"CyLab Faculty Earn Two 'Test of Time' Awards at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy"
During the 44th Symposium on Security and Privacy, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) gave two "Test of Time" awards to papers co-authored by faculty members at Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) CyLab Security and Privacy Institute. Initiated in 2019, the Test of Time award honors published papers previously presented at the annual symposium that have had a significant and lasting impact on computer security and privacy research and practice. This year, the award committee considered papers presented from 2011 through 2013. The first paper that won the award is titled "Guess Again (and Again and Again): Measuring Password Strength by Simulating Password-Cracking Algorithms." Researchers examined 12,000 passwords collected under seven composition policies and developed an efficient distributed method for calculating the effectiveness of different heuristic password-guessing algorithms. The second award-winning paper is titled "Pinocchio: Nearly Practical Verifiable Computation." In 2013, researchers recognized the need to instill greater confidence in cloud-based computations and enable clients to verify the accuracy of the returned results. A team of Microsoft and IBM researchers, including now CMU Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Bryan Parno, developed Pinocchio, a system for efficiently verifying general computations while relying solely on cryptographic assumptions. This article continues to discuss the papers that earned CyLab faculty members two Test of Time awards at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.