ryan [dot] wails [@] nrl [dot] navy [dot] mil
rsw66 [@] georgetown [dot] edu
I'm a computer scientist in the Formal Methods Section of the Center for High Assurance Computer Systems at the US Naval Research Laboratory. Our research group consists of Aaron Johnson, Rob Jansen, Paul Syverson, and me.
I'm also a PhD student advised by Micah Sherr at Georgetown University . Check out the Georgetown SecLab!
My research centers around computer network privacy and security. Recently, my focus has been on developing tools and protocols for covert network communication. I've worked on some other topics, too, including: high-performance network simulation; secure protocols for computing statistics in distributed systems; and improvements to the security and performance of path selection in low-latency anonymity systems.
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@inproceedings {jansen-netsim-atc22,
author = {Rob Jansen and Jim Newsome and Ryan Wails},
title = {{Co-opting Linux Processes for High-Performance Network Simulation}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '22)},
year = {2022},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
address = {Carlsbad, CA, USA},
}
@article{wails-behave-pets22,
author = {Ryan Wails and
Andrew Stange and
Eliana Troper and
Aylin Caliskan and
Roger Dingledine and
Rob Jansen and
Micah Sherr},
title = {{Learning to Behave: Improving Covert Channel Security with Behavior-Based Designs}},
journal = {Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs)},
volume = {2022},
number = {3},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.56553/popets-2022-0068},
}
@inproceedings{rochet-claps-ccs20,
author = {Florentin Rochet and
Ryan Wails and
Aaron Johnson and
Prateek Mittal and
Olivier Pereira},
title = {{CLAPS: Client-Location-Aware Path Selection in Tor}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications
Security (CCS '20)},
year = {2020},
doi = {10.1145/3372297.3417279},
address = {Virtual Event, USA},
publisher = {ACM},
}
@inproceedings{wails-stormy-ccs19,
author = {Ryan Wails and
Aaron Johnson and
Daniel Starin and
Arkady Yerukhimovich and
S. Dov Gordon},
title = {{Stormy: Statistics in Tor by Measuring Securely}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and
Communications Security (CCS '19)},
year = {2019},
doi = {10.1145/3319535.3345650},
address = {London, UK},
}
@article{wan-gpa-popets19,
author = {Gerry Wan and
Aaron Johnson and
Ryan Wails and
Sameer Wagh and
Prateek Mittal},
title = {{Guard Placement Attacks on Path Selection Algorithms for Tor}},
journal = {Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs)},
volume = {2019},
number = {4},
year = {2019},
doi = {10.2478/popets-2019-0069},
}
@article{wails-tempest-popets18,
author = {Ryan Wails and
Yixin Sun and
Aaron Johnson and
Mung Chiang and
Prateek Mittal},
title = {{Tempest: Temporal Dynamics in Anonymity Systems}},
journal = {Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs)},
volume = {2018},
number = {3},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1515/popets-2018-0019},
}