Joshua Mason

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Information Security Institute
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University

I am currently a Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University in the computer science department. At any given time, I occupy either the Accurate E-Voting Lab or the RFID Lab, both part of the Security and Privacy Applied Research (SPAR) lab. Both labs reside in the Information Security Institute. My co-advisors are Adam Stubblefield and Avi Rubin. My research currently focuses on RFID security while passively researching (secondary to RFID) various topics in Systems and Network Security. I have also, in the last year or so, grown quite attached to natural language processing and data mining techniques as they can be applied to information security.

Publications

S. Small, J. Mason, F. Monrose, N. Provos, A. Stubblefield. To Catch a Predator: A Natural Language Approach for Eliciting Protocol Interaction. To appear, USENIX Security Symposium 2008.

J. Mason, K. Watkins, J. Eisner, and A. Stubblefied. A Natural Language Approach to Automated Cryptanalysis of Two-time Pads. ACM CCS 2006. [Paper] [Slides]

Teaching

650.459 Software Vulnerability Analysis

Graduate Coursework

600.641 Special Topics in Theoretical Cryptography
650.841 RFID Research
650.443 Researching Security Systems
600.442 Cryptography & Network Security
600.643 Advanced Topics in Computer Security
600.443 Security & Privacy in Computing
600.624 Advanced Network Security
600.424 Network Security
650.441 Designing Security Systems
650.433 Embedded Computing Systems

774.717 Implementation Issues in Information Security
650.430 Moral and Legal Foundations of Privacy
650.414 Rights in the Digital Age
650.651 Health Information Privacy Law

Teaching Assistant

650.459 Software Vulnerability Analysis
600.424 Network Security
650.412 Java Security

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