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Chris Lesniewski-Laas |ctl|_
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I'm a graduate student in the `Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems`__
group in the `Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory`__ at
`MIT`_.  My advisor is `Frans Kaashoek`_.

__ http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/
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.. _Frans Kaashoek: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~kaashoek/

I am interested in scaling and security for distributed Internet systems and
networks.

My goal is to develop fully decentralized systems which can potentially scale
to billions of participants.  The challenge is maintaining the integrity and
reliability of the system without any centralized authorities and despite
concerted attacks by malicious participants with arbitrary numbers of
pseudonyms.




Research Projects
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- |Whanau|_: a scalable `distributed hash table`_ secure against powerful
  `denial of service`_ attacks, including the `Sybil attack`_.
- Eyo_: a storage system providing a consistent view of a user's
  data (such as photos, music, and email) across her personal devices.
- UIA_: naming and routing for personal mobile devices, such as laptops,
  phones, cameras, and media players.
- Alpaca_: a logic-based proof-carrying authorization framework which enables
  extensible cryptographic protocols.
- Barnraising_: a P2P content distribution network with untrusted caches.

.. |Whanau| unicode:: Wh U+0101 nau
.. _Whanau:      http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/whanau/
.. _Eyo:         http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/eyo/
.. _UIA:         http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/uia/
.. _Alpaca:      http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/alpaca/
.. _Barnraising: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/barnraising/

.. _distributed hash table:  http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/chord:sigcomm01/
.. _denial of service:       http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/chord:security02/
.. _Sybil attack:            http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/101.pdf




Publications: PDF__, CrossTeX__, BibTeX__
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