National Security Agency award winner is deficient at its foundations

Friday, January 12, 2018

Recent research by ECE PhD students Nahid Juma and Jonathan Shahen, Professor Mahesh Tripunitara, and an external collaborator, establishes that work that received a prestigious award from the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US, is deficient at its foundations.

The research pertains to a problem called information leakage in the context of cloud-computing, and is especially relevant given the ongoing wide adoption of such cloud-computing technology. The research is to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2018.2790932. Professor Tripunitara is in communication with NSA over these findings.