The team co-authored a paper, titled "How Secure and Quick is QUIC? Provable Security and Performance Analyses,” which has earned the principal author the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP). The team originally presented the paper in May 2015 during the 36^th Annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

In the paper, the team studied the security vulnerabilities of QUIC, a secure transport protocol developed by Google and used in the company’s Chrome browser. QUIC combines ideas from existing Internet protocols to provide security functionality comparable to TLS and congestion control similar to TCP.

The team’s research sheds some light on QUIC’s security and performance limitations. Results suggest that QUIC’s security weaknesses are introduced by the same mechanisms used to reduce latency. This highlights the trade-off between minimizing information delay and providing ‘improved’ security guarantees.

The prize is awarded annually and recognizes recent contributions from long-term research groups to topics related to the evolution of the Internet, including Internet protocols, applications, architecture, and technology.