I am currently a visiting researcher at the university of Illinois, Department of Computer Science.
My research interests include cryptography and data security.

Research Papers

A. L. Ferrara, M. Green, S. Hohenberger, M. O. Pedersen,
Practical Short Signature Batch Verification,
Accepted for publication at CT-RSA 2009. (ePrint PDF)

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
New Constructions for Provably-Secure Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes,
Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 407, pp. 213--230, November 2008.

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
An Attack on a Payment Scheme,
Information Sciences, Vol. 178, No. 5, pp. 1418-1421, March 2008.

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, e B. Masucci,
Efficient Provably-Secure Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes,
in Proc. of the 32nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science - MFCS 2007,
Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic,  August 27 - 31, 2007,
L. Kucera and A. Kucera (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4708, pp. 371--382, Springer Verlag, 2007. (ePrint PDF)

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
New Constructions for Provably-Secure Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes,
in Proc. of the 12th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies - SACMAT 2007,
Sophia Antipolis, France, June 20 - 22 2007,
pp. 133--138.(ePrint PDF)

G. Ateniese, A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, e B. Masucci,
Provably-Secure Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes,
in Proc. of the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security - ACM CCS 2006,
Alexandria, Virginia, USA, November 2006. (ePrint PDF)

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
Enforcing the Security of a Time-bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Scheme,
Information Sciences, Vol. 176, No. 12, pp. 1684--1694, June 2006.

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
A New Key Assignment Scheme for Access Control in a Complete Tree Hierarchy,
in Proc. of the International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography - WCC 2005,                                                       
Bergen, Norway, March 14 - 18  2005, O. Ytrehus (Ed.),
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3969, pp. 202--217, Springer Verlag, 2006.

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
Unconditionally Secure Key Assignment Schemes,
Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 154, No. 2 , pp. 234--252, February 2006.

S. Cimato, A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
Ideal Contrast Visual Cryptography Schemes with Reversing,
Information Processing Letters, vol. 93, n. 4, February 28, 2005, pp. 199-206 .

A.De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
Cryptographic Key Assignment Schemes for Any Access Control Policy,
Information Processing Letters, vol. 92, n. 4, November 30, 2004, pp. 199-205.

F.Y.L. Chin, A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, N.L. Ho, and S.K. Kim,
A Simple Algorithm for the Constrained Sequence Problems,
Information Processing Letters, vol. 90, n. 4, May 31, 2004, pp. 175-179.

C. Blundo, S. Cimato, R. De Prisco e A. L. Ferrara,
Modeling A Certified Email Protocol using I/O Automata,
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 99, 2004, pp. 339-359.

A. L. Ferrara and B. Masucci,
An Information-Theoretic Approach to the Access Control Problem,
in Proc. of The Eighth Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science - ICTCS 2003,                                         
University Center Bertinoro, Italy, October 13 - 15, 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Vol. 2841, pp. 342--354, Springer Verlag, 2003.

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
Unconditionally Secure Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes,
in Proc. of the International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography - WCC 2003, Veirsalles, France, March 24 - 28, 2003.

Teaching

Advanced Topics in Network Security - Access Control: An Information Theoretic Approach and Provable Secure Solutions.
To be offered May 2009 at the ICT International Doctorate School, Trento, Italy. (Course Info)

Program Committee Member

10th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies - EC-Web '09. (Website)

Curriculum Vitae

English Version(PDF)
Italian Version (PDF)

Contact Information at the Università di Salerno

Postal Mail: Anna Lisa Ferrara,
Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni
Università di Salerno,
via Ponte don Melillo
84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy
Fax: +39 089 969600

Contact Information at the University of Illinois

Postal Mail: Anna Lisa Ferrara,
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3215 Siebel Center,
201 N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois, USA
61801-2302.