Erik-Oliver Blass

 

Research


Being interested in all aspects of computer and communication security, I am currently focussing on cloud computing security and privacy. I am investigating new protocols for outsourcing storage and computation to public clouds. My goal is to design protocols that assure security and privacy in case of an untrusted cloud provider. I consider my research as "use-inspired": I target protocols that do not only have a solid theoretical foundation, but are practical and efficient in real-world clouds today.



Short Bio


Before joining Northeastern, as a postdoc and senior researcher at EURECOM, France, I have researched security and privacy for RFID systems. More specifically, I have designed new protocols for authentication, payment, and anti-counterfeiting. Even before, I researched wireless sensor networks and designed protocols for key exchange and secure data aggregation. I hold a Diploma and a PhD (with distinction) in computer science from Universität Karlsruhe in Germany. My thesis was awarded with the prize for the best security research thesis by Germany's “data security organization (GDD)” in 2007.


Projects


I am Principal Investigator of “Privacy and Security for MapReduce Clouds with PASMAC”

funded by NSF grant CNS—1218197. Research has started September 1st 2012, find the project’s homepage here.


Teaching

In fall 2012, I have taught CS 6750, “Cryptography and Communications Security”. Find its homepage here.


List of Publications

Conferences and Workshops

  1. •Triet D. Vo-Huu, Erik-Oliver Blass, Guevara Noubir, “Countering High-Power Jammers using Mixed Mechanical and Software Beam-Forming”, Proceedings of Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec’13), pp. 1—14, Budapest, Hungary, 2013 (to appear)

  2. •Travis Mayberry, Erik-Oliver Blass, Agnes Hui Chan, “PIRMAP: Efficient Private Information Retrieval for MapReduce”, Proceedings of Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC’13), pp. 1—15, Okinawa, Japan, 2013 (to appear)

  3. •Erik-Oliver Blass, William Robertson, “TRESOR-HUNT: Attacking CPU-Bound Encryption”, Proceedings of Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC’12), pp. 71—78, Orlando, USA, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4503-1312-4

  4. •Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui, Erik-Oliver Blass, Refik Molva, “T-MATCH: Privacy-Preserving Item Matching for Storage-Only RFID Tags”, Proceedings of RFID Security (RFIDSec’12), LNCS 7739, pp. 76—95, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2012

  5. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Roberto Di Pietro, Refik Molva, Melek Onen, “PRISM – Privacy-Preserving Search in MapReduce”, Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS’12), pp. 180—200, Vigo, Spain, 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-31679-1

  6. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui, Refik Molva, “PPS: Privacy-Preserving Statistics using RFID Tags”, Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Data Security and PrivAcy in wireless Networks (D-SPAN’12), pp. 1—6, San Francisco, USA, 2012

  7. •Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui, Erik-Oliver Blass, Refik Molva, “CHECKER: On-site checking in RFID-based supply chains”, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec’12), pp. 173—184, Tucson, USA, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4503-1265-3

  8. •Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui, Erik-Oliver Blass, Refik Molva, “ROTIV: RFID Ownership Transfer with Issuer Verification”, Proceedings of RFID Security (RFIDSec’11), pp. 163—182, Amherst, USA, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-25285-3

  9. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui, Refik Molva, “Tracker: Security and Privacy for RFID-based Supply Chains”, Proceedings of 18th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS ‘11), pp. 455–472, San Diego, USA, 2011, ISBN 1-891562-32-0

  10. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Anil Kurmus, Refik Molva, Thorsten Strufe, “PSP: Private and Secure Payment with RFID”, Proceedings of ACM Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES’09), pp. 51—60, Chicago, USA, 2009, ISBN 978-1-60558-892-6

  11. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Anil Kurmus, Refik Molva, Guevara Noubir, Abdullatif Shikfa, “The $F_f$-Family of Protocols for RFID-Privacy and Authentication”, Proceedings RFID Security (RFIDSec’09), pp. 1—15, Leuven, Belgium, 2009

  12. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Martina Zitterbart, “Tailored security and safety for pervasive computing”, Open Research Problems in Network Security (iNetSec’09), Zurich, Switzerland, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 309, pp. 85—92, 2009, ISSN 1868-4238

  13. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Refik Molva, “New directions in RFID security”, Open Research Problems in Network Security (iNetSec’09), Zurich, Switzerland, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 309, pp. 76—84, 2009, ISSN 1868-4238

  14. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Joachim Wilke, Martina Zitterbart, “Relaxed Authenticity for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm’08), pp. 1—10, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008, ISBN 9781605582412

  15. •Simon Kellner, Mario Pink, Detlev Meier, Erik-Oliver Blass, “Towards a Realistic Energy Model for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS’08), pp. 97—100, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 2008, ISBN 9781424419586

  16. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Martina Zitterbart, “An Efficient Key Establishment Scheme for Secure Aggregating Sensor Networks“, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS’06), pp. 303—310, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006, ISBN 1-59593-272-0

  17. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Lars Tiede, Martina Zitterbart, “An Energy-Efficient and Reliable Mechanism for Data Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks“, Proceedings of Third International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS’06), pp. 211—216, Chicago, USA, 2006, ISBN 0-9743611-3-5

  18. •Artur Hecker, Erik-Oliver Blass, Houda Labiod, “A Decentralized Management and Access Control for 802.1X WLANs“, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC’05), Colmar, France, 2005, ISBN 1-86094-582-1

  19. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Martina Zitterbart, “Towards Acceptable Public-Key Encryption in Sensor Networks“, Proceedings of ACM International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (IWUCS’05), pp. 88—93, Miami, USA, 2005, ISBN 972-8865-24-4

  20. •Hans-Joachim Hof, Erik-Oliver Blass, Martina Zitterbart, “Secure Overlay for Service Centric Wireless Sensor Networks“, Proceedings of European Workshop on Security in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS’04), pp. 125—138, Heidelberg, Germany, 2004, ISBN 3540243968

  21. •Hans-Joachim Hof, Erik-Oliver Blass, Thomas Fuhrmann, Martina Zitterbart, “Design of a Secure Distributed Service Directory for Wireless Sensornetworks“, Proceedings of European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN’04), pp. 172—187, Berlin, Germany, 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-20825-9


Journals

  1. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Anil Kurmus, Refik Molva, Thorsten Strufe, “PSP: Private and Secure Payment with RFID”, Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 36, pp. 468–480, ISSN 0140-3664, 2013

  2. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Anil Kurmus, Refik Molva, Guevara Noubir, Abdullatif Shikfa, “The $F_f$-Family of Protocols for RFID-Privacy and Authentication”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Vol. 8(3), pp. 466–480, 2011, ISSN 1545-5971

  3. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Refik Molva, “Schutz von Lieferketten mit RFID-Tags”, DIGMA, Vol 11(2), pp. 76—79, 2011, ISSN 1424-9944

  4. •Zinaida Benenson, Erik-Oliver Blass, Felix C. Freiling, “Attacker Models for Wireless Sensor Networks”, IT – Information Technology, Vol. 52(6), pp. 320—324, 2010. ISSN 1611-2776

  5. •Jochim Wilke, Erik-Oliver Blass, Felix Freiling, Martina Zitterbart, “A framework for probabilistic, authentic aggregation in wireless sensor networks”, PIK, Vol. 32(2), pp. 116—126, 2009, ISSN 0930-5157


Books and Book Chapters

  1. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Benjamin Fabian, Matthias Fischmann, Seda Gürses, “Security in Sensor Networks”, in “Algorithms for Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks“, D. Wagner and R. Wattenhofer (Ed.), pp. 305—323, Springer Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-74990-5

  2. •Erik-Oliver Blass, “Sicherer, aggregierender Datentransport in drahtlosen Sensornetzen“, 238 pp., Dissertation, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86644-142-2

  3. •Roland Bless, Stefan Mink, Erik-Oliver Blass, Michael Conrad, Hans-Joachim Hof, Kendy Kutzner, Marcus Schöller, “Sichere Netzwerkkommunikation“, 582 pp., Springer Verlag, June 2005, ISBN 3-540-21845-9


Poster

  1. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Jens Horneber, Martina Zitterbart, “Analyzing Data Prediction in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE 67th VTC Spring Conference, pp. 86—87, Marina Bay, Singapore, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4244-1645-5

  2. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Joachim Wilke, Martina Zitterbart, “A Security—Energy Trade-Off for Authentic Aggregation in Sensor Networks“, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON’06), pp. 135—137, Washington D.C., USA, 2006, ISBN 142440732X

  3. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Michael Conrad, Martina Zitterbart, “A Tree-Based Approach for Secure Key Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks“, Proceedings Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN’05), Stockholm, Sweden, 2005


Demos

  1. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui, Refik Molva, “Demo: The $F_f$ Hardware Prototype for Privacy-Preserving RFID Authentication”, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’11), pp. 737—740, Chicago, USA, 2011, ISBN  978-1-4503-0948-6

  2. •Joachim Wilke, Erik-Oliver Blass, Martina Zitterbart, “ESAWN-NR: Authentic Aggregation and Non-Repudiation in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS’08), Kanazawa, Japan, 2008, ISBN 978-4-907764-31-9


Technical Reports

  1. •Travis Mayberry, Erik-Oliver Blass, Agnes H. Chan, “Path-PIR: Lower Worst-Case Bounds by Combining ORAM and PIR”, Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2013/086, 2013, http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/086

  2. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Guevara Noubir, Triet Vo Huu, “EPiC: Efficient Privacy-Preserving Counting for MapReduce”, Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2012/452, 2012, http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/452

  3. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Zinaida Benenson, “Das ZeuS-Angreifermodell“, Technical Report, No. TM-2008-1, Universität Karlsruhe, February 2008, ISSN 1613-849X

  4. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Martina Zitterbart, “Efficient Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Wireless Sensor Networks“, Technical Report No. TM-2005-1, 2005


Other Publications

  1. •Joachim Wilke, Frank Werner, Markus Bestehorn, Zinaida Benenson, Simon Kellner, Erik-Oliver Blass, “Vergleichbarkeit von Ansätzen zur Netzwerkanalyse in drahtlosen Sensornetzen, 7. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch "Drahtlose Sensornetze“, pp. 97—100, Berlin, Germany, 2008

  2. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Holger Junker, Martina Zitterbart, “Effiziente Implementierung von Public-Key Algorithmen für Sensornetze“, Lecture Notes in Informatics: Informatik 2005, Vol. 2, GI, pp. 140—144, Bonn, Germany, 2005, ISBN 3-88579-397-0

  3. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Hans-Joachim Hof, Martina Zitterbart, “S-CAN: Sicheres Overlay für Sensornetze“, 2. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch “Drahtlose Sensornetze”, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2004

  4. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Hans-Joachim Hof, Bernhard Hurler, Martina Zitterbart, “Erste Erfahrungen mit der Karlsruher Sensornetz-Plattform“, GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch “Drahtlose Sensornetze”, Berlin, Germany, 2003

  5. •Stefan Dieterle, Peer Wichmann, Erik-Oliver Blass, Jochen Breuer, Rolf Kampffmeyer, Axel Rengstorf, “Sicherheit für die Top-Level Domain .de durch Secure DNS“, FZI — Forschungszentrum Informatik, Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), 2003

  6. •Erik-Oliver Blass, “Analyse, Verifikation und Realisierung kryptographischer Protokolle für flexible Zugriffe auf medizinische Datenbanken“, diploma thesis, European Institute for System Security, Universität Karlsruhe, 2001

  7. •Erik-Oliver Blass, “Evaluierung von Chipkartensystemen für HUELKA“, Bachelor thesis, European Institute for System Security, Universität Karlsruhe, January 2000

  8. •Erik-Oliver Blass, Uwe Forgber, “Ein generisches Werkzeug zur Anbindung von Wissensressourcen an internetbasierte Planungsumgebungen“, 11. Forum Bauinformatik, Darmstadt, Germany, 1999



Research Assistant Professor


College for Computer and Information Science

Northeastern University

360 Huntington Ave.

Building West Village H

Room #202

02115 Boston, USA


Phone: +1-617-383-4072

Email: blass AT ccs.neu.edu