Security Reading Group, Spring 2007

Held weekly on Fridays, 1:30 PM in Soda 373.

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The list of talks for Fall 2006 is available.

Schedule

Date Presenter Topic Food
Feb. 2 Adrian Mettler Meta-meeting, The Underground Economy: Priceless, Team Cymru; StolenIDSearch and possible imitators. Marco Barreno
Feb. 9 Adrian Mettler RICH: Automatically Protecting Against Integer-Based Vulnerabilities, David Brumley et al. NDSS 2007. Adrian Mettler
Feb. 16 Alvaro Cárdenas Paragraph: Thwarting Signature Learning by Training Maliciously, James Newsome et al. RAID 2006. Pallavi Joshi
Feb. 23 Cancelled/Postponed
March 2 Cancelled/Postponed
March 9 Marco Barreno A Natural Language Approach to Automated Cryptanalysis of Two-time Pads, Joshua Mason et al. CCS 2006. Jonathan Traupman
March 16 Bonnie Zhu Shunt: An FPGA Based Accelerator for Network Intrusion Prevention, N. Weaver, V. Paxson, J. Gonzalez, FPGA 2007. Marco Barreno
March 23 Jonathan Traupman Cache Timing Attacks on AES, Daniel Bernstein, 2004-05. Alvaro Cárdenas
March 30
Spring Break, no meeting
April 6 Karl Chen Integer vulnerabilities Arel Cordero
April 13 Pallavi Joshi Securing Software by Enforcing Data-flow Integrity. Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa, and Tim Harris, OSDI 2006. Marco Barreno
April 20 Arel Cordero Cryptographic Methods for Storing Ballots on a Voting Machine. John Bethencourt, Dan Boneh, Brent Waters. NDSS 2007. Bonnie Zhu
April 27 Ping Yee The Bitfrost Security Platform, Ivan Krstić (One Laptop Per Child project, 2007) Adrian Mettler
May 4 TBD TBD TBD
May 11 TBD TBD TBD