John Bethencourt

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General

email: bethenco@cs.berkeley.edu (public key)
office: 515 Soda Hall
cell phone: 510 508 5807

I am currently a Ph.D. student in computer science at Berkeley, where I am advised by Dawn Song and supported by NSF and NDSEG graduate research fellowships. I spent my first two years of grad school at CMU before my advisor moved to Berkeley and I transfered along with her. I got my B.S. in 2005 from the University of Wisconsin with majors in computer science, math, and computer engineering. I've also spent summers at SRI and the IBM Almaden Research Center. My research interests include cryptography and security.

Publications

Code

A while ago I helped Brent Waters create a website called the Advanced Crypto Software Collection (ACSC).

The idea of the ACSC is to help bring very recent, sophisticated cryptographic schemes (i.e., stuff that can't be done with plain old PKI) into a more concrete setting by providing implementations. It consists of a number of original and preexisting projects collected into one place with descriptions, tutorials, and source code. Hopefully, it will prove useful to systems security researchers who would like to explores uses of advanced cryptography in their projects without getting bogged down in the number theory and algebra necessary to implement them. The following projects of mine are included (all with GPL source).

Posters and Miscellaneous Slides

Links

Quote of the Day

Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grand children's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

- Carl Sagan

You may also like to see some other pages of mine, including my academic genealogy. I also keep a cv / resume (ps, pdf, tex).