Reading List

Books:

• Book: A handbook of Cryptography

• Book: A Graduate Course in Cryptography (Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup)

• Book: Secure Multiparty Computation

• Book: Mining of Massive Datasets

• Book: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

• Book: Cryptography: an Introduction

SoK and Surveys:

• Systematizing Decentralization and Privacy: Lessons from 15 years of research and deployment

• SoK: Exploiting Network Printers

• SoK: Science, Security, and the Elusive Goal of Security as a Scientific Pursuit

• Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies

• The Spammer, the Botmaster, and the Researcher: on the Arms Race in Spamming Botnet Mitigation -Major Area Exam

Online Privacy:

• How Public Is My Private Life? Privacy in Online Dating

Telephony Security:

• • A Machine Learning Approach To Prevent Malicious Calls Over Telephony Networks 

  • Towards Measuring the Effectiveness of Telephony Blacklists

  • 9-1-1 DDoS: Attacks, Analysis and Mitigation

  • Phoneypot: Data-driven Understanding of Telephony Threats.

• • SoK: Everyone Hates Robocalls: A Survey of Techniques against Telephone Spam

  • End-to-end detection of caller ID spoofing attacks

  • AuthentiCall: Efficient Identity and Content Authentication for Phone Calls

  • Toward Standardization of Authenticated Caller ID Transmission

  • Over-The-Top bypass: Study of a recent telephony fraud 

  • Phonion: Practical Protection of Metadata in Telephony Networks 

  • AuthLoop: End-to-End Cryptographic Authentication for Telephony

  • Toward authenticated caller ID transmission: The need for a standardized authentication scheme in Q. 731.3 calling line identification presentation

  • CCCP: Closed Caption Crypto Phones to Resist MITM Attacks, Human Errors and Click-Through

  • You Can Call but You Can't Hide: Detecting Caller ID Spoofing Attacks

  • Using chatbots against voice spam: Analyzing Lenny's effectiveness

  • By Hook or by Crook: Exposing the Diverse Abuse Tactics of Technical Support Scammers

  • PinDr0p: using single-ended audio features to determine call provenance

  • A comprehensive survey of voice over IP security research