This webpage is an attempt to assemble a ranking of top-cited
papers from the area of computer security. The ranking has been
created based on citations of papers published at top
security conferences. More details are available here.
Top 100 papers from 1981 to 2020 ⌄
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Vipul Goyal, Omkant Pandey, Amit Sahai, and Brent Waters: Attribute-based encryption for fine-grained access control of encrypted data. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006
Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway: Random Oracles are Practical: A Paradigm for Designing Efficient Protocols. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 1993
Laurent Eschenauer and Virgil D. Gligor: A key-management scheme for distributed sensor networks. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002
Haowen Chan, Adrian Perrig, and Dawn Xiaodong Song: Random Key Predistribution Schemes for Sensor Networks. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2003
Dawn Xiaodong Song, David A. Wagner, and Adrian Perrig: Practical Techniques for Searches on Encrypted Data. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2000
Giuseppe Ateniese, Randal C. Burns, Reza Curtmola, Joseph Herring, Lea Kissner, Zachary N. J. Peterson, and Dawn Xiaodong Song: Provable data possession at untrusted stores. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
Stephanie Forrest, Alan S. Perelson, Lawrence Allen, and Rajesh Cherukuri: Self-nonself discrimination in a computer. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 1994
Stephanie Forrest, Steven A. Hofmeyr, Anil Somayaji, and Thomas A. Longstaff: A Sense of Self for Unix Processes. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 1996
Thomas Ristenpart, Eran Tromer, Hovav Shacham, and Stefan Savage: Hey, you, get off of my cloud: exploring information leakage in third-party compute clouds. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
Reza Curtmola, Juan A. Garay, Seny Kamara, and Rafail Ostrovsky: Searchable symmetric encryption: improved definitions and efficient constructions. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006
Donggang Liu and Peng Ning: Establishing pairwise keys in distributed sensor networks. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2003
Yao Liu, Michael K. Reiter, and Peng Ning: False data injection attacks against state estimation in electric power grids. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
Ari Juels and Burton S. Kaliski Jr.: Pors: proofs of retrievability for large files. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
Nicolas Papernot, Patrick D. McDaniel, Somesh Jha, Matt Fredrikson, Z. Berkay Celik, and Ananthram Swami: The Limitations of Deep Learning in Adversarial Settings. IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2016
Crispin Cowan, Calton Pu, Dave Maier, Heather Hintony, Jonathan Walpole, Peat Bakke, Steve Beattie, Aaron Grier, Perry Wagle, and Qian Zhang: StackGuard: Automatic Adaptive Detection and Prevention of Buffer-Overflow Attacks. USENIX Security Symposium, 1998
Tal Garfinkel and Mendel Rosenblum: A Virtual Machine Introspection Based Architecture for Intrusion Detection. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2003
Martín Abadi and Andrew D. Gordon: A Calculus for Cryptographic Protocols: The Spi Calculus. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 1997
Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, Gene Tsudik, and Steven Tuecke: A Security Architecture for Computational Grids. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 1998
Steven M. Bellovin and Michael Merritt: Encrypted key exchange: password-based protocols secure against dictionary attacks. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 1992
James Newsome and Dawn Xiaodong Song: Dynamic Taint Analysis for Automatic Detection, Analysis, and SignatureGeneration of Exploits on Commodity Software. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2005
Wenke Lee, Salvatore J. Stolfo, and Kui W. Mok: A Data Mining Framework for Building Intrusion Detection Models. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 1999
Martín Abadi, Mihai Budiu, Úlfar Erlingsson, and Jay Ligatti: Control-flow integrity. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2005
Adrienne Porter Felt, Erika Chin, Steve Hanna, Dawn Song, and David A. Wagner: Android permissions demystified. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2011
Giuseppe Ateniese, Kevin Fu, Matthew Green, and Susan Hohenberger: Improved Proxy Re-Encryption Schemes with Applications to Secure Distributed Storage. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2005
Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Shwetak Patel, Tadayoshi Kohno, Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, and Stefan Savage: Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2010
Martín Abadi, Andy Chu, Ian J. Goodfellow, H. Brendan McMahan, Ilya Mironov, Kunal Talwar, and Li Zhang: Deep Learning with Differential Privacy. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2016
Christina Warrender, Stephanie Forrest, and Barak A. Pearlmutter: Detecting Intrusions using System Calls: Alternative Data Models. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 1999
Nicolas Papernot, Patrick D. McDaniel, Xi Wu, Somesh Jha, and Ananthram Swami: Distillation as a Defense to Adversarial Perturbations Against Deep Neural Networks. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2016
Ahmed E. Kosba, Andrew Miller, Elaine Shi, Zikai Wen, and Charalampos Papamanthou: Hawk: The Blockchain Model of Cryptography and Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2016
Oleg Sheyner, Joshua W. Haines, Somesh Jha, Richard Lippmann, and Jeannette M. Wing: Automated Generation and Analysis of Attack Graphs. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2002
Daniel Arp, Michael Spreitzenbarth, Malte Hubner, Hugo Gascon, and Konrad Rieck: DREBIN: Effective and Explainable Detection of Android Malware in Your Pocket. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2014
Blaise Gassend, Dwaine E. Clarke, Marten van Dijk, and Srinivas Devadas: Silicon physical random functions. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002
Hovav Shacham: The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone: return-into-libc without function calls (on the x86). ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno: Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces. USENIX Security Symposium, 2011
Reiner Sailer, Xiaolan Zhang, Trent Jaeger, and Leendert van Doorn: Design and Implementation of a TCG-based Integrity Measurement Architecture. USENIX Security Symposium, 2004
J. Alex Halderman, Seth D. Schoen, Nadia Heninger, William Clarkson, William Paul, Joseph A. Calandrino, Ariel J. Feldman, Jacob Appelbaum, and Edward W. Felten: Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys. USENIX Security Symposium, 2008
C. Christopher Erway, Alptekin Küpçü, Charalampos Papamanthou, and Roberto Tamassia: Dynamic provable data possession. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
Cristian Cadar, Vijay Ganesh, Peter M. Pawlowski, David L. Dill, and Dawson R. Engler: EXE: automatically generating inputs of death. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006
Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. Levin, and David A. Molnar: Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2008
Qian Wang, Cong Wang, Jin Li, Kui Ren, and Wenjing Lou: Enabling Public Verifiability and Data Dynamics for Storage Security in Cloud Computing. European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2009
Robin Sommer and Vern Paxson: Outside the Closed World: On Using Machine Learning for Network Intrusion Detection. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2010
Rafail Ostrovsky, Amit Sahai, and Brent Waters: Attribute-based encryption with non-monotonic access structures. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
Adrian Perrig, Ran Canetti, J. D. Tygar, and Dawn Xiaodong Song: Efficient Authentication and Signing of Multicast Streams over Lossy Channels. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2000
Ari Juels, Ronald L. Rivest, and Michael Szydlo: The blocker tag: selective blocking of RFID tags for consumer privacy. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2003
Matthew G. Schultz, Eleazar Eskin, Erez Zadok, and Salvatore J. Stolfo: Data Mining Methods for Detection of New Malicious Executables. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2001
William Enck, Machigar Ongtang, and Patrick D. McDaniel: On lightweight mobile phone application certification. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer, and Madars Virza: Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2014
Kevin D. Bowers, Ari Juels, and Alina Oprea: HAIL: a high-availability and integrity layer for cloud storage. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
Paul Kocher, Jann Horn, Anders Fogh, Daniel Genkin, Daniel Gruss, Werner Haas, Mike Hamburg, Moritz Lipp, Stefan Mangard, Thomas Prescher, Michael Schwarz, and Yuval Yarom: Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2019
Thomas Beth, Malte Borcherding, and Birgit Klein: Valuation of Trust in Open Networks. European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 1994
Phillip A. Porras and Richard A. Kemmerer: Penetration state transition analysis: A rule-based intrusion detection approach. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 1992
Richard Lippmann, Joshua W. Haines, David J. Fried, Jonathan Korba, and Kumar Das: Analysis and Results of the 1999 DARPA Off-Line Intrusion Detection Evaluation. International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2000
Cliff Changchun Zou, Weibo Gong, and Donald F. Towsley: Code red worm propagation modeling and analysis. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002
James Newsome, Brad Karp, and Dawn Xiaodong Song: Polygraph: Automatically Generating Signatures for Polymorphic Worms. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2005
Ke Wang and Salvatore J. Stolfo: Anomalous Payload-Based Network Intrusion Detection. International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2004
Hovav Shacham, Matthew Page, Ben Pfaff, Eu-Jin Goh, Nagendra Modadugu, and Dan Boneh: On the effectiveness of address-space randomization. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2004
Loi Luu, Duc-Hiep Chu, Hrishi Olickel, Prateek Saxena, and Aquinas Hobor: Making Smart Contracts Smarter. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2016
Guofei Gu, Junjie Zhang, and Wenke Lee: BotSniffer: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Channels in Network Traffic. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2008
Alfonso Valdes and Keith Skinner: Probabilistic Alert Correlation. International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2001
Ian Jermyn, Alain J. Mayer, Fabian Monrose, Michael K. Reiter, and Aviel D. Rubin: The Design and Analysis of Graphical Passwords. USENIX Security Symposium, 1999
Guofei Gu, Phillip A. Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, and Martin W. Fong: BotHunter: Detecting Malware Infection Through IDS-Driven Dialog Correlation. USENIX Security Symposium, 2007
Ninghui Li, John C. Mitchell, and William H. Winsborough: Design of a Role-Based Trust-Management Framework. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2002
Michael Steiner, Gene Tsudik, and Michael Waidner: Diffie-Hellman Key Distribution Extended to Group Communication. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 1996
Yajin Zhou, Zhi Wang, Wu Zhou, and Xuxian Jiang: Hey, You, Get Off of My Market: Detecting Malicious Apps in Official and Alternative Android Markets. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2012
Joseph Bonneau, Andrew Miller, Jeremy Clark, Arvind Narayanan, Joshua A. Kroll, and Edward W. Felten: SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2015
Reza Shokri, Marco Stronati, Congzheng Song, and Vitaly Shmatikov: Membership Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2017
David A. Wagner, Jeffrey S. Foster, Eric A. Brewer, and Alexander Aiken: A First Step Towards Automated Detection of Buffer Overrun Vulnerabilities. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2000