Wenhai Sun
I hold two Ph.D. degrees in computer science and cryptography. I study security and privacy issues in broad systems and applications, such as AI/ML, cloud, blockchain, and cyber-physical systems. I am particularly interested in AI for privacy and Trustworthy AI/ML. I am the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and University Faculty Scholar.
- Privacy
- Trustworthy AI/ML
- Cloud & Blockchain
- Cyber-Physical Systems
Recent News
- ServiceI joined the PC of NDSS 2027.
- AppointmentI accepted a courtesy appointment at Purdue CS.
- ServiceI was invited to serve on the TPC of USENIX Security 2027.
- PublicationWe published a preprint about adversarial perturbation enabled backdoor attacks on differentially private federated learning at arXiv.
- ServiceI was invited to serve on the TPC of IEEE S&P 2027 and IEEE INFOCOM 2027.
- PublicationOne paper is accepted to IEEE ICRA 2026.
- AwardI am selected as Purdue University Faculty Scholar.
- ServiceI will be serving on the TPC of ACM CODASPY 2026.
- ServiceI will be serving on the TPC of ACM CCS 2026.
- PublicationOur paper about mitigating the data poisoning threat to LDP has been accepted by ACM CCS 2025! Xiaolin, congratulations on your very first paper!
- ServiceI was invited to serve on the TPC for ESORICS 2025.
- AppointmentI have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure starting Fall 2025!
- ServiceI was invited to serve on the TPC for IEEE S&P 2026.
- AppointmentI was appointed as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
- AppointmentI was appointed as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
- PublicationOur paper about secure and fair exchange for decentralized IoT data market was accepted to IEEE IoT Journal.
- PublicationOur paper about studying LDP robustness under the threat of external data manipulation was accepted to NDSS 2025!
- ServiceI was invited to join the PC of ACM CODASPY 2025. Please consider submitting your work.
- PublicationOur paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Service Computing!
- PublicationOur paper was accepted by RAID 2024!
- PublicationOur paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing!
- AwardI received the Employee Recognition Award for Departmental Achievements.
- PublicationOne paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
- AwardI was invited to join the dinner with President Chiang for prestigious external award recipients.
- TalkI was invited to give a talk in CERIAS Security Symposium 2024.
- PublicationOur work on low-latency random number provider for BFT smart contracts has been accepted by DSN 2024. Congrats to Dr. Jinghui Liao!
- AwardI received the departmental award for Outstanding Faculty in Discovery.
Honors and Awards
- University Faculty Scholar
- Employee Recognition Award for Departmental Achievements
- Outstanding Faculty in Discovery
- IEEE Senior Member
- Distinguished Member of IJCAI Technical Program Committee
- NSF CAREER Award
- Distinguished Member of IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee
- Best-in-Session Presentation Award
- Pratt Fellowship
- Distinguished Paper Award in ACM ASIACCS
Selected Publications
Conference Journal Preprint Workshop
- arXiv'26
Your Privacy My Cloak: Backdoor Attacks on Differentially Private Federated Learning
arXiv preprint, 2026.@article{li2026privacy, author = {Xiaolin Li and Ning Wang and Ninghui Li and Wenhai Sun}, title = {Your Privacy My Cloak: Backdoor Attacks on Differentially Private Federated Learning}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.17035}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2606.17035}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.17035}, } - ICRA'26
Hyper-STTN: Hypergraph Augmented Spatial-Temporal Transformer Network for Trajectory Prediction
The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026.@inproceedings{wang2026hyper, author = {Weizheng Wang and Baijian Yang and Sungeun Hong and Wenhai Sun and Byung-Cheol Min}, title = {Hyper-STTN: Hypergraph Augmented Spatial-Temporal Transformer Network for Trajectory Prediction}, booktitle = {2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, year = {2026}, } - CCS'25
Mitigating Data Poisoning Attacks to Local Differential Privacy
The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2025.@inproceedings{li2025mitigating, author = {Xiaolin Li and Ninghui Li and Boyang Wang and Wenhai Sun}, title = {Mitigating Data Poisoning Attacks to Local Differential Privacy}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security}, year = {2025}, pages = {1230--1244}, publisher = {ACM}, doi = {10.1145/3719027.3744839}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3719027.3744839}, } - IoTJ'25
DEXO: A Secure and Fair Exchange Mechanism for Decentralized IoT Data Markets
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025.@article{li2025dexo, author = {Yue Li and Ifteher Alom and Wenhai Sun and Yang Xiao}, title = {DEXO: A Secure and Fair Exchange Mechanism for Decentralized IoT Data Markets}, journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal}, year = {2025}, volume = {12}, number = {11}, pages = {16095--16111}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/jiot.2025.3535671}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2025.3535671}, } - NDSS'25
On the Robustness of LDP Protocols for Numerical Attributes under Data Poisoning Attacks
The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2025.@inproceedings{li2025robustness, author = {Xiaoguang Li and Zitao Li and Ninghui Li and Wenhai Sun}, title = {On the Robustness of LDP Protocols for Numerical Attributes under Data Poisoning Attacks}, booktitle = {Proceedings 2025 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium}, year = {2025}, publisher = {Internet Society}, doi = {10.14722/ndss.2025.241521}, url = {https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2025.241521}, } - TSC'24
Confidential Distributed Ledgers for Online Syndicated Lending
IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, 2024.@article{liu2024confidential, author = {Xuefeng Liu and Zhe Feng and Le Wang and Wenhai Sun and Qingqi Pei and Xiaodong Lin and Huizhong Li}, title = {Confidential Distributed Ledgers for Online Syndicated Lending}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Services Computing}, year = {2024}, volume = {17}, number = {6}, pages = {3256--3269}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/tsc.2024.3440012}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2024.3440012}, } - RAID'24
A Second Look at the Portability of Deep Learning Side-Channel Attacks over EM Traces
The 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses, 2024.@inproceedings{ninan2024second, author = {Mabon Ninan and Evan Nimmo and Shane Reilly and Channing Smith and Wenhai Sun and Boyang Wang and John M. Emmert}, title = {A Second Look at the Portability of Deep Learning Side-Channel Attacks over EM Traces}, booktitle = {The 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses}, year = {2024}, pages = {630--643}, publisher = {ACM}, doi = {10.1145/3678890.3678900}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3678890.3678900}, } - TDSC'24
Manipulated Transaction Collision Attack on Execute-Order-Validate Blockchain
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2024.@article{zhang2024manipulated, author = {Ming Zhang and Wenhai Sun and Hui Li and Xiaofeng Wang and Zihao Yang and Chao Qu and Xiaoguang Li}, title = {Manipulated Transaction Collision Attack on Execute-Order-Validate Blockchain}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing}, year = {2024}, volume = {22}, number = {2}, pages = {1132--1149}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/tdsc.2024.3428549}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tdsc.2024.3428549}, } - TIFS'24
PrivGrid: Privacy-Preserving Individual Load Forecasting Service for Smart Grid
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024.@article{lei2024privgrid, author = {Jing Lei and Le Wang and Qingqi Pei and Wenhai Sun and Xiaodong Lin and Xuefeng Liu}, title = {PrivGrid: Privacy-Preserving Individual Load Forecasting Service for Smart Grid}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security}, year = {2024}, volume = {19}, pages = {6856--6870}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/tifs.2024.3422876}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tifs.2024.3422876}, } - DSN'24
BFTRAND: Low-latency Random Number Provider for BFT Smart Contracts
The 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2024.@inproceedings{liao2024bftrand, author = {Jinghui Liao and Borui Gong and Wenhai Sun and Fengwei Zhang and Zhenyu Ning and Man Ho Allen Au and Weisong Shi}, title = {BFTRAND: Low-latency Random Number Provider for BFT Smart Contracts}, booktitle = {2024 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)}, year = {2024}, pages = {389--402}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/dsn58291.2024.00046}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/dsn58291.2024.00046}, } - NeurIPS'23
RECESS Vaccine for Federated Learning: Proactive Defense Against Model Poisoning Attacks
The 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023.@inproceedings{yan2023recess, author = {Haonan Yan and Wenjing Zhang and Qian Chen and Xiaoguang Li and Wenhai Sun and Hui Li and Xiaodong Lin}, title = {RECESS Vaccine for Federated Learning: Proactive Defense Against Model Poisoning Attacks}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36}, year = {2023}, pages = {8702--8713}, publisher = {Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, Inc. (NeurIPS)}, doi = {10.52202/075280-0380}, url = {https://doi.org/10.52202/075280-0380}, } - NeurIPS'23
StateMask: Explaining Deep Reinforcement Learning through State Mask
The 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023.@inproceedings{cheng2023statemask, author = {Zelei Cheng and Xian Wu and Jiahao Yu and Wenbo Guo and Wenhai Sun and Xinyu Xing}, title = {StateMask: Explaining Deep Reinforcement Learning through State Mask}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36}, year = {2023}, pages = {62457--62487}, publisher = {Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, Inc. (NeurIPS)}, doi = {10.52202/075280-2728}, url = {https://doi.org/10.52202/075280-2728}, } - Security'23
Fine-grained Poisoning Attack to Local Differential Privacy Protocols for Mean and Variance Estimation
USENIX Security 2023.@inproceedings{li2023fine, author = {Xiaoguang Li and Ninghui Li and Wenhai Sun and Neil Gong and Hui Li}, title = {Fine-grained Poisoning Attack to Local Differential Privacy Protocols for Mean and Variance Estimation}, booktitle = {32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23)}, year = {2023}, pages = {1739--1756}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/li-xiaoguang}, } - IoTJ'23
Cross-Modality Continuous User Authentication and Device Pairing with Respiratory Patterns
IEEE Internet of Things, 2023.@article{islam2023cross, author = {Shekh Md Mahmudul Islam and Yao Zheng and Yanjun Pan and Marionne Millan and Willy Chang and Ming Li and Olga Borić-Lubecke and Victor Lubecke and Wenhai Sun}, title = {Cross-Modality Continuous User Authentication and Device Pairing with Respiratory Patterns}, journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal}, year = {2023}, volume = {10}, number = {16}, pages = {14197--14211}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/jiot.2023.3275099}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2023.3275099}, } - TDSC'22
Protecting Regression Models with Personalized Local Differential Privacy
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022.@article{li2022protecting, author = {Xiaoguang Li and Haonan Yan and Zelei Cheng and Wenhai Sun and Hui Li}, title = {Protecting Regression Models with Personalized Local Differential Privacy}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing}, year = {2022}, volume = {20}, number = {2}, pages = {960--974}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/tdsc.2022.3144690}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tdsc.2022.3144690}, } - AsiaCCS'22
Speedster: An Efficient Multi-party State Channel via Enclaves
The 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2022.@inproceedings{liao2022speedster, author = {Jinghui Liao and Fengwei Zhang and Wenhai Sun and Weisong Shi}, title = {Speedster: An Efficient Multi-party State Channel via Enclaves}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security}, year = {2022}, pages = {637--651}, publisher = {ACM}, doi = {10.1145/3488932.3523259}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3488932.3523259}, } - FC'22
Towards Overcoming the Undercutting Problem
Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2022.@inproceedings{gong2022overcoming, author = {Tiantian Gong and Mohen Minaei and Wenhai Sun and Aniket Kate}, title = {Towards Overcoming the Undercutting Problem}, booktitle = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, year = {2022}, pages = {444--463}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-18283-9_22}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18283-9_22}, } - CNS'22
MultiEvasion: Evasion Attacks Against Multiple Malware Detectors
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, 2022.@inproceedings{liu2022multievasion, author = {Hao Liu and Wenhai Sun and Nan Niu and Boyang Wang}, title = {MultiEvasion: Evasion Attacks Against Multiple Malware Detectors}, booktitle = {2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)}, year = {2022}, pages = {10--18}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/cns56114.2022.9947227}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/cns56114.2022.9947227}, } - IWQoS'22
AdvTraffic: Obfuscating Encrypted Traffic with Adversarial Examples
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service, 2022.@inproceedings{liu2022advtraffic, author = {Hao Liu and Jimmy Dani and Hongkai Yu and Wenhai Sun and Boyang Wang}, title = {AdvTraffic: Obfuscating Encrypted Traffic with Adversarial Examples}, booktitle = {2022 IEEE/ACM 30th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS)}, year = {2022}, pages = {1--10}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/iwqos54832.2022.9812875}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/iwqos54832.2022.9812875}, } - TDSC'21
PrivFace: Fast Privacy-preserving Face Authentication with Revocable and Reusable Biometric Credentials
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2021.@article{lei2021privface, author = {Jing Lei and Qingqi Pei and Yao Wang and Wenhai Sun and Xuefeng Liu}, title = {PrivFace: Fast Privacy-preserving Face Authentication with Revocable and Reusable Biometric Credentials}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing}, year = {2021}, volume = {19}, number = {5}, pages = {3101--3112}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/tdsc.2021.3083970}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tdsc.2021.3083970}, } - TDSC'21
Monitoring-Based Differential Privacy Mechanism Against Query Flooding-Based Model Extraction Attack
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2021.@article{yan2021monitoring, author = {Haonan Yan and Xiaoguang Li and Hui Li and Jiamin Li and Wenhai Sun and Fenghua Li}, title = {Monitoring-Based Differential Privacy Mechanism Against Query Flooding-Based Model Extraction Attack}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing}, year = {2021}, volume = {19}, number = {4}, pages = {2680--2694}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/tdsc.2021.3069258}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tdsc.2021.3069258}, } - WiSec'20
Fingerprinting Encrypted Voice Traffic on Smart Speakers with Deep Learning
ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Network, 2020.@inproceedings{wang2020fingerprinting, author = {Chenggang Wang and Sean Kennedy and Haipeng Li and King Hudson and Gowtham Atluri and Xuetao Wei and Wenhai Sun and Boyang Wang}, title = {Fingerprinting Encrypted Voice Traffic on Smart Speakers with Deep Learning}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks}, year = {2020}, pages = {254--265}, publisher = {ACM}, doi = {10.1145/3395351.3399357}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3395351.3399357}, } - CNS'19
I Can Hear Your Alexa: Voice Command Fingerprinting on Smart Home Speakers
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, 2019.@inproceedings{kennedy2019i, author = {Sean Kennedy and Haipeng Li and Chenggang Wang and Hao Liu and Boyang Wang and Wenhai Sun}, title = {I Can Hear Your Alexa: Voice Command Fingerprinting on Smart Home Speakers}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)}, year = {2019}, pages = {232--240}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/cns.2019.8802686}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/cns.2019.8802686}, } - TIFS'18
Towards Efficient Fine-grained Access Control and Trustworthy Data Processing for Remote Monitoring Services in IoT
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 2018.@article{chen2018efficient, author = {Yaxing Chen and Wenhai Sun and Ning Zhang and Qinghua Zheng and Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou}, title = {Towards Efficient Fine-grained Access Control and Trustworthy Data Processing for Remote Monitoring Services in IoT}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security}, year = {2018}, volume = {14}, number = {7}, pages = {1830--1842}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/tifs.2018.2885287}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tifs.2018.2885287}, } - CNS'18
Tapping the Potential: Secure Chunk-based Deduplication of Encrypted Data for Cloud Backup
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, 2018.@inproceedings{sun2018tapping, author = {Wenhai Sun and Ning Zhang and Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou}, title = {Tapping the Potential: Secure Chunk-based Deduplication of Encrypted Data for Cloud Backup}, booktitle = {2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)}, year = {2018}, pages = {1--9}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/cns.2018.8433173}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/cns.2018.8433173}, } - CNS'18
ROSTER: Radio Context Attestation in Cognitive Radio Network
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, 2018.@inproceedings{zhang2018roster, author = {Ning Zhang and Wenhai Sun and Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou and Wade Trappe}, title = {ROSTER: Radio Context Attestation in Cognitive Radio Network}, booktitle = {2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)}, year = {2018}, pages = {1--9}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/cns.2018.8433187}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/cns.2018.8433187}, } - INFOCOM'18
REARGUARD: Secure Keyword Search Using Trusted Hardware
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2018. Best-in-Session Presentation Award@inproceedings{sun2018rearguard, author = {Wenhai Sun and Ruide Zhang and Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou}, title = {REARGUARD: Secure Keyword Search Using Trusted Hardware}, booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications}, year = {2018}, pages = {801--809}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/infocom.2018.8485838}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/infocom.2018.8485838}, } - SECURECOMM'18
Secure Remote Monitoring Framework Supporting Efficient Fine-grained Access Control and Data Processing in IoT
The 14th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, 2018.@inproceedings{chen2018secure, author = {Yaxing Chen and Wenhai Sun and Ning Zhang and Qinghua Zheng and Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou}, title = {Secure Remote Monitoring Framework Supporting Efficient Fine-grained Access Control and Data Processing in IoT}, booktitle = {Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering}, year = {2018}, pages = {3--21}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-01701-9_1}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01701-9_1}, } - INFOCOM'17
When Gene Meets Cloud: Enabling Scalable and Efficient Range Query on Encrypted Genomic Data
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2017.@inproceedings{sun2017gene, author = {Wenhai Sun and Ning Zhang and Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou}, title = {When Gene Meets Cloud: Enabling Scalable and Efficient Range Query on Encrypted Genomic Data}, booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2017 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications}, year = {2017}, pages = {1--9}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/infocom.2017.8056952}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/infocom.2017.8056952}, } - INFOCOM'17
One-tag Checker: Message-locked Integrity Auditing on Encrypted Cloud Deduplication Storage
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2017.@inproceedings{liu2017one, author = {Xuefeng Liu and Wenhai Sun and Wenjing Lou and Qingqi Pei and Yuqing Zhang}, title = {One-tag Checker: Message-locked Integrity Auditing on Encrypted Cloud Deduplication Storage}, booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2017 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications}, year = {2017}, pages = {1--9}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/infocom.2017.8056999}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/infocom.2017.8056999}, } - TSC'17
Publicly Verifiable Inner Product Evaluation over Outsourced Data Streams under Multiple Keys
IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, 2017.@article{liu2017publicly, author = {Xuefeng Liu and Wenhai Sun and Hanyu Quan and Wenjing Lou and Yuqing Zhang and Hui Li}, title = {Publicly Verifiable Inner Product Evaluation over Outsourced Data Streams under Multiple Keys}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Services Computing}, year = {2017}, volume = {10}, number = {5}, pages = {826--838}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/tsc.2016.2531665}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2016.2531665}, } - TPDS'16
Protecting Your Right: Verifiable Attribute-based Keyword Search with Fine-grained Owner-enforced Search Authorization in the Cloud
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2016.@article{sun2016protecting, author = {Wenhai Sun and Shucheng Yu and Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou and Hui Li}, title = {Protecting Your Right: Verifiable Attribute-based Keyword Search with Fine-grained Owner-enforced Search Authorization in the Cloud}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems}, year = {2016}, volume = {27}, number = {4}, pages = {1187--1198}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/tpds.2014.2355202}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tpds.2014.2355202}, } - INFOCOM'15
Catch You If You Lie To Me: Efficient Verifiable Conjunctive Keyword Search over Large Dynamic Encrypted Cloud Data
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2015.@inproceedings{sun2015catch, author = {Wenhai Sun and Xuefeng Liu and Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou and Hui Li}, title = {Catch You If You Lie To Me: Efficient Verifiable Conjunctive Keyword Search over Large Dynamic Encrypted Cloud Data}, booktitle = {2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)}, year = {2015}, pages = {2110--2118}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/infocom.2015.7218596}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/infocom.2015.7218596}, } - TPDS'14
Verifiable Privacy-preserving Multi-keyword Text Search in the Cloud Supporting Similarity-based Ranking
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2014.@article{sun2014verifiable, author = {Wenhai Sun and Bing Wang and Ning Cao and Ming Li and Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou and Hui Li}, title = {Verifiable Privacy-preserving Multi-keyword Text Search in the Cloud Supporting Similarity-based Ranking}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems}, year = {2014}, volume = {25}, number = {11}, pages = {3025--3035}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, doi = {10.1109/tpds.2013.282}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tpds.2013.282}, } - INFOCOM'14
Protecting Your Right: Attribute-based Keyword Search with Fine-grained Owner-enforced Search Authorization in the Cloud
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2014.@inproceedings{sun2014protecting, author = {Wenhai Sun and Shucheng Yu and Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou and Hui Li}, title = {Protecting Your Right: Attribute-based Keyword Search with Fine-grained Owner-enforced Search Authorization in the Cloud}, booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2014 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications}, year = {2014}, pages = {226--234}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/infocom.2014.6847943}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/infocom.2014.6847943}, } - AsiaCCS'13
Privacy-preserving Multi-keyword Text Search in the Cloud Supporting Similarity-based Ranking
The 8th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, 2013. Distinguished Paper Award@inproceedings{sun2013privacy, author = {Wenhai Sun and Bing Wang and Ning Cao and Ming Li and Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou and Hui Li}, title = {Privacy-preserving Multi-keyword Text Search in the Cloud Supporting Similarity-based Ranking}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSAC symposium on Information, computer and communications security}, year = {2013}, pages = {71--82}, publisher = {ACM}, doi = {10.1145/2484313.2484322}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2484313.2484322}, }
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