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Simson L. Garfinkel
Simson Leon Garfinkel
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- affiliation: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, USA
- affiliation: U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Disclosure Avoidance Research, Suitland, MD, USA
- affiliation: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersberg, MD, USA
- affiliation: Naval Postgraduate School, Washington, DC, USA
- affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, USA
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2020 – today
- 2024
- [j63]Simson L. Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford:
In Memoriam: Niklaus Wirth. Commun. ACM 67(3): 20 (2024) - [j62]Simson L. Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford:
In Memoriam: Gordon Bell. Commun. ACM 67(7): 17 (2024) - 2023
- [j61]Simson L. Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford:
In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. 1931-2022. Commun. ACM 66(1): 21-22 (2023) - [j60]Simson L. Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford:
In Memoriam: William A. Wulf. Commun. ACM 66(6): 20-23 (2023) - [j59]Simson L. Garfinkel
, Jon Stewart:
Sharpening Your Tools. Commun. ACM 66(8): 44-52 (2023) - [j58]Simson L. Garfinkel
Sharpening Your Tools: Updating bulk_extractor for the 2020s. ACM Queue 21(1): 30-56 (2023) - [i7]John M. Abowd, Tamara Adams, Robert Ashmead, David Darais, Sourya Dey, Simson L. Garfinkel
The 2010 Census Confidentiality Protections Failed, Here's How and Why. CoRR abs/2312.11283 (2023) - 2022
- [j57]Simson L. Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford:
In memoriam: Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022. Commun. ACM 65(10): 14-15 (2022) - [i6]John M. Abowd, Robert Ashmead, Ryan Cumings-Menon, Simson L. Garfinkel
The 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System TopDown Algorithm. CoRR abs/2204.08986 (2022) - [i5]Simson L. Garfinkel
Sharpening Your Tools: Updating bulk_extractor for the 2020s. CoRR abs/2208.01639 (2022) - 2021
- [j56]Simson L. Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford:
Edmund M. Clarke (1945 - 2020). Commun. ACM 64(3): 23-24 (2021) - [j55]Simson L. Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford:
Jack Minker (1927 - 2021). Commun. ACM 64(6): 17 (2021) - [j54]Simson L. Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford:
Charles M. Geschke (1939-2021). Commun. ACM 64(7): 22 (2021) - [c29]John M. Abowd, Robert Ashmead, Ryan Cumings-Menon, Simson L. Garfinkel, Daniel Kifer, Philip Leclerc, William Sexton, Ashley Simpson, Christine Task, Pavel Zhuravlev:
An Uncertainty Principle is a Price of Privacy-Preserving Microdata. NeurIPS 2021: 11883-11895 - [i4]John M. Abowd, Robert Ashmead, Ryan Cumings-Menon, Simson L. Garfinkel, Daniel Kifer, Philip Leclerc, William Sexton, Ashley Simpson, Christine Task, Pavel Zhuravlev:
An Uncertainty Principle is a Price of Privacy-Preserving Microdata. CoRR abs/2110.13239 (2021) - 2020
- [j53]Simson L. Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford:
Fran Allen: 1932-2020. Commun. ACM 63(10): 18-19 (2020) - [j52]Simson L. Garfinkel:
SIGINFO: Everything Is a Punch Card. login Usenix Mag. 45(3) (2020) - [j51]Simson L. Garfinkel:
SIGINFO: The Tricky Cryptographic Hash Function. login Usenix Mag. 45(4) (2020) - [c28]Simson L. Garfinkel
Randomness Concerns when Deploying Differential Privacy. WPES@CCS 2020: 73-86 - [i3]Simson L. Garfinkel, J. Spencer Love:
A File System For Write-Once Media. CoRR abs/2004.00402 (2020) - [i2]Simson L. Garfinkel, Philip Leclerc:
Randomness Concerns When Deploying Differential Privacy. CoRR abs/2009.03777 (2020)
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [j50]Simson L. Garfinkel
Understanding database reconstruction attacks on public data. Commun. ACM 62(3): 46-53 (2019) - 2018
- [j49]Simson L. Garfinkel
Understanding Database Reconstruction Attacks on Public Data. ACM Queue 16(5): 50 (2018) - [c27]Simson L. Garfinkel
Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy. WPES@CCS 2018: 133-137 - [i1]Simson L. Garfinkel, John M. Abowd, Sarah Powazek:
Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy. CoRR abs/1809.02201 (2018) - 2017
- [j48]Simson L. Garfinkel
Toward algorithmic transparency and accountability. Commun. ACM 60(9): 5 (2017) - [j47]Adam Pridgen, Simson L. Garfinkel
Picking up the trash: Exploiting generational GC for memory analysis. Digit. Investig. 20 Supplement: S20-S28 (2017) - [c26]Julie M. Haney, Simson L. Garfinkel
Organizational practices in cryptographic development and testing. CNS 2017: 1-9 - [c25]Adam Pridgen, Simson L. Garfinkel, Dan S. Wallach:
Present but Unreachable: Reducing Persistentlatent Secrets in HotSpot JVM. HICSS 2017: 1-10 - [c24]Yasemin Acar, Michael Backes, Sascha Fahl, Simson L. Garfinkel
Comparing the Usability of Cryptographic APIs. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2017: 154-171 - [c23]Christian Stransky, Yasemin Acar, Duc Cuong Nguyen, Dominik Wermke, Doowon Kim
Lessons Learned from Using an Online Platform to Conduct Large-Scale, Online Controlled Security Experiments with Software Developers. CSET @ USENIX Security Symposium 2017 - 2016
- [j46]Mary Theofanos, Simson L. Garfinkel
Secure and Usable Enterprise Authentication: Lessons from the Field. IEEE Secur. Priv. 14(5): 14-21 (2016) - [c22]Grace Hui Yang, Ian Soboroff, Li Xiong
Privacy-Preserving IR 2016: Differential Privacy, Search, and Social Media. SIGIR 2016: 1247-1248 - 2015
- [j45]Simson L. Garfinkel
Hash-based carving: Searching media for complete files and file fragments with sector hashing and hashdb. Digit. Investig. 14 Supplement 1: S95-S105 (2015) - [j44]Simson L. Garfinkel:
The Expanding World of Digital Forensics. login Usenix Mag. 40(6) (2015) - 2014
- [b9]Simson L. Garfinkel, Heather Richter Lipford:
Usable Security: History, Themes, and Challenges. Synthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy, and Trust, Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2014, ISBN 978-3-031-01215-0 - [j43]Simson L. Garfinkel
Leaking Sensitive Information in Complex Document Files-and How to Prevent It. IEEE Secur. Priv. 12(1): 20-27 (2014) - [j42]Simson L. Garfinkel
Can We Sniff Wi-Fi?: Implications of Joffe v. Google. IEEE Secur. Priv. 12(4): 22-28 (2014) - [c21]Carolina Zarate, Simson L. Garfinkel
Analysis of the Use of XOR as an Obfuscation Technique in a Real Data Corpus. IFIP Int. Conf. Digital Forensics 2014: 117-132 - 2013
- [j41]Simson L. Garfinkel
Digital media triage with bulk data analysis and bulk_extractor. Comput. Secur. 32: 56-72 (2013) - [j40]Neil C. Rowe, Riqui Schwamm, Simson L. Garfinkel
Language translation for file paths. Digit. Investig. 10(Supplement): S78-S86 (2013) - [j39]Simson L. Garfinkel:
Book Review: iPhone and iOS Forensic: Investigation, Analysis and Mobile Security for Apple iPhone, iPad and iOS Devices. J. Digit. Forensics Secur. Law 8(4): 65-68 (2013) - 2012
- [j38]Simson L. Garfinkel
The cybersecurity risk. Commun. ACM 55(6): 29-32 (2012) - [j37]Joel Young, Kristina Foster, Simson L. Garfinkel
Distinct Sector Hashes for Target File Detection. Computer 45(12): 28-35 (2012) - [j36]Simson L. Garfinkel
Digital forensics XML and the DFXML toolset. Digit. Investig. 8(3-4): 161-174 (2012) - [j35]Simson L. Garfinkel
A general strategy for differential forensic analysis. Digit. Investig. 9(Supplement): S50-S59 (2012) - [j34]Simson L. Garfinkel
Lessons learned writing digital forensics tools and managing a 30TB digital evidence corpus. Digit. Investig. 9(Supplement): S80-S89 (2012) - [j33]Kevin D. Fairbanks, Simson L. Garfinkel
Column: Factors Affecting Data Decay. J. Digit. Forensics Secur. Law 7(2): 7-10 (2012) - [j32]Simson L. Garfinkel:
Programming Unicode. login Usenix Mag. 37(2) (2012) - 2011
- [j31]Robert Beverly, Simson L. Garfinkel
Forensic carving of network packets and associated data structures. Digit. Investig. 8(Supplement): S78-S89 (2011) - [j30]Simson L. Garfinkel
Operations with Degraded Security. IEEE Secur. Priv. 9(6): 43-48 (2011) - [j29]Neil C. Rowe, Simson L. Garfinkel, Robert Beverly, Panayotis A. Yannakogeorgos:
Challenges in Monitoring Cyberarms Compliance. Int. J. Cyber Warf. Terror. 1(2): 35-48 (2011) - [j28]Simson L. Garfinkel
Column: Every Last Byte. J. Digit. Forensics Secur. Law 6(2): 7-8 (2011) - [j27]Simson L. Garfinkel
Column: File Cabinet Forensics. J. Digit. Forensics Secur. Law 6(4): 7-10 (2011) - [c20]Neil C. Rowe, Simson L. Garfinkel
Finding Anomalous and Suspicious Files from Directory Metadata on a Large Corpus. ICDF2C 2011: 115-130 - [c19]Kam Woods, Christopher A. Lee, Simson L. Garfinkel
Extending digital repository architectures to support disk image preservation and access. JCDL 2011: 57-66 - 2010
- [j26]Simson L. Garfinkel
Institutional review boards and your research. Commun. ACM 53(6): 38-40 (2010) - [j25]Simson L. Garfinkel
Using purpose-built functions and block hashes to enable small block and sub-file forensics. Digit. Investig. 7(Supplement): S13-S23 (2010) - [j24]Simson L. Garfinkel
Digital forensics research: The next 10 years. Digit. Investig. 7(Supplement): S64-S73 (2010) - [j23]Simson L. Garfinkel
An Automated Solution to the Multiuser Carved Data Ascription Problem. IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 5(4): 868-882 (2010) - [c18]Neil C. Rowe, Simson L. Garfinkel
Global Analysis of Drive File Times. SADFE 2010: 97-108 - [c17]Elizabeth Fong, Paul E. Black, Richard F. Leslie, Simson L. Garfinkel
Wouldn't it be nice to have software labels. SIGAda 2010: 31-32
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [j22]Simson L. Garfinkel
Bringing science to digital forensics with standardized forensic corpora. Digit. Investig. 6(Supplement): S2-S11 (2009) - [j21]Michael Cohen, Simson L. Garfinkel
Extending the advanced forensic format to accommodate multiple data sources, logical evidence, arbitrary information and forensic workflow. Digit. Investig. 6(Supplement): S57-S68 (2009) - [j20]Simson L. Garfinkel
New XML-Based Files Implications for Forensics. IEEE Secur. Priv. 7(2): 38-44 (2009) - [j19]Simson L. Garfinkel
Providing Cryptographic Security and Evidentiary Chain-of-Custody with the Advanced Forensic Format, Library, and Tools. Int. J. Digit. Crime Forensics 1(1): 1-28 (2009) - [c16]Vassil Roussev, Simson L. Garfinkel
File Fragment Classification-The Case for Specialized Approaches. SADFE 2009: 3-14 - [c15]Simson L. Garfinkel
Automating Disk Forensic Processing with SleuthKit, XML and Python. SADFE 2009: 73-84 - [c14]Simson L. Garfinkel:
Invisible HCI-SEC: ways of re-architecting the operating system to increase usability and security. SOUPS 2009 - 2008
- [j18]Simson L. Garfinkel
Sharp Figures, Fuzzy Purpose. IEEE Secur. Priv. 6(2): 5 (2008) - [c13]Paul F. Farrell Jr., Simson L. Garfinkel
Practical Applications of Bloom Filters to the NIST RDS and Hard Drive Triage. ACSAC 2008: 13-22 - [c12]Simson L. Garfinkel:
IRBs and Security Research: Myths, Facts and Mission Creep. UPSEC 2008 - 2007
- [j17]Simson L. Garfinkel
Carving contiguous and fragmented files with fast object validation. Digit. Investig. 4(Supplement): 2-12 (2007) - [j16]Simson L. Garfinkel
Document & Media Exploitation. ACM Queue 5(7): 22-30 (2007) - [j15]Simson L. Garfinkel
Complete delete vs. time machine computing. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 41(1): 42-44 (2007) - [j14]Simson L. Garfinkel:
Commodity Grid Computing with Amazon's S3 and EC2. login Usenix Mag. 32(1) (2007) - [c11]Ivan Krstic, Simson L. Garfinkel
Bitfrost: the one laptop per child security model. SOUPS 2007: 132-142 - 2006
- [j13]Simson L. Garfinkel
AFF: a new format for storing hard drive images. Commun. ACM 49(2): 85-87 (2006) - [j12]Simson L. Garfinkel
Forensic feature extraction and cross-drive analysis. Digit. Investig. 3(Supplement): 71-81 (2006) - [j11]Simson L. Garfinkel
Guest Editors' Introduction: Data Surveillance. IEEE Secur. Priv. 4(6): 15-17 (2006) - [c10]Min Wu, Robert C. Miller, Simson L. Garfinkel
Do security toolbars actually prevent phishing attacks? CHI 2006: 601-610 - [c9]Simson L. Garfinkel, David J. Malan, Karl-Alexander Dubec, Christopher C. Stevens, Cecile Pham:
AFF: An Open Extensible Format for Disk Imaging. IFIP Int. Conf. Digital Forensics 2006: 13-27 - [c8]Uri Braun, Simson L. Garfinkel
Issues in Automatic Provenance Collection. IPAW 2006: 171-183 - [c7]Simson L. Garfinkel
One Big File Is Not Enough: A Critical Evaluation of the Dominant Free-Space Sanitization Technique. Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2006: 135-151 - 2005
- [b8]Simson L. Garfinkel:
Design principles and patterns for computer systems that are simultaneously secure and usable. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2005 - [j10]Simson L. Garfinkel
RFID Privacy: An Overview of Problems and Proposed Solutions. IEEE Secur. Priv. 3(3): 34-43 (2005) - [c6]Simson L. Garfinkel
How to make secure email easier to use. CHI 2005: 701-710 - [c5]Simson L. Garfinkel
Views, Reactions and Impact of Digitally-Signed Mail in e-Commerce. Financial Cryptography 2005: 188-202 - [c4]Simson L. Garfinkel
Johnny 2: a user test of key continuity management with S/MIME and Outlook Express. SOUPS 2005: 13-24 - 2004
- [j9]Lorrie Faith Cranor
Guest Editors' Introduction: Secure or Usable? IEEE Secur. Priv. 2(5): 16-18 (2004) - [c3]Simson L. Garfinkel:
Used Disk Drives. LISA 2004 - 2003
- [b7]Simson L. Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz:
Practical Unix and internet security - securing Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD: extensivley revised (3. ed.). O'Reilly 2003, ISBN 978-0-596-00323-4, pp. I-XXIX, 1-954 - [j8]Simson L. Garfinkel, Abhi Shelat:
IEEE Security & Privacy: Data Forensics - Rememberance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitization Practices. IEEE Distributed Syst. Online 4(2) (2003) - [j7]Simson L. Garfinkel
Leaderless resistance today. First Monday 8(3) (2003) - [j6]Simson L. Garfinkel
Remembrance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitization Practices. IEEE Secur. Priv. 1(1): 17-27 (2003) - [j5]Simson L. Garfinkel
Email-Based Identification and Authentication: An Alternative to PKI? IEEE Secur. Priv. 1(6): 20-26 (2003) - [c2]Simson L. Garfinkel:
Enabling Email Confidentiality through the use of Opportunistic Encryption. DG.O 2003 - 2002
- [b6]Simson L. Garfinkel, Michael K. Mahoney:
Building Cocoa applications - a step-by-step guide. O'Reilly 2002, ISBN 978-0-596-00235-0, pp. I-XXV, 1-620 - 2001
- [b5]Simson L. Garfinkel:
Database nation - the death of privacy in the 21th century. O'Reilly 2001, ISBN 978-0-596-00105-6, pp. I-VII, 1-326 - 2000
- [j4]Simson L. Garfinkel:
Database nation (book excerpts). Ubiquity 2000(February): 9 (2000) - [c1]Simson L. Garfinkel
My net connection approaches light speed with cable, but that doesn't guarantee victory over DSL. CFP 2000: 129-135
1990 – 1999
- 1998
- [b4]Alan Schwartz, Simson L. Garfinkel:
Stopping spam - stamping out unwanted email and news postings. O'Reilly 1998, ISBN 978-1-56592-388-1, pp. I-X, 1-191 - 1997
- [b3]Simson L. Garfinkel, Gene Spafford:
Web security and commerce - risks, technologies, and strategies. O'Reilly 1997, ISBN 978-1-56592-269-3, pp. I-XX, 1-483 - [j3]Simson L. Garfinkel, Gene Spafford:
Cryptography and the Web. World Wide Web J. 2: 113-126 (1997) - [j2]Simson L. Garfinkel, Gene Spafford:
Secure CGI/API programming. World Wide Web J. 2: 187-200 (1997) - 1996
- [b2]Simson L. Garfinkel, Gene Spafford:
Practical UNIX and internet security (2. ed.). O'Reilly 1996, ISBN 978-1-56592-148-1, pp. I-XXIX, 1-971 - 1995
- [b1]Simson L. Garfinkel:
PGP - pretty good privacy: encryption for everyone (2. ed.). O'Reilly 1995, ISBN 978-1-56592-098-9, pp. I-XXXIII, 1-393 - [j1]Simson L. Garfinkel
Risks of Social Security Numbers. Commun. ACM 38(10): 146 (1995)
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Eugene H. Spafford
aka: Gene Spafford
aka: Gene Spafford
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