Poorvi L. Vora Research: Applications of Information Theory to Problems in Security

Poorvi Vora - Research: Applications of Information Theory to Problems in Security

This research funded in part by HP Research Gift (2004), past grant NSF SGER IIS 0505510 (2005-2006), and current grants NSF CCF 0830576 (2008-2010) and NSF CNS 0831149 (2008-2010)

Some of these publications are also listed as part of my voting research.

Publications
1. Ben Hosp and Poorvi L. Vora. An Information-Theoretic Model of Voting Systems. Mathematical and Computer Modelling. Special issue on: Mathematical Modeling of Voting Systems and Elections: Theory and Applications. Vol. 48, nos.9-10, pp. 1628-1645, Nov 2008.
2. Poorvi L. Vora. An Information-Theoretic Approach to Inference Attacks on Random Data Perturbation and a Related Privacy Measure. IEEE Trans. Info Theory, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp 2971-2977, August 2007.
3. Poorvi L. Vora, Darakhshan Mir. Related-Key Linear Cryptanalysis. ISIT06.
4. Ben Hosp, Poorvi L. Vora. "An Information-Theoretic Model of Voting Systems".
  - WOTE 2006. Paper
  - VSRW 2006. Paper
5. Lillie Coney, Joseph L. Hall, Poorvi L. Vora, David Wagner. Towards a Privacy Measurement Criterion for Voting Systems. National Conference on Digital Government Research, Atlanta, May 2005.
6. Poorvi Vora. Information Theory and the Security of Binary Data Perturbation. pp 136-147, INDOCRYPT 2004. Power Point Presentation.
7. Poorvi Vora. The channel coding theorem and the security of binary randomization, ISIT, pp. 306, 2003. (extended abstract)
Technical Reports
1. Darakhshan J. Mir and Poorvi L. Vora. Related-Key Statistical Cryptanalysis. Also available as Report 2007/227 in the cryptology eprint archive.
Patents Granted
1. "Probabilistic Privacy Protection", (with U. Vazirani and V. Knapp). US 6470299. Filed November 2, 2000. Issued October 22, 2002.
Unpublished
1. Poorvi Vora. Towards a theory of variable privacy. Presentation
Selected Invited Presentations
- Cryptanalysis
  1. Georgia Tech., April 2008
  2. Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India, December 2006
  3. Information Theory Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2006
  4. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Princeton, February 2006
  5. IBM Research, Hawthorne, February, 2006
- Privacy
  1. TAMI/PORTIA Workshop, MIT, 2006
  2. DIMACS/Portia Workshop on Privacy in Data Mining, Rutgers University, March 2004
  3. Security Group Seminar, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University, October 2002
  4. Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, September 2002
  5. Microsoft Research, Redmond, September 2002

Email: my first name at gwu dot edu

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