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Nicolas Christin

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

85

Venues

25

Active years

2001–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

85 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026CHIPassing Down Passwords: How Older Adults Approach Postmortem Account Access and Digital Estate Planning.Jenny Tang, Xiaoyuan Wu, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2025CCSExploiting the Shared Storage API.Alexandra Nisenoff, Deian Stefan, Nicolas Christin
2025SIGMETRICSBlockchain Amplification Attack.Taro Tsuchiya, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais, Nicolas Christin
2025SEFMAre Users More Willing to Use Formally Verified Password Managers?Carolina Carreira, Joo F. Ferreira, Alexandra Mendes, Nicolas Christin
2025SOUPSMisuse, Misreporting, Misinterpretation of Statistical Methods in Usable Privacy and Security Papers.Jenny Tang, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin
2024CHIStranger Danger? Investor Behavior and Incentives on Cryptocurrency Copy-Trading Platforms.Daisuke Kawai, Kyle Soska, Bryan R. Routledge, Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Nicolas Christin
2024NDSSFlow Correlation Attacks on Tor Onion Service Sessions with Sliding Subset Sum.Daniela Lopes, Jin-Dong Dong, Pedro Medeiros, Daniel Castro, Diogo Barradas, Bernardo Portela, Joo Vinagre, Bernardo Ferreira, Nicolas Christin, Nuno Santos
2024WWWIdentifying Risky Vendors in Cryptocurrency P2P Marketplaces.Taro Tsuchiya, Alejandro Cuevas Villalba, Nicolas Christin
2024WWWBlockchain Censorship.Anton Wahrsttter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Taro Tsuchiya, Sebastian Steinhorst, Davor Svetinovic, Nicolas Christin, Mikolaj Barczentewicz, Arthur Gervais
2024WSDMWhat I Learned from Spending a Dozen Years in the Dark Web.Nicolas Christin
2024SOUPS"It was honestly just gambling": Investigating the Experiences of Teenage Cryptocurrency Users on Reddit.Elijah Robert Bouma-Sims, Hiba Hassan, Alexandra Nisenoff, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Nicolas Christin
2023AFTUser Participation in Cryptocurrency Derivative Markets.Daisuke Kawai, Bryan R. Routledge, Kyle Soska, Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Nicolas Christin
2023WWWIs your digital neighbor a reliable investment advisor?Daisuke Kawai, Alejandro Cuevas Villalba, Bryan R. Routledge, Kyle Soska, Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Nicolas Christin
2023WWWMisbehavior and Account Suspension in an Online Financial Communication Platform.Taro Tsuchiya, Alejandro Cuevas Villalba, Thomas Magelinski, Nicolas Christin
2022CCSPoster: User Sessions on Tor Onion Services: Can Colluding ISPs Deanonymize Them at Scale?Daniela Lopes, Pedro Medeiros, Jin-Dong Dong, Diogo Barradas, Bernardo Portela, Joo Vinagre, Bernardo Ferreira, Nicolas Christin, Nuno Santos
2022SOUPSOn recruiting and retaining users for security-sensitive longitudinal measurement panels.Akira Yamada, Kyle Crichton, Yukiko Sawaya, Jin-Dong Dong, Sarah Pearman, Ayumu Kubota, Nicolas Christin
2021WWWTowards Understanding Cryptocurrency Derivatives: A Case Study of BitMEX.Kyle Soska, Jin-Dong Dong, Alex Khodaverdian, Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Bryan R. Routledge, Nicolas Christin
2021WWWWhere are you taking me?Understanding Abusive Traffic Distribution Systems.Janos Szurdi, Meng Luo, Brian Kondracki, Nick Nikiforakis, Nicolas Christin
2021WWWChinese Wall or Swiss Cheese? Keyword filtering in the Great Firewall of China.Zachary Weinberg, Diogo Barradas, Nicolas Christin
2021SPSelf-Supervised Euphemism Detection and Identification for Content Moderation.Wanzheng Zhu, Hongyu Gong, Rohan Bansal, Zachary Weinberg, Nicolas Christin, Giulia Fanti, Suma Bhat
2020CCSPractical Recommendations for Stronger, More Usable Passwords Combining Minimum-strength, Minimum-length, and Blocklist Requirements.Joshua Tan, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2020FCOpen Market or Ghost Town? The Curious Case of OpenBazaar.James E. Arps, Nicolas Christin
2020SPICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform.Arian Akhavan Niaki, Shinyoung Cho, Zachary Weinberg, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Abbas Razaghpanah, Nicolas Christin, Phillipa Gill
2019CHIA Field Study of Computer-Security Perceptions Using Anti-Virus Customer-Support Chats.Mahmood Sharif, Kevin A. Roundy, Matteo Dell'Amico, Christopher Gates, Daniel Kats, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin
2019KDDAdversarial Matching of Dark Net Market Vendor Accounts.Xiao Hui Tai, Kyle Soska, Nicolas Christin
2019SOUPSWhy people (don't) use password managers effectively.Shikun Zhang, Sarah Pearman, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin
2018CCSPredicting Impending Exposure to Malicious Content from User Behavior.Mahmood Sharif, Jumpei Urakawa, Nicolas Christin, Ayumu Kubota, Akira Yamada
2018CHI"It's not actually that horrible": Exploring Adoption of Two-Factor Authentication at a University.Jessica Colnago, Summer Devlin, Maggie Oates, Chelse Swoopes, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Nicolas Christin
2018IMCHow to Catch when Proxies Lie: Verifying the Physical Locations of Network Proxies with Active Geolocation.Zachary Weinberg, Shinyoung Cho, Nicolas Christin, Vyas Sekar, Phillipa Gill
2018SOUPSAway From Prying Eyes: Analyzing Usage and Understanding of Private Browsing.Hana Habib, Jessica Colnago, Vidya Gopalakrishnan, Sarah Pearman, Jeremy Thomas, Alessandro Acquisti, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2018SOUPSUser Behaviors and Attitudes Under Password Expiration Policies.Hana Habib, Pardis Emami Naeini, Summer Devlin, Maggie Oates, Chelse Swoopes, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2017CCSLet's Go in for a Closer Look: Observing Passwords in Their Natural Habitat.Sarah Pearman, Jeremy Thomas, Pardis Emami Naeini, Hana Habib, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Serge Egelman, Alain Forget
2017CHISelf-Confidence Trumps Knowledge: A Cross-Cultural Study of Security Behavior.Yukiko Sawaya, Mahmood Sharif, Nicolas Christin, Ayumu Kubota, Akihiro Nakarai, Akira Yamada
2017CHIDesign and Evaluation of a Data-Driven Password Meter.Blase Ur, Felicia Alfieri, Maung Aung, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Jessica Colnago, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Henry Dixon, Pardis Emami Naeini, Hana Habib, Noah Johnson, William Melicher
2017IMCEmail typosquatting.Janos Szurdi, Nicolas Christin
2017KDDAutomatic Application Identification from Billions of Files.Kyle Soska, Christopher S. Gates, Kevin A. Roundy, Nicolas Christin
2017USENIXFast, Lean, and Accurate: Modeling Password Guessability Using Neural Networks.William Melicher, Blase Ur, Saranga Komanduri, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2017USENIXPush-Button Verification of File Systems via Crash Refinement.Helgi Sigurbjarnarson, James Bornholt, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2017SOUPSDiversify to Survive: Making Passwords Stronger with Adaptive Policies.Sean M. Segreti, William Melicher, Saranga Komanduri, Darya Melicher, Richard Shay, Blase Ur, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Michelle L. Mazurek
2016CHIUsability and Security of Text Passwords on Mobile Devices.William Melicher, Darya Kurilova, Sean M. Segreti, Pranshu Kalvani, Richard Shay, Blase Ur, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Michelle L. Mazurek
2016CHIDo Users' Perceptions of Password Security Match Reality?Blase Ur, Jonathan Bees, Sean M. Segreti, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2016SOUPSDo or Do Not, There Is No Try: User Engagement May Not Improve Security Outcomes.Alain Forget, Sarah Pearman, Jeremy Thomas, Alessandro Acquisti, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Serge Egelman, Marian Harbach, Rahul Telang
2015AAAIAudit Games with Multiple Defender Resources.Jeremiah Blocki, Nicolas Christin, Anupam Datta, Ariel D. Procaccia, Arunesh Sinha
2015CHIA Spoonful of Sugar?: The Impact of Guidance and Feedback on Password-Creation Behavior.Richard Shay, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alain Forget, Saranga Komanduri, Michelle L. Mazurek, William Melicher, Sean M. Segreti, Blase Ur
2015SOUPS"I Added '!' at the End to Make It Secure": Observing Password Creation in the Lab.Blase Ur, Fumiko Noma, Jonathan Bees, Sean M. Segreti, Richard Shay, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2014CCSA Nearly Four-Year Longitudinal Study of Search-Engine Poisoning.Nektarios Leontiadis, Tyler Moore, Nicolas Christin
2014CCSEvading android runtime analysis via sandbox detection.Timothy Vidas, Nicolas Christin
2014CCSA5: Automated Analysis of Adversarial Android Applications.Timothy Vidas, Jiaqi Tan, Jay Nahata, Chaur Lih Tan, Nicolas Christin, Patrick Tague
2014CHICan long passwords be secure and usable?Richard Shay, Saranga Komanduri, Adam L. Durity, Phillip (Seyoung) Huh, Michelle L. Mazurek, Sean M. Segreti, Blase Ur, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2014ESORICSEmpirically Measuring WHOIS Misuse.Nektarios Leontiadis, Nicolas Christin
2013CCSMeasuring password guessability for an entire university.Michelle L. Mazurek, Saranga Komanduri, Timothy Vidas, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Patrick Gage Kelley, Richard Shay, Blase Ur
2013FCThe Impact of Length and Mathematical Operators on the Usability and Security of System-Assigned One-Time PINs.Patrick Gage Kelley, Saranga Komanduri, Michelle L. Mazurek, Richard Shay, Timothy Vidas, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2013FCBeware the Middleman: Empirical Analysis of Bitcoin-Exchange Risk.Tyler Moore, Nicolas Christin
2013FCQRishing: The Susceptibility of Smartphone Users to QR Code Phishing Attacks.Timothy Vidas, Emmanuel Owusu, Shuai Wang, Cheng Zeng, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Nicolas Christin
2013IJCAIAudit Games.Jeremiah Blocki, Nicolas Christin, Anupam Datta, Ariel D. Procaccia, Arunesh Sinha
2013WWWTraveling the silk road: a measurement analysis of a large anonymous online marketplace.Nicolas Christin
2012FCMetrics for Measuring ISP Badness: The Case of Spam - (Short Paper).Benjamin Johnson, John Chuang, Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin
2012SPGuess Again (and Again and Again): Measuring Password Strength by Simulating Password-Cracking Algorithms.Patrick Gage Kelley, Saranga Komanduri, Michelle L. Mazurek, Richard Shay, Timothy Vidas, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Julio C. Lpez
2012SOUPSCorrect horse battery staple: exploring the usability of system-assigned passphrases.Richard Shay, Patrick Gage Kelley, Saranga Komanduri, Michelle L. Mazurek, Blase Ur, Timothy Vidas, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2011CCSFashion crimes: trending-term exploitation on the web.Tyler Moore, Nektarios Leontiadis, Nicolas Christin
2011CHISecurity through a different kind of obscurity: evaluating distortion in graphical authentication schemes.Eiji Hayashi, Jason I. Hong, Nicolas Christin
2011CHIOf passwords and people: measuring the effect of password-composition policies.Saranga Komanduri, Richard Shay, Patrick Gage Kelley, Michelle L. Mazurek, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Serge Egelman
2011FCIt's All about the Benjamins: An Empirical Study on Incentivizing Users to Ignore Security Advice.Nicolas Christin, Serge Egelman, Timothy Vidas, Jens Grossklags
2011FCMoving Forward, Building an Ethics Community (Panel Statements).Erin Kenneally, Angelos Stavrou, John McHugh, Nicolas Christin
2011ICISSUnderstanding and Protecting Privacy: Formal Semantics and Principled Audit Mechanisms.Anupam Datta, Jeremiah Blocki, Nicolas Christin, Henry DeYoung, Deepak Garg, Limin Jia, Dilsun Kirli Kaynar, Arunesh Sinha
2010CCSDissecting one click frauds.Nicolas Christin, Sally S. Yanagihara, Keisuke Kamataki
2010ESORICSAre Security Experts Useful? Bayesian Nash Equilibria for Network Security Games with Limited Information.Benjamin Johnson, Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, John Chuang
2010FCWhen Information Improves Information Security.Jens Grossklags, Benjamin Johnson, Nicolas Christin
2010ICISCA Comparative Usability Evaluation of Traditional Password Managers.Ambarish Karole, Nitesh Saxena, Nicolas Christin
2010NSPWThis is your data on drugs: lessons computer security can learn from the drug war.David Molnar, Serge Egelman, Nicolas Christin
2010SOUPSEncountering stronger password requirements: user attitudes and behaviors.Richard Shay, Saranga Komanduri, Patrick Gage Kelley, Pedro Giovanni Leon, Michelle L. Mazurek, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
2009MobisysmFerio: the design and evaluation of a peer-to-peer mobile payment system.Rajesh Krishna Balan, Narayan Ramasubbu, Komsit Prakobphol, Nicolas Christin, Jason I. Hong
2009SOUPSNew directions in multisensory authentication.Madoka Hasegawa, Nicolas Christin, Eiji Hayashi
2009SOUPSEducated guess on graphical authentication schemes: vulnerabilities and countermeasures.Eiji Hayashi, Jason I. Hong, Nicolas Christin
2008CHIUndercover: authentication usable in front of prying eyes.Hirokazu Sasamoto, Nicolas Christin, Eiji Hayashi
2008FCCountermeasures against Government-Scale Monetary Forgery.Alessandro Acquisti, Nicolas Christin, Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig
2008NSDIPredicted and Observed User Behavior in the Weakest-link Security Game.Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, John Chuang
2008WWWSecure or insure?: a game-theoretic analysis of information security games.Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, John Chuang
2008SOUPSUse Your Illusion: secure authentication usable anywhere.Eiji Hayashi, Rachna Dhamija, Nicolas Christin, Adrian Perrig
2007IWQoSOn the Feasibility of Switching ISPs in Residential Multihoming.Ahsan Habib, Nicolas Christin, John C.-I. Chuang
2007SIGCOMMPower to the people: securing the internet one edge at a time.Soon Hin Khor, Nicolas Christin, Tina Wong, Akihiro Nakao
2006INFOCOMTaking Advantage of Multihoming with Session Layer Striping.Ahsan Habib, Nicolas Christin, John Chuang
2005INFOCOMA cost-based analysis of overlay routing geometries.Nicolas Christin, John Chuang
2002INFOCOMA Quantitative Assured Forwarding Service.Nicolas Christin, Jrg Liebeherr, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
2001IWQoSJoBS: Joint Buffer Management and Scheduling for Differentiated Services.Jrg Liebeherr, Nicolas Christin