Russell Fink

Russell A. (“Russ”) Fink is a principal staff member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.  He holds the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, an M.S. in Computer Systems Management, and an A.A. in general engineering.  His dissertation work focused on mitigating software risks for electronic voting using trustworthy computing techniques.  His research interests include systems security engineering, mission based risk analysis, systems software development, trusted computing, ransomware defeat, machine learning, and privacy preserving cryptographic applications.  He is supporting the development of a new, local anti-ransomware defeat solution from Cyntegra.

Education History

• B S, Computer Science, University of Maryland
• M S, Computer Systems Management, University of Maryland University College
• Ph D, Computer Science, University of Maryland

Work Experience

Principal Professional Staff, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory

Publications

Fink, R. A., D. R. Zaret, and P. McNamee (Mar. 2022). Term-Based Encrypted Retrieval Privacy. US Patent App. 17/035,973.

Fink, R. A., D. R. Zaret, R. B. Stonehirsch, R. M. Seng, and S. M. Tyson (Aug. 2021). Apparatus and method for private information retrieval. US Patent 11,093,635.

Challener, D. C., P. S. Kruus, R. A. Fink, and J. F. Farlow (Aug. 2018). Apparatus and method for preventing access by malware to locally backed up data. US Patent 10,049,215.

Fink, R. A., D. R. Zaret, R. B. Stonehirsch, R. M. Seng, and S. M. Tyson (2017). “Streaming, plaintext private information retrieval using regular expressions on arbitrary length search strings”. In: 2017 IEEE Symposium on Privacy-Aware Computing (PAC). IEEE, pp. 107–118.

Fink, R. A., M. A. Brannigan, S. A. Evans, and A. M. Almeida (Feb. 2014). Method and apparatus for providing adaptive self-synchronized dynamic address translation as an intrusion detection sensor. US Patent 8,650,643.

Fink, R. A., E. A. Bubnis Jr, and T. E. Keller (Oct. 2013). Method and apparatus for anonymous IP datagram exchange using dynamic network address translation. US Patent 8,549,285.

Fink, R. A., E. Gunduzhan, B. P. Benjamin, D. Cansever, M. Gralia, and P. Dinsmore (2012). “IPsec tunnels vs. identity-only obfuscation techniques for moving target networks”. In: MILCOM 2012-2012 IEEE Military Communications Conference. IEEE, pp. 1–6.

Fink, R. A., T. O. Johnson, S. T. Hutton, and K. Z. Snow (Sept. 2012). Identification and verification of peripheral devices accessing a secure network. US Patent 8,261,324.

Fink, R. A., A. T. Sherman, A. O. Mitchell, and D. C. Challener (2011). “Catching the Cuckoo: Verifying TPM Proximity Using a Quote Timing Side-Channel: (Short Paper)”. In: Trust and Trustworthy Computing: 4th International Conference, TRUST 2011, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 22-24, 2011. Proceedings 4. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 294–301.

Sherman, A. T., R. A. Fink, R. Carback, and D. Chaum (2011). “Scantegrity {III}: Automatic Trustworthy Receipts, Highlighting {Over/Under} Votes, and Full Voter Verifiability”. In: 2011 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE 11).

Fink, R. A. (2010). “Applying trustworthy computing to end-to-end electronic voting”. PhD thesis. University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Fink, R. and A. S. AT (2009). “Combining end-to-end voting with trustworthy computing for greater privacy, trust, accessibility, and usability (summary)”. In: Proceedings of the NIST workshop on end-to-end voting systems, pp. 13–14.

Fink, R. A., A. T. Sherman, and R. Carback (2009). “TPM meets DRE: Reducing the trust base for electronic voting using trusted platform modules”. In: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 4.4, pp. 628–637.

Fink, R. A., M. A. Brannigan, S. A. Evans, A. M. Almeida, and S. A. Ferguson (May 2006). Method and apparatus for providing adaptive self-synchronized dynamic address translation. US Patent 7,043,633.

Fink, R. A., M. A. Brannigan, and S. A. Ferguson (Nov. 2004). Sliding scale adaptive self-synchronized dynamic address translation. US Patent 6,826,684.

Fink, R. A., M. A. Brannigan, S. A. Evans, and A. M. Almeida (Mar. 2002). Hardware address adaptation. US Patent 6,363,071.

Fink, R. A. (1998). “Reliability modeling of freely-available internet-distributed software”. In: Proceedings Fifth International Software Metrics Symposium. Metrics (Cat. No. 98TB100262). IEEE, pp. 101–
104.

Sircar, J. K., R. M. Ragan, E. T. Engman, and R. A. Fink (1991). “A GIS based geomorphic approach for the digital computation of time-area curves”. In: Civil Engineering Applications of Remote Sensing
and Geographic Information Systems. ASCE, pp. 287–296.

Honors and Awards

• Ph.D. Best Research of the Year/UMBC (2009)
• Invention of the Year (2007)