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2012

• Aanjhan Ranganathan, Boris Danev, Aurélien Francillon, Srdjan Capkun
  Physical-Layer Attacks on Chirp-based Ranging Systems
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2012 (to appear)

• Cas Cremers, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Benedikt Schmidt, Srdjan Capkun
  Distance Hijacking Attacks on Distance Bounding Protocols
  in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2012 (to appear)

• Boris Danev, Srdjan Capkun, Ramya Jayaram Masti, Thomas S. Benjamin
  Towards Practical Identification of HF RFID Devices
  in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) (to appear)

• Cas Cremers, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Srdjan Capkun
  Distance Hijacking Attacks on Distance Bounding Protocols (invited paper)
  Abstract to appear In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2012
  Related technical report: Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2011/129, 2011 [PDF]

2011

• Boris Danev, Ramya Jayaram Masti, Ghassan Karame, Srdjan Capkun
  Enabling Secure VM-vTPM Migration in Private Clouds
  In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2011 [PDF | bibtex] (to appear)

• Ghassan Karame, Srdjan Capkun, Ueli Maurer
  Privacy-Preserving Outsourcing of Brute-Force Key Searches
  In Proceedings of the ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW); in conjunction with ACM CCS, 2011 [PDF | bibtex]

• Claude Castelluccia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Aurélien Francillon, Mohamed Ali Kaafar
  EphPub: Toward Robust Ephemeral Publishing
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2011 [PDF | bibtex | software] (to appear)

• Boris Danev, Davide Zanetti, Srdjan Capkun
  On Physical-layer Identification of Wireless Devices
  In ACM Computing Surveys, 2011 [PDF | bibtex]

• Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Christina Pöpper, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Srdjan Capkun
  On the Requirements for Successful GPS Spoofing Attacks
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2011 [PDF | bibtex]

• Iulia Ion, Niharika Sachdeva, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Srdjan Capkun
  Home is Safer than the Cloud! Privacy Concerns for Consumer Cloud Storage
  In Proceedings of the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2011

• Joel Reardon, Claudio Marforio, Srdjan Capkun, David Basin
  Secure Deletion on Log-structured File Systems
  arXiv Technical Report arXiv:1106.0917 [PDF]
  Related Schweizer Fernsehen: Einstein show 9.6.2011
  On-line Report and Secure Deletion Application Download: SHREDroid: Secure Deletion for Android

• Claudio Marforio, Aurélien Francillon, Srdjan Capkun
  Application Collusion Attack on the Permission-Based Security Model and its Implications for Modern Smartphone Systems
  Technical Report 724, ETH Zürich, System Security Group, April 2011. [PDF | bibtex]

• Christina Pöpper, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Boris Danev, Srdjan Capkun
  Investigation of Signal and Message Manipulations on the Wireless Channel
  In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2011 [PDF | bibtex]
  

• Patrick Schaller, Benedikt Schmidt, David Basin, Srdjan Capkun
  Formal Reasoning about Physical Properties of Security Protocols
  in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 2011 (to appear)

• Davide Zanetti, Pascal Sachs, Srdjan Capkun
  On The Practicality of UHF RFID Fingerprinting: How Real is the RFID Tracking Problem?
  In Proceedings of the 11th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2011 [PDF | bibtex]

• Srdjan Capkun, Karim El Defrawy, Gene Tsudik
  Group Distance Bounding Protocols (short paper)
  In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST), 2011 (to appear)
  Related technical report: [PDF]

• Ghassan Karame, Aurelien Francillon, Srdjan Capkun
  Pay as you Browse: Microcomputations as Micropayments in Web-based Services
  In Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2011 [PDF | bibtex].

• Aurelien Francillon, Boris Danev, Srdjan Capkun
  Relay Attacks on Passive Keyless Entry and Start Systems in Modern Cars
  In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2011
  Preceding technical report: Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2010/332, 2010 [PDF | bibtex]

2010

• Daniel Bodmer, Srdjan Capkun
  On the Security and Privacy in Cochlear Implants
  ETH Zurich, D-INFK, Technical Report No. 677, 2010 [PDF | bibtex]

• Christina Pöpper, David Basin, Srdjan Capkun, Cas Cremers
  Keeping Data Secret under Full Compromise using Porter Devices
  In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2010 [PDF | bibtex]

• Ghassan Karame, Srdjan Capkun and Ueli Maurer
  Privacy-Preserving Outsourcing of Brute-Force Key Searches
  ETH Zurich, D-INFK, Technical Report No. 662, 2010.

• Davide Zanetti, Boris Danev, Srdjan Capkun
  Physical-layer Identification of UHF RFID Tags
  In Proceedings of the ACM MobiCom (Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking), 2010 (to appear) [PDF | bibtex | poster*]
  * Poster presented at the USENIX Security Symposium, 2010.

• Ghassan Karame, Srdjan Capkun
  Low-Cost Client Puzzles based on Modular Exponentiation
  In Proceedings of ESORICS (European Symposium on Research in Computer Security), 2010 [PDF | bibtex]

• Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Srdjan Capkun
  Realization of RF Distance Bounding
  In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2010 [PDF | bibtex]

• Iulia Ion, Marc Langheinrich, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Srdjan Capkun
  Influence of User Perception, Security Needs, and Social Factors on Device Pairing Method Choices
  In Proceedings of the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2010 [PDF | bibtex]

• Srdjan Capkun, Mario Cagalj, Ghassan Karame, Nils Ole Tippenhauer
  Integrity Regions: Authentication Through Presence in Wireless Networks
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2010 (to appear) [bibtex]

• Marc Kuhn, Heinrich Luecken, Nils Ole Tippenhauer,
  UWB Impulse Radio Based Distance Bounding
  In Proceedings of WPNC (Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication), 2010 [PDF | bibtex]

• Mario Strasser, Boris Danev, Srdjan Capkun
  Detection of Reactive Jamming in Sensor Networks
  In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2010 [PDF | bibtex]

• Davide Zanetti, Leo Fellmann, Srdjan Capkun
  Privacy-preserving Clone Detection for RFID-enabled Supply Chains
  IEEE International Conference on RFID, 2010 [PDF | bibtex]

• Boris Danev, Heinrich Luecken, Srdjan Capkun, Karim El Defrawy
  Attacks on Physical-layer Identification
  In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), 2010 [PDF | bibtex]

• Christina Pöpper, Mario Strasser, Srdjan Capkun
  Anti-jamming Broadcast Communication using Uncoordinated Spread Spectrum Techniques
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC): Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking, 2010 [PDF | bibtex]

2009

• Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Srdjan Capkun
  Secure Ranging With Message Temporal Integrity
  Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2009/602, 2009 [PDF | bibtex]

• Ghassan Karame, Mario Strasser, Srdjan Capkun
  Secure Remote Execution of Sequential Computations
  In Proceedings of ICICS (International Conference on Information and Communications Security), 2009 . [PDF | bibtex].

• Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Claude Castelluccia, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Srdjan Capkun
  Proximity-based Access Control for Implantable Medical Devices
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009 [PDF | bibtex]
  Related media reports: MIT Technology Review: Proximity-based Access Control for Implantable Medical Devices

• Ghassan Karame, David Gubler and Srdjan Capkun
  On the Security of Bottleneck Bandwidth Estimation Techniques
  In Proceedings of SecureComm (International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks), 2009. [PDF | bibtex].

• Ghassan Karame and Srdjan Capkun
  Towards Secure End-to-End Network Measurements
  ETH Zurich, D-INFK, Technical Report No. 628, June 2009. [PDF | bibtex].

• Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Srdjan Capkun
  ID-based Secure Distance Bounding and Localization
  In Proceedings of ESORICS (European Symposium on Research in Computer Security), 2009 [PDF | bibtex]

• David Basin, Srdjan Capkun, Patrick Schaller and Benedikt Schmidt
  Let's get physical: models and methods for real-world security protocols
  In Proceedings of the 22nd TPHols (International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics), 2009 (invited paper) [PDF | bibtex]

• Ghassan Karame, Mario Cagalj, Srdjan Capkun
  Small Coalitions: Lightweight Collaboration for Efficient P2P Downloads
  In Proceedings of the IEEE NCA (International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications), 2009. [PDF | bibtex].

• Christina Pöpper, Mario Strasser, Srdjan Capkun
  Jamming-resistant Broadcast Communication without Shared Keys
  In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2009 [PDF | bibtex]

• Boris Danev, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Srdjan Capkun
  Physical-layer Identification of RFID Devices
  In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2009 [PDF | bibtex]

• Patrick Schaller, Benedikt Schmidt, David Basin, Srdjan Capkun
  Modeling and Verifying Physical Properties of Security Protocols for Wireless Networks
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), 2009 [PDF | bibtex]

• Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Christina Pöpper, Srdjan Capkun
  Attacks on Public WLAN-based Positioning Systems
  In Proceedings of the ACM/Usenix International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), 2009 [PDF | bibtex | talk video]
  Technical report and Related media reports: Location Spoofing Attacks on the iPhone and iPod

• Mario Strasser, Christina Pöpper, Srdjan Capkun
  Efficient Uncoordinated FHSS Anti-jamming Communication
  In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2009 [PDF | bibtex]

• Boris Danev, Srdjan Capkun
  Transient-based Identification of Wireless Sensor Nodes
  In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2009 [PDF | bibtex]

2008

• Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Srdjan Capkun
  Location Privacy of Distance Bounding Protocols
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2008. [PDF | bibtex]

• Saurabh Ganeriwal, Christina Pöpper, Srdjan Capkun, Mani B. Srivastava
  Secure Time Synchronization in Sensor Networks
  in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), July 2008 [PDF | bibtex]

• Shouhuai Xu, Srdjan Capkun
  Distributed and Secure Bootstrapping of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Framework and Constructions
  in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 2008. [PDF | bibtex]

• Zanetti Davide, Srdjan Capkun
  Protecting Sensitive Business Information While Sharing Serial-Level Data,
  International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Enterprise Computing (InSPEC), IEEE EDOC, 2008. [PDF | bibtex]

• Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Srdjan Capkun
  UWB-based Secure Ranging and Localization
  Technical Report 586, ETH Zürich, System Security Group, January 2008. [PDF | bibtex]

• Mario Strasser, Christina Pöpper, Srdjan Capkun, Mario Cagalj
  Jamming-resistant Key Establishment using Uncoordinated Frequency Hopping
  in Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2008 [PDF | bibtex]

• Srdjan Capkun, Mario Cagalj, Ramkumar Rengaswamy, Ilias Tsigkogiannis, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mani Srivastava
  Integrity Codes: Message Integrity Protection and Authentication Over Insecure Channels
  in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2008 [PDF | bibtex]

• Panos Papadimitratos, Marcin Poturalski, Patrick Schaller, Pascal Lafourcade, David Basin, Srdjan Capkun, Jean-Pierre Hubaux
  Secure Neighborhood Discovery: A Fundamental Element for Mobile Ad Hoc Networking
  in IEEE Communications Magazine, February 2008 [PDF | bibtex]

• Srdjan Capkun, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Mario Cagalj and Mani Srivastava
  Secure Location Verification With Hidden and Mobile Base Stations
  in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), April 2008 [PDF | bibtex]

2007

• Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Srdjan Capkun, Mario Cagalj
  SecNav: Secure Broadcast Localization and Time Synchronization in Wireless Networks (extended abstract),
  in Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2007 [PDF | bibtex]
  (related Technical Report 546, ETH Zürich, IFW, February 7, 2007. [PDF | bibtex])

• Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Srdjan Capkun
  Implications of Radio Fingerprinting on the Security of Sensor Networks,
  in Proceedings of IEEE SecureComm, 2007 [PDF | bibtex]

• Patrick Schaller, Srdjan Capkun, David Basin
  BAP: Broadcast Authentication Using Cryptographic Puzzles
  in Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) [PDF | bibtex]

• Mario Cagalj, Srdjan Capkun and Jean-Pierre Hubaux
  Wormhole-Based Antijamming Techniques in Sensor Networks,
  in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), January 2007. [PDF | bibtex]

• Security and Privacy in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
  4th European Workshop, ESAS 2007, Cambridge, UK, July 2-3, 2007, Proceedings
  Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 4572
  Stajano, F.; Meadows, C.; Capkun, S.; Moore, T. (Eds.)
  2007, X, 247 p., Softcover
  ISBN: 978-3-540-73274-7
  [bibtex]

• Book chapters in Secure Localization and Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks,
  Poovendran, Wang, Roy (ed.), Advances in Information Security series, Vol. 30, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-32721-1 [book contents | bibtex1 | bibtex2]

2006

• Srdjan Capkun, Saurabh Ganeriwal, Farooq Anjum and Mani Srivastava,
  Secure RSS-based Localization in Sensor Networks,
  Technical Reports 529, ETH Zürich, 09 2006. [PDF | bibtex]

• Srdjan Capkun and Mario Cagalj
  Integrity Regions: Authentication Through Presence in Wireless Networks
  ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe) 2006 [PDF | bibtex]

pre-ETH Zurich

• Mario Cagalj, Srdjan Capkun, RamKumar Rengaswamy, Ilias Tsigkogiannis, Mani Srivastava and Jean-Pierre Hubaux,
  Integrity (I) codes: Message Integrity Protection and Authentication over Insecure Channels,
  in Proceeding of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2006. [PDF | bibtex]

• S.Capkun, M. Cagalj, M. Srivastava,
  Securing Localization With Hidden and Mobile Base Stations,
  in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2006 [PDF | bibtex]

• S. Capkun, J. P. Hubaux, L. Buttyan, 
  Mobility Helps Peer-to-Peer Security, 
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), January 2006 [PDF | bibtex]

• M. Cagalj, S. Capkun, J. P. Hubaux,
  Key agreement in peer-to-peer wireless networks, 
  Proceedings of the IEEE (Special Issue on Cryptography and Security), 2006. [PDF | bibtex]

• S. Capkun,  J. P. Hubaux,
  Secure positioning in wireless networks, 
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC): Special Issue on Security in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, February 2006. [PDF | bibtex]

2005

• S.Sedihpour, S.Capkun, S.Ganeriwal and M.Srivastava,
  Implementation of Attacks on Ultrasonic Ranging Systems, demo,
  ACM SENSYS 2005. Demo description [PDF], Poster [PDF | bibtex]

• S. Ganeriwal, S. Capkun, S. Han, M. Srivastava,
  Secure Time Synchronization Service for Sensor Networks,
  in Proceedings of Wireless Security Workshop (WISE) 2005. [PDF | bibtex]

• S.Capkun, J.P. Hubaux,
  Secure positioning of wireless devices with application to sensor networks,
  in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005 [PDF | bibtex]
  (first appeared as "Secure Positioning in Sensor Networks", Technical report, EPFL/IC/200444, May 2004)

• L. Lazos, R. Poovendran, S. Capkun
  ROPE: Robust Position Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks,
  in Proceedings of IPSN 2005 [PDF | bibtex]

2001-2004

• M. Felegyhazi, S. Capkun, J. P. Hubaux,
  SOWER: Self-Organizing Wireless Network for Messaging,
  In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH) 2004. [PDF | bibtex]

• J. P. Hubaux, S. Capkun, J.Luo,
  The Security and Privacy of Smart Vehicles,
  IEEE Security & Privacy (May-June 2004). [PDF | bibtex]

• L. Buttyán, J. P. Hubaux and S. Capkun,
  A Formal Analysis of Syverson`s Rational Exchange Protocol,
  Journal of Computer Security (2004). [PDF | bibtex]

• S. Capkun, J. P. Hubaux and L. Buttyán,
  Mobility Helps Security in Ad Hoc Networks,
  In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC 2003). [PDF | bibtex]

• Srdjan Capkun, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Markus Jakobsson,
  Secure and Privacy-Preserving Communication in Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks,
  Technical report. – 2004 [200410] [LCA-REPORT-2004-015] [PDF | bibtex]

• S. Capkun, L. Buttyán and  J. P. Hubaux,
  SECTOR: Secure Tracking of Node Encounters in Multi-hop Wireless Networks, In Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN), October 2003.  [PDF | bibtex]

• S. Capkun and J. P. Hubaux,
  BISS: Building Secure Routing out of an Incomplete Set of  Security Associations, In Proceedings of the Wireless Security Workshop (WISE) 2003, San Diego, September 2003  [PDF | bibtex]

• S. Capkun, L. Buttyan, J. P. Hubaux,
  Self-Organized Public-Key Management for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (January-March 2003). [PDF | bibtex]

• S. Capkun, L. Buttyan and J-P. Hubaux,
  Self-Organized Public-Key Management for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks - Abstract,
  in Report on a Working Session on Security in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, L. Buttyan and J.-P. Hubaux (eds.), ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), Vol. 7, No. 1, 2003. [PDF | bibtex]

• L. Buttyán, J. P. Hubaux and S. Capkun,
  A Formal Analysis of Syverson`s Rational Exchange Protocol,
  In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW), Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2002, pp. [PDF | bibtex]

• S. Capkun, L. Buttyan, J. P. Hubaux,
  Self-Organized Public-Key Management for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,
  Poster in Wireless Security Workshop (WISE), Atlanta 2002.

• S. Capkun, L. Buttyán and  J. P. Hubaux,
  Small Worlds in Security Systems: an Analysis of the PGP Certificate Graph, In Proceedings of ACM New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), September 2002.  [PDF| bibtex]

• S. Capkun, M. Hamdi, J. P. Hubaux,
  GPS-free Positioning in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,
  Cluster Computing Journal, April 2002. [PDF| bibtex]

• J.-P. Hubaux, L. Buttyán, and S. Capkun,
  The Quest for Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,
  In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC 2001), Long Beach, CA, USA, 4-5. October 2001. [PDF| bibtex]

• S. Capkun, M. Hamdi and J. P. Hubaux,
  GPS-free Positioning in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,
  In Proceedings of 34'th HICSS, January 2001. (best paper award)  [PDF| bibtex]

• Lj. Blazevic, L.Buttyan, S. Capkun, S. Giordano, J. P. Hubaux, J. Y. Le Boudec
  Self-Organization in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: the Approach of Terminodes, IEEE Communications Magazine, June 2001. [PDF | bibtex]