pchapin's Research

Research

I am currently working with Christian Skalka on programming language based security in wireless sensor networks. My immediate project is to implement Spartan RPC: a secure RPC extension to the nesC programming language. I am building a pre-compiler, called "Sprocket," that accepts an extended nesC program with extra syntax for doing RPC and for declaring the access level of remote calls. Sprocket will then output a pure nesC program along with some extra components that implement the extensions.

In the past I've worked with Dr. Skalka and X. Sean Wang on distributed trust management systems. My long term goal is to figure out how to apply trust management concepts to wireless sensor networks.

Publications

• Authorization in Trust Management: Features and Foundations by Peter Chapin, Christian Skalka, and X. Sean Wang. ACM Computing Surveys; 40(3), pages 1--48. August 2008. (citation)
• Risk Management for Distributed Authorization by Christian Skalka, X. Sean Wang, and Peter Chapin. Journal of Computer Security; 15(4), 2007.
• Risk Assessment in Distributed Authorization by Peter Chapin, Christian Skalka, and X. Sean Wang. Proceedings of the Workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering; November 11, 2005; Fairfax, Virgina; pages x--y. Slides used for the presentation.

Contact Information

My OpenPGP public key is here. The key fingerprint is 8024 CECA D2FE 4BB9 ABFD D47B C8C9 CDB5 EA59 3E07

• A good way to contact me is via email. My address is pchapin... at cems... uvm... edu
• I may be available on Google Talk with the ID pcc482719... at gmail... com. You should be able to use any Jabber client to contact me there.
• Sometimes I can be found on IRC. Typically I use the Freenode network under the nickname pcc.

My main home page is hosted at Vermont Technical College. Much more information about me, my teaching, and my various projects can be found there.