Scott A. Crosby

Also known as Scott Crosby.


Research

I am a sixth year PhD student at Rice University. I was granted my masters last year, May 2005. My research interests are in computer security, systems programming, programming languages and distributed systems. My advisor is Dan Wallach.

Thesis

Scott A. Crosby. Algorithmic Attacks and Timing Leaks in distributed Systems. Unpublished Masters Thesis (May 2005). (Rice University, Houston, TX) (pdf) (ps)

Published Papers  (bibtex file)

Christel, M., Hauptmann, A., et al. Adjustable Filmstrips and Skims as Abstractions for a Digital Video Library. In Proc. ADL '99 (Baltimore MD, May 1999), IEEE Press, 98-104. (msword)

Scott Crosby and Ian Goldberg and Robert Johnson and Dawn Song and David Wagner. A Cryptanalysis of the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection System.Workshop on Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management 2001 held as part of the Eighth ACM Conference of Computer and Communications Security (CCS-8) (November 2001), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 192-200. (ps) (ps slides)

Scott Crosby and Dan Wallach. Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity Attacks Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Security Symposium (August 2003). (pdf) (html) and an (overview) and two presentations (ppt slides) (ppt slides of related WIP talk)

Seth James Nielson, Scott A. Crosby, and Dan S. Wallach, A Taxonomy of Rational Attacks Fourth International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '05) (Ithaca, New York), February 2005. (pdf) (ps)

Walid Taha, Scott Crosby, Kedar Swadi. A New Approach to Data Mining for Software Design. International Conference on Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, e-Business, and Applications (CSITeA'04)}, 2004. (pdf) (ps)

TechReports  (bibtex file)

Scott A Crosby and Dan S Wallach Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity Attacks . Technical Report TR-03-416, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, February 2003 pdf

Scott A Crosby and Rudolf H Riedi and Dan S Wallach Opportunities and Limits of Remote Timing Attacks Technical Report TR-07-03, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, May 2007 pdf

Scott A Crosby and Dan S Wallach An Analysis of BitTorrent's Two Kademlia-Based DHTs Technical Report TR-07-04, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, June 2007 pdf

Other Projects

Algorithmic Complexity Attacks

Denial of service by exploiting the difference between average case and worst case performance of algorithms such as hash tables.

Datamining

Start of a side project on datamining from network security data.

Software

Other miscellaneous softwar I have worked on is available seperately
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
6100 Main St., MS 132
Houston, TX 77005-1892
USA
E-mail: scrosby@cs.rice.edu
Phone: 713-348-3726
Fax: 713-348-5930