Computer and Network Security
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Short Bio
Diana Gratiela Berbecaru works in the Department of Control and Computer Engineering - DAUIN at Politecnico di Torino. She is a member of the Computer and Network Security Group (TORSEC).
Diana holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and an M.Sc. in Systems and Computer Science from the University of Craiova, Romania. She is an alumnus of ``Colegiul National Carol I Craiova''.
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Her research interests lie in computer and network security. In particular, she studied the Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs), and the X.509 certificate validation process. She evaluated network security protocols, such as TLS (Transport Layer Security), studying their robustness and performance in different application contexts. She studied optimizations of some protocols, such as the OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) for certificate validation in wireless and sensor networks (Internet of Things). She evaluated some advanced formats of signatures, e.g. forward secure signature schemes and one-time signatures. She studied the Merkle Hash Trees and applied them in various applications. She proposed a location-based authentication method exploiting GNSS receivers and certified location data. In recent years, her research focused also on electronic identity, user authentication and authorization, network forensics, and the Pan-European eIDAS Network implementing the European eIDAS Regulation 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services.
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Since 2005, she has been acting as an Adjunct Professor at Politecnico di Torino (Italy) for information systems and computer security courses. She has been a reviewer in several top-quality international journals, such as IEEE Access, Sensors (MDPI), and Elsevier’s Journal of Network and Computer Applications. Diana Berbecaru published more than 40 scientific papers on computer security, some in top journals, such as IEEE Access, Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley), and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. She also is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management and IEEE Access journals.