George Davida
Professor
Director-CCCNS
Ph.D., University of Iowa
(414) 229-5192

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Research Interests

Cryptography and Data Security
Biometrics Identification


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Awards/Recognition

1987 Distinguished Research Award, UWM Foundation-UWM Graduate School
1986 Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE Computer Society
1982 Certificate of appreciation of Distinguished Service
as chairperson of the Technical Committee on Security
and Privacy
1979 International Who's Who in Education
1979 Outstanding Young Men of America
1977 Special Group Award for role in the development of
"Model Curriculum in Computer Science and Engineering"
1975 Honor Roll-IEEE Computer Society
1973 Certificate of Appreciation for service as chairperson of
the MilwauKee Chapter of IEEE-Computer Society

Selected Professional Activities

IEEE Computer Society
Served several terms on the Governing Board

Co-Founder of the Technical Committee on Security and Privacy
IEEE Computer Society.

Conferences and Symposia
1980 Chairperson of the Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, April 1980, Oakland, CA.
1981 Program Chairperson of Symposium on Security and Privacy, April 1981, Oakland, CA.
1979-1981 Member of the American Council on Education's Public Cryptography Study Group. Issued a minority report dissenting from the the Committee's recommendations for prior review of research articles on cryptography.
1981 Panel on Science and Public Policy--AAAS

Television Appearances
1981 Appeared on the MacNeil-Lehrer news program to discuss
the US policy regarding export prohibitions on cryptography


Selected Publications

"A Four-Component Framework for Cryptographic Hash Functions"
(with J. Hansen), 16th USENIX Security Symposium, August, 2007.
"A PRELIMINARY EXPLORATION OF STRIPED HASHING A probabilistic scheme to speed up existing hash algorithms "
(With J. Hansen), Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks, October, 2005.
"HARDENING WINDOWS SYSTEMS"
(With J. Peccarelli), Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks, October, 2005.
"Division in logspace-uniform NC1"
(With A. Chiu and B. Litow), Theoretical Informatics and Applications, Vol 35 No 3, page 259, 2001.
"A Practical and Effective Approach to Large-Scale Automated Linguistic Steganography"
(with M. Rennhard and M. Chapman) Information Security Conference Oct 2001, Malaga Spain.
"Perfectly secure authorization and passive identification for an error tolerant biometric system"
(with Y. Frankel ) Conference on Cryptography and Coding Dec 20-22, 1999, Cirencestor, UK.
"On the relation of error correction and cryptography to an offline biometric based identification scheme"
(with B. Matt and Y. Frankel and R. Peralta) WCC99, Workshop on Coding and Cryptography , January, 1999, Paris, France.
"On enabling secure application through off-line biometric identification"
(with B. Matt and Y. Frankel) IEEE 1998 Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy, April 1998, Oakland, Ca.
"Information Security--First International Workshop, ISW97,Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1396)"
Editors: Eiji Okamoto, George Davida, Masahiro Mambo", Springer-Verlag, New York, September, 1997
"High Speed Cryptography"
(with Rene Peralta) Information Security Workshop 97, September 1997, JAIST, Kanazawa, Japan.
"Hiding the Hidden: A software System for Concealing Ciphertext as Innocuous Text"
(with Mark Chapman) International Conference on Information and Communications Security, November 11-13, 1997, Beijing, P. R. China.
Barriers to Creating a Secure MPI
(with Ron Brightwell, David S. Greenberg and Brian J. Matt, Sandia National Laboratories, ISUG 97, Albuqurque, NM, June 1997.
Anonymity-Control in E-Cash Systems
(with Yair Frankel and Yiannis Tsiounis and Moti Yung) Financial Cryptography Conference 1997, (FC97), Feb, 1997.
Data Compression using Linear Feedback Shift Registers
(with L. Rodrigues), Data Compression Conference, March 1993, Snowbird, Utah.
Passports and Visas versus IDs
(with Y. Desmedt), Computers and Security Vol. 11, No. 3, 1992, pp. 253-258.
Fast Parallel Arithmetic via Modular Representation
(with B. Litow) SIAM Journal of Computing, vol 20, No. 4, 1991, pp756-765.
Cryptography Based Data Security
(with Y. Desmedt) in Advances in Computers, Vol 30, 1990. (M. Yovits, ED).
A Key Distribution System Based on Any One-Way Function
(with R. Peralta and Y. Desmedt) Advances in Cryptology, Proc. of Eurocrypt~'89, Houthalen, Belgium, April 10--13, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 434,1990), pp 75--79
Chosent Signature Cryptanalysis of the RSA (MIT) Public Key Cryptosystem
TR-CS-82-2, Department of EECS, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Defending Systems Against Viruses Through Cryptographic Authentication(with Y. Desmedt and B. Matt) IEEE 1989 Computer Society Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA.
Structured Design of Substitution-Permutation Encryption Networks
(with J. Kam) IEEE Transactions on Computers, October 1979