Computer and Network Security
Refereed Journal Publications
J18. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, Marco De Santo, "Detecting TLS Protocol Anomalies Through Network Monitoring and Compliance Tools", in Future Internet 2026, 18(1), 62;https://doi.org/10.3390/fi18010062.
J17. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, "SAM-PAY: A Location-Based Authentication Method for Mobile Environments", in Electronics 2025, 14, 621. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14030621.
J16. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru and A. Lioy, "An Evaluation of X.509 Certificate Revocation and Related Privacy Issues in the Web PKI Ecosystem," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 79156-79175, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3299357.
J15. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, Silvia Sisinni, Antonio Lioy, Benoit Rat, Davide Margaria and Andrea Vesco, "Mitigating Software Integrity Attacks With Trusted Computing in a Time Distribution Network," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 50510-50527, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3276476.
J14. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy and Cesare Cameroni, "On Enabling Additional Natural Person and Domain-Specific Attributes in the eIDAS Network," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 134096-134121, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3115853.
J13. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Cesare Cameroni, "Providing Login and Wi-Fi Access Services with the eIDAS Network: A Practical Approach", in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 126186-126200, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007998.
J12. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy , Cesare Cameroni, "Supporting authorize-then-authenticate for wi-fi access based on an electronic identity infrastructure", in Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications, 11(2), pp. 34-54, doi: 10.22667/JOWUA.2020.06.30.034
J11. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Cesare Cameroni, "Providing digital identity and academic attributes through European eID infrastructures: Results achieved, limitations, and future steps", in Software: Practice and Experience, Vol.49, Issue 11, November 2019, pp. 1643-1662, Online ISSN: 1097-024X, Print ISSN: 0038-0644, doi: 10.1002/spe.2738
J10. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Cesare Cameroni, "Electronic identification for universities: Building cross-border services based on the eIDAS infrastructure" in Information (Switzerland), Volume 10, Issue 6, June 2019, 210, doi:10.3390/info10060210
J9. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, "Exploiting the European Union trusted service status list for certificate validation in STORK: design, implementation, and lessons learnt", in Software: Practice and Experience, Vol.45, Issue 11, November 2015, pp. 1457-1477, Online ISSN: 1097-024X, Print ISSN: 0038-0644, doi: 10.1002/spe.2292
J8. Diana Berbecaru, Matteo Maria Casalino, Antonio Lioy, "FcgiOCSP: a scalable OCSP-based Certificate Validation System exploiting the FastCGI interface" in Software: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons, Vol.43, Issue 12, December 2013, pp. 1489-1518, Online ISSN: 1097-024X, Print ISSN: 0038-0644, doi: 10.1002/spe.2148
J7. Diana Berbecaru, Luca Albertalli, Antonio Lioy, "The ForwardDiffSig scheme for multicast authentication" in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.18, No.6, December 2010, pp.1855-1868, ISSN: 1063-6692, doi: 10.1109/TNET.2010.2052927
J6. Diana Berbecaru, Amarkumar Desai, Antonio Lioy, "A unified, flexible solution for integrating CRL and OCSP into PKI applications", in Software: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons, Volume 39, Issue 10, July 2009, pp. 891-921, Online ISSN: 1097-024X Print ISSN:0038-0644, doi: 10.1002/spe.918
J5. Verso applicazioni concrete della firma digitale (prima parte). Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Daniele Mazzocchi, Fabio Maino, Gianluca Ramunno, In: IGED - Informazioni sulla Gestione Elettronica dei Documenti, Anno X, Ottobre/Dicembre 2001, No. 4, pp. 32-37.
J4. Verso applicazioni concrete della firma digitale (seconda parte). Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Daniele Mazzocchi, Fabio Maino, Gianluca Ramunno. In: IGED - Informazioni sulla Gestione Elettronica dei Documenti, Anno XI, Gennaio/Marzo 2002, No. 1, pp. 26-34.
J3. Management of attribute certificates for access control. Diana Berbecaru, Marius Marian. In: Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Electrical Engineering, Anno 26, No. 26/2002, pp. 10-21, ISSN 1223-530X.
J2. A practical approach to expressing digitally signed documents. Diana Berbecaru, Marius Marian. In: Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Electrical Engineering, Anno 27, No. 27/2003, pp. 79-86, ISSN 1223-530X. [PDF]
J1. DNS-based implementation of a PKI repository. Marius Marian, Diana Berbecaru. In: Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Electrical Engineering, Anno 27, No. 27/2003, pp. 157-165, ISSN 1223-530X.
Book Chapters
B2. On creating digital evidence in IP networks with NetTrack. Diana Berbecaru. In: Handbook of research on network forensics and analysis techniques, IGI Global, 2018, ISBN13: 9781522541004,ISBN10: 1522541004,EISBN13: 9781522541011, doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4100-4
B1. Digital Certificates and Public Key Infrastructures. Diana Berbecaru, Corrado Derenale, Antonio Lioy. In: Information Security Policies and Actions in Modern Integrated Systems, a cura di M.G.Fugini e C.Bellettini, IDEA group, February 2004, pp. 64-97, ISBN 1-59140-291-3 (soft cover) / 1-59140-186-0 (hard cover), doi: 10.4018/978-1-59140-186-5.ch002
Conference proceedings
C46. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Magliari Anuar Elio, "An Automatic Large-scale Tool for X. 509v3 Certificate Collection and Analysis", In: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC) 2026, 24-28 May, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
C45. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, Silvia Sisinni, Francesco Virga, Antonio Lioy, "An Experimental Approach for Establishing TLS Trusted Channels with Device Identification in IoT Environments", In: Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Cyber Security (ITASEC 2026), 9-13 February 2026, Cagliary, Italy
C43. Diana Berbecaru, "TC-NetTrack: an Approach for Creating Digital Evidences for Flows in IP Networks," In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) IEEE ISCC 2025, 2 - 5 July, Bologna, Italy, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11326479
C42. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru and Antonio Lioy, "Threat-TLS: A Tool for Threat Identification in Weak, Malicious, or Suspicious TLS Connections," In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 125, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3664476.3670945
C41. Grazia D’Onghia, Diana Gratiela Berbecaru and Antonio Lioy, "Shaping a Quantum-Resistant Future: Strategies for Post-Quantum PKI," 2024 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, France, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISCC61673.2024.10733624.
C40. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru and Stefano Giannuzzi, "On Detecting Anomalous TLS Connections with Artificial Intelligence Models," 2024 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, France, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISCC61673.2024.10733669.
C39. Silvia Sisinni, Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, Valerio Donnini and Antonio Lioy, "MATCH-IN: Mutual Attestation for Trusted Collaboration in Heterogeneous IoT Networks," In: Proceedings of 2024 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, France, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISCC61673.2024.10733616.
C38. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, Silvia Sisinni and Matteo Simone, "On the evaluation of X.509 certificate processing in Transport Layer Security interceptors," 2024 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, France, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISCC61673.2024.10733685.
C37. Enrico Bravi, Antonio Lioy and Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, "Integrity Management in Softwarized Networks," In: Proceeedings of NOMS 2024-2024 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2024, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/NOMS59830.2024.10574994.
C36. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, Stefano Giannuzzi, "Fighting TLS Attacks: An Autoencoder-Based Model for Heartbleed Attack Detection," In: Köhler-Bußmeier, M., Renz, W., Sudeikat, J. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XVI. IDC 2023. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1138. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60023-4_9
C35. Enrico Bravi, Diana Gratiela Berbecaru and Antonio Lioy, "A Flexible Trust Manager for Remote Attestation in Heterogeneous Critical Infrastructures," In: Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), Naples, Italy, 2023, pp. 91-98, doi: 10.1109/CloudCom59040.2023.00027.
C34. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru and Lorenzo Pintaldi, "Exploiting Emercoin Blockchain and Trusted Computing for IoT Scenarios: A Practical Approach," In: Proceedings of 2023 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Gammarth, Tunisia, 2023, pp. 771-776, doi: 10.1109/ISCC58397.2023.10217961.
C33. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, Stefano Giannuzzi and D. Canavese, "Autoencoder-SAD: An Autoencoder-based Model for Security Attacks Detection," In: Proceedings of 2023 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Gammarth, Tunisia, 2023, pp. 758-763, doi: 10.1109/ISCC58397.2023.10217930.
C32. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru and Silvia Sisinni, "Counteracting software integrity attacks on IoT devices with remote attestation: a prototype," In: In: Proceedings of 2022 26th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, Romania, 2022, pp. 380-385, doi: 10.1109/ICSTCC55426.2022.9931765.
C31. Diana Berbecaru, "Verification of X.509 Attribute Certificates for Attribute-based Authorization: A Practical Approach," 2021 25th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Iasi, Romania, 2021, pp. 346-351, doi: 10.1109/ICSTCC52150.2021.9607273.
C30. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, "Attack Strategies and Countermeasures in Transport-Based Time Synchronization Solutions," In: Camacho, D., Rosaci, D., Sarné, G.M.L., Versaci, M. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XIV. IDC 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1026. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96627-0_19
C29. M. Pini et al., "Satellite-derived Time for Enhanced Telecom Networks Synchronization: the ROOT Project," 2021 IEEE 8th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace), Naples, Italy, 2021, pp. 288-293, doi: 10.1109/MetroAeroSpace51421.2021.9511780.
C28. Diana Berbecaru and Cesare Cameroni, "ATEMA: An attribute enablement module for attribute retrieval and transfer through the eIDAS Network," 2020 24th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, Romania, 2020, pp. 532-539, doi: 10.1109/ICSTCC50638.2020.9259642.
C27. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Cesare Cameroni, "Authorize-then-Authenticate: Supporting Authorization Decisions Prior to Authentication in an Electronic Identity Infrastructure," In: Intelligent Distributed Computing XIII, 13th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing, IDC 2019, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-9 October, 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence 868, Springer 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-32257-1, pp. 313-322, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32258-8_37. PlumX Metrics
C26. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, " On integration of academic attributes in the eIDAS infrastructure to support cross-border services," In: IEEE Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC 2018), 10-12 October 2018, Sinaia (Romania), pp. 691-696, IEEE, doi: 10.1109/ICSTCC.2018.8540674
C25. Towards Stronger Data Security in an eID Management Infrastructure. Diana Berbecaru, Andrea, Atzeni, Marco De Benedictis, Paolo Smiraglia. In: IEEE Proceedings of 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2017), 06-08 March 2017, St. Petersburg (Russia), pp. 391-395, IEEE Computer Society, doi: 10.1109/PDP.2017.90
C24. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, "On the Design, Implementation and Integration of an Attribute Provider in the Pan-European eID Infrastructure," In: IEEE Proceedings of the Twenty-First IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC 2016), 27-30 June 2016, Messina (Italy), pp. 1263-1269, IEEE Computer Society, doi: 10.1109/ISCC.2016.7543910
C23. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, "Efficient Attribute Management in a Federated Identity Management Infrastructure," In: IEEE Proceedings of 24th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2016), 17-19 February 2016, Heraklion (Greece), pp. 590-595, IEEE Computer Society, doi: 10.1109/PDP.2016.102
C22. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marco Mezzalama, Giorgio Santiano, Enrico Venuto, Marco Oreglia, "Federating e-identities across Europe, or how to build cross-border e-services," In: Proceedings of AICA 2011: Smart Tech and Smart Innovation conference, Torino (Italy), November 15-17, 2011, pp. 1-10, ISBN: 9788890540646. [PDF]
C21. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marco Domenico Aime, "Exploiting proxy-based federated identity management in wireless roaming access," In: Proceeding of TrustBus 2011: 8th Int. Conf. on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, Toulouse (France), August 29-September 2, 2011, pp. 13-23, vol. 6863 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, 2011, ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN: 978-3-642-22889-6, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-22890-2_2
C20. Diana Berbecaru, "LRAP: A Location-Based Remote Client Authentication Protocol for Mobile Environments," In: Proceeding of PDP 2011: The 19th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, Ayia Napa (Cyprus), February 9-11, 2011, pp. 141 - 145, IEEE Computer Society, ISSN Number: 1066-6192, ISBN Number: 978-0-7695-4328-4, doi: 10.1109/PDP.2011.32
C19. Diana Berbecaru, "Performance of two one-time signature schemes in space/time constrained environments," . In: Proceedings of IEEE ISWPC 2010: IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Modena (Italy), May 5-7, 2010, pp.238-243, ISBN: 978-1-4244-6857-7, doi: 10.1109/ISWPC.2010.5483755
C18. Diana Berbecaru, Luca Albertalli, "On the Performance and Use of a Space-Efficient Merkle Tree Traversal Algorithm in Real-Time Applications for Wireless and Sensor Networks," In: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference onWireless and Mobile Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008), Avignon (France), October 12-14, 2008, pp. 234-240, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3393-3, doi: 10.1109/WiMob.2008.14
C17. An Optimized Double Cache Technique for Efficient Use of Forward-secure Signature Schemes. Diana Berbecaru, Luca Albertalli. In: Proceedings of the 16th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2008), Toulouse (France),13-15 February 2008, pp. 581-589 IEEE Computer Society, doi: 10.1109/PDP.2008.64
C16. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, "On the Robustness of Applications Based on the SSL and TLS Security Protocols," In: Proceedings of the 4th European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice (EuroPKI 2007), Palma de Mallorca (Spagna), 28-30 June, 2007, vol. 4582 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pp. 248-264, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-73408-6_18
C15. Diana Berbecaru, "On the tradeoff between performance and security in OCSP-based certificate revocation systems for wireless environments," In: Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2006), Cagliari (Sardinia), Italia, 26-29 June, 2006, pp. 340-346, doi: 10.1109/ISCC.2006.114
C14. Diana Berbecaru, "On Measuring SSL-based Secure Data Transfer with Handheld Devices," In: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium onWireless Communication Systems (ISWCS2005), Siena (Italy), 5-7 September, 2005, pp. 409-413, doi: 10.1109/ISWCS.2005.1547731
C13. Diana Berbecaru, "FIrDA-SSL: Experiments with securing communication in PANs," In: Proceedings of the First IEEE/CREATE-NET Workshop on Security and QoS in Communication Networks (SeCQos 2005), workshop held in conjunction with SecureComm-2005: IEEE/Create-Net International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks, Athens (Greece), 5-9 September, 2005, pp. 295-305, doi: 10.1109/SECCMW.2005.1588324
C12. Diana Berbecaru, "MBS-OCSP: an OCSP based certificate revocation system for wireless environments," In: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2004), Rome (Italy), 18-21 December, 2004, pp. 267-272, doi: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2004.1433737
C11. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, "Preliminary steps in designing and implementing a Privilege Verifier for PMI," In: Proceedings of IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2004 (IADIS 2004), Madrid (Spagna), 6-9 October, 2004, pp. 317-324, ISBN 972-99353-0-0. [PDF]
C10. Marius Marian, Diana Berbecaru, "Support for public-key infrastructures in DNS," In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on systems theory, automation, robotics, computers, informatics, electronics and instrumentation (SINTES 11), XIth edition, Vol. II (Software engineering, Computer engineering and Electronics), 23-24 October, 2003, Craiova (Romania), pp. 451-456, ISBN 973-8043-415-5 / 973-8043-416-6. [PDF]
C9. Diana Berbecaru, Marius Marian, "Representation of E-documents in AIDA Project," In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on systems theory, automation, robotics, computers, informatics, electronics and instrumentation (SINTES 11), XIth edition, Vol. II (Software engineering, Computer engineering and Electronics), 23-24 October, 2003, Craiova (Romania), pp. 393-398, ISBN 973-8043-415-5 / 973-8043-416-6. [PDF]
C8. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, "Towards Simplifying PKI Implementation: Client-Server based Validation of Public Key Certificates," In: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2002), 18-21 December, 2002, Marrakech (Marocco), pp. 277-282, ISBN 0-9727186-0-5. [PDF]
C7. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Diana Marano, Marius Marian, "Secure Digital Administration in Medical Environment," . In: Proceedings of IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2002, Lisbon (Portugal), 13-15 Novembre, 2002, pp. 299-306, ISBN 972-9027-53-6. [PDF]
C6. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian, "Security aspects in standard certificate revocation mechanisms: a case study for OCSP," . In: Proceedings of 7th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2002), Taormina/Giardini Naxos (Italy), 1-4 July, 2002, pp. 484-489, doi: 10.1109/ISCC.2002.1021719
C5. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian, "A Framework for Secure Digital Administration," In: Proceedings of EuroWeb2001 - The Web in Public Administration, IW3C endorsed conference, 18-20 Dicembre, 2001, Pisa (Italy), pp. 119-133, ISBN 88-88327-33-9. [PDF]
C4. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian, "PKI-based System Management," In: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science (SACCS 2001), 26-27 October, 2001, Iasi (Romania). [PDF]
C3. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian, "On the Complexity of Public-Key Certificate Validation," In: Proceedings of the 4th International Information Security Conference (ISC 2001), 1-3 October, 2001, Malaga (Spagna), vol. 2200 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 183-203, doi: 10.1007/3-540-45439-X_13
C2. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Fabio Maino, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Cesare Stefanelli, "A Flexible Management Framework for Certificate Status Validation," In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Security (IFIPSEC 2000), IFIP 16th World Computer Congress, 21-25 Agosto, 2000, Beijing (China), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 481-490, doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-35515-3_49
C1. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Daniele Mazzocchi, Fabio Maino, Gianluca Ramunno, "Towards concrete application of electronic signature," In: Proceedings of AICA Congress 2000, 27-30 September, 2000, Taormina (Italy), pp. 543-561. [PDF]