"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— attributed to Albert Einstein
Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin, Thomas Moyer, and Patrick McDaniel. New Security Architectures Based on Emerging Disk Functionality. IEEE Security and Privacy, 8(5), pg. 34-31, Sept./Oct. 2010.
Kevin Butler, Toni Farley, Patrick McDaniel, and Jennifer Rexford. A Survey of BGP Security Issues and Solutions. Proceedings of the IEEE, 98(1):100--122, January 2010.
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). 2009. To appear.
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), 20(12):1803--1815, December 2009.
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, November 2008.
Patrick McDaniel, William Aiello, Kevin Butler, and John Ioannidis, Origin Authentication in Interdomain Routing. Computer Networks, 50(16), pg. 2953-2980, 14 November 2006.
Adam Bates, Kevin Butler, Micah Sherr, Clay Shields, Patrick Traynor, and Dan Wallach.
Accountable Wiretapping -or- I Know They Can Hear You Now. 19th ISOC
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2012). San Diego, CA,
USA, February 2012.
(acceptance rate=17.8%)
Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin, and Patrick McDaniel.
Kells: A Protection Framework for Portable Data. 26th Annual
Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2010). Austin, TX,
USA, December 2010.
(acceptance rate=16.3%)
Machigar Ongtang, Kevin Butler, and Patrick McDaniel.
Porscha: Policy Oriented Secure Content Handling in Android. 26th Annual
Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2010). Austin, TX,
USA, December 2010.
(acceptance rate=16.3%)
Thomas Moyer, Kevin Butler, Joshua Schiffman, Patrick McDaniel, and Trent
Jaeger. Scalable Asynchronous Web Content Attestation. 25th Annual
Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2009). Honolulu, HI,
USA, December 2009.
(acceptance rate=19.0%)
William Enck, Kevin Butler, Thomas Richardson, Patrick McDaniel, and Adam
Smith, Defending Against Attacks on Main Memory Persistence.
24th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2008),
Anaheim, CA, USA. December 2008.
(acceptance rate=24.3%)
Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin, and Patrick McDaniel, Rootkit-Resistant Disks. 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'08), Alexandria, VA, USA. November 2008.
(acceptance rate=18.1%)
Patrick Traynor, Kevin Butler, William Enck, and Patrick McDaniel, Realizing Massive-Scale Conditional Access Systems Through Attribute-Based Cryptosystems. 15th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'08), San Diego, CA, USA. February 2008.
(acceptance rate=17.8%)
Dhananjay Bapat, Kevin Butler, and Patrick McDaniel, Towards Automatic Privilege Separation. Third International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2007), Delhi, India. December 2007.
(acceptance rate=25.0%)
Lisa Johansen, Kevin Butler, Michael Rowell, and Patrick McDaniel, Email
Communities of Interest. Fourth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2007), Mountain View, CA, USA. August 2007.
(acceptance rate=19.0%)
Anusha Sriraman, Kevin Butler, Patrick McDaniel, and Padma Raghavan,
Analysis of the IPv4 Address Delegation Structure.
IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'07), Aveiro, Portugal. July 2007.
(acceptance rate=40%)
Sunam Ryu, Kevin Butler, Patrick Traynor, and Patrick McDaniel, Leveraging
Identity-based Cryptography for Node ID Assignment in Structured P2P
Systems. 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Security in Networks and
Distributed Systems (SSNDS'07), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada. May 2007.
(acceptance rate=40%)
Kevin Butler, Patrick Traynor, William Enck, Jennifer Plasterr, and Patrick
McDaniel, Privacy Preserving Web-Based Email. 2nd International
Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2006), Kolkata, India.
December 2006.
(acceptance rate=30.4%)
Kevin Butler, Patrick McDaniel, and William Aiello, Optimizing BGP Security
by Exploiting Path Stability. 13th ACM Conference on Computer and
Communications Security (CCS'06), Alexandria, VA, USA. November 2006.
(acceptance rate=14.8%)
Trent Jaeger, Kevin Butler, David King, Serge Hallyn, Joy Latten, and
Xiolan Zhang. Leveraging IPsec for Distributed Authorization.
2nd IEEE Communications Society/CreateNet International Conference on
Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm'06),
Baltimore, MD, USA. August 2006.
(acceptance rate=25.4%)
Kevin Butler and Patrick McDaniel, Understanding Mutable Internet Pathogens,
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Parasitic Behavior. 1st
International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2005),
Kolkata, India. December 2005.
(Invited
paper)
Patrick McDaniel, Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin, Radu Sion, Erez Zadok, and Marianne Winslett, Towards a Secure and Efficient System for End-to-End Provenance. 2nd USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP'10), San Jose, CA, USA, February 2010.
Kevin Butler and Petros Efstathopoulos, U Can’t Touch This: Block-Level Protection for Portable Storage. International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS 2009), Grenoble, France, October 2009.
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. 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT'08), San Jose, CA, USA. July 2008.
(acceptance rate=44.1%)
Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin, and Patrick McDaniel, Non-Volatile Memory and Disks: Avenues for Policy Architectures. 1st Computer Security Architecture Workshop (CSAW 2007), Alexandria, VA, USA. November 2007.
(acceptance rate=30%)
Shiva Chaitanya, Kevin Butler, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Patrick McDaniel, and
Murali Vilayannur, Design, implementation and evaluation of security in iSCSI-based network storage systems. 2nd International Workshop on Storge Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2006), Alexandria, VA, USA. October 2006.
(acceptance rate=68%)
Kevin Butler and Patrick McDaniel, Testing Large Scale BGP Security in Replayable Network Environments. DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test, Arlington, VA, USA. June 2006.
Kevin Butler, Sophie Qiu, and Patrick McDaniel, BGPRV: Retrieving and Processing BGP Data with Efficiency and Convenience. DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test, Arlington, VA, USA. June 2006.
Kevin Butler, 18th USENIX Security Symposium Conference Summaries. USENIX ;login Magazine, December 2009.
Kevin Butler, 16th USENIX Security Symposium Conference Summaries. USENIX ;login Magazine, December 2007.
Kevin Butler, 15th USENIX Security Symposium Conference Summaries. USENIX ;login Magazine, December 2006.
Kevin Butler, 14th USENIX Security Symposium Conference Summaries. USENIX ;login Magazine, December 2005.
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, Networking and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, May 2009.
Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin, Thomas Moyer, Patrick McDaniel, and Trent Jaeger. SwitchBlade: Policy-Driven Disk Segmentation. Technical Report NAS-TR-0098-2008, Networking and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, November 2008.
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-0060-2006, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, January 2007.
Kevin Butler, Stephen McLaughlin, Patrick McDaniel, and Youngjae Kim. Autonomously Secure Disks. Technical Report NAS-TR-0072-2007, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, May 2007. (Updated September 2007.)
Luke St. Clair, Lisa Johansen, Kevin Butler, William Enck, Matthew Pirretti, Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel, and Trent Jaeger, Password Exhaustion: Predicting the End of Password Usefulness. Technical Report NAS-TR-0030-2006, Network and Security Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, May 2006. (Updated January 2007.)