| 2017 | CCS | Lightweight Swarm Attestation: A Tale of Two LISA-s. | Xavier Carpent, Karim El Defrawy, Norrathep Rattanavipanon, Gene Tsudik |
| 2016 | COMPSAC | Byzantine Fault Tolerant Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Controllers. | Karim El Defrawy, Tyler Kaczmarek |
| 2016 | COMPSAC | Automated Inference of Dependencies of Network Services and Applications via Transfer Entropy. | Karim El Defrawy, Tiffany Kim, Pape M. Sylla |
| 2016 | SCN | Proactive Secret Sharing with a Dishonest Majority. | Shlomi Dolev, Karim El Defrawy, Joshua Lampkins, Rafail Ostrovsky, Moti Yung |
| 2015 | ACNS | Communication-Optimal Proactive Secret Sharing for Dynamic Groups. | Joshua Baron, Karim El Defrawy, Joshua Lampkins, Rafail Ostrovsky |
| 2014 | CCS | Founding Digital Currency on Secure Computation. | Karim El Defrawy, Joshua Lampkins |
| 2014 | ICNP | Disincentivizing/Incentivizing Malicious/Honest Behavior on the Internet via Privacy-Preserving Appcoins. | Karim El Defrawy, Joshua Lampkins |
| 2014 | PODC | How to withstand mobile virus attacks, revisited. | Joshua Baron, Karim El Defrawy, Joshua Lampkins, Rafail Ostrovsky |
| 2013 | GLOBECOM | Neighborhood watch: On network coding throughput and key sharing. | Martin Strohmeier, Ivan Martinovic, Utz Roedig, Karim El Defrawy, Jens B. Schmitt |
| 2012 | SCN | 5PM: Secure Pattern Matching. | Joshua Baron, Karim El Defrawy, Kirill Minkovich, Rafail Ostrovsky, Eric Tressler |
| 2007 | Mobisys | Incentive-based cooperative and secure inter-personal networking. | Karim El Defrawy, Magda El Zarki, Gene Tsudik |