Anupam Datta: Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Monographs, Edited Volumes, Book Chapters:

A. Datta, J. C. Mitchell, A. Roy, S. Stiller, Protocol Composition Logic, book chapter in V. Cortier and S. Kremer (Editors), Formal Models and Techniques for Analyzing Security Protocols, IOS Press, March 2011. [ PDF ]
A. Datta, S. Jha, N. Li, D. Melski, T. Reps, Analysis Techniques for Information Security, In series Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science, Morgan and Claypool Publishers , April, 2010.
A. Datta, Logical Methods in Security and Privacy, IEEE Security and Privacy 8(6), 86-89 (2010). [ Paper] Invited Column
A. Datta (Editor), Advances in Computer Science, Information Security and Privacy: Proceedings of the 13th Asian Computing Science Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5913, Springer, December 2009.
A. Roy, A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, J.-P. Seifert, Secrecy Analysis in Protocol Composition Logic, book chapter in O. Grumberg, T. Nipkow and C. Pfaller (Editors), Formal Logical Methods for System Security and Correctness, Volume 14 NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - D: Information and Communication Security, IOS Press, March 2008. [ PDF ]

Journal, Conference, and Workshop Publications:

Foundations of Privacy

M. C. Tschantz, A. Datta, J. M. Wing, Formalizing and Enforcing Purpose Restrictions of Privacy Policies, in Proceedings of 33rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2012.
A. Datta, D. Sharma, A. Sinha, Provable De-anonymization of Large Datasets with Sparse Dimensions, in Proceedings of ETAPS Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, March 2012.
A. Conley, A. Datta, H. Nissenbaum, D. Sharma, Sustaining both Privacy and Open Justice in the Transition from Local to Online Access to Court Records: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry, Maryland Law Review, Accepted for publication. Preliminary version presented at the 2011 Privacy Law Scholars Conference, June 2011.
A. Datta, J. Blocki, N. Christin, H. DeYoung, D. Garg, L. Jia, D. Kaynar, A. Sinha, Understanding and Protecting Privacy: Formal Semantics and Principled Audit Mechanisms, 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security, December 2011 [Paper] Invited Paper
D. Garg, L. Jia, A. Datta, Policy Auditing over Incomplete Logs: Theory, Implementation and Applications, in Proceedings of 18^th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, October 2011 [Paper]
J. Blocki, N. Christin, A. Datta, A. Sinha, Audit Mechanisms for Privacy Protection in Healthcare Environments (Position Paper), in 2^nd Usenix Workshop on Health Security and Privacy, August 2011 [Paper]
J. Blocki, N. Christin, A. Datta, A. Sinha, Regret Minimizing Audits: A Learning-Theoretic Basis for Privacy Protection, in Proceedings of 24th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, June 2011 [Paper]
M. C. Tschantz, D. Kaynar, A. Datta, Formal Verification of Differential Privacy for Interactive Systems, Extended abstract in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics, May 2011. Full Version [ Paper ]
H. DeYoung, D. Garg, L. Jia, D. Kaynar, A. Datta, Experiences in the Logical Specification of the HIPAA and GLBA Privacy Laws, in Proceedings of 9^th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, October 2010. [ Paper ] [ FullVersion ]
A. Datta, N. Dave, J. C. Mitchell, H. Nissenbaum, D. Sharma, Privacy Challenges in Patient-Centric Health Information Systems (Position Paper), in 1^st Usenix Workshop on Health Security and Privacy, August 2010 [Paper]
A. Barth, A. Datta, J. C. Mitchell, S. Sundaram, Privacy and Utility in Business Processes, in Proceedings of 20th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, July 2007. [ Paper ]
A. Barth, A. Datta, J. C. Mitchell, H. Nissenbaum, Privacy and Contextual Integrity: Framework and Applications, in Proceedings of 27th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy , pp. 184-198, May 2006. [ Paper ]

Trustworthy Systems

J. Franklin, S. Chaki, A. Datta, J. McCune, A. Vasudevan, Parametric Verification of Address Space Separation, in Proceedings of ETAPS Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, March 2012.
A. Datta, J. Franklin, D. Garg, L. Jia, D. Kaynar, On Adversary Models and Compositional Security, IEEE Security & Privacy 9(3): 26-32 (2011) (Special Issue on the Science of Security) . [ Paper]

D. Garg, J. Franklin, D. Kaynar, A. Datta, Compositional System Security with Interface-Confined Adversaries, in Proceedings of 26th Annual Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, May 2010. [ Paper] [ Full Version ] Invited Paper
J. Franklin, S. Chaki, A. Datta, A. Seshadri, Scalable Parametric Verification of Secure Systems: How to Verify Reference Monitors without Worrying about Data Structure Size, in Proceedings of 31^st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2010. [ Paper ]
J. McCune, Y. Li, N. Qu, Z. Zhou, A. Datta, V. Gligor, A. Perrig, TrustVisor: Efficient TCB Reduction and Attestation, in Proceedings of 31^st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2010. [ Paper ]
K. Avijit, A. Datta, R. Harper, Distributed Programming with Distributed Authorization, in Proceedings of 5^th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Types in Language Design and Implementation, January 2010. [ Paper ]
S. Chaki, A. Datta, ASPIER: An Automated Framework for Verifying Security Protocol Implementations, in Proceedings of 22nd IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, July 2009. [ Paper ]
A. Datta, J. Franklin, D. Garg, D. Kaynar, A Logic of Secure Systems and its Application to Trusted Computing, in Proceedings of 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2009. [ Paper ] [Full Version]
D. Garg, J. Franklin, D. Kaynar, A. Datta, A Logic for Reasoning about Networked Secure Systems, in Joint Workshop FCS-ARSPA-WITS (co-located with CSF 2008 and LICS 2008), June 2008. [ Paper ] [ Full Version ]

Protocol Composition Logic

A. Roy, A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, Inductive Trace Properties for Computational Security, in Journal of Computer Security18(6): 1035-1073 (2010). [ Paper]
A. Roy, A. Datta, J. C. Mitchell, Formal Proofs of Cryptographic Security of Diffie-Hellman based Protocols, in Proceedings of Symposium On Trustworthy Global Computing, November 2007. [ Paper ]
A. Roy, A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, Inductive Proofs of Computational Secrecy, in Proceedings of 12th European Symposium On Research In Computer Security , September 2007. [ Paper ]
A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, A. Roy, Protocol Composition Logic (PCL), in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (Gordon D. Plotkin Festschrift), 2007. [ Paper ] Invited Paper
A. Roy, A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, Inductive Trace Properties for Computational Security, in Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN and IFIP WG 1.7 7th Workshop on Issues in the Theory of Security, March 2007. (Invited to Special Issue of Journal of Computer Security). [ Paper ] Award Paper
A. Roy, A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, J.-P. Seifert, Secrecy Analysis in Protocol Composition Logic, in Proceedings of 11th Annual Asian Computing Science Conference, December 2006. [ Paper ]
A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, B. Warinschi, Computationally Sound Compositional Logic for Key Exchange Protocols, in Proceedings of 19th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, pp. 321-334, July 2006. [ Paper ]
M. Backes, A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, M. Turuani, Compositional Analysis of Contract-Signing Protocols, in Theoretical Computer Science, 367(1-2), pp. 33-56, 2006. [ Paper ]
C. He, M. Sundararajan, A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, A Modular Correctness Proof of TLS and IEEE 802.11i, in Proceedings of 12th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 2-15, November 2005. (Invited to ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Special Issue of Selected Papers from CCS'05.) [ Paper ] Award Paper
A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, V. Shmatikov, M. Turuani, Probabilistic Polynomial-time Semantics for a Protocol Security Logic, in Proceedings of 32nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, pp. 16-29, July 2005. [ Paper ] Invited Paper
A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, D. Pavlovic, A Derivation System and Compositional Logic for Security Protocols, Journal of Computer Security (Special Issue of Selected Papers from CSFW-16), Vol. 13, pp. 423-482, 2005. [ Paper ]
M. Backes, A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, M. Turuani, Compositional Analysis of Contract-Signing Protocols, in Proceedings of 18th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, pp. 94-110, June 2005. [ Paper ]
A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, D. Pavlovic, Abstraction and Refinement in Protocol Derivation, in Proceedings of 17th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, pp. 30-45, June 2004. [ Paper ]
A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, D. Pavlovic, Secure Protocol Composition.

In Proceedings of 19th Annual Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 83, 2004. [ Paper ]
Extended abstract in Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering, pp. 11-23, October 2003. [ Paper ]

A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, D. Pavlovic, A Derivation System for Security Protocols and its Logical Formalization, in Proceedings of 16th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, pp. 109-125, June 2003. (Invited to Journal of Computer Security, Special Issue of Selected Papers from CSFW-16) [ Paper ] Award Paper

Program Equivalence, Games, and Universal Composability

R. Küsters, A. Datta, J. C. Mitchell, A. Ramanathan, On the Relationships between Notions of Simulation-based Security, J. Cryptology 21(4): 492-546 (2008) [ Paper ]
A. Datta, A. Derek, J. C. Mitchell, A. Ramanathan, A. Scedrov, Games and the Impossibility of Realizable Ideal Functionality, in Proceedings of Theory of Cryptography Conference, pp. 360-379, March 2006.[ Paper ]
A. Datta, R. Küsters, J. C. Mitchell, A. Ramanathan, On the Relationships between Notions of Simulation-based Security, in Proceedings of Theory of Cryptography Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3378, pp. 476-494, February 2005. [ Paper ]
A. Datta, R. Küsters, J. C. Mitchell, A. Ramanathan, V. Shmatikov, Unifying Equivalence-Based Definitions of Protocol Security, in Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN and IFIP WG 1.7 4th Workshop on Issues in the Theory of Security, April 2004. [ Paper ]

Patent:

L. M. Fagan, D. C. Berrios, E. Chou, A. Datta, S. Surendran, Improvements to a System and Method for Indexing Electronic Text, US Patent 6928432, August 2005.

Theses:

A. Datta, Security Analysis of Network Protocols: Compositional Reasoning and Complexity-theoretic Foundations, PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, September 2005. [PS] [PDF]
A. Datta, Studies in Authenticated Key Establishment Protocols, MS Thesis, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, May 2002. [ Full thesis ]