MOTI YUNG

I am with Google Inc.

At Columbia University, Computer Science: I have held various appointments such as: Adjunct Professor, Visiting Senior Research Scientist.

I am a computer scientist, cryptographer and information security researcher.


Previously: I have been an Industry Consultant, working on information security and cryptography,
including Director, Advanced Authentication Research at RSA Laboratories.
Previously: I have been VP, Chief Scientist, with CertCo
which is formerly: Bankers Trust E-Commerce (BTEC)).
Previously: I have been with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
Ph.D. -- Columbia University, Computer Science.

Selected Publications

Coming Soon... (but may take some time... well....)
Meanwhile.. Partial Publication list

A Book

Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology
A summary
by Adam Young and Moti Yung
Published by John Wiley & Sons.

The book exposes threats that result from combining strong cryptography with malware to attack information systems. Attacks are presented that pit cryptography against cryptography itself by maliciously utilizing cryptographic algorithms to attack implementations of cryptosystems (called kleptographic attacks). The book also details defenses against these types of attacks. This new and unorthodox use of cryptography exploits modern cryptographic notions, constructions, and tools as "dark side" mechanisms (i.e., as methods that increase threats, and perhaps paradoxically, reduce overall system security).

Research Interests

Cryptography, Security, Networks and Distributed Systems,
Theory of Computation: Computational Complexity, Randomization, Algorithms.
Applications: Secure Systems/ Financial/ E-commerce/ Banking/ Secure Web.

Projects at Columbia University

  • Public Key cryptography
  • Security of Cryptographic Primitives
  • Design of Ciphers, Systems and Protocols
  • Distributed Cryptosystems (threshold, proactive..)
  • Cryptographic Protocols
  • Cryptography and Complexity (foundations)
  • Algebraic methods in Cryptography
  • Secret-Ballot Elections
  • Kleptography -- The art of stealing information secretly and subliminally!
  • Digital Rights, Information Hiding
  • Privacy Issues
  • Cryptographic Applications in Network/Systems Security
  • Threats and Countermeasures

Links to Cryptography-Related Topics

Digicrime: a joke! -- (but it has good links)
People working and associated with Cryptology--(but: Home-Pages-Less not included)
Ron Rivest's Crypto and Security Page
Ron Rivest's Crypto Bibliography
IACR: Int. Assoc. for Crypto Research
ACNS 2008, to be held at Columbia.
More coming Soon...

Links to Other Pages of Interest

(Computer Science: Major Conferences and Journals)
More... Coming Soon...

List of some (Ex/current) Graduate Students I co-advised and worked with

Matt Franklin
Alain Mayer
Bulent Yener
Xiangdong Yu
Adam Young
Jonathan Katz
Aggelos Kiayias
Debra Cook

Also: a member of: UWM's Center Cryptography, Computer and Network Security,
A center dedicated to the theoretical and applied studies of crypto and related areas.
See newspaper report: discussion during UWM's day on e-commerce.

Contact Information at Columbia University

Address (at Columbia):
Room 465
S.W. Mudd Building,
Computer Science Department,
Columbia University,
New York, NY 10027, USA.
E-mail:
use: my first name at the host: cs.columbia.edu

......, more is coming... sometime soon.....

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