2016. San Francisco, CA. [Link]
  9. Yasemin Acar, Michael Backes, Sven Bugiel, Sascha Fahl, Patrick McDaniel and Matthew Smith, SoK: Lessons Learned From Android Security Research For Appified Software Platforms, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May, 2016. San Francisco, CA. [Link]
  10. Nicolas Papernot, Patrick McDaniel, Xi Wu, Somesh Jha and Ananthram Swami, Distillation as a Defense to Adversarial Perturbations Against Deep Neural Networks, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May, 2016. San Francisco, CA. [Link]
  11. Charles Huber, Scott Brown, Patrick McDaniel and Lisa Marvel, Cyber Fighter Associate: A Decision Support System for Cyber Agility, Proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March, 2016. Princeton, NJ. [Link]
  12. Nicolas Papernot, Patrick McDaniel, Somesh Jha, Matthew Fredrikson, Z. Berkay Celik and Ananthram Swami, The Limitations of Deep Learning in Adversarial Settings, Proceedings of the 1st IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE, 2016. Saarbrucken, Germany. [Link]
  13. Damien Octeau, Somesh Jha, Matthew Dering, Patrick McDaniel, Alexandre Bartel, Li Li, Jacques Klein and Yves Le Traon, Combining Static Analysis with Probabilistic Models to Enable Market-Scale Android Inter-Component Analysis, Proceedings of the 43rd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), January, 2016. St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. [Link]
  14. Stefan Achleitner, Thomas La Porta, Patrick McDaniel, Shridatt Sugrim, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy and Ritu Chadha, Cyber Deception: Virtual Networks to Defend Insider Reconnaissance, Proceedings of the 8th ACM CCS International Workshop on Managing Insider Security Threats, ACM, 2016. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Nicolas Papernot, Patrick McDaniel, Arunesh Sinha and Michael Wellman, Towards the Science of Security and Privacy in Machine Learning, Technical Report arXiv:1611.03814, arXiv preprint, 2016. [Link]
  • Nicolas Papernot, Ian Goodfellow, Ryan Sheatsley, Reuben Feinman and Patrick McDaniel, cleverhans v1.0.0: an adversarial machine learning library, Technical Report arXiv:1610.0076, arXiv preprint, 2016.
  • Nicolas Papernot and Patrick McDaniel, On the Effectiveness of Defensive Distillation, Technical Report arXiv:1607.05113, arXiv preprint, 2016. [Link]
  • Kathrin Grosse, Nicolas Papernot, Praveen Manoharan, Michael Backes and Patrick McDaniel, Adversarial Perturbations Against Deep Neural Networks for Malware Classification, Technical Report arXiv:1606.04435, arXiv preprint, 2016. [Link]
  • Nicolas Papernot, Patrick McDaniel and Ian Goodfellow, Transferability in Machine Learning: from Phenomena to Black-Box Attacks using Adversarial Samples, Technical Report arXiv:1605.07277, arXiv preprint, 2016. [Link]
  • Vaibhav Rastogi, Drew Davidson, Lorenzo De Carli, Somesh Jha and Patrick McDaniel, Towards Least Privilege Containers with Cimplifier, Technical Report arXiv:1602.08410, arXiv preprint, 2016. [Link]
  • Devin Pohly and Patrick McDaniel, Modeling Privacy and Tradeoffs in Multichannel Secret Sharing Protocols, Technical Report NAS-TR-0188-2016, Institute of Networking and Security Research, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, January, 2016.
  • Nicolas Papernot, Patrick McDaniel, Somesh Jha, Matthew Fredrikson, Z. Berkay Celik and Ananthram Swami, The Limitations of Deep Learning in Adversarial Settings, Technical Report NAS-TR-0172-2014, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, October, 2016.
  • Wenhui Hu, Damien Octeau, Patrick McDaniel and Peng Liu, Duet: Library Integrity Verification for Android Applications, Technical Report NAS-TR-0172-2014, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, February, 2016.
  • Devin Pohly, Stephen McLaughlin, Patrick McDaniel and Kevin Butler, Hi-Fi: Collecting High-Fidelity Whole-System Provenance, Technical Report NAS-TR-0160-2012, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, June, 2016.

2015

  1. Devin Pohly and Patrick McDaniel, MICSS: A Realistic Multichannel Secrecy Protocol, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December, 2015. San Diego, CA. [Link]
  2. Robert Walls, Eric Kilmer, Nathaniel Lageman and Patrick McDaniel, Measuring the Impact and Perception of Acceptable Advertisements, Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October, 2015. Tokyo, Japan. [Link]
  3. Nicolas Papernot, Patrick McDaniel and Robert Walls, Enforcing Agile Access Control Policies in Relational Databases using Views, Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), October, 2015. Tampa, FL. [Link]
  4. Alessandro Oltramari, Lorrie Cranor, Robert Walls and Patrick McDaniel, Computational Ontology of Network Operations, Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), October, 2015. Tampa, FL. [Link]
  5. Z. Berkay Celik, Robert Walls, Patrick McDaniel and Ananthram Swami, Malware Traffic Detection using Tamper Resistant Features, Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), October, 2015. Tampa, FL. [Link]
  6. Devin Pohly, Charles Sestito and Patrick McDaniel, Adaptive Protocol Switching Using Dynamically Insertable Bumps in the Stack, Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), October, 2015. Tampa, FL. [Link]
  7. Azeem Aqil, Ahmed Atya, Trent Jaeger, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, Karl Levitt, Patrick McDaniel, Jeff Rowe and Ananthram Swami, Detection of Stealthy TCP-based DoS Attacks, Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), October, 2015. Tampa, FL. [Link]
  8. Daniel E. Krych, Stephen Lange-Maney, Patrick McDaniel and William Glodek, Investigating Weaknesses in Android Certificate Security, SPIE 9478, Modeling and Simulation for Defense Systems and Applications X, May, 2015. [Link]
  9. Damien Octeau, Daniel Luchaup, Matthew Dering, Somesh Jha and Patrick McDaniel, Composite Constant Propagation: Application to Android Inter-Component Communication Analysis, Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May, 2015. Florence, Italy. [Link]
  10. Li Li, Alexandre Bartel, Tegawende Bissyande, Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon, Steven Arzt, Siegfried Rasthofer, Eric Bodden, Damien Octeau and Patrick McDaniel, IccTA: Detecting Inter-Component Privacy Leaks in Android Apps, Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May, 2015. Florence, Italy. (
    Most Influential Paper Award of ICSE 2015 2025
    ) [Link]
  11. Jing Tian, Kevin Butler, Patrick McDaniel and Padma Krishnaswamy, Securing ARP From the Ground Up, CODASPY '15: Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Data Application and Security and Privacy, March, 2015. San Antonio, TX, USA. [Link]
  12. Patrick McDaniel and Robert Walls, Estimating Attack Intent and Mission Impact from Detection Signals, Proceedings of the NATO IST-128 Workshop: Assessing Mission Impact of Cyberattacks, Army Research Laboratory, July, 2015. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Alexander Kott, Ananthram Swami and Patrick McDaniel, Six Potential Game-Changers in Cyber Security: Towards Priorities in Cyber Science and Engineering, Technical Report arXiv:1511.00509, arXiv preprint, 2015. [Link]

2014

  1. Steven Arzt, Siegfried Rasthofer, Christian Fritz, Eric Bodden, Alexandre Bartel, Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon, Damien Octeau and Patrick McDaniel, FlowDroid: Precise Context, Flow, Field, Object-sensitive and Lifecycle-aware Taint Analysis for Android Apps, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol.49, No.6, Pages 259-269, June, 2014. [Link]
  2. Alexander Kott, Ananthram Swami and Patrick McDaniel, Security Outlook: Six Cyber Game Changers for the Next 15 Years, IEEE Computer, Vol.47, No.12, Pages 104-106, 2014. [Link]
  3. Zhenfu Cao, Keqiu Li, Xu Li, Patrick McDaniel, Radha Poovendran, Guojun Wang and Yang Xiang, Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.25, No.2, Pages 279-28, 2014. [Link]
  4. Patrick McDaniel, Brian Rivera and Ananthram Swami, Toward a Science of Secure Environments, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Vol.12, No.4, July/August, 2014. [Link] (
    Science of Security Index of Significant Research in Cyber Security, Science of Security Virtual Organization (SOS-VO) 2015
    )
  5. William Enck, Peter Gilbert, Seungyeop Han, Vasant Tendulkar, Byung-Gon Chun, Landon Cox, Jaeyeon Jung, Patrick McDaniel and Anmol Sheth, TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Vol.32, No.2, June, 2014. [Link]
  6. William Enck, Peter Gilbert, Byung-Gon Chun, Landon Cox, Jaeyeon Jung, Patrick McDaniel and Anmol Sheth, TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones, Communications of the ACM, Vol.57, No.3, March, 2014. [Link] (
    Research Highlight
    )
  7. Alessandro Oltramari, Lorrie Cranor, Robert Walls and Patrick McDaniel, Building an Ontology of Cyber Security, Proc. Intl. Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS), November, 2014. [Link]
  8. Matthew Dering and Patrick McDaniel, Android Market Reconstruction and Analysis, Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), October, 2014. Baltimore, MD. [Link]
  9. Wenhui Hu, Damien Octeau, Patrick McDaniel and Peng Liu, Duet: Library Integrity Verification for Android Applications, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), July, 2014. Oxford, United Kingdom. [Link]
  10. Steven Arzt, Siegfried Rasthofer, Christian Fritz, Eric Bodden, Alexandre Bartel, Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon, Damien Octeau and Patrick McDaniel, FlowDroid: Precise Context, Flow, Field, Object-sensitive and Lifecycle-aware Taint Analysis for Android Apps, Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June, 2014. Edinburgh, UK. (
    Most Influential Paper of PLDI 2014 2024
    ) [Link]
  11. Phillip Koshy, Diana Koshy and Patrick McDaniel, An Analysis of Anonymity in Bitcoin Using P2P Network Traffic, Proceedings of Financial Cryptography 2014, International Financial Cryptography Association (IFCA), February, 2014. Christ Church, Barbado. [Link]
  12. Stephen McLaughlin, Devin Pohly, Patrick McDaniel and Saman Zonouz, A Trusted Safety Verifier for Process Controller Code, Proc. ISOC Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), February, 2014. San Diego, CA. [Link]
  13. Patrick McDaniel, Trent Jaeger, Thomas La Porta, Nicolas Papernot, Robert Walls, Alexander Kott, Lisa Marvel, Ananthram Swami, Prasant Mohapatra, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy and Iulian Neamtiu, Security and Science of Agility, First ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2014), November, 2014. Scottsdale, AZ. [Link]
  14. U.S. Patent No. 8,732,293, Patrick McDaniel, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merwe, System and method for tracking individuals on a data network using communities of interest, May, 2014.
  15. U.S. Patent No. 8,813,213, William Aiello, Charles Kalmanek, William Leighton III, Patrick McDaniel, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Reverse firewall with self-provisioning, August, 2014.

Technical Reports

  • Li Li, Alexandre Bartel, Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon, Steven Arzt, Siegfried Rasthofer, Eric Bodden, Damien Octeau and Patrick McDaniel, I know what leaked in your pocket: uncovering privacy leaks on Android Apps with Static Taint Analysis, Technical Report arXiv:1404.7431, arXiv preprint, 2014. [Link]

2013

  1. Damien Octeau, Patrick McDaniel, Somesh Jha, Alexandre Bartel, Eric Bodden, Jacques Klein and Yves Le Traon, Effective Inter-Component Communication Mapping in Android with Epicc: An Essential Step Towards Holistic Security Analysis, Proceedings of the 22th USENIX Security Symposium, August, 2013. Washington, DC. [Link]
  2. U.S. Patent No. 8,453,227, William Aiello, Charles Kalmanek, William Leighton III, Patrick McDaniel, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Reverse firewall with self-provisioning, May, 2013.

2012

  1. Machigar Ongtang, Stephen McLaughlin, William Enck and Patrick McDaniel, Semantically Rich Application-Centric Security in Android, Security and Communication Networks, Vol.5, No.6, Pages 658-673, 2012. [Link]
  2. Devin J. Pohly, Stephen McLaughlin, Patrick McDaniel and Kevin Butler, Hi-Fi: Collecting High-Fidelity Whole-System Provenance, Proceedings of the 28th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December, 2012. Orlando, Florida. [Link]
  3. Stephen McLaughlin and Patrick McDaniel, SABOT: Specification-based Payload Generation for Programmable Logic Controllers, 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October, 2012. [Link]
  4. Weining Yang, Ninghui Li, Yuan Qi, Wahbeh Qardaji, Stephen McLaughlin and Patrick McDaniel, Minimizing Private Data Disclosures in the Smart Grid, 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October, 2012. [Link]
  5. Eun Kyoung Kim, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta, A Detection Mechanism for SMS Flooding Attacks in Cellular Networks, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM 2012), September, 2012. Padua, Italy. [Link]
  6. Damien Octeau, Somesh Jha and Patrick McDaniel, Retargeting Android Applications to Java Bytecode, 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), November, 2012. Research Triangle Park, NC. (
    Best artifact
    ) [Link]
  7. Thomas Moyer, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Scalable Integrity-Guaranteed AJAX, Proceedings of the 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), April, 2012. Kunming, China. (
    Invited Paper
    ) [Link]
  8. Patrick McDaniel and Stephen McLaughlin, Structured Security Testing in the Smartgrid, Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing, May, 2012. Rome, Italy. (
    Invited Paper
    ) [Link]
  9. U.S. Patent No. 8,175,580, Patrick McDaniel and Martin Strauss, End-to-end secure wireless communication for requesting a more secure channel, May, 2012.

2011

  1. Patrick McDaniel, Bloatware Comes to the Smartphone, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Vol.10, No.4, July/August, 2011. [Link]
  2. Thomas Moyer, Kevin Butler, Joshua Schiffman, Patrick McDaniel and Trent Jaeger, Scalable Web Content Attestation, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol.61, No.5, Pages 686--699, April, 2011. [Link]
  3. Patrick McDaniel, Data Provenance and Security, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Vol.9, No.3, March/April, 2011. [Link]
  4. Joshua Schiffman, Thomas Moyer, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Network-based Root of Trust for Installation, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Pages 40-48, Jan/Feb, 2011. [Link]
  5. Patrick Traynor, Chaitrali Amrutkar, Vikhyath Rao, Trent Jaeger, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta, From Mobile Phones to Responsible Devices, Journal of Security and Communication Networks (SCN), Vol.4, No.6, Pages 719 -- 726, June, 2011. [Link]
  6. Stephen McLaughlin, Patrick McDaniel and William Aiello, Protecting Consumer Privacy from Electric Load Monitoring, The 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October, 2011. Chicago, IL. [Link]
  7. William Enck, Damien Octeau, Patrick McDaniel and Swarat Chaudhuri, A Study of Android Application Security, Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Security Symposium, August, 2011. San Francisco, CA. [Link]
  8. U.S. Patent No. 7,873,350, Patrick McDaniel and Martin Strauss, End-to-end secure wireless communication for requesting a more secure channel, January, 2011.
  9. U.S. Patent No. 7,975,044, Oliver Spatscheck, Subhabrata Sen, Jacobus Van der Merwe and Patrick McDaniel, Automated disambiguation of fixed-serverport-based applications from ephemeral applications, July, 2011.

Technical Reports

  • Damien Octeau, Somesh Jha and Patrick McDaniel, Retargeting Android Applications to Java Bytecode, Technical Report NAS-TR-0150-2011, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, September, 2011.
  • Stephen McLaughlin and Patrick McDaniel, Protecting Consumer Privacy from Electric Load Monitoring, Technical Report NAS-TR-0147-2011, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, March, 2011.

2010

  1. Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin, Thomas Moyer and Patrick McDaniel, New Security Architectures Based on Emerging Disk Functionality, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, Vol.8, No.5, October, 2010. [Link]
  2. Patrick McDaniel and William Enck, Not So Great Expectations: Why Application Markets Haven't Failed Security, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Vol.8, No.5, Pages 76--78, September/October, 2010. [Link]
  3. Patrick Traynor, Kevin Butler, William Enck, Kevin Borders and Patrick McDaniel, malnets: Large-Scale Malicious Networks via Compromised Wireless Access Points, Journal of Security and Communication Networks (SCN), Vol.2, No.3, Pages 102-113, March, 2010. [Link]
  4. Matthew Pirretti, Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel and Brent Waters, Secure Attribute-Based Systems, Journal of Computer Security (JCS), Vol.18, No.5, Pages 799--837, 2010. [Link]
  5. Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Luke St. Clair, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, A Logical Specification and Analysis for SELinux MLS Policy, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Vol.13, No.26, 2010. [Link]
  6. Kevin Butler, Toni Farley, Patrick McDaniel and J. Rexford, A Survey of BGP Security Issues and Solutions, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol.2010, No.1, Pages 100-122, January, 2010. [Link]
  7. Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin and Patrick McDaniel, Kells: A Protection Framework for Portable Data, Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December, 2010. Austin, TX. [Link]
  8. Stephen McLaughlin, Dmitry Podkuiko, Adam Delozier, Sergei Miadzvezhanka and Patrick McDaniel, Multi-vendor Penetration Testing in the Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December, 2010. Austin, TX. [Link]
  9. Machigar Ongtang, Kevin Butler and Patrick McDaniel, Porscha: Policy Oriented Secure Content Handling in Android, Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December, 2010. Austin, TX. [Link]
  10. Patrick Traynor, Joshua Schiffman, Thomas La Porta, Patrick McDaniel, Abhrajit Ghosh and Farooq Anjum, Constructing Secure Localization Systems with Adjustable Granularity, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December, 2010. Miami, FL. [Link]
  11. William Enck, Peter Gilbert, Byung-Gon Chun, Landon Cox, Jaeyeon Jung, Patrick McDaniel and Anmol Sheth, TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones, Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), October, 2010. Vancouver, BC. [Link]
  12. Toby Ehrenkranz, Jun Li and Patrick McDaniel, Realizing A Source Authentic Internet, Proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communications Networks (Securecomm), September, 2010. Singapore. [Link]
  13. Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, David King, Thomas Moyer, Joshua Schiffman, Yogesh Sreenivasan, Patrick McDaniel and Trent Jaeger, An Architecture for Enforcing End-to-End Access Control over Web Applications, Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2010), Pages 163-172, June, 2010. Pittsburgh, PA. [Link]
  14. Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin and Patrick McDaniel, Disk-Enabled Authenticated Encryption, Proceedings of the 26th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST), May, 2010. [Link]
  15. Joshua Schiffman, Thomas Moyer, Hayawardh Vijayakumar, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Seeding Clouds with Trust Anchors, Proccedings of CCSW 2010: The ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop, October, 2010. Chicago, IL. [Link]
  16. Stephen McLaughlin, Dmitry Podkuiko, Adam Delozier, Sergei Miadzvezhanka and Patrick McDaniel, Embedded Firmware Diversity for Smart Electric Meters, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec '10), August, 2010. Washington, DC. [Link]
  17. Patrick McDaniel, Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin, Radu Sion, Erez Zadok and Marianne Winslett, Towards a Secure and Efficient System for End-to-End Provenance, the 2nd USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance, February, 2010. San Jose, CA. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • William Enck and Patrick McDaniel, Federated Information Flow Control for Mobile Phones, Technical Report NAS-TR-0136-2010, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, July, 2010.
  • Joshua Schiffman, Thomas Moyer, Hayawardh Vijayakumar, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Seeding Clouds with Trust Anchors, Technical Report NAS-TR-0127-2010, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, April, 2010.
  • Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin, Thomas Moyer, Joshua Schiffman, Patrick McDaniel and Trent Jaeger, Firma: Disk-Based Foundations for Trusted Operating Systems, Technical Report NAS-TR-0114-2009, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, April, 2010.
  • William Enck, Machigar Ongtang and Patrick McDaniel, On Lightweight Mobile Phone App Certification, Technical Report NAS-TR-0113-2009, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, April, 2010.

2009

  1. Kevin Butler, Sunam Ryu, Patrick Traynor and Patrick McDaniel, Leveraging Identity-based Cryptography for Node ID Assignment in Structured P2P Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol.20, No.12, Pages 1803-1815, December, 2009. [Link]
  2. Patrick McDaniel and Stephen McLaughlin, Security and Privacy Challenges in the Smart Grid, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine (Secure Systems issue column), Vol.7, No.3, Pages 75-77, May/June, 2009. [Link]
  3. Patrick Traynor, William Enck, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta, Mitigating Attacks on Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Vol.17, No.1, Pages 40-53, February, 2009. [Link]
  4. William Enck, Machigar Ongtang and Patrick McDaniel, Understanding Android Security, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Vol.7, No.1, Pages 50--57, January/February, 2009. [Link]
  5. William Enck, Thomas Moyer, Patrick McDaniel, Shubho Sen, Panagiotis Sebos, Sylke Spoerel, Albert Greenberg, Yu-Wei Sung, Sanjay Rao and William Aiello, Configuration Management at Massive Scale: System Design and Experience, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol.27, No.3, Pages 323-335, 2009. [Link]
  6. Heesook Choi, William Enck, Jaesheung Shin, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta, ASR: Anonymous and Secure Reporting of Traffic Forwarding Activity in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Networks (WINET), ACM/Kluwer, Vol.15, No.4, Pages 525-539, May, 2009. [Link]
  7. Patrick Traynor, William Enck, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta, Exploiting Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks, Journal of Computer Security, Vol.16, No.6, Pages 713-742, Febraury, 2009. [Link]
  8. Machigar Ongtang, Stephen McLaughlin, William Enck and Patrick McDaniel, Semantically Rich Application-Centric Security in Android, Proceedings of the 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Pages 340-349, December, 2009. Honolulu, Hawaii. (
    Best Paper, Test of Time Award 2024
    ) [Link]
  9. Thomas Moyer, Kevin Butler, Joshua Schiffman, Patrick McDaniel and Trent Jaeger, Scalable Asynchronous Web Content Attestation, Proceedings of the 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Pages 95-104, December, 2009. Honolulu, Hawaii. [Link]
  10. Joshua Schiffman, Thomas Moyer, Christopher Shal, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Justifying Integrity Using a Virtual Machine Verifier, Proceedings of the 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Pages 83-92, December, 2009. Honolulu, Hawai. [Link]
  11. William Enck, Machigar Ongtang and Patrick McDaniel, On Lightweight Mobile Phone App Certification, Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Pages 235-245, November, 2009. [Link]
  12. Patrick Traynor, Michael Lin, Machigar Ongtang, Vikhyath Rao, Trent Jaeger, Thomas La Porta and Patrick McDaniel, On Cellular Botnets: Measuring the Impact of Malicious Devices on a Cellular Network Core, Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Pages 223-234, November, 2009. [Link]
  13. Thomas La Porta, Patrick McDaniel, Karl Rauscher and Jun Shu, The Impact of Supply Chain on Information and Communications Technology Security, In the 1st Workshop on Workshop on Telecommunications Infrastructure Protection and Security, December, 2009. Honolulu, Hawaii.
  14. Stephen McLaughlin, Dmitry Podkuiko and Patrick McDaniel, Energy Theft in the Advanced Metering Infrastructure, In the 4th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructure Security, September, 2009. Bonn, Germany. [Link]
  15. Matthew Blaze and Patrick McDaniel, Below the Salt: The Dangers of Unfulfilled Physical Media Assumptions, In Proceedings of Seventeenth International Workshop on Security Protocols, April, 2009. Cambridge, England. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Yogesh Sreenivasan, Guruprasad Jakka, David King, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, An Architecture for Enforcing End-to-End Security Over Web Applications, Technical Report NAS-TR-0104-2009, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, January, 2009.
  • Joshua Schiffman, Thomas Moyer, Christopher Shal, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, No Node Is an Island: Shamon Integrity Monitoring Approach, Technical Report NAS-TR-0103-2009, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, February, 2009.

2008

  1. Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta, Security for Telecommunications Networks Springer, Series: Advances in Information Security, July, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-387-72441-6.
  2. Kevin Butler, William Enck, Patrick Traynor, Jennifer Plasterr and Patrick McDaniel, Privacy Preserving Web-Based Email, Algorithms, Architectures and Information Systems Security, Statistical Science and Interdisciplinary Research, World Scientific Computing, Pages349-371, November, 2008. Eds. Bhargab Bhattacharya, Susmita Sur-Kolay, Subhas Nandy and Aditya Bagchi.
  3. Patrick Traynor, Michael Chien, Scott Weaver, Boniface Hicks and Patrick McDaniel, Non-Invasive Methods for Host Certification, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Vol.11, No.3, 2008. [Link]
  4. Patrick McDaniel and Bashar Nuseibeh, \it Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Software Engineering for Secure Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.34, No.1, Pages 3--4, 2008. [Link]
  5. William Enck, Patrick McDaniel and Trent Jaeger, PinUP: Pinning User Files to Known Applications, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December, 2008. [Link]
  6. William Enck, Kevin Butler, Thomas Richardson, Patrick McDaniel and Adam Smith, Defending Against Attacks on Main Memory Persistence, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December, 2008. [Link]
  7. Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin and Patrick McDaniel, Rootkit-Resistant Disks, Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November, 2008. Alexandria, VA. [Link]
  8. Patrick Traynor, Kevin Butler, William Enck and Patrick McDaniel, Realizing Massive-Scale Conditional Access Systems Through Attribute-Based Cryptosystems, ISOC Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February, 2008. San Diego, CA. [Link]
  9. Kevin Butler, William Enck, Harri Hursti, Stephen McLaughlin, Patrick Traynor and Patrick McDaniel, Systemic Issues in the Hart InterCivic and Premier Voting Systems: Reflections Following Project EVEREST, In Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '08), July, 2008. [Link]
  10. Patrick McDaniel and Avi Rubin, Conference Proceedings, 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE, May, 2008. Oakland, CA.

Technical Reports

  • Patrick Traynor, Michael Lin, Machigar Ongtang, Vikhyath Rao, Trent Jaeger, Thomas La Porta and Patrick McDaniel, On Cellular Botnets: Measuring the Impact of Malicious Devices on the Network Core, Technical Report NAS-TR-0099-2008, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, Novemeber, 2008.
  • Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin, Thomas Moyer, Patrick McDaniel and Trent Jaeger, SwitchBlade: Policy-Driven Disk Segmentation, Technical Report NAS-TR-0098-2008, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, November, 2008.
  • William Enck, Machigar Ongtang and Patrick McDaniel, Automated Cellphone Application Certification in Android (or) Mitigating Phone Software Misuse Before It Happens, Technical Report NAS-TR-0094-2008, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennslyvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, September, 2008.
  • Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Luke St. Clair, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, A Logical Specification and Analysis for SELinux MLS Policy, Technical Report NAS-TR-0091-2008, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennslyvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, July, 2008.

2007

  1. Patrick McDaniel, Authentication, Handbook of Computer Networks, Volume II, Chapter 171, John Wiley and Sons, May, 2007. Eds. Hossein Bidgoli.
  2. Wesam Lootah, William Enck and Patrick McDaniel, TARP: Ticket-based Address Resolution Protocol, Computer Networks, Elsevier, Vol.51, No.15, Pages 4322--4337, October, 2007. [Link]
  3. Luke St. Clair, Joshua Schiffman, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Establishing and Sustaining System Integrity via Root of Trust Installation, 23rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Pages 19-29, December, 2007. Miami, FL. [Link]
  4. Boniface Hicks, Tim Misiak and Patrick McDaniel, Channels: Runtime System Infrastructure for Security-typed Languages, 23rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Pages 443-452, December, 2007. Miami, FL. [Link]
  5. Dhananjay Bapat, Kevin Butler and Patrick McDaniel, Towards Automated Privilege Separation, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security (short paper), December, 2007. Delhi, India. [Link]
  6. Lisa Johansen, Kevin Butler, Michael Rowell and Patrick McDaniel, Email Communities of Interest, Fourth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2007, August, 2007. Mountain View, California. [Link]
  7. Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta, On Attack Causality in Internet-Connected Cellular Networks, Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Security Symposium, Pages 1--16, August, 2007. Boston, MA. [Link]
  8. Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, From Trusted to Secure: Building and Executing Applications that Enforce System Security, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June, 2007. Santa Clara, CA. [Link]
  9. William Enck, Patrick McDaniel, Shubho Sen, Panagiotis Sebos, Sylke Spoerel, Albert Greenberg, Sanjay Rao and William Aiello, Configuration Management at Massive Scale: System Design and Experience, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June, 2007. Santa Clara, CA. [Link]
  10. Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Luke St. Clair, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, A Logical Specification and Analysis for SELinux MLS, 12th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), ACM, June, 2007. Sophia Antipolis, France. [Link]
  11. Anusha Sriraman, Kevin Butler, Patrick McDaniel and Padma Raghavan, Analysis of IPv4 Address Space Delegation Structure, 12th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), July, 2007. Aveiro, Portugal. [Link]
  12. Heesook Choi, Thomas La Porta and Patrick McDaniel, Privacy Preserving Communication in MANETs, Proceedings of Fourth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 07), June, 2007. San Diego, CA. [Link]
  13. Sophie Qiu, Patrick McDaniel and Fabian Monrose, Toward Valley-Free Inter-domain Routing, Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), June, 2007. Glasgow, Scottlan. [Link]
  14. Sunam Ryu, Kevin Butler, Patrick Traynor and Patrick McDaniel, Leveraging Identity-based Cryptography for Node ID Assignment in Structured P2P Systems, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Security in Networks and Distributed Systems (SSNDS-07), June, 2007. Niagra Falls, Canada. [Link]
  15. Hosam Rowaihy, William Enck, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta, Limiting Sybil Attacks in Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2007 MiniSymposiu, May, 2007. Anchorage, AK. [Link]
  16. Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin and Patrick McDaniel, Non-Volatile Memory and Disks: Avenues for Policy Architectures, Proceedings of the 1st ACM Computer Security Architectures Workshop, November, 2007. Alexandria, VA. [Link]
  17. William Enck, Sandra Rueda, Yogesh Sreenivasan, Joshua Schiffman, Luke St. Clair, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Protecting Users from "Themselves", Proceedings of the 1st ACM Computer Security Architectures Workshop, November, 2007. Alexandria, VA. [Link]
  18. Boniface Hicks, David King and Patrick McDaniel, Jifclipse: Development Tools for Security-Typed Applications, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS '07), ACM Press, June, 2007. San Diego, CA. [Link]
  19. Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Integration of SELinux and Security-typed Languages, Proceedings of the 2007 Security-Enhanced Linux Workshop, March, 2007. Baltimore, MD. [Link]
  20. Patrick McDaniel, Kevin Butler, William Enck, Harri Hursti, Stephen McLaughlin, Patrick Traynor, Matthew Blaze, Adam Aviv, Pavol Cerny, Sandy Clark, Eric Cronin, Gaurav Shah, Micah Sherr, Giovanni Vigna, Richard Kemmerer, David Balzarotti, Greg Banks, Marco Cova, Viktoria Felmetsger, William Robertson, Fredrik Valeur, Joseph Lorenzo Hall and Laura Quilter, EVEREST: Evaluation and Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards and Testing, Ohio Secretary of State, Public Report, 2007. [Link]
  21. Patrick McDaniel and Shyam K. Gupta, Conference Proceedings, The Third International Conference Information Systems Security, Springer, December, 2007. Delhi, India.
  22. Birgit Pfitzmann and Patrick McDaniel, Conference Proceedings, 2007 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE, May, 2007. Oakland, CA.

Technical Reports

  • Patrick Traynor, Joshua Schiffman, Thomas La Porta, Patrick McDaniel, Abhrajit Ghosh and Farooq Anjum, Constructing Secure Localization Systems with Adjustable Granularity, Technical Report NAS-TR-0084-2007, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennslyvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, December, 2007.
  • Stephen McLaughlin, Kevin Butler, William Enck and Patrick McDaniel, Genbd - A Generic Block Device, Technical Report NAS-TR-0082-2007, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennslyvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, November, 2007.
  • Luke St. Clair, Joshua Schiffman, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Establishing and Sustaining System Integrity via Root of Trust Installation, Technical Report NAS-TR-0067-2007, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennslyvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, April, 2007.
  • Lisa Johansen, Kevin Butler, William Enck, Patrick Traynor and Patrick McDaniel, Grains of SANs: Building Storage Area Networks from Memory Spots, Technical Report NAS-TR-0060-2007, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, January, 2007.

2006

  1. Patrick McDaniel and Atul Prakash, Enforcing Provisioning and Authorization Policy in the Antigone System, Journal of Computer Security, Vol.14, No.6, Pages 483--511, November, 2006. [Link]
  2. Patrick McDaniel and Atul Prakash, Methods and Limitations of Security Policy Reconciliation, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Association for Computing Machinery, Vol.9, No.3, Pages 259-291, August, 2006. [Link]
  3. Patrick McDaniel, William Aiello, Kevin Butler and John Ioannidis, Origin Authentication in Interdomain Routing, Journal of Communication Networks, Elsevier, Vol.50, No.16, Pages 2953-2980, November, 2006. [Link]
  4. Boniface Hicks, Kiyan Ahmadizadeh and Patrick McDaniel, Understanding Practical Application Development in Security-Typed Languages, 22st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Pages 153--164, December, 2006. Miami, Fl. (
    Best Student Paper
    ) [Link]
  5. Luke St. Clair, Lisa Johansen, William Enck, Matthew Pirretti, Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel and Trent Jaeger, Password Exhaustion: Predicting the End of Password Usefulness, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), Pages 37--55, December, 2006. Kolkata, India. [Link]
  6. Kevin Butler, William Enck, Jennifer Plasterr, Patrick Traynor and Patrick McDaniel, Privacy-Preserving Web-Based Email, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), Pages 116--131, December, 2006. Kolkata, India. [Link]
  7. Matthew Pirretti, Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel and Brent Waters, Secure Attribute-Based Systems, Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Pages 99-112, November, 2006. Alexandria, VA. [Link]
  8. Kevin Butler, William Aiello and Patrick McDaniel, Optimizing BGP Security by Exploiting Path Stability, Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Pages 298-310, November, 2006. Alexandria, VA. [Link]
  9. Patrick Traynor, William Enck, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta, Mitigating Attacks on Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks, Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Pages 182-193, September, 2006. Los Angeles, CA. [Link]
  10. Patrick Traynor, Michael Chien, Scott Weaver, Boniface Hicks and Patrick McDaniel, Non-Invasive Methods for Host Certification, Proceedings of the Second IEEE Communications Society/CreateNet International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), August, 2006. Baltimore, MD. [Link]
  11. Sophie Qiu, Patrick McDaniel, Fabian Monrose and Avi Rubin, Characterizing Address Use Structure and Stabillity of Origin Advertisement in Interdomain Routing, 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Pages 489-496, June, 2006. Pula-Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. [Link]
  12. Patrick McDaniel, Shubho Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus Van der Merwe, William Aiello and Charles Kalmanek, Enterprise Security: A Community of Interest Based Approach, Proceedings of Network and Distributed Systems Security 2006 (NDSS), February, 2006. San Diego, CA. [Link]
  13. Sophie Qiu, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis and Patrick McDaniel, Efficient Techniques for Detecting False Origin Advertisements in Inter-domain Routing, Proceedings of The Second Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), November, 2006. Santa Barbara. [Link]
  14. Shiva Chaitanya, Kevin Butler, Patrick McDaniel and Anand Sivasubramaniam, Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Security in iSCSI-based Network Storage Systems, Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2006), October, 2006. Alexandria, Virginia. [Link]
  15. Trent Jaeger, Patrick McDaniel, Luke St. Clair, Ramon Caceres and Reiner Sailer, Shame on Trust in Distributed Systems, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec '06), July, 2006. Vancouver, B.C., Canada. [Link]
  16. Kevin Butler, Patrick McDaniel and Sophie Qiu, BGPRV: A Library for Fast and Efficient Routing Data Manipulation, Proceedings of DETER Community Workshop, June, 2006. Arlington, VA. [Link]
  17. Kevin Butler and Patrick McDaniel, Testing Large Scale BGP Security in Replayable Network Environments, Proceedings of DETER Community Workshop, June, 2006. Arlington, VA. [Link]
  18. Boniface Hicks, David King, Patrick McDaniel and Michael Hicks, Trusted Declassification: High-level Policy for a Security-Typed Language, Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security, Pages 65-74, June, 2006. Ottawa, Canada. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Luke St. Clair, Joshua Schiffman, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Sum of the Parts: Composing Trust from Validation Primitives, Technical Report NAS-TR-0056-2006, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, November, 2006.
  • Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Trent Jaeger and Patrick McDaniel, Integrating SELinux with Security-typed Languages, Technical Report NAS-TR-0052-2006, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, October, 2006.
  • Patrick McDaniel, Understanding Equivalance in High-Level and Information Flow Policy, Technical Report NAS-TR-0042-2006, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, July, 2006.

2005

  1. Patrick McDaniel and Avi Rubin, \it Guest Editoral: Special Issue on Web Security, Computer Networks, Elsevier, Vol.22, No.2, 2005. [Link]
  2. Matthew Pirretti, Sencun Zhu, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Patrick McDaniel, Mahmut Kandemir and Richard Brooks, The Sleep Deprivation Attack in Sensor Networks: Analysis and Methods of Defense, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Vol.2, No.3, Pages 267-287, June, 2005. [Link]
  3. Kevin Butler and Patrick McDaniel, Understanding Mutable Internet Pathogens, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Parasitic Behavior, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 3803, Pages 36-48, December, 2005. Kolkata, India. (
    Invited Paper
    ) [Link]
  4. Wesam Lootah, William Enck and Patrick McDaniel, TARP: Ticket-Based Address Resolution Protocol, 21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Pages 95-103, December, 2005. Tuscon, AZ. [Link]
  5. William Enck, Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta, Exploiting Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks, Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Pages 393--404, May, 2005. Alexandria, VA. [Link]
  6. Matthew Pirretti, Sencun Zhu, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Patrick McDaniel, Mahmut Kandemir and Richard Brooks, The Sleep Deprivation Attack in Sensor Networks: Analysis and Methods of Defense, Proceedings of the Innovations and Commercial Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks Symposi, October, 2005. Bethesda, Maryland. (
    Best paper
    ) [Link]
  7. Louis Kruger, Somesh Jha and Patrick McDaniel, Privacy Preserving Clustering, 10th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS '05), September, 2005. Milan, Italy. [Link]
  8. Heesook Choi, William Enck, Jaesheung Shin, Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta, Secure Reporting of Traffic Forwarding Activity in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, MobiQuitous 2005, July, 2005. San Diego, CA. [Link]
  9. Ali Al-Lawati, Dongwon Lee and Patrick McDaniel, Blocking in Private Information Matching, Proceedings of Second International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Information Quality in Information Systems, June, 2005. Baltimore, MD. [Link]
  10. William Aiello, Charles Kalmanek, Patrick McDaniel, Shubho Sen, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Analysis of Communities Of Interest in Data Networks, Passive and Active Measurement Workshop 2005, March, 2005. Boston, M. [Link]
  11. Patrick McDaniel, Conference Proceedings, The 14th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX, August, 2005. Baltimore, MD.

Technical Reports

  • Matthew Pirretti, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Patrick McDaniel and Bharat Madan, SLAT: Secure Localization with Attack Tolerance, Technical Report NAS-TR-0024-2005, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, August, 2005.

2004

  1. Patrick McDaniel, Computer and Network Authentication, Handbook of Information Security, John Wiley and Sons, September, 2004. Eds. Hossein Bidgoli.
  2. Simon Byers, Lorrie Cranor, Eric Cronin, Dave Kormann and Patrick McDaniel, Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process, Telecommunications Policy, Vol.28, No.8, Pages 619-644, August, 2004. [Link]
  3. Simon Byers, Lorrie Cranor, Eric Cronin, Dave Kormann and Patrick McDanie, Exposing Digital Content Piracy: Approaches, Issues and Experiences, Thirty-Eighth Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pages 45--50, Nov, 2004. Monterey, CA. (
    Invited paper
    ) [Link]
  4. Simon Byers, Lorrie Cranor, David Kormann and Patrick McDaniel, Searching for Privacy: Design and Implementation of a P3P-Enabled Search Engine, Proceedings of 2004 Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), May, 2004. Toronto, Canad. [Link]
  5. Hao Wang, Somesh Jha, Patrick McDaniel and Miron Livn, Security Policy Reconciliation in Distributed Computing Environments, Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy 2004), IEEE Computer Society Press, Pages 137-146, June, 2004. Yorktown Heights, N. [Link]
  6. Patrick McDaniel, Policy Evolution: Autonomic Environmental Security, Software Engineering Research Center Showcase, USA, December, 2004. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Dan Pei, William Aiello, Anna Gilbert and Patrick McDaniel, Origin Disturbances in BGP, Technical Report TD-62TJJF8, AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ, July, 2004. [Link]

2003

  1. Patrick McDaniel, IPsec, Encyclopedia of Information Security, Kluwer, 2003. Eds. Hossein Bidgoli.
  2. Patrick McDaniel, Policy, Encyclopedia of Information Security, Kluwer, 2003. Eds. Hossein Bidgoli.
  3. William Aiello, John Ioannidis and Patrick McDaniel, Origin Authentication in Interdomain Routing, Proceedings of 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, Pages 165-178, October, 2003. Washington, DC. [Link]
  4. Eric Cronin, Sugih Jamin, Tal Malkin and Patrick McDaniel, On the Performance, Feasibility, and Use of Forward Secure Signatures, Proceedings of 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, Pages 131-144, October, 2003. Washington, DC. [Link]
  5. Patrick McDaniel, On Context in Authorization Policy, 8th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), ACM, Pages 80-8, June, 2003. Como, Italy. [Link]
  6. Geoff Goodell, William Aiello, Tim Griffin, John Ioannidis, Patrick McDaniel and Avi Rubin, Working Around BGP: An Incremental Approach to Improving Security and Accuracy of Interdomain Routing, Proceedings of Network and Distributed Systems Security 2003 (NDSS), Internet Society, Pages 75-8, February, 2003. San Diego, CA. [Link]
  7. Simon Byers, Lorrie Cranor, Eric Cronin, Dave Kormann and Patrick McDaniel, Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process, Proceedings of 2003 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, ACM, October, 2003. Washington, DC, also appeared in Telecommunications Policy Research Conference -- September 2003. [Link]
  8. Hugh Harney, Uri Meth, Andrea Colegrove, Angela Schuett, Patrick McDaniel, Gavin Kenny, Haitham Cruickshank and Sunil Iyengar, GSAKMP (\it Draft), Internet Research Task Force, August, 2003. [Link]
  9. Patrick McDaniel and Atul Prakash, A Flexible Architecture for Security Policy Enforcement, Proceedings of DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition III, Research Summaries, Pages 234-239, April, 2003. [Link]
  10. Jim Irrer, Atul Prakash and Patrick McDaniel, Antigone: Policy-Based Secure Group Communications Systems and AMirD: Antigone-Based Secure File Mirroring System, Proceedings of DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition III, Demo Summaries, Pages 44-4, April, 2003. [Link]

2002

  1. Patrick McDaniel, Authentication, The Internet Encyclopedia, John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
  2. Patrick McDaniel and Atul Prakash, Methods and Limitations of Security Policy Reconciliation, 2002 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society Press, Pages 73-87, May, 2002. Oakland, CA. [Link]
  3. Patrick McDaniel and Sugih Jamin, Windowed Key Revocation in Public Key Infrastructures, NASA Tech Briefs, Pages 55, August, 2002. [Link]

2001

  1. Patrick McDaniel, Atul Prakash, Jim Irrer, Sharad Mittal and Thai-Chuin Thuang, Flexibly Constructing Secure Groups in Antigone 2.0, Proceedings of DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition II, IEEE Computer Society Press, Pages 55-67, June, 2001. Los Angeles, CA. [Link]
  2. Hugh Harney, Andrea Colegrove and Patrick McDaniel, Principles of Policy in Secure Groups, Proceedings of Network and Distributed Systems Security 2001 (NDSS), Internet Society, Pages 125-13, February, 2001. San Diego, CA. [Link]
  3. Patrick McDaniel and Atul Prakash, Antigone Secure Group Communication System, NASA Tech Briefs, 2001. [Link]
  4. Patrick McDaniel, Policy Management in Secure Group Communication, PhD Thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, August, 2001. [Link]
  5. Tom Hardjono, Hugh Harney, Patrick McDaniel, Andrea Colegrove and Peter Dinsmore, Group Security Policy Token (\it Draft), Internet Research Task Force, Secure Multicast Research Group (SMuG), November, 2001. [Link]

2000

  1. Patrick McDaniel and Sugih Jamin, Windowed Certificate Revocation, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2000, IEEE, Pages 1406-1414, March, 2000. Tel Aviv, Israel. [Link]
  2. Patrick McDaniel and Avi Rubin, A Response to `Can We Eliminate Certificate Revocation Lists?', Proceedings of Financial Cryptography 2000, International Financial Cryptography Association (IFCA), February, 2000. Anguilla, British West Indies. [Link]
  3. Patrick McDaniel, Hugh Harney, Andrea Colegrove, Atul Prakash and Peter Dinsmore, Multicast Security Policy Requirements and Building Blocks (\it Draft), Internet Research Task Force, Secure Multicast Research Group (SMuG), November, 2000. [Link]
  4. Patrick McDaniel, Hugh Harney, Peter Dinsmore and Atul Prakash, Multicast Security Policy (\it Draft), Internet Research Task Force, Secure Multicast Research Group (SMuG), June, 2000. [Link]

Technical Reports

  • Patrick McDaniel and Atul Prakash, Lightweight Failure Detection in Secure Group Communication, Technical Report CSE-TR-428-00, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, June, 2000. [Link]

1999

  1. Andrew Adamson, Charles J. Antonelli, Kevin Coffman, Patrick McDaniel and Jim Rees, Secure Distributed Virtual Conferencing, Proceedings of Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS '99), Pages 176-190, September, 1999. Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium. [Link]
  2. Patrick McDaniel, Atul Prakash and Peter Honeyman, Antigone: A Flexible Framework for Secure Group Communication, Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Security Symposium, Pages 99-114, August, 1999. Washington, DC. [Link]
  3. Patrick McDaniel, 8th USENIX Security Symposium Conference Summaries, Potpourri Session, USENIX Login Magazine, Pages 9-12, November, 1999. [Link]

1998

    Technical Reports

    • Patrick McDaniel and Sugih Jamin, A Scalable Key Distribution Hierarchy, Technical Report CSE-TR-366-98, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, , 1998. [Link]
    • Patrick McDaniel, Peter Honeyman and Atul Prakash, Lightweight Secure Group Communication, Technical Report 98-2, Center for Information Technology Integration, University of Michigan, April, 1998. [Link]

    1991

    1. Patrick McDaniel, The Analysis of $D_i$, a Detailed Design Metric on Large Scale Software, Masters Thesis, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, June, 1991. [Link]

    Technical Reports

    • Wayne Zage, Delores Zage, Patrick McDaniel and Irshad Khan, Evaluating Design Metrics on Large-Scale Software, Technical Report SERC-TR-106-P, Software Engineering Resource Center, Purdue University, September, 1991. [Link]

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