Michael
Specter
General Information
Email:
specter@gatech.edu
Phone:
404-894-5592
Location - Building:
Coda
Location - Room:
1007
Roles:
Professor (any rank)
Primary Unit:
College of Computing
Website URL
Details
Degrees with subject and Postdoc Experience:
Degree Type
PHD
Subject
CS
Year
2021
Institution
MIT
Location
Boston
Statement of Research Interests:
My research focuses on systems security and applied cryptography, particularly in areas relevant to public policy. Topics that interest me include surveillance, cryptographic accountability, content moderation, censorship, and elections security.
Statement of Teaching Interests:
I teach both intro to operating systems, and intro to information security. I also teach a graduate course that combines cryptography, systems security, and public policy.
Selection of recent research, scholarly, and creative activities:
Fingerprinting SDKs for Mobile Apps and Where to Find Them: Understanding the Market for Device Fingerprinting
In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS ‘25) , 2025
Cryptography in the Wild: An Empirical Analysis of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries
In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security , 2024
Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System
In 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 21) , Feb 2021
KeyForge: Mitigating Email Breaches with Forward-Forgeable Signatures
In 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 21) , Feb 2021