Nu sunt ce par a fi -- Nu sunt Nimic din ce-as fi vrut sa fiu! Dar fiindca m-am nascut fara sa stiu, Sau prea curand Sau poate prea tarziu... M-am resemnat, ca orice bun crestin, Si n-am ramas decat... Cea care sunt!... Ion Minulescu

NEB 313    Department of Computer Science    Johns Hopkins University    Baltimore, MD 21218-2694    phone: (410) 516-5562;      fax: (410) 516-6134;      email: crisn@cs.jhu.edu

I am a graduate student (5th year) at Johns Hopkins University, Computer Science Department. My advisor is Dr. Yair Amir. I am a member of The Center of Networking and Distributed Systems (CNDS). I am affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) where I worked with Dr. Giuseppe Ateniese. Also as part of a collaboration project with UCI Irvine, I am working with Dr. Gene Tsudik.

My interests are mainly in security services for group communication and distributed systems. I am the architect of the Secure Spread system that integrates security services with the Spread Group Communication Toolkit. The project investigates robust key agreement protocols, access control and authentication techniques, and trust in a distributed environment.

On a more general level, I am interested in designing security for distributed systems operating in different network environments and supporting different semantics. Examples of such networks include: overlay networks, mobile ad hoc wireless networks ( Archipelago ) and sensor networks. I am also interested in secure applications, such as certified email ( TURMS ).

Here is a complete list of my publications and some presentations.

I am maintaining a list with some of past or upcoming network security and distributed systems conferences and some other useful links (programming , writing, graduate student resources, security links, etc). Also here is IEEE Distributed Systems Online

Concerning graduate student life and applying for a Ph.D. program ... a very good list of resources for graduate students is maintained at Iowa State University by Dr. Vasant Honavar.
Romanian students thinking about applying for a Ph.D. program, would find Mihai Budiu's Guide to Ph. D. Admisson (in romanian) very useful.

I was born and grew up in Bucharest (Bucuresti), ROMANIA. I like to travel and take photos . I love books. Some of my favourite writers, singers, bands, books are: favorite singer - Sade, favorite band - Marillion, favorite romanian writers - I.L.Caragiale and M.Preda , favorite writer - M. Yourcenar, favourite classic musician - J. S. Bach, favourite book - Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatski .