Contact Information |
32 West Street Carriage House 2 Cold Spring, NY 10516 |
+1 (917) 744-7934 tomb@cryptocracy.net http://cryptocracy.net |
Research Interests |
Computer security and privacy. Anonymity networks. Implantable medical devices. RFID. |
Education |
2008 – 2010 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Ph. D. Studies; ABD |
| 2007 – 2009 | IBM Research Zurich Research Laboratory Pre-Doctoral Research |
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| 2004 – 2007 | University of Massachusetts Amherst M.S. in Computer ScienceThesis topic: Cloning resistant anonymous credentials |
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| 2003 – 2004 | Columbia University Continuing education in computer science |
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| 1996 – 2000 | Yale University B.S. In Computer Science |
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| 1990 – 1996 | Riverdale Country School Graduated Cum Laude, and later returned to teach |
Awards |
IEEE Security and Privacy Best Paper Award for: Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses |
Peer Reviewed Publications
Please note: I have omitted institutional affiliations for brevity. Please see the papers for affiliations.
| Towards Practical Identification of HF RFID Devices Boris Danev, Srdjan Capkun, Ramya Jayaram Masti, Thomas S. Benjamin |
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 2012h |
| Preliminary Thoughts on Privacy Supporting Binding of Biometrics to Credentials Jan Camenisch, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin |
Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technology (HotPETs 2010) 2010, Berlin, Germany |
| Proximity-based Access Control for Implantable Medical Devices Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Claude Castelluccia, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin and Srdjan Capkun |
16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2009 Chicago, USA |
| Accountable Privacy Supporting Services Jan Camenisch, Thomas Gross, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin |
Journal of Identity in the Information Society, 2009, Springer |
| Physical-layer Identification of RFID Devices Boris Danev, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Srdjan Capkun |
Usenix Security 2009 San Diego, USA |
| Rethinking Accountable Privacy Supporting ServicesJan Camenisch, Thomas Gross, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin | ACM Digital Identity Management 2008, Fairfax, VA, USA |
| Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel M.D. |
Winner: Best Paper Award IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland)2008, Oakland, CA, USA |
| Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, William H. Maisel M.D. |
IEEE Pervasive Computing 2008, IEEE |
| Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-enabled Credit Cards Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Daniel V. Bailey, Kevin Fu, Ari Juels, and Tom O’Hare |
Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2007 Scarborough, Trinidad/Tobago |
| Nonesuch: A Mix Network with Sender Unobservability Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Andrei Serjantov, and Benessa Defend |
Workshop for Privacy in Electronic Society 2006 Alexandria, VA, USA |
| Privacy for Public Transit Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Hee-Jin Chae, Benessa Defend, and Kevin Fu |
Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2006 Cambridge University, England |
Technical papers and patents
| Efficient Tight Interval Proofs with Camenisch-Gross Encoding. Camenisch J, Gross T, Heydt-Benjamin TS | IBM Research Report RZ3800, IBM Research Division, Zurich, Switzerland.2011 |
| Cryptographic Proofs In Data Processing SystemsCamenisch J, Gross T, Heydt-Benjamin TS | US Patent Filing: 13/194,0692011 |
| Cryptographic Encoding and Decoding of Secret DataCamenisch J, Gross T, Heydt-Benjamin TS | US Patent No.: US 2010/0142704 A1Pub. Date: June 2010 |
| Cryptographic Protocols of the Identity Mixer Library Patrik Bichsel, Carl Binding, Jan Camenisch, Thomas Groß, Tom Heydt-Benjamin, Dieter Sommer, and Greg Zaverucha | IBM Research Report RZ3730, IBM Research Division, Zurich Switzerland, March 2009. |
| RFID Payment Card VulnerabilitiesThomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Daniel V. Bailey, Kevin Fu, Ari Juels, and Tom O’Hare | UMASS Amherst Technical Report, 2 |
Professional Experience
| Cryptocracy LLC, Member | 2011 – Present |
| The Tor Project, Freelance Research Scientist | 2010 – Present |
| ETH Zurich (The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Research Assistant |
2008 – 2010 |
| IBM Research Zurich Pre-doctoral researcher for the Cryptography and Security group |
2008 – 2009 |
| IBM Research Zurich Intern for the Cryptography and Security group |
2007 |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst Research Assistant |
2004 – 2007 |
| Columbia University Research Assistant |
2003 – 2004 |
| Riverdale Country School Teacher, Administrative staff member. |
2000 – 2004 |
Panels and Invited Talks
| Panel: Personal and Professional Privacy | EuroDIG, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept 2009 |
| Invited talk: Wireless Security and Physical Layer Identification | KU Leuven, Belgium, Feb 2009 |
| Invited talk: The world goes wireless: A paradigm shift still not fully realized | RWTH Aachen, Germany, Feb 2009 |
| Invited talk: Anonymous Credentials in Electronic ID | Advanced Applications for Electric Identity Cards (ADAPID) Leuven, Belgium, July 2008 |
| Invited talk: Privacy Supporting Identity Systems – Theory Meets Practice | The International Conference on Java Technology (Jazoon) Zurich, Switzerland, June 2008 |
| Invited talk: Privacy and Identity Management | Secure Vehicular Communications EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Feb 2008 |
| Panel: Ethics in Privacy Research Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin (Proposer and Moderator), Panelists: Caspar Bowden, George Danezis (co-proposer), Steven Murdoch, Andreas Pfitzmann, Gene Tsudik |
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium Ottawa, CA, 2007 |
Program Committee Memberships
| Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium | 2008 – 2012 |
| Workshop for Privacy in Electronic Society (An ACM CCS Affiliated Workshop) |
2006, 2007, 2010 |
| Security and Privacy in Medical and Home-Care Systems (An ACM CCS Affiliated Workshop) |
2009, 2010 |
| Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PC co-chair) | 2008, 2009 |
University Committees and Service
| Academic Standards and Curriculum Committee of the Graduate School | 2004 – 2006 |
| UMASS Graduate Council: the advisory and oversight committee of the graduate school. [Received 2 letters of commendation from chairperson] | 2004 – 2006 |
| Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Student Information Systems | 2004 – 2006 |
| UMASS Graduate Student Senate; elected representative of the computer science department | 2004 – 2006 |
| Yale University Departmental Student Advisory Committee; elected representative | 1999 – 2000 |
Selected Media Coverage
| “Good-Guy Hacker Rides into Town” | Putnam County News and Recorder December 21 2011 |
| “A Heart Device Is Found Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks” | The New York Times, March 12 2008 |
| “Heart-Device Hacking Risks Seen” | The Wall Street Journal, March 12 2008 |
| Guest on National Public Radio’s Leonard Lopate show to discuss privacy for public transportation | 40 minute interview, March 9, 2007 |
| “Security researcher shows just how easy it is to steal personal data from RFID-bearing credit cards” | Live interview on Fox news, December 2006 |
| “’Smart’ cards are quick, but are they safe?” | NBC’s Today Show, October 26, 2006 |
| “No-Swipe Credit Cards Could Make ID Theft Easier” | ABC’s Good Morning America, October 24, 2006 |
| “Researchers See Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards” | The New York Times, October 23, 2006 |
Popular Science and Public Service
| Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Mechatronische Kunst (SGMK) Teacher (Science enrichment for children and adults) |
2009 |
| Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office: RFID and electronic drivers’ license related subjects. |
2008 |
| Consumer Reports: advice on and explanation of RFID related subjects. | 2008 |
Selected Teaching and Advising
| GSoC Google Mentor: “Blocking-resistant Transport Evaluation Framework”, Student Brandon Wiley | 2011 |
| Honors diploma thesis advisor: Timur Alperovich and Shane Clark Topic: embedded device security and privacy. |
2007 |
| Research mentor: Russel Silva Topic: embedded device security and privacy. |
2006 |
| Teaching Associate (Instructor) cs197c: The C++ Programming Language | 2005 |
| Teaching Assistant cs445: Information Systems | 2005 |
| Teaching Associate (Instructor): The Unix Programming Environment | 2005 |
| AB level Advanced Placement Computer Science: In teaching this course I designed my own curriculum based on the ACM CS1 & CS2 curriculum, exceeding the College Board AP requirements. | 2000 – 2004 |
| Introduction to Technology for Grade Nine / Ten In the 2003-2004 school year, I was the curriculum coordinator, coordinating three teachers with 5 sections |
2000 – 2004 |
| Introduction to Technology for Grade Seven | 2000 – 2002 |
Invited Peer Review
| IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing | 2008, 2009, 2011 |
| Journal of Computer Security | 2010, 2011 |
| Computers & Security | 2011 |
| Communications of the ACM (CACM) | 2010 |
| Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) | 2010 |
| IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS) | 2009 |
| IEEE INFOCOM | 2006, 2009, 2010 |
| International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS) | 2009 |
| IEEE SECON | 2009 |
| Journal of Computer Science | 2008 |
| ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) | 2008 |
| IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) | 2008 |
| IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) | 2006 – 2008 |
| Financial Cryptography and Data Security | 2008 |
| IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing | 2008 |
| IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | 2007 |
| Network and Distributed System Security Symposium | 2006 – 2007 |
| ACM Communications and Computer Security (CCS) | 2007 |
| Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDsec) | 2007 |
| International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security | 2007 |
| IFIP SEC | 2007 |
| Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies | 2005 |
Memberships
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Mensa
Personal
Captain Emeritus of UMASS Tae Kwon Do, 10 year volunteer EMT in the South Bronx
V a.04 Spring 2012