Held weekly on Fridays, usually in Soda 373. Starts at 1:00 or 1:30 depending on the week (see schedule below).
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Previous semesters' lists of talks:
| Date and Time | Presenter | Topic | Food |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 14, 1:30 | Adrian Mettler | Meta-meeting, Language Identification of Encrypted VoIP Traffic: Alejandra y Roberto or Alice and Bob?, C.V. Wright et al., Usenix Security 2007. | Adrian Mettler |
| Sept. 21, 1:30 *in Soda 380* | Marco Barreno | Spamscatter: Characterizing Internet Scam Hosting Infrastructure, D. Anderson et al., Usenix Security 2007. | John Bethencourt |
| Sept. 28, 1:30 | John Bethencourt | Attribute-Based Encryption with Non-Monotonic Access Structures, R. Ostrofsky et al., CCS 2007. | Marco Barreno |
| Oct. 5, *2:00 in Soda 380* | David Molnar | CANDID: Preventing SQL Injection Attacks Using Dynamic Candidate Evaluations, S. Bandhakavi et al., CCS 2007. | Tom Kho |
| Oct. 12, 1:30 | Tom Kho | Towards Automated Provisioning of Secure Virtualized Networks, S. Cabuk et al., CCS 2007. | Karl Chen |
| Oct. 19, 1:00 | Karl Chen | Halting Password Puzzles, X. Boyen, Usenix Security 2007. | Tom Kho |
| Oct. 26, 1:30 | Hsiao-Ying Lin | Identity-Based Proxy Re-encryption Without Random Oracles, C. Chu and W. Tzeng, Infosec 2007. | Karl Chen |
| Nov. 2, 1:00 | David Zhu | Web-Based Inference Detection, J. Staddon, P. Golle, and B. Zimny, Usenix Security 2007. | Adrian Mettler |
| Nov. 9, 1:30 | Arel Cordero | Three Voting Protocols: ThreeBallot, VAV, and Twin, R. Rivest and D. Smith, EVT 2007. | Arel Cordero |
| Nov. 16, 1:00 | John Bethencourt | Multi-Party Indirect Indexing and Applications, M. Franklin, M. Gondree, and P. Mohassel, Asiacrypt 2007. | John Bethencourt |
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| Nov. 30, 1:00 | Karl Chen | Self-signed Executables: Restricting Replacement of Program Binaries by Malware, G. Wurster and P. van Oorschot. | Tsin-Yi, Hsaio-Ying, Hsu-chun |
| Dec. 7, 1:30 | David Molnar | Mobile phone security: Android, attacks/threats presentation, Singularity papers: Sealing OS Processes to Improve Dependability and Safety, G. Hunt et al., EuroSys 2007; Deconstructing Process Isolation, M. Aiken et al., MSPC 2006. | Karl Chen |
| Dec. 14, 1:00 | Adrian Mettler | Web content sanitization: Caja Draft Sepcification, Mark Miller et al., 2007. Caja Project website. | Arel Cordero |