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Bryan Parno is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Computer Science, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering departments. His research is primarily focused on investigating long-term, fundamental improvements in how to design and build secure systems. As a result, his work combines theory and practice to provide formal, rigorous security guarantees about concrete systems, with an emphasis on creating solid foundations for practical solutions.

Office
2121 Collaborative Innovation Center
Phone
412.268.2033
Email
parno@cmu.edu
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Designing and Building Provably Secure Systems

Education

2010 Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

2005 MA, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

2004 BA, Computer Science, Harvard University

Affiliations

Media mentions


CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

Improving System Verification

Researchers’ award-winning paper provides a faster, more efficient way to perform system verification

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

First round of Future Enterprise Security Initiative funded projects announced

CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative is underway as the first round of funded proposals has been announced.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

Award-winning research paves the way for provably-safe sandboxing using WebAssembly

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have developed a pair of compilers enabling provably-safe multilingual software sandboxing using WebAssembly.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CyLab names 2022 Presidential Fellows

Each year, CyLab recognizes high-achieving Ph.D. students pursuing security and/or privacy-related research with a CyLab Presidential Fellowship that covers one year of tuition.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

Carnegie Mellon faculty, students present at the 31st USENIX Security Symposium

An overview of papers, authored by members of CMU's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, being presented at the 31st USENIX Security Symposium

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CyLab Ph.D. student receives honor for “highest quality” thesis

CyLab’s Aymeric Fromherz was recognized with an A.G. Milnes Award for his Ph.D. thesis work “judged to be of the highest quality and which has had, or is likely to have, significant impact in his or her field.”

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

Undergrads around the nation partake in CyLab research

Roughly a dozen undergraduate students from as many colleges and universities around the country pursued security and/or privacy-focused research projects in this year’s REU program at CMU.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

New programming language and tool ensures code will compute as intended

A team of researchers including CyLab's Bryan Parno published a study about a new tool that mathematically proves that concurrent programs will compute correctly.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

Provably-secure code incorporated into Linux kernel

This month, code from the provably correct and secure “EverCrypt” cryptographic library, which CyLab’s Bryan Parno and his team helped develop and release last year, was officially incorporated into the Linux kernel — the core of the Linux operating system.

Computer Business Review

Parno collaborates on cryptographic provider and library

Team Everest, a joint Microsoft-academia collaboration, recently released a cryptographic provider and library called EverCrypt. ECE’s Bryan Parno, who worked on the project, says that it has “the same features, convenience, and performance as popular existing cryptographic libraries without the bugs that leave protocols and applications vulnerable.”

CMU Engineering

Achieving provably-secure encryption

Earlier this week, a team consisting of researchers from CyLab released the world’s first verifiably secure industrial-strength cryptographic library—a set of code that can be used to protect data and is guaranteed to protect against the most popular classes of cyberattacks.

Popular Science

Parno quoted in PopSci on end-to-end encryption

End-to-end encryption is essential to privacy. But as Facebook begins to incorporate encryption into its messaging services, it’s important to consider the caveats that come with it. ECE’s Bryan Parno weighs in on the conversation in Popular Science.