KEVIN R. B. BUTLER
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Oregon

Email: butler at cs.uoregon.edu (View PGP/GPG key)
Phone: (541) 346-3473
Fax: (541) 346-5373

Address:
343 Deschutes Hall
1202 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1212 USA

My research focuses on security issues as they relate to storage systems, large-scale systems architectures, and networks. Recently, I have been exploring how advances in storage technologies can be used to improve the state of systems security. By autonomously enforcing policy, storage devices can ensure the security of data even if the host is compromised. Some of my other research areas of interest include security in interdomain routing, propagation of malicious code through the Internet, applied cryptosystems, and using secure hardware to enforce systems security. I direct the OSIRIS Lab at the University of Oregon.

Note: I am looking for strong students with an interest in systems security. Students must have a strong technical background, be comfortable with systems work, and be willing to work hard. If you are not at student at the University of Oregon and you are interested in my research, please apply to the program.

News Items

9 February 2012

I was invited to join the technical program committee of the 28th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC).

2 December 2011

I have been invited to serve on the technical program committee for the 2012 USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec'12).

15 November 2011

Our paper, "Memory-Efficient Garbled Circuit Generation for Mobile Devices", was accepted for publication at the International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2012).

19 October 2011

Our paper, "Accountable Wiretapping -or- I Know They Can Hear You Now", was accepted for publication at the ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2012).

20 July 2011

I have received an NSF Trustworthy Computing Small award as the principal investigator of the proposal "Protection Mechanisms for Portable Storage".

14 July 2011

I was invited to join the technical program committee of the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

16 April 2011

Our paper, "Host Identification via USB Fingerprinting", was accepted as a full paper at SADFE 2011.

5 April 2011

I organized the first annual Computer Security Day at the Univesrity of Oregon. Photos from the 2011 Oregon Security Day are now available here.

21 February 2011

I have received a DARPA award as a co-principal investigator of the proposal "Characterizing and Implementing Efficient Primitives for Privacy-Preserving Computation."

15 February 2011

Our paper, "Scalable Web Content Attestation", was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Computers.

24 January 2011

I was invited to join the technical program committee of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC).

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