Research Scientist
RSA Laboratories
11 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
Tel: 617-300-7318
aoprea@rsa.com
Alina Oprea is a Research Scientist at RSA Laboratories, the security division of EMC. Alina's research interests span multiple areas in computer security including storage security, applied cryptography, network security and security in distributed systems. Alina holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Bucharest, Romania, and has obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2007.
Professional Activities:
Program Committee Member for the following conferences:
8th Applied Cryptography and Network Security Conference (ACNS '10)
30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2010)
14th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2009)
29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009)
7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09)
4th International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2008)
6th Applied Cryptography and Network Security Conference (ACNS 2008) (ACNS 2008).
Thesis:
Efficient Cryptographic Techniques for Securing Storage Systems. Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, April 2007. Technical Report CMU-CS-07-119.
Publications:
Alina Oprea and Ari Juels. A Clean-Slate Look at Disk Scrubbing. In Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10)
Kevin Bowers, Ari Juels, and Alina Oprea. HAIL: A High-Availability and Integrity Layer for Cloud Storage. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2009). Full version at http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/489.
Kevin Bowers, Ari Juels, and Alina Oprea. Proofs of Retrievability: Theory and Implementation. In Proceedings of the ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW 2009). Full version at http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/175.
Alina Oprea and Kevin Bowers. Authentic Time-Stamps for Archival Storage. In Proceedings of the 14th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2009). Full version available at http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/306.
Alina Oprea and Michael K. Reiter. Integrity checking in cryptographic file systems with constant trusted storage. In Proceedings of the 16th Usenix Security Symposium, 2007.
Alina Oprea and Michael K. Reiter. On consistency of encrypted files. In Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2006).
Michael Backes, Christian Cachin and Alina Oprea. Secure key-updating for lazy revocation. In Proceedings of the 11th European Symposium On Research In Computer Security (ESORICS 2006).
Michael Backes, Christian Cachin and Alina Oprea. Lazy revocation in cryptographic file systems. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Security in Storage Workshop (SISW 2005).
Alina Oprea, Michael K. Reiter and Ke Yang. Space-Efficient Block Storage Integrity. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2005). Received Best Paper Award.
Alina Oprea, Dirk Balfanz, Glenn Durfee and Diana K. Smetters. Securing a Remote Terminal Application with a Mobile Trusted Device. In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2004).
Lea Kissner, Alina Oprea, Michael K. Reiter, Dawn Song and Ke Yang. Private Keyword-Based Push and Pull with Applications to Anonymous Communication. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2004).
Philip MacKenzie, Alina Oprea and Michael K. Reiter. Automatic Generation of Two-Party Computations (extended abstract). In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2003).
