None. I will retire from UC Davis during the Summer of 2024, so I stopped applying for
funding a few years before.
Past Funding
NSF CNS 1717542, Crypto-for-Privacy (SaTC: CORE: Small).
2017-2022. Thanks to program managers Nina Amla and Susanne Wetzel.
NSF CNS 1314885, Authenticated Ciphers (TWC: Option: Medium: Collaborative). 2013-17.
Thanks to program manager Ralph Wachter.
NSF CNS 1228828, Deconstructing encryption (TWC: Phase: Medium: Collaborative). With Mihir Bellare.
Thanks to program manager Nina Amla.
NSF CNS 0904380, Reimagining cryptography by identifying its culturally-rooted assumptions
(TC: Medium).
With Mihir Bellare and Ted Krovetz.
Thanks to program managers Richard Beigel, Lenore Zuck, and Nina Amla.
NSF CCR-0208842 (ITR small). With Mihir Bellare.
“Practice-oriented provable security for higher-layer protocols:
models, analyses, and solutions.”
Thanks to program director Carl Landwehr.
NSF 0085961 (ITR medium).
“Scalable and secure information republication.”
With Prem Devanbu (PI, lead), Michael Gertz, and Chip Martel.
NSF CAREER Award 9624560, “Practice-oriented provable security.”
Special thanks to program manager Dana Latch, who
refused to allow the NSA kill this award.
Some gifts:
➢ MICRO grant 97-150 (Certicom and RSA). Thanks to Don Johnson and Burt Kaliski.
➢ Intel Corporation (annual gifts). “A practice-oriented provable-security treatment for some
cryptographic problems of contemporary interest.”
Many thanks to Jesse Walker.
➢ Cisco Systems, under their
University Research Program (URP). Many thanks to David McGrew.
Non-Funding
I have never been funded by the DoD (the U.S. Department of Defense): no grants from
DARPA, Navy, MURI, NSA, etc..
I encourage all faculty and graduate students to do the same:
refuse to request or accept funding from the the DoD.
If these organizations embody values antithetical to your own,
then don’t try to rationalize why it is nonetheless okay to
take their money. You can’t be objective on that.
Similarly, do you really want money from companies like Chevron, Google, or Facebook
paying for, and thereby helping to shape, the work that you or the university does?
Individuals, departments, colleges, and research units can all say No.
Question
Why are faculty proud of how much money they bring in?
Be pleased instead if you can do lots of good work with very little money.