Email: tristenp at cs dot ucsd dot edu

Phone: 858-534-8833 (office)

Office: EBU3B Room 4242

Mailing Address:
EBU3B, Room 4242
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0404
La Jolla, CA 92093-0404

Thomas Ristenpart

PhD candidate
Security and Cryptography Group
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
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My research is in computer security. A typical theme of my work is unlocking cryptography's potential for helping secure systems in practice. This requires understanding threat models and the behavior of systems under attack, developing security-aware system designs, and adapting cryptography, in a theoretically sound way, to meet the requirements of practical use.

I am on the job market this year. Research and teaching statements are available upon request, in the mean time check out my CV.

Some examples of my work are below, or click here for my publications.

Experimenting with data leakage in cloud computing
Paper: CCS 2009
Media coverage: MIT Technology Review - MIT Technology Review (2) - MIT Technology Review (3) - The New York Times - Network World - Network World (2) - Computer World - Data Center Knowledge - IT Business Edge - Cloudsecurity.org - Infoworld
Practical impact: Our work is helping inform industry best practices. For example, we are referenced in the Cloud Security Alliance's cloud security guide and the European Network and Information Security Agency's report on cloud security.

Privacy-preserving device tracking for helping locate lost or stolen mobile devices
Paper: USENIX Security 2008
Media coverage: Slashdot - PC World - The New York Times - The New York Times (2) - CNET News - Linux.com - Linux Magazine - Reader's Digest - ABC News - MIT Technology Review - more...
Practical impact: Check out Adeona's web page for the open source software.

New approaches for building the next generation of secure cryptographic hash functions
Papers: Asiacrypt 2006, ICALP 2007, Asiacrypt 2007, Eurocrypt 2009
Practical impact: Our design and analysis techniques are being used by contenders (such as Skein) for NIST's new cryptographic hash function standard SHA-3.



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