Scott A. Crosby


Research

I am a PostDoc at Rice University currently working in Dan Wallach's security group. I recently finished my PhD thesis on tamper-evident data structures. My interests include computer security. systems programming, programming languages and distributed systems.

Thesis

Scott A. Crosby. Efficient Tamper-Evident Data Structures for Untrusted Servers. PhD Thesis. Rice University (May 2010). (pdf)

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

Published Papers  (bibtex file)

Scott A. Crosby and Dan S. Wallach. Super-efficient Aggregating History-independent Persistent Authenticated Dictionaries. Proceedings of the 14th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS). (Saint Malo, France), September 2009. (pdf)

Scott A. Crosby and Dan S. Wallach. Efficient Data Structures for Tamper Evident Logging. Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Security Symposium. (Montreal, CA), August 2009. (pdf)

Scott A. Crosby, Dan S. Wallach, and Rudolf H. Riedi. Opportunities and Limits of Remote Timing Attacks. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC). January 2009. (pdf)

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 A. Crosby, and 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)

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

Michael G. Christel, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Adrienne S. Warmack, and Scott A. Crosby. Adjustable Filmstrips and Skims as Abstractions for a Digital Video Library. Proceedings on Advances in Digital Libraries. (Baltimore, MD), May 1999, IEEE Press, 98-104. (msword)

Scott A. Crosby, Ian Goldberg, Robert Johnson, Dawn Song, and David Wagner. A Cryptanalysis of the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection System. Workshop on Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management. (Philadelphia, PA), November 2001. 192-200. (ps) (ps slides)

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)


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