``Trust, but Verify.''

Diana Berbecaru

Diana Gratiela Berbecaru

Research Assistant
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica
Politecnico di Torino, Italy



Publications


[Journals]   [Book Chapters]   [Conferences]   [Technical Reports]  

Journals

FcgiOCSP: a scalable OCSP-based Certificate Validation System exploiting the FastCGI interface. Diana Berbecaru, Matteo Maria Casalino, Antonio Lioy. In Software: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons, Vol.43, Issue 12, December 2013, pp. 1489-1518, Online ISSN: 1097-024X, Print ISSN: 0038-0644, DOI: 10.1002/spe.2148 .
The ForwardDiffSig scheme for multicast authentication. Diana Berbecaru, Luca Albertalli, Antonio Lioy. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.18, No.6, December 2010, pp.1855-1868, ISSN: 1063-6692, DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2010.2052927.
A unified, flexible solution for integrating CRL and OCSP into PKI applications. Diana Berbecaru, Amarkumar Desai, Antonio Lioy. In Software: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons, Volume 39, Issue 10, July 2009, pp. 891-921, Online ISSN: 1097-024X Print ISSN:0038-0644, DOI: 10.1002/spe.918.
Verso applicazioni concrete della firma digitale (prima parte). Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Daniele Mazzocchi, Fabio Maino, Gianluca Ramunno, In IGED - Informazioni sulla Gestione Elettronica dei Documenti, Anno X, Ottobre/Dicembre 2001, No. 4, pp. 32-37.
Verso applicazioni concrete della firma digitale (seconda parte). Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Daniele Mazzocchi, Fabio Maino, Gianluca Ramunno. In IGED - Informazioni sulla Gestione Elettronica dei Documenti, Anno XI, Gennaio/Marzo 2002, No. 1, pp. 26-34.
Management of attribute certificates for access control. Diana Berbecaru, Marius Marian. In Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Electrical Engineering, Anno 26, No. 26/2002, pp. 10-21, ISSN 1223-530X.
A practical approach to expressing digitally signed documents. Diana Berbecaru, Marius Marian. In Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Electrical Engineering, Anno 27, No. 27/2003, pp. 79-86, ISSN 1223-530X.
DNS-based implementation of a PKI repository. Marius Marian, Diana Berbecaru. In Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Electrical Engineering, Anno 27, No. 27/2003, pp. 157-165, ISSN 1223-530X.

Book Chapters

Digital Certificates and Public Key Infrastructures. Diana Berbecaru, Corrado Derenale, Antonio Lioy. In Information Security Policies and Actions in Modern Integrated Systems, a cura di M.G.Fugini e C.Bellettini, IDEA group, February 2004, pp. 64-97 ISBN 1-59140-291-3 (soft cover) / 1-59140-186-0 (hard cover).

Conferences

Federating e-identities across Europe, or how to build cross-border e-services. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marco Mezzalama, Giorgio Santiano, Enrico Venuto, Marco Oreglia. In Proceedings of AICA 2011: Smart Tech and Smart Innovation conference, Torino (Italy), November 15-17, 2011, pp. 1-10, ISBN: 9788890540646. [PDF]
Exploiting proxy-based federated identity management in wireless roaming access. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marco Domenico Aime. In Proceeding of TrustBus 2011: 8th Int. Conf. on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, Toulouse (France), August 29-September 2, 2011, pp. 13-23, vol. 6863 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, 2011, ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN: 978-3-642-22889-6
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22890-2_2 . [PDF]
LRAP: A Location-Based Remote Client Authentication Protocol for Mobile Environments. Diana Berbecaru. In Proceeding of PDP 2011: The 19th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, Ayia Napa (Cyprus), February 9-11, 2011, pp. 141 - 145, IEEE Computer Society, ISSN Number: 1066-6192, ISBN Number: 978-0-7695-4328-4, DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2011.32. [PDF]
Performance of two one-time signature schemes in space/time constrained environments. Diana Berbecaru. In Proceedings of IEEE ISWPC 2010: IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Modena (Italy), May 5-7, 2010, pp.238-243, ISBN: 978-1-4244-6857-7, DOI: 10.1109/ISWPC.2010.5483755. [PDF]
On the Performance and Use of a Space-Efficient Merkle Tree Traversal Algorithm in Real-Time Applications for Wireless and Sensor Networks. Diana Berbecaru, Luca Albertalli. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference onWireless and Mobile Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008), Avignon (France), October 12-14, 2008, pp. 234-240, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3393-3, DOI: 10.1109/WiMob.2008.14. [PDF]
An Optimized Double Cache Technique for Efficient Use of Forward-secure Signature Schemes. Diana Berbecaru, Luca Albertalli. In Proceedings of the 16th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2008), Toulouse (France),13-15 February 2008, pp. 581-589 IEEE Computer Society, ISBN: 0-7695-3089-3 (Print) DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2008.64. [PDF]
On the Robustness of Applications Based on the SSL and TLS Security Protocols. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy. In Proceedings of the 4th European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice (EuroPKI 2007), Palma de Mallorca (Spagna), 28-30 June, 2007, vol. 4582 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pp. 248-264, ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN-10: 3-540-73407-4, ISBN-13: 978-3-540-73407-9. [PDF]
On the tradeoff between performance and security in OCSP-based certificate revocation systems for wireless environments. Diana Berbecaru. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2006), Cagliari (Sardinia), Italia, 26-29 June, 2006, pp. 340-346, ISBN-13:978-0-7695-2588-4, ISBN-10:0-7695-2588-1, ISSN 1530-1346. [PDF]
On Measuring SSL-based Secure Data Transfer with Handheld Devices. Diana Berbecaru. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium onWireless Communication Systems (ISWCS2005), Siena (Italy), 5-7 September, 2005, pp. 409-413, ISBN 0-7803-9207-8. [PDF]
FIrDA-SSL: Experiments with securing communication in PANs. In Proceedings of the First IEEE/CREATE-NET Workshop on Security and QoS in Communication Networks (SeCQos 2005), workshop held in conjunction with SecureComm-2005: IEEE/Create-Net International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks, Athens (Greece), 5-9 September, 2005, pp. 295-305, ISBN 0-7803-9469-0. [PDF]
MBS-OCSP: an OCSP based certificate revocation system for wireless environments. Diana Berbecaru. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2004), Rome (Italy), 18-21 December, 2004, pp. 267-272, ISBN 0-7803-8689-2. [PDF]
Preliminary steps in designing and implementing a Privilege Verifier for PMI. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy. In Proceedings of IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2004 (IADIS 2004), Madrid (Spagna), 6-9 October, 2004, pp. 317-324, ISBN 972-99353-0-0. [PDF]
Support for public-key infrastructures in DNS. Marius Marian, Diana Berbecaru. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on systems theory, automation, robotics, computers, informatics, electronics and instrumentation (SINTES 11), XIth edition, Vol. II (Software engineering, Computer engineering and Electronics), 23-24 October, 2003, Craiova (Romania), pp. 451-456, ISBN 973-8043-415-5 / 973-8043-416-6. [PDF]
Representation of E-documents in AIDA Project. Diana Berbecaru, Marius Marian, In Proceedings of the International Symposium on systems theory, automation, robotics, computers, informatics, electronics and instrumentation (SINTES 11), XIth edition, Vol. II (Software engineering, Computer engineering and Electronics), 23-24 October, 2003, Craiova (Romania), pp. 393-398, ISBN 973-8043-415-5 / 973-8043-416-6. [PDF]
Towards Simplifying PKI Implementation: Client-Server based Validation of Public Key Certificates. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2002), 18-21 December, 2002, Marrakech (Marocco), pp. 277-282, ISBN 0-9727186-0-5. [PDF]
Secure Digital Administration in Medical Environment. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Diana Marano, Marius Marian. In Proceedings of IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2002, Lisbon (Portugal), 13-15 Novembre, 2002, pp. 299-306, ISBN 972-9027-53-6. [PDF]
Security aspects in standard certificate revocation mechanisms: a case study for OCSP. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian. In Proceedings of 7th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2002), Taormina/Giardini Naxos (Italy), 1-4 July, 2002, pp. 484-489, ISBN 0-7695-1671-8. [PDF]
A Framework for Secure Digital Administration. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian. In Proceedings of EuroWeb2001 - The Web in Public Administration, IW3C endorsed conference, 18-20 Dicembre, 2001, Pisa (Italy), pp. 119-133, ISBN 88-88327-33-9. [PDF]
PKI-based System Management. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science (SACCS 2001), 26-27 October, 2001, Iasi (Romania). [PDF]
On the Complexity of Public-Key Certificate Validation. In Proceedings of the 4th International Information Security Conference (ISC 2001), 1-3 October, 2001, Malaga (Spagna), vol. 2200 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 183-203, ISBN 3-540-42662-0. [PDF]
A Flexible Management Framework for Certificate Status Validation. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Fabio Maino, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Cesare Stefanelli. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Security (IFIPSEC 2000), IFIP 16th World Computer Congress, 21-25 Agosto, 2000, Beijing (China), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 481-490, ISSN 0-7923-7914-4. [PDF]
Towards concrete application of electronic signature. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Daniele Mazzocchi, Fabio Maino, Gianluca Ramunno. In Proceedings of AICA Congress 2000, 27-30 September, 2000, Taormina (Italy), pp. 543-561. [PDF]

Technical Reports

Description of specific administrative services. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian, Deliverable del progetto AIDA (Advanced Interactive Digital Administration) - IST 1999 - 10497, Project related numbering: AIDA.WP3/POLITO.DB/001.2, May 2001.
Design of an e-Administration Service Provider. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian. Deliverable del progetto AIDA (Advanced Interactive Digital Administration) - IST 1999 - 10497, Project related numbering: AIDA.WP1/POLITO.DB/001.1, May 2001.
The POSITIF System Description Language (SDL) - user’s manual. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Massimiliano Pala. Technical Report for POSITIF project, December 2005.
Analysis on Data Network Synchronization Applications. Analysis on Data Network Synchronization Applications. Deliverable for Harrison project, Customer: European GNSS Supervisory Authority, Contract: GJU/06/8068/CTR/HARRISON, Settembre 2007.
Analisi della sicurezza nelle architetture dei servizi: classificazione delle possibili minacce. Deliverable for the project GAL-PMI - Anticipando Galileo: prodotti e servizi a supporto della mobilit`a e della sicurezza. 20 December 2007.
D5.7.1 Functional design. Eva Jorquera, Martine Schiavo, Adrian Johnston, Antonio Lioy, Arnaldur F. A., Carlo Luyten, Carlos Ribeiro, Clemens Orthacker, Daniel Mart´ınez, Joaqu´ın Alcalde, Lu´ıs Felix, Marc Stern, Mario Stoltz, Matthias Schwan, Renato Portela, S. M´asson, Tarvi Martens, Thomas R¨ossler, Wolfgang Bauer. Deliverable for the project STORK (Secure Identity Across Borders Linked), Grant agreement no.: 224993, ICT PSP call identifier: ICT-PSP/2007/1, 04 March 2009.
D5.8.1c Software Design. Diana Berbecaru, Joaquin Alcalde-Mora˜no, Jorge L´opez Hern´andez-Ardieta, Renato Portela, Ricardo Ferreira. Deliverable for the project STORK (Secure Identity Across Borders Linked), Grant agreement no.: 224993, ICT PSP call identifier: ICT-PSP/2007/1, September 2009.
D5.8.1a Software Architecture Design. Diana Berbecaru, Eva Jorquera, Joaquin Alcalde-Mora˜no, Renato Portela, Wolfgang Bauer, Bernd Zwattendorfer, Jan Eichholz, Tim Schneider, Deliverable for the project STORK (Secure Identity Across Borders Linked), Grant agreement no.: 224993, ICT PSP call identifier: ICT-PSP/2007/1, September 2009.






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