MOTI YUNG

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Publications

Some pages

DBLP Publication list

Google Scholar

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A Book

Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology
A content

by Adam Young and Moti Yung

Published by John Wiley & Sons.

The book exposes threats that show how Cryptography can be used as an attack mechanism, which result from combining strong cryptography with malware to attack information systems. Attacks are presented that pit cryptography against cryptography itself by maliciously utilizing cryptographic algorithms to attack implementations of cryptosystems (called kleptographic attacks). The book also details defenses against these types of attacks. This new and unorthodox use of cryptography exploits modern cryptographic notions, constructions, and tools as "dark side" mechanisms (i.e., as methods that increase threats, and perhaps paradoxically, reduce overall system security).

Research Interests

Cryptography, Security, Privacy, Networks and Distributed Systems,

Theory of Computation: Computational Complexity, Randomization, Algorithms(including: Distributed Algorithms, Fault Tolerance)and .

Applications: Secure Computing in the real world/ Cryptography as a tool in web privacy and transactions/ Secure Systems/ Financial/ E-commerce/ Banking/ Secure Web.

Projects at Columbia University

• Industrial Cryptography (outside Columbia, that is: real, working deployed systems)
• Public Key cryptography: systems, protocol, applications
• Security of Cryptographic Primitives
• Design of Ciphers, Systems and Protocols
• Distributed Cryptosystems (threshold, proactive..)
• Cryptographic Protocols
• Cryptography and Complexity (foundations)
• Algebraic methods in Cryptography
• Secret-Ballot Elections
• Kleptography -- The art of stealing information secretly and subliminally!
• Digital Rights, Information Hiding
• Privacy Issues
• Cryptographic Applications in Network/Systems Security
• Threats and Countermeasures

Links to Cryptography-Related Topics

Digicrime: a joke! -- (but it has good links)
People working and associated with Cryptology--(but: Home-Pages-Less not included)
Ron Rivest's Crypto and Security Page
IACR: Int. Assoc. for Crypto Research
ACNS 2008, to be held at Columbia.

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Links to Other Pages of Interest

(Cryptovirology)

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List of some (Ex/current) Graduate Students I co-advised and/or tutored and/or worked with

Contact Information at Columbia University

Address (at Columbia):

Room 465

S.W. Mudd Building,

Computer Science Department,

Columbia University,

New York, NY 10027, USA.

E-mail:

use: my first name at the host: cs.columbia.edu

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