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Clay Shields


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Anonymity

Covert Channel Detection

Traceback and Forensics

Wireless

Multicast

Other

Copyright

Anonymity

I am interested in developiong protocols for anonymity that can be used to protect the privacy of internet users, and the limits of how effective these protocols can be when used over extended periods of time.
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Covert Channel Detection

Covert channels are a mechanism for intruders to leak information in ways that are designed to be difficult to detect. This area of work is designed to help detect when this is happening
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Traceback and Forensics

While I am interested in anonymity for the purposes of individual privacy, I also firmly believe in holding intruders accountable for their actions. My research in this area focuses on mechanisms to locate attackers across the internet.
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Wireless

There are clearly a number of security problems with ad hoc wireless networks. I have worked on secure ad hoc routing, and plan to address other problems in the near future.
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  • C. Piro, C. Shields, and B. N. Levine, "Detecting the Sybil Attack in Mobile Ad hoc Networks", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (Securecomm), August, 2006.
  • K. Sanzgiri, B. Dahill, D. LaFlamme, B. N. Levine, C. Shields, and E. Belding-Royer,"A Secure Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks". IEEE Journals on Selected Areas in Communications Special issue on Wireless Ad hoc Networks, March, 2005. Note: The copy of the paper linked above includes a letter providing additional information that was precluded from the paper by space limitations.
  • K. Sanzgiri, B. Dahill, B. N. Levine, C. Shields, and E. Belding-Royer, "A Secure Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks", In Proceedings of 2002 IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP). November 2002.
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Multicast

I no longer am active in working in multicast, but my past work focused on secure shared-tree multicast algorithms.
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Other

I also work on other things that interest me.
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Copyright

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