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Search Publications by: Simson Garfinkel (Assoc)

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Organizational Practices in Cryptographic Development and Testing

October 9, 2017
Author(s)
Julie Haney, Simson L. Garfinkel, Mary Theofanos
Organizations developing cryptographic products face significant challenges, including usability and human factors, that may result in decreased security, increased development time, and missed opportunities to use the technology to its fullest potential

Comparing the Usability of Cryptographic APIs

June 26, 2017
Author(s)
Simson L. Garfinkel
Potentially dangerous cryptography errors are well-documented in many applications. Conventional wisdom suggests that many of these errors are caused by cryptographic Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) that are too complicated, have insecure defaults

Beyond IRBs: Designing Ethical Review Processes for Big Data Research

January 25, 2017
Author(s)
Simson L. Garfinkel
Big Data Research is something new, a practice rooted in large-scale data collection that frequently combines aspects of research, experimentation, and entertainment. Yet another mismatch between the worlds of Big Data research and IRB system are the

First Workshop on Video Analytics in Public Safety

January 19, 2017
Author(s)
John S. Garofolo, Simson L. Garfinkel, Reva B. Schwartz
The first Video Analytics in Public Safety (VAPS) Workshop was held on Monday, June 6, 2016, in San Diego, CA as a satellite workshop of the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Broadband Stakeholder Meeting, which was held on June 7-9. The

Secure and usable enterprise authentication: Lessons from the Field

October 26, 2016
Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos, Simson L. Garfinkel, Yee-Yin Choong
There are now more than 5.4 million Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Common Access Card (CAC) identity cards deployed to US government employees and contractors. These cards are widely used to gain physical access to federal facilities, but their

Trustworthy Email

September 6, 2016
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Simson L. Garfinkel, J. S. Nightingale, Scott W. Rose
This document gives recommendations and guidelines for enhancing trust in email. The primary audience includes enterprise email administrators, information security specialists and network managers. This guideline applies to federal IT systems and will

De-Identification of Personal Information

October 22, 2015
Author(s)
Simson L. Garfinkel
Abstract: De-identification removes identifying information from a dataset so that individual data cannot be linked with specific individuals. De-identification can reduce the privacy risk associated with collecting, processing, archiving, distributing or

Measuring Systematic and Random Error in Digital Forensics

July 24, 2015
Author(s)
Alexander J. Nelson, Simson L. Garfinkel
Recognized sources of error in digital forensics include systematic errors arising from implementation errors, and random errors resulting from faulty equipment. But as digital forensic techniques expand to include statistical machine learning, another