Vishal C. Kher

Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
E-Mail: vkher(at)cs.umn.edu

Education

Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota, December 2007.

Adviser: Prof. Yongdae Kim

M.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 2002.

Advisers: Prof. Richard A. Kemmerer and Prof. Giovanni Vigna

B.E. in Computer Engineering, P.I.C.T, Affiliated to University of Pune, India, August 2000.

Research

V. Kher and Y. Kim. Building Trust in Storage Outsourcing: Secure Accounting of Utility Storage. In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 2007.

V. Kher, E. Seppanen, C. Leach, Y. Kim. SGFS: Secure, Efficient and Policy-based Global File Sharing. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2006), College Park, MD, May 2006.

D. Du, D. He, C. Hong, J. Jeong, V. Kher, Y. Kim, Y. Lu, A. Raghuveer, S. Sharafkandi Experiences Building an Object-Based Storage System based on the OSD T-10 Standard. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2006), May 2006.

V. Kher and Y. Kim. Securing Distributed Storage: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems . In Proceedings of the first ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 05), 2005. (invited paper)

M. Shaneck, K. Mahadevan, V. Kher, and Y. Kim. Remote Software-based Attestation for Wireless Sensors. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, July 2005.

P. Wang, Y. Kim, V. Kher, and T. Kwon. Strengthening Password-based Authentication Protocols Against Online Dictionary Attacks. In Proceedings of the Applied Cryptography and Network Security, 2005.

V. Kher and Y. Kim. Decentralized Authentication Mechanisms for Object-Based Storage Devices. In Proceedings of the Second International Security in Storage Workshop (SISW), October 2003.

G. Vigna, W. Robertson, V. Kher, and R.A. Kemmerer. A Stateful Intrusion Detection System for World-Wide Web Servers. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2003.