William Enck

I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The Pennsylvania State University (PSU). Within the CSE department, I am a member of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security (SIIS) Laboratory, which is a part of the Networking and Security Research Center (NSRC). I am currently advised by Dr. Patrick McDaniel.

My Masters research considered telecommunications security. Co-author and fellow graduate student Patrick Traynor and I discovered vulnerabilities in the cellular phone network. Along with our advisors Dr. Patrick McDaniel and Dr. Thomas La Porta, we published our inital findings at the 2005 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). An overview of the problem can be found at smsanalysis.org and the New York Times. We futher investigated and characterized the problem with mathematical modeling and simulation. Our models were then used to evaluate mitigation strategies. This work was published in the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom).

As a PhD candidate, I am currently investigating various areas of operating systems security. In the past, I have also looked at forthcoming vulnerabilities as main memory switches to non-volatile technologies and researched secure network protocols, privacy tools, and trusted computing. A more full description of my research can be found on my research page.

News

December 14, 2007

The Ohio Secretary of State has released the EVEREST election system report from the academic team, of which I was a participant. The report can be retrieved here. The team prepared the following statement about the report and its findings, and will make no other public statements at this time.

November 5, 2007

Our paper, "Realizing Massive-Scale Conditional Access Systems Through Attribute-Based Cryptosystems," has been accepted for publication at the 15th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'08)

August 10, 2007

I gave a Work-in-Progress report (WiP) talk on my access control research at USENIX Security.

June 20, 2007

I am at the USENIX Annual Technical conference in Santa Clara, CA, presenting my work on automated router configuration.

May 31, 2007

I am in Princeton, NJ to present PRESTO (my USENIX Annual paper) at the PRESTO Workshop. Same name, different meaning.

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