Publications

ARMOUR US: Android Runtime Zero-permission Sensor Usage Monitoring from User Space

Authors: Yan Long, Jiancong Cui, Yuqing Yang, Tobias Alam, Zhiqiang Lin, Kevin Fu

Published at: ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec) 2025

[Paper] [Code]

How Lasers Exploit Photoacoustic and Photoelectric Phenomena to Inject Signals into MEMS Microphones

Authors: Benjamin Cyr, Vedant Sumaria, Yan Long, Srinivas Tadigadapa, Takeshi Sugawara, and Kevin Fu

Published at: Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (Springer HaSS) 2025

[Paper]

EyeHearYou: Probing Location Identification via Occluded Smartphone Cameras and Ultrasound

Authors: Nina Shamsi, Yan Long, Kevin Fu

Published at: IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (IEEE HOST) 2025

[Paper]

Promoting the Resilience of Health Care Information Systems---The Day Hospitals Stood Still

Authors: Daniel B. Kramer, MD and Kevin Fu

Published at: JAMA Health Forum, 5(11):e243968, 2024.

[Paper] [Journal]

From Virtual Touch to Tesla Command: Unlocking Unauthenticated Control Chains From Smart Glasses for Vehicle Takeover

Authors: Xingli Zhang, Yazhou Tu, Yan Long, Liqun Shan, Mohamed A Elsaadani, Kevin Fu, zhiqiang Lin, Xiali Hei

Published at: IEEE S&P 2024   🏅Distinguished Paper Award Winner

[Paper] [Demo]

WIP: Threat Modeling Laser-Induced Acoustic Interference in Computer Vision-Assisted Vehicles

Authors: Nina Shamsi, Kaeshav Chandrasekar, Yan Long, Keith Rebello, Christopher Limbach, Kevin Fu

Published at: Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec) 2024

[Paper]

EM Eye: Characterizing Electromagnetic Side-channel Eavesdropping on Embedded Cameras

Authors: Yan Long, Qinhong Jiang, Chen Yan, Tobias Alam, Xiaoyu Ji, Wenyuan Xu, Kevin Fu

Published at: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2024

[Paper] [Website&Demo] [Code]

GhostType: The Limits of Using Contactless Electromagnetic Interference to Inject Phantom Keys into Analog Circuits of Keyboards

Authors: Qinhong Jiang, Yanze Ren, Yan Long, Chen Yan, Yumai Sun, Xiaoyu Ji, Kevin Fu, Wenyuan Xu

Published at: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2024

[Paper] [Website&Demo]

Modeling and Mitigating Side Channels in Optical and Embedded Sensing Systems

Author: Yan Long

Published at: Ph.D. Thesis, Univerisity of Michigan, 2024

[Paper]

Characterizing Laser Signal Injection and its Impact on the Security of Cyber-Physical Systems

Author: Benjamin Cyr

Published at: Ph.D. Thesis, Univerisity of Michigan, 2023

[Paper]

Characterizing and Mitigating Touchtone Eavesdropping in Smartphone Motion Sensors

Authors: Connor Bolton, Yan Long, Jun Han, Josiah Hester, Kevin Fu

Published at: 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) 2023

[Paper]

Shimware: Toward Practical Security Retrofitting for Monolithic Firmware Images

Authors: Eric Gustafson, Paul Grosen, Nilo Redini, Saagar Jha, Andrea Continella, Ruoyu Wang, Kevin Fu, Sara Rampazzi, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Published at: 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) 2023

[Paper]

Position Paper: Space System Threat Models Must Account for Satellite Sensor Spoofing

Authors: Benjamin Cyr, Yan Long, Takeshi Sugawara, Kevin Fu

Published at: Workshop on Security of Space and Satellite Systems (SpaceSec) 2023

[Paper]

Side Eye: Characterizing the Limits of POV Acoustic Eavesdropping from Smartphone Cameras with Rolling Shutters and Movable Lenses

Authors: Yan Long, Pirouz Naghavi, Blas Kojusner, Kevin Butler, Sara Rampazzi, Kevin Fu

Published at: IEEE S&P 2023

[Paper] [Website]

Private Eye: On the Limits of Textual Screen Peeking via Eyeglass Reflections in Video Conferencing

Authors: Yan Long, Chen Yan, Shilin Xiao, Shivan Prasad, Wenyuan Xu, Kevin Fu

Published at: IEEE S&P 2023

[Paper]

Side Auth: Sensor Side Channels Considered Beneficial by Synthesizing Virtual Sensors for Authentication

Authors: Yan Long, Kevin Fu

Published at: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/ACSA New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW)

[Paper]

Redshift: Manipulating Signal Propagation Delay via Continuous-Wave Lasers

Authors: Kohei Yamashita, Benjamin Cyr, Kevin Fu, Wayne Burleson and Takeshi Sugawara

Published at: TCHES 2022

Light Commands: Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems

Authors: Takeshi Sugawara, Benjamin Cyr, Sara Rampazzi, Daniel Genkin, Kevin Fu

Published at: USENIX Security Symposium 2022

[Poster]

Protecting the Security of Sensor Systems

Authors: Connor Bolton

Ph.D. Thesis, Univerisity of Michigan, 2022

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Why Lasers Inject Perceived Sound Into MEMS Microphones: Indications and Contraindications of Photoacoustic and Photoelectric Effects

Authors: Benjamin Cyr, Takeshi Sugawara, Kevin Fu

Published at: IEEE SENSORS Conference, November 2021

[Paper] [Slides]

VeriMask: Facilitating Decontamination of N95 Masks in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges, Lessons Learned, and Safeguarding the Future

Authors: Yan Long, Alexander Curtiss, Sara Rampazzi, Josiah Hester, Kevin Fu

Journal: ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (IMWUT), September 2021

[Paper] [Bibtex] [Slides]

Protecting COVID-19 Vaccine Transportation and Storage from Analog Cybersecurity Threats

Authors: Yan Long, Sara Rampazzi, Takeshi Sugawara, Kevin Fu

Journal: Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology (AAMI BI&T), August 2021

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Inside Risks: How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home

Authors: Connor Bolton, Kevin Fu, Josiah Hester, Jun Han

Published at: Communications of the ACM 63, 2020

[Paper] [Video] [Bibtex]

SoK: A Minimalist Approach to Formalizing Analog Sensor Security

Authors: Chen Yan, Hocheol Shin, Connor Bolton, Wenyuan Xu, Yongdae Kim, Kevin Fu

Published at: IEEE S&P 2020

[Paper] [Presentation] [Bibtex]

Light Commands: Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems

Authors: Takeshi Sugawara, Benjamin Cyr, Sara Rampazzi, Daniel Genkin, Kevin Fu

Published at: USENIX Security Symposium 2020

[Paper] [Slides] [Video] [Bibtex]

Adversarial Sensor Attack on Lidar-based Perception in Autonomous Driving

Authors: Yulong Cao, Chaowei Xiao, Benjamin Cyr, Yimeng Zhou, Won Park, Sara Rampazzi, Qi Alfred Chen, Kevin Fu, Z. Morley Mao

Published at: ACM SIGSAC 2019

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Trick or Heat? Manipulating Critical Temperature-Based Control Systems Using Rectification Attacks

Authors: Yazhou Tu, Sara Rampazzi, Bin Hao, Angel Rodriguez, Kevin Fu, Xiali Hei

Published at: ACM SIGSAC 2019

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Hard Drive of Hearing: Disks that Eavesdrop with a Synthesized Microphone

Authors: Andrew Kwong, Wenyuan Xu, Kevin Fu

Published at: IEEE S&P 2019

[Paper] [Slides] [Presentation] [Bibtex]

Blue Note: How Intentional Acoustic Interference Damages Availability and Integrity in Hard Disk Drives and Operating Systems

Authors: Connor Bolton, Sara Rampazzi, Chaohao Li, Andrew Kwong, Wenyuan Xu, Kevin Fu

Published at: IEEE S&P 2018

[Paper] [Presentation] [Bibtex]

Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security Response to U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Request for Information on Supported Lifetimes of Legacy Medical Technology

Author: Kevin Fu, 2018

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices

Authors: David J. Slotwiner, Thomas F. Deering, Kevin Fu, Andrea M. Russo, Mary N. Walsh, George F. Van Hare

Published at: Heart Rhythm, 2018

[Paper] [Bibtex]

On Cuba, Diplomats, Ultrasound, and Intermodulation Distortion

Authors: Chen Yan, Kevin Fu, Wenyuan Xu

Published at: Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2018

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Inside Risks: Risks of Trusting the Physics of Sensors

Authors: Kevin Fu and Wenyuan Xu

Published at: Communications of the ACM 61, 2018

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Cybersecurity Concerns and Medical Devices: Lessons from a Pacemaker Advisory

Authors: Dan Kramer and Kevin Fu

Published at: Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2017

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Focus on Health IT: Six Factors Essential for Mitigating Cyber Risks in Healthcare

Authors: Kevin Fu, Juuso Leinonen, Ben Ransford, Harold Thimbleby

Published at: Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) News, 2017

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Cybersecurity and Medical Devices: A Practical Guide for Cardiac Electrophysiologists

Authors: Benjamin Ransford, Daniel Kramer, Denis Foo Kune, Julio Auto de Medeiros, Chen Yan, Wenyuan Xu, Thomas Crawford, Kevin Fu

Published at: Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology (PACE), 2017

[Paper] [Bibtex]

勒索软件:我们如何爬出泥沼

Authors: Kevin Fu, Harold Thimbleby, Wenyuan Xu

Published at: Journal of China Medical Devices, 2017

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Ransomware: How we can Climb out of this Mess

Authors: Kevin Fu and Harold Thimbleby

Published at: HealthIT News, 2017

[Paper] [Bibtex]

WALNUT: Waging Doubt on the Integrity of MEMS Accelerometers with Acoustic Injection Attacks

Authors: Timothy Trippel, Ofir Weisse, Wenyuan Xu, Peter Honeyman, Kevin Fu

Published at: IEEE Euro S&P 2017

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Dealing with Infrastructure Disruption: IoT Security

Author: Kevin Fu

Published at: ACM Ubiquity Magazine Blog, 2016

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Infrastructure Disruption: Internet of Things Security

Author: Kevin Fu

Published at: Testimony to the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, 2016

[Paper] [Video] [Bibtex]

Commentary: Hospitals Need Better Cybersecurity, not more Fear

Kevin Fu, John Halamka, Jack Kufahl, Mary Logan

Published at: Modern Healthcare, 2016

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Persistent Clocks for Batteryless Sensing Devices

Authors: Josiah Hester, Nicole Tobias, Amir Rahmati, Lanny Sitanayah, Daniel Holcomb, Kevin Fu, Wayne P Burleson, Jacob Sorber

Published at: ACM TECS 2016

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Systems Computing Challenges in the Internet of Things

Authors: Rajeev Alur, Emery Berger, Ann W. Drobnis, Limor Fix, Kevin Fu, Gregory D. Hager, Daniel Lopresti, Klara Nahrstedt, Elizabeth Mynatt, Shwetak Patel, Jennifer Rexford, John A. Stankovic, Benjamin Zorn

Published at: Tech report , A Computing Community Consortium (CCC) white paper, 2016

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Comments on FDA Draft Postmarket Guidance on Cybersecurity

Author: Kevin Fu, 2016

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Probable cause: the Deanonymizing Effects of Approximate DRAM

Authors: Amir Rahmati, Matthew Hicks, Daniel E Holcomb, Kevin Fu

Published at: International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2015

[Paper] [Bibtex]

SPECS: A Lightweight Runtime Mechanism for Protecting Software from Security-critical Processor Bugs

Authors: Matthew Hicks, Cynthia Sturton, Samuel T. King, Jonathan M. Smith

Published at: ASPLOS 2015

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Security for Mobile and Cloud Frontiers in Healthcare

Authors: David Kotz, Kevin Fu, Carl Gunter, Avi Rubin

Published at: Communications of the ACM 58, 2015

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Reliable Physical Unclonable Functions Using Data Retention Voltage of SRAM Cells

Authors: Xiaolin Xu, Amir Rahmati, Daniel E Holcomb, Kevin Fu, Wayne Burleson

Published at: IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 2015

[Paper] [Bibtex]

On the Technical Debt of Medical Device Security

Author: Kevin Fu

Published at: Tech report, National Academy of Engineering FOE, 2015

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Bitline PUF: Building Native Challenge-Response PUF Capability into Any SRAM

Authors: Daniel E. Holcomb and Kevin Fu

Published at: CHES 2014

[Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

SoK: Security and Privacy in Implantable Medical Devices and Body Area Networks

Authors: Michael Rushanan, Denis Foo Kune, Colleen M. Swanson, and Aviel D. Rubin

Published at: IEEE S&P 2014

[Paper] [Bibtex]

PUFs at a Glance

Authors: Ulrich Ruhrmair and Daniel E. Holcomb

Published at: DATE 2014

[Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

Refreshing Thoughts on DRAM: Power Saving vs. Data Integrity

Authors: Amir Rahmati, Matthew Hicks, Daniel E. Holcomb, and Kevin Fu

Published at: WACAS 2014

[Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

QBF-Based Synthesis of Optimal Word-Splitting in Approximate Multi-Level Storage Cells

Authors: Daniel E. Holcomb and Kevin Fu

Published at: WACAS 2014

[Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

Gaining Control of Cellular Traffic Accounting by Spurious TCP Retransmission

Authors: Youngwhan Go, Jongil Won, Denis Foo Kune, EunYoung Jeong, Yongdae Kim, and KyoungSoo Park

Published at: NDSS 2014

[Bibtex]

The Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud

Authors: E.A. Lee, J. Rabaey, B. Hartmann, J. Kubiatowicz, K. Pister, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, S.A. Seshia, J. Wawrzynek, D. Wessel, T.S. Rosing, D. Blaauw, P. Dutta, K. Fu, C. Guestrin, B. Taskar, R. Jafari, D. Jones, V. Kumar, R. Mangharam, G.J. Pappas, R.M. Murray, and A.Rowe

Published at: IEEE Design & Test 2014

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Inside Risks: Controlling for Cybersecurity Risks of Medical Device Software

Authors: Kevin Fu and James Blum

Published at: Communications of the ACM 56, 2013

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Current Events: Identifying Webpages by Tapping the Electrical Outlet

Authors: Shane S. Clark, Hossen Mustafa, Benjamin Ransford, Jacob Sorber, Kevin Fu, and Wenyuan Xu

Published at: ESORICS 2013

[Paper] [Bibtex]

The Security and Privacy Implications of Energy-Proportional Computing

Author: Shane S. Clark

Published at: Ph.D. Thesis, University of Massachusetts Amhers, 2013

[Paper] [Bibtex]

WattsUpDoc: Power Side Channels to Nonintrusively Discover Untargeted Malware on Embedded Medical Devices

Authors: Shane S. Clark, Benjamin Ransford, Amir Rahmati, Shane Guineau, Jacob Sorber, Wenyuan Xu, and Kevin Fu

Published at: USENIX Workshop on Health Information Technologies 2013

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Half-Wits: Software Techniques for Low-Voltage Probabilistic Storage on Microcontrollers with NOR Flash Memory

Authors: Mastooreh Salajegheh, Yue Wang, Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang, Erik Learned-Miller, and Kevin Fu

Published at: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 12, 2013

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Ghost Talk: Mitigating EMI Signal Injection Attacks against Analog Sensors

Authors: Denis Foo Kune, John Backes, Shane S. Clark, Daniel B. Kramer, Matthew R. Reynolds, Kevin Fu, Yongdae Kim, and Wenyuan Xu

Published at: IEEE S&P 2013

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Towards Accurate Accounting of Cellular Data for TCP Retransmission

Authors: Younghwan Go, Denis Foo Kune, Shinae Woo, KyoungSoo Park, and Yongdae Kim

Published at: ACM HotMobile 2013

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Transiently Powered Computers

Authors: Benjamin Ransford

Published at: Ph.D. Thesis, Univerisity of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013

[Paper] [Bibtex]

On the Expectations of Smart Cards to Reduce Medicare Fraud

Author: Kevin Fu

Published at: Ph.D. Testimony to the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives, Hearing on Examining Options to Combat Health Care Waste, Fraud and Abuses, 2012

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Privacy-aware Collaboration Among Untrusted Resource Constrained Devices

Author: Andres Molina-Markham

Published at: Ph.D. Thesis, Univerisity of Massachusetts Amherst, 2012

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Software Techniques to Reduce the Energy Consumption of Low-Power Devices at the Limits of Digital Abstractions

Author: Mastooreh Salajegheh

Published at: Ph.D. Thesis, Univerisity of Massachusetts Amherst, 2012

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Potentia est Scientia: Security and Privacy Implications of Energy-Proportional Computing

Authors: Shane S. Clark, Benjamin Ransford, and Kevin Fu

Published at: HotSec 2012

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Functional Privacy or Why Cookies are Better with Milk

Authors: Robert J. Walls, Shane S. Clark, and Brian Neil Levine

Published at: HotSec 2012

[Paper] [Bibtex]

TARDIS: Time and Remanence Decay in SRAM to Implement Secure Protocols on Embedded Devices without Clocks

Authors: Amir Rahmati, Mastooreh Salajegheh, Dan Holcomb, Jacob Sorber, Wayne P. Burleson, and Kevin Fu

Published at: USENIX Security Symposium 2012

[Paper] [Slides] [Video] [Microsoft Research] [IEEE Spectrum] [Slashdot] [Bibtex]

DRV-Fingerprinting: Using Data Retention Voltage of SRAM Cells for Chip Identification

Authors: Dan Holcomb, Amir Rahmati, Mastooreh Salajegheh, Wayne P. Burleson, and Kevin Fu

Published at: RFIDSec 2012

[Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

Security and Privacy Qualities of Medical Devices: An Analysis of FDA Postmarket Surveillance

Authors: Daniel B. Kramer, Matthew Baker, Benjamin Ransford, Andres Molina-Markham, Quinn Stewart, Kevin Fu, and Matthew R. Reynolds

Published at: PLoS ONE 7(7), July 2012

[Paper] [Journal] [Bibtex]

Current Events: Identifying Webpages by Tapping the Electrical Outlet

Authors: Shane S. Clark, Benjamin Ransford, Jacob Sorber, Wenyuan Xu, Erik Learned-Miller, and Kevin Fu

Published at: Tech report UM-CS-2011-030

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Design Challenges for Secure Implantable Medical Devices

Authors: Wayne P. Burleson, Shane S. Clark, Benjamin Ransford, and Kevin Fu

Published at: DAC 2012

[Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

TARDIS: Secure Time Keeping For Embedded Devices Without Clocks

Authors: Amir Rahmati, Mastooreh Salajegheh, Dan Holcomb, Jacob Sorber, Wayne P. Burleson, and Kevin Fu

Published at: IEEE S&P 2012

[Paper] [Slides] [Poster] [Bibtex]

Designing Privacy-preserving Smart Meters with Low-cost Microcontrollers

Authors: Andres Molina-Markham, George Danezis, Kevin Fu, Prashant Shenoy, and David Irwin

Published at: FC 2012

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Maximalist Cryptography and Computation on the WISP UHF RFID Tag

Authors: Hee-Jin Chae, Mastooreh Salajegheh, Daniel J. Yeager, Joshua R. Smith, and Kevin Fu

Published at: Chapter in Wirelessly Powered Sensor Networks and Computational RFID, 2012. An earlier version based on older WISP technology appeared in RFIDSec0

[Paper] [Bibtex]

BAT: Backscatter Anything-to-Tag Communication

Authors: Andres Molina-Markham, Shane S. Clark, Benjamin Ransford, and Kevin Fu

Published at: Chapter in Wirelessly Powered Sensor Networks and Computational RFID, 2012

[Paper] [Bibtex]

NIST ISPAB Federal Advisory Commmittee Recommendations on Improving Medical Device Cybersecurity

Published at: Sent to OMB Director, HHS Secretary, NSC, DHS, NIST, March 30, 2012

[Bibtex]

Recent Results in Computer Security for Medical Devices

Authors: Shane S. Clark and Kevin Fu

Published at: ICST MobiHealth 2011

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Ekho: Bridging the Gap Between Simulation and Reality in Tiny Energy-Harvesting Sensors

Authors: Hong Zhang, Mastooreh Salajegheh, Kevin Fu, and Jacob Sorber

Published at: HotPower 2011

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Take Two Software Updates and See me in the Morning: The Case for Software Security Evaluations of Medical Devices

Authors: Steve Hanna, Rolf Rolles, Andres Molina-Markham, Pongsin Poosankam, Kevin Fu, and Dawn Song

Published at: USENIX HealthSec HotPower 2011

[Paper] [Slides] [Conference] [Bibtex]

They Can Hear Your Heartbeats: Non-Invasive Security for Implanted Medical Devices

Authors: Shyamnath Gollakota, Haitham Hassanieh, Benjamin Ransford, Dina Katabi, and Kevin Fu

Published at: ACM SIGCOMM 2011

[Paper] [Details] [Conference] [Bibtex]

Moo: A Batteryless Computational RFID and Sensing Platform

Authors: Hong Zhang, Jeremy Gummeson, Benjamin Ransford, and Kevin Fu

Published at: Tech report UM-CS-2011-020

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Software Issues for the Medical Device Approval Process

Author: Kevin Fu

Published at: Statement to the Special Committee on Aging

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Mementos: System Support for Long-Running Computation on RFID-Scale Devices

Authors: Benjamin Ransford, Jacob Sorber, and Kevin Fu

Published at: ASPLOS '11

[Paper] [Slides] [Conference] [Bibtex]

Exploiting Half-Wits: Smarter Storage for Low-Power Devices

Authors: Mastooreh Salajegheh, Yue Wang, Kevin Fu, Anxiao Jiang, and Erik Learned-Miller

Published at: USENIX FAST'11

[Paper] [Slides] [Conference] [License] [Webcast] [Bibtex]

Trustworthy Medical Device Software

Author: Kevin Fu

Published at: IOM'11

[Paper] [Workshop] [Video] [Bibtex]

Private Memoirs of a Smart Meter

Authors: Andres Molina-Markham, Prashant Shenoy, Kevin Fu, Emmanuel Cecchet, and David Irwin

Published at: BuildSys 2010

[Paper] [Workshop] [Bibtex]

Mementos: System Support for Long-Running Computation on RFID-Scale Devices (Technical Report)

Authors: Benjamin Ransford, Jacob Sorber, and Kevin Fu

Published at: Tech report UM-CS-2010-060

[Paper] [Bibtex]

On the Limits of Effective Micro-Energy Harvesting on Mobile CRFID Sensors

Authors: Jeremy Gummeson, Shane S. Clark, Kevin Fu, and Deepak Ganesan

Published at: MobiSys 2010

[Paper] [Bibtex]

A Rudimentary Bootloader for Computational RFIDs

Author: Benjamin Ransford

Published at: Tech report UM-CS-2010-061

[Paper] [Bibtex]

HICCUPS: Health Information Collaborative Collection Using Privacy and Security

Authors: Andres D. Molina, Mastooreh Salajegheh, and Kevin Fu

Published at: SPIMACS 2009

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Towards Autonomously-Powered CRFIDs

Authors: Shane S. Clark, Jeremy Gummeson, Kevin Fu, and Deepak Ganesan

Published at: HotPower 2009 Workshop

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Clinically Significant Magnetic Interference of Implanted Cardiac Devices by Portable Headphones

Authors: Sinjin Lee, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, Benjamin Ransford, and William H. Maisel

Published at: Heart Rhythm Journal 2009

[Paper] [NPR] [Bibtex]

Power-up SRAM State as an Identifying Fingerprint and Source of True Random Numbers

Authors: Daniel E. Holcomb, Wayne P. Burleson, and Kevin Fu

Published at: IEEE Transactions on Computers 2009

[Paper] [Bibtex]

CCCP: Secure Remote Storage for Computational RFIDs

Authors: Mastooreh Salajegheh, Shane S. Clark, Benjamin Ransford, Kevin Fu, and Ari Juels

Published at: USENIX Security Symposium 2009

[Paper] [New Scientist] [Bibtex]

Inside Risks, Reducing the Risks of Implantable Medical Devices: A Prescription to Improve Security and Privacy of Pervasive Health Care

Author: Kevin Fu

Published at: Communications of the ACM 2009

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Privacy of Home Telemedicine: Encryption is Not Enough

Authors: Mastooreh Salajegheh, Andres Molina, and Kevin Fu

Published at: Journal of Medical Devices 2009

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Getting Things Done on Computational RFIDs with Energy-Aware Checkpointing and Voltage-Aware Scheduling

Authors: Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Mastooreh Salajegheh, and Kevin Fu

Published at: HotPower 2008

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) of Implanted Cardiac Devices by MP3 Player Headphones

Authors: Sinjin Lee, Benjamin Ransford, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel

Published at: Circulation 2008

[Video] [Reuters] [Bibtex]

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: New Directions for Implantable Medical Device Security

Authors: Tamara Denning, Kevin Fu and Tadayoshi Kohno

Published at: HotSec 2008

[Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-power Defenses

Authors: Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel

Published at: IEEE S&P 2008

[Paper] [New York Times] [Bibtex]

Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices

Authors: Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel

Published at: IEEE Pervasive Computing 2008

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Protecting Global Medical Telemetry Infrastructure

Authors: Benessa Defend, Mastooreh Salajegheh, Kevin Fu, and Sozo Inoue

Published at: Tech Report 2008

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Initial SRAM State as a Fingerprint and Source of True Random Numbers for RFID Tags

Authors: Daniel E. Holcomb, Wayne P. Burleson, and Kevin Fu

Published at: Conference on RFID Security 2007

[Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

Maximalist Cryptography and Computation on the WISP UHF RFID Tag

Authors: Hee-Jin Cae, Daniel J. Yeager, Joshua R. Smith, and Kevin Fu

Conference on RFID Security 2007

[Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

Cryptanalysis of Two Lightweight RFID Authentication Schemes

Authors: Benessa Defend, Kevin Fu, and Ari Juels

Published at: PerSec 2007

[Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-enabled Credit Cards

Authors: Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Dan V. Bailey, Kevin Fu, Ari Juels, and Tom OHare

Published at: Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2007

[Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

Secure Software Updates: Disappointments and New Challenges

Authors: Anthony Bellissimo, John Burgess, and Kevin Fu

Published at: USENIX Hot Topics in Security

[Paper] [Slides] [Video Demo] [Bibtex]

Privacy for Public Transportation

Authors: Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Hee-Jin Chae, Benessa Defend, and Kevin Fu

Published at: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Key Regression: Enabling Efficient Key Distribution for Secure Distributed Storage

Authors: Kevin Fu, Seny Kamara, and Tadayoshi Kohno

Published at: Symposium of the Network and Distributed Systems Security

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Improved Proxy Re-Encryption Schemes with Applications to Secure Distributed Storage

Authors: Giuseppe Ateniese, Kevin Fu, Matthew Green, and Susan Hohenberge

Published at: Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS))

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Integrity and Access Control in Untrusted Content Distribution Networks

Author: Kevin Fu

Published at: Ph.D. Thesis, MIT

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Improved Proxy Re-encryption Schemes with Applications to Secure Distributed Storage

Authors: Giuseppe Ateniese, Kevin Fu, Matthew Green, and Susan Hohenberger

Published at: ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)

[Paper] [Bibtex]

REX: Secure, Extensible Remote Execution

Authors: Michael Kaminsky, Eric Peterson, Daniel B. Giffin, Kevin Fu, David Mazières, and M. Frans Kaashoek

Published at: 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Plutus: Scalable Secure File Sharing on Untrusted Storage

Authors: Mahesh Kallahalla, Erik Riedel, Ram Swaminathan, Qian Wang, and Kevin Fu

Published at: USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

[Paper] [Conference] [Bibtex]

Using SFS for a Secure Network File System

Authors: Kevin Fu, Michael Kaminsky, and David Mazières

Published at: The Magazine of Usenix

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Fast and Secure Distributed Read-Only File System

Authors: Kevin Fu, M. Frans Kaashoek, and David Mazières

Published at: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Inside Risks, Web Cookies: Not Just a Privacy Risk

Authors: Emil Sit and Kevin Fu

Published at: Communications of the ACM

[Paper] [Bibtex]

Dos and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web

Authors: Kevin Fu, Emil Sit, Kendra Smith, and Nick Feamster

Published at: 10th USENIX Security Symposium 2001

[Paper] [Slides] [Conference] [Extended Paper] [Photos] [Bibtex]

Dos and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web

Authors: Kevin Fu, Emil Sit, Kendra Smith, and Nick Feamster

Published at: Tech report MIT-LCS-TR-818, MIT Lab for Computer Science

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Fast and Secure Distributed Read-only File System

Authors: Kevin Fu, M. Frans Kaashoek, and David Mazières

Published at: 4th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

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Group Sharing and Random Access in Cryptographic Storage File Systems

Author: Kevin Fu

Published at: Master's Thesis, MIT

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Approximate Message Authentication Codes

Authors: Richard F. Graveman and Kevin Fu

Published at: Tech report, Bellcore 1999

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Revocation of Unread Email in an Untrusted Network

Authors: Aviel D. Rubin, Dan Boneh, and Kevin Fu

Published at: Information Security and Privacy, Second Austrailian Conference (ACISP)

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