My Brown Senior Thesis
This is my Senior Thesis from Brown, called Jesus and Hierarchy. It explores Jesus' view of hierarchy, and analyzes some key passages from the Gospels.
Password Policy Simulation and Analysis
This is my first published research paper. It focuses on modeling and simulating password policy. It presents a lifecycle for passwords and studies the factors that lead to a more and less secure policy. Work conducted with Elisa Bertino and Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel at Purdue University.
A Comprehensive Simulation Tool for the Analysis of Password Policies
Modern organizations rely on passwords for preventing illicit access to valuable data and resources.
A well designed password policy helps users create and manage more effective passwords.
This paper offers a novel model and tool for understanding, creating, and testing password policies.
We present a password policy simulation model
which incorporates such factors as simulated users, accounts, and services.
This model and its implementation enable administrators responsible for creating and managing password policies
to test them before giving them to actual users.
It also allows researchers to test how different password policy factors impact security,
without the time and expense of actual human studies.
We begin by presenting our password policy simulation model.
We next discuss prior work and validate the model
by showing how it is consistent with previous research conducted on human users.
We then present and discuss experimental results derived using the model.