"the first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." - richard p. feynman
identify and solve security and privacy problems in wired and wireless networks.
ph.d. and m.sc. from dan brown school of Information and computer science at university of california, irvine (2010 and 2008). m.sc. and b.sc. in electrical engineering from cairo university in egypt (2005 and 2003).
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- Srdjan Capkun, Karim El Defrawy and Gene Tsudik, "Group Distance Bounding Protocols", in preparation . Technical Report
- Mishari Al Mishari, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Karim El Defrawy and Gene Tsudik, "Harvesting SSL Certificate Data to Mitigate Web-Fraud", to appear in International Journal of Network Security (IJNS). Technical Report
- Karim El Defrawy, Gene Tsudik, "Privacy-Preserving Location-Based On-Demand Routing in MANETs", IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communication (IEEE JSAC), Vol. 29 No. 10, December 2011. PDF
- Karim El Defrawy, Gene Tsudik, "Anonymous Location Aided Routing in Suspicious MANETs", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), Vol. 10 No. 9, September 2011. PDF
- Karim El Defrawy, Aurelien Francillon, Daniele Perito and Gene Tsudik, "SMART: Secure and Minimal Architecture for (Establishing Dynamic) Root of Trust" to appear in Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2012. PDF
- Srdjan Capkun, Karim El Defrawy and Gene Tsudik, "Group Distance Bounding Protocols", The 4th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST 2011). PDF
- Claude Catellucia, Karim El Defrawy and Gene Tsudik, "Link-Layer Encryption Effect on the Capacity of Network Coding in Wireless Networks", IEEE INFOCOM Work in Progress (WiP), March 2010. PDF
- Boris Danev, Heinrich Luecken, Srdjan Capkun, Karim El Defrawy, "Attacks on Physical-layer Identification", ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), March 2010. PDF
- Karim El Defrawy, John Solis, Gene Tsudik, "Leveraging Social Contacts for Message Confidentiality in Delay Tolerant Networks", presented in the 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'09), Seattle,Washington, July 20 - July 24, 2009. PDF
- Karim El Defrawy and Gene Tsudik, "PRISM: Privacy-friendly Routing In Suspicious MANETs (and VANETs)", The 2008 IEEE International Conference of Network Protocols (ICNP'08), October 19-22, Florida, USA. PDF
- F.Soldo, K.El Defrawy, A.Markopoulou, B.Krishnamurthy, K.van der Merwe, "Filtering Sources of Unwanted Traffic Based on Blacklists", The 2008 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, CA, Jan.2008. PDF
- Karim El Defrawy, Gene Tsudik, "ALARM: Anonymous Location Aided Routing in Suspicious MANETS", The 2007 IEEE International Conference of Network Protocols (ICNP'07), October 16-19, Beijing, China. PDF
- Karim El Defrawy, Athina Markopoulou, Katerina Argyraki, "Optimal Filter Allocation Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks", The 2007 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), Jan. 2007, San Diego, California. PDF
- Karim M. El Defrawy , Magda S. El Zarki , Mohamed M. Khairy, "Proposal for a cross-layer coordination framework for next generation wireless systems", Proceeding of the 2006 international conference on Communications and mobile computing, IWCMC '06, July 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. PDF
- Karim M. El Defrawy, Mohamed M. Khairy and Amin Nassar, "Sub-Carrier Allocation using Channel Prediction for OFDMA systems based on IEEE 802.16 Standard", International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems, ICCES'06, Sep. 2006, Cairo Egypt.
- Karim El Defrawy, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou, "BotTorrent: Misusing BitTorrent to Launch DDoS Attacks", USENIX SRUTI, in conjucntion with USENIX'07, Santa Clara, June 2007. PDF
- Karim El Defrawy, Magda El Zarki, Gene Tsudik, "Incentive-Based Cooperative and Secure Inter-Personal Networking", ACM MobiOpp, in conjucntion with ACM MobiSys'07, June 2007. PDF
- Karim El Defrawy and Claudio Soriente, "PEUC-WiN: Privacy Enhancement by User Cooperation in Wireless Networks", Second Workshop on Secure Network Protocols NPSEC'06, in conjucntion with IEEE ICNP'06, Nov. 2006, Santa Barbara, California. PDF
- Karim El Defrawy, "Security and Privacy in Location-based Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks", phd thesis. PDF
- Mishari Al Mishari, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Karim El Defrawy and Gene Tsudik, "Harvesting SSL Certificate Data to Mitigate Web-Fraud", Technical Report arXiv:CS.NI/0909.3688v1 PDF
- Karim El Defrawy, John Solis and Gene Tsudik, "Leveraging Social Contacts for Message Confidentiality in Delay Tolerant Networks", 2008 IEEE International Conference of Network Protocols (ICNP'08), October 19-22, Florida, USA. Abstract
- Karim El Defrawy, Athina Markopoulou, Katerina Argyraki, "Optimal Filter Allocation during a DDoS Attack", Technical Report arXiv:cs.NI/0612066 at arXiv.org, Dec. 2006. PDF