Michael A. Specter

According to our database, Michael A. Specter authored at least 22 papers between 2015 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
• Erdős number of three.

2026

SoK: Offline Finding Protocols for Lightweight Location Tracking.

Akshaya Kumar, Carolina Ortega Pérez, Joseph Jaeger, Thomas Ristenpart, Michael A. Specter

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2026

Uncovering Relationships Between Android Developers, User Privacy, and Developer Willingness to Reduce Fingerprinting Risks.

Alex Berke, Güliz Seray Tuncay, Michael A. Specter, Mihai Christodorescu

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

2025

Security and Privacy Analysis of Tile's Location Tracking Protocol.

Akshaya Kumar, Anna Raymaker, Michael A. Specter

CoRR, October, 2025

Fingerprinting SDKs for Mobile Apps and Where to Find Them: Understanding the Market for Device Fingerprinting.

Michael A. Specter, Mihai Christodorescu, Abbie Farr, Bo Ma, Robin Lassonde, Xiaoyang Xu, Xiang Pan, Fengguo Wei, Saswat Anand, Dave Kleidermacher

CoRR, June, 2025

Cryptographic Verifiability for Voter Registration Systems.

Andrés Fábrega, Jack Cable, Michael A. Specter, Sunoo Park

CoRR, March, 2025

Fingerprinting SDKs for Mobile Apps and Where to Find Them: Understanding the Market for Device Fingerprinting.

Michael A. Specter, Mihai Christodorescu, Abbie Farr, Bo Ma, Robin Lassonde

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2025

2024

Cryptography in the Wild: An Empirical Analysis of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries.

Jenny Blessing, Michael A. Specter, Daniel J. Weitzner

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2024

2023

Can large language models democratize access to dual-use biotechnology?

Emily H. Soice, Rafael Rocha, Kimberlee Cordova, Michael A. Specter, Kevin M. Esvelt

CoRR, 2023

Robust, privacy-preserving, transparent, and auditable on-device blocklisting.

Kurt Thomas, Sarah Meiklejohn, Michael A. Specter, Xiang Wang, Xavier Llorà, Stephan Somogyi, David Kleidermacher

CoRR, 2023

2022

A Systematization of Voter Registration Security.

Jack Cable, Andrés Fábrega, Sunoo Park, Michael A. Specter

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022

2021

Security Research for the Public Good: A Principled Approach.

Michael A. Specter

PhD thesis, 2021

Going from bad to worse: from Internet voting to blockchain voting.

Sunoo Park, Michael A. Specter, Neha Narula, Ronald L. Rivest

J. Cybersecur., 2021

You Really Shouldn't Roll Your Own Crypto: An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries.

Jenny Blessing, Michael A. Specter, Daniel J. Weitzner

CoRR, 2021

KeyForge: Non-Attributable Email from Forward-Forgeable Signatures.

Michael A. Specter, Sunoo Park, Matthew Green

Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, 2021

Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System.

Michael A. Specter, J. Alex Halderman

Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, 2021

2020

SonicPACT: An Ultrasonic Ranging Method for the Private Automated Contact Tracing (PACT) Protocol.

John Meklenburg, Michael A. Specter, Michael Wentz, Hari Balakrishnan, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, John Cohn, Gary Hatke, Louise Ivers, Ronald L. Rivest, Gerald Jay Sussman, Daniel J. Weitzner

CoRR, 2020

The Ballot is Busted Before the Blockchain: A Security Analysis of Voatz, the First Internet Voting Application Used in U.S. Federal Elections.

Michael A. Specter, James Koppel, Daniel J. Weitzner

Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium, 2020

2019

KeyForge: Mitigating Email Breaches with Forward-Forgeable Signatures.

Michael A. Specter, Sunoo Park, Matthew Green

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2019

2018

Explaining Explanations: An Approach to Evaluating Interpretability of Machine Learning.

Leilani H. Gilpin, David Bau, Ben Z. Yuan, Ayesha Bajwa, Michael A. Specter, Lalana Kagal

CoRR, 2018

Explaining Explanations: An Overview of Interpretability of Machine Learning.

Leilani H. Gilpin, David Bau, Ben Z. Yuan, Ayesha Bajwa, Michael A. Specter, Lalana Kagal

Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, 2018

2015

Keys under doormats: mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications.

Harold Abelson, Ross J. Anderson, Steven M. Bellovin, Josh Benaloh, Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, John Gilmore, Matthew Green, Susan Landau, Peter G. Neumann, Ronald L. Rivest, Jeffrey I. Schiller, Bruce Schneier, Michael A. Specter, Daniel J. Weitzner

J. Cybersecur., 2015

Keys under doormats.

Harold Abelson, Ross J. Anderson, Steven M. Bellovin, Josh Benaloh, Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, John Gilmore, Matthew Green, Susan Landau, Peter G. Neumann, Ronald L. Rivest, Jeffrey I. Schiller, Bruce Schneier, Michael A. Specter, Daniel J. Weitzner

Commun. ACM, 2015