Webpage of Himanshu Khurana

Himanshu Khurana

Until recently I was a Senior Security Engineer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
I am now a Principal Research Scientist at the Information Trust Institute, University of Illinois
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LINKS: Research Publications Presentations

RESEARCH

Interests: Distributed System Security, Access Control Policies, Public Key Infrastructure, Key Management

Current Projects

Adaptive Messaging Policy (AMPol)

Illinois Terrorism Task Force Secure Credentialing Project

National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research (NCASSR)

SELS: Secure Email List Services

TCIP: Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (Principal Research Scientist)

Past Projects

SeCol: Security for Collaborative Applications

Secure Middleware Services for Wireless Sensor Networks

PKI and CKM Scaling Study

Integrated Security Services for Dynamic Coalition Management

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2008

Terry Fleury, Himanshu Khurana and Von Welch. Towards a Taxonomy of Attacks Against Energy Control Systems. In the Second Annual IFIP Working Group 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Arlington, Virginia, USA March 16 - 19, 2008.

2007

Rakesh Bobba and Himanshu Khurana. DLPKH: Distributed Logical Public-Key Hierarchy. In the Third International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2007), New Delhi, India, December 2007.

Himanshu Khurana, Radostina Koleva, Jim Basney. Performance of Cryptographic Protocols for High-Performance, High-Bandwidth, High-Latency Grid Systems. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, Bangalore, India, December 2007.

Himanshu Khurana, Maifi Khan Von Welch. Leveraging Computational Grid Technologies for Building a Secure and Manageable Power Grid. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, January 2007.

2006

Himanshu Khurana, Jin Heo, and Meenal Pant. From Proxy Encryption Primitives to a Deployable Secure-Mailing-List Solution. In the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS '06), Raleigh, North Carolina, December 2006.

Rakesh Bobba, Omit Fatemeih, Fariba Khan, Carl Gunter and Himanshu Khurana. Using Attribute-Based Access Control to Enable Attribute-Based Messaging. In the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Maimi Beach, Florida, December 2006.

Himanshu Khurana and Jim Basney. On the Risks of IBE. In the International Workshop on Applied PKC (IWAP), Dalian, China, November 2006.

Himanshu Khurana, Jim Basney,Von Welch and Roy Campbell. Operational Security Requirements for Large Collaborative Compute Infrastructures . Trusted Collaboration Workshop (TrustCol), part of CollaborateCom, Atlanta, November 2006

Jim Basney, Patrick Flanigan, Jin Heo, Himanshu Khurana, Joe Muggli, Meenal Pant, Adam Slagell and Von Welch. Mithril: Adaptable Security for Survivability in Collaborative Computing Sites. Workshop on Enterprise Network Security (WENS), part of SecureComm, September 2006.

Jim Basney, Roy Campbell, Himanshu Khurana, Von Welch. Towards Operational Security for GENI. GENI Design Document 06-10, July 2006.

C. A. Gunter, W. H. Sanders, D. E. Bakken, A. Bose, R. Campbell, G. Gross, C. H. Hauser, H. Khurana, R. K. Iyer, Z. T. Kalbarczyk, K. Nahrstedt, D. M. Nicol, T. J. Overbye, P. W. Sauer, S. W. Smith, R. J. Thomas, V. Welch, and M. Winslett. Trustworthy Cyber-Infrastructure for Power (TCIP). (online) Proceedings of the Workshop on Research Directions for Security and Networking in Critical Real-time and Embedded Systems, San Jose, CA, April 2006.

Himanshu Khurana and Hyung-Seok Hahm. Certified Mailing Lists. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communication, Information, Computer and Communication Security (ASIACCS'06), Taipei, Taiwan, March 2006.

Himanshu Khurana and Radostina Koleva. Scalable Security and Accounting Services for Content-Based Publish Subscribe Systems. In the International Journal of E-Business Research, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2006. (Supercedes the 2005 conference version).

2005

Rakesh Bobba, Serban Gavrila, Virgil Gligor, Himanshu Khurana, and Radostina Koleva. Administering Access Control in Dynamic Coalitions. In Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Large Installationg System Administration Conference (LISA), San Diego, CA, December 2005.

Himanshu Khurana, Rafael Bonilla, Adam Slagell, Raja Afandi, Hyung-Seok Hahm, and Jim Basney. Scalable Group Key Management with Partially Trusted Controllers . In the International Conference on Networking, Reunion Island, April 2005. Full Length Manuscript, November 2004.

Himanshu Khurana, Adam Slagell, and Rafael Bonilla. SELS: A Secure E-mail List Service. In proceedings of the Security Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2005.

Himanshu Khurana. Scalable Security and Accounting Services for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems. In proceedings of the E-Commerce Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2005.

2004

Himanshu Khurana and Virgil D. Gligor. A Model for Access Negotiations in Dynamic Coalitions (.pdf) . In proceedings of the Enterprise Security Workshop part of the 13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), June 2004, Modena, Italy. ( Best Paper award. )
- A Model for Access Negotiations in Dynamic Coalitions (.pdf) . Technical Report TR 2003-29, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, August 2003.

2003

Himanshu Khurana, Serban Gavrila, Rakeshbabu Bobba, Radostina Koleva, Anuja Sonalker, Emilian Dinu, Virgil Gligor, and John Baras. Integrated Security Services for Dynamic Coalitions (.pdf) . An extended exposition abstract in Proceedings of the third DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition (DISCEX III), Washington D.C., April 2003.

2002

Himanshu Khurana, Virgil Gligor, and John Linn. Reasoning about Joint Administration of Access Policies for Coalition Resources (.pdf) . In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference for Distributed Computer Systems - ICDCS, Vienna, Austria, July 2002.

Himanshu Khurana. Negotiation and Management of Coalition Resources (pdf). PhD Dissertation. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, August 2002.

2001

Virgil Gligor, Himanshu Khurana, Radostina Koleva, Vijay Bharadwaj, and John Baras. On the Negotiation of Access Control Policies (.ps) . In proceedings of the Security Protocols Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2467 Springer-Verlag, 2002.

Himanshu Khurana and Virgil Gligor. Enforcing Dependencies between PKI Certificates in ad-hoc Networks (.pdf). IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications, Bucharest, Romania, June 2001, pp. 293-298.

2000

Himanshu Khurana and Virgil Gligor. Review and Revocation of Access Privileges Distributed with PKI Certificates (.ps ) Proc. of the Security Protocols Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 2000, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2133, Springer-Verlag, 2001.

PRESENTATIONS

Integrating Encryption Techniques with Off-the-shelf Email Systems . University of Washington, Seattle, WA, March 2007.

Leveraging Computational Grid Technologies for Building a Secure and Manageable Power Grid . HICSS, Big Island, Hawaii, January 2007.

From Proxy Encryption Primitives to a Deployable Secure Mailing List Solution . ICICS, Raleigh, NC, December 2006.

Opertional Security Requirements for Large Collaborative Compute Infrastructures . TrustCol, Atlanta, GA, November 2006.

On the Risks of IBE . Midwest Security Workshop (MSW), UIUC, Urbana IL, October 2006.

Mithril: Adaptable Site Security . WENS Workshop, part of SecureComm, Baltimore, MD August 2006.

Certified Mailing Lists . AsiaCCS, Taipei, Taiwan, March 2006.

Minimizing Trust Liabilities in Secure Messaging Infrastructures . CERIAS Seminar, Purdue University, August 2005.

SeCol: Secure Collaborative Applicationso . NCASSR PI Meeting, Arlington VA, August 2005.

SELS: Secure Email List Services . NCSA Private Sector Program Annual Meeting, Urbana, IL, May 2005.

SELS: Secure Email List Services . 5-minute abstract talk. IEEE Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 2005.

Scalable Security and Accounting Services for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems . ACM SAC, Santa Fe, March 2005.

NCASSR Mid-Year Project Review . NCASSR Meeting at PNNL, Washington. Jan 2005.

SELS: A Secure E-mail List Service . UIUC Security Seminar Series. Nov 2004.

A Model for Access Negotiations in Dynamic Coalitions . WETICE, Modena, Italy. June 2004.

Integrated Security Services for Dynamic Coalition Management . DARPA PI Meeting, Hawaii, July 2003.

Integrated Security Services for Dynamic Coalition Management . DARPA PI Meeting, San Antonio, TX, January 2003.

Integrated Security Services for Dynamic Coalition Management . DARPA PI Meeting, Newport RI, July 2002.

AWARDS

ComputerWorld Horizon Awards (Honorable Mention), 2005

Best Paper Award, WETICE 2004

Graduate Student Service Award, ECE Department, University of Maryland, 2001

TEACHING

Guest Lecture on Integration of Smartcards and Biometrics. Part of the Cyber Security Course (CS 498sh) taught by Dr. Susan Hinrichs at University of Illinois, Spring 2006.

Guest Lectures on Key Management. Part of the Computer Security Course (CS 498cag) taught by Dr. Carl Gunter and Dr. Nikita Borisov at University of Illinois, Fall 2005.