Thomas Ristenpart
Visiting Researcher
Thomas Ristenpart is an Associate Professor at Cornell Tech and a member of the Computer Science department at Cornell University. He was a visiting scholar at Cloudflare in 2020-2021. His research spans a wide range of computer security topics, with recent focuses including digital privacy and safety in intimate partner violence, mitigating abuse and harassment online, cloud computing security, improvements to authentication mechanisms including passwords, confidentiality and privacy in machine learning, and topics in applied and theoretical cryptography.
Research Areas
Cryptography, Cloud Security, Mitigating Tech Abuse
Publications
2022Gossamer: Securely Measuring Password-based Logins
31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22), Boston, MA. 2022.
Marina Sanusi Bohuk,
Mazharul Islam,
Suleman Ahmad,
Michael Swift,
Thomas Ristenpart,
Rahul Chatterjee
2022Might I Get Pwned: A Second Generation Compromised Credential Checking Service
31th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22).
Bijeeta Pal,
Mazharul Islam,
Marina Sanusi Bohuk,
Nick Sullivan,
Luke Valenta,
Tara Whalen,
Christopher A. Wood,
Thomas Ristenpart,
Rahul Chattejee
2022A Fast and Simple Partially Oblivious PRF, with Applications
Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2022: 41st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Trondheim, Norway, May 30 – June 3, pp. 674–705, 2022.
Nirvan Tyagi,
Sofía Celi,
Thomas Ristenpart,
Nick Sullivan,
Stefano Tessaro,
Christopher A. Wood
2019Protocols for checking compromised credentials
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 1387-1403. 2019.
Lucy Li,
Bijeeta Pal,
Junade Ali,
Nick Sullivan,
Rahul Chatterjee,
Thomas Ristenpart