CS 8001 INF: Information Security Seminar
Spring 2007
Instructor
Dr. Jon Giffin
Email: giffin@cc
Phone: 4/385-1060
Office: Klaus 3140
Office hours: Mon & Wed 2:00–3:00
Meetings
- Regular seminar sessions:
Tuesdays 12:00–1:00
Klaus 1456 - Over the course of the semester, we will have several irregular seminars scheduled at other times. The schedule below shows the date, time, and room for all presentations.
- Anyone interested in computer and information security is welcome to attend the seminars even if they do not register for the course.
Mailing list
We will send weekly announcements with details of the next presentation to the security-seminar mailing list. Whether or not you register for CS 8001-INF, please add yourself to the mailing list if you are interested in our spring series. [Subscribe]
Schedule
| Date | Time & room | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 9 | 12:00 Klaus 1456 | Organizational meeting |
| Jan 16 | 12:00 Klaus 1456 | John Griffin, BAE Systems Ask Me No Secrets and I'll Tell You No Lies [Abstract] |
| Jan 23 | 12:00 Klaus 1456 | David Cash, Georgia Tech Intrusion-Resilient Key Exchange in the Bounded Retrieval Model [Abstract] |
| Sunday Jan 28 |
Renaissance Hotel Conference Center |
Cyber Trust Workshop One volunteer shift: evening. [Agenda] |
| Monday Jan 29 |
Renaissance Hotel Conference Center |
Cyber Trust Workshop Three volunteer shifts: morning, afternoon, evening. [Agenda] |
| Jan 30 | Renaissance Hotel Conference Center |
Cyber Trust Workshop One volunteer shift: morning. [Agenda] |
| Jan 30 | 3:00 CCB 102 | Fabian Monrose, Johns Hopkins University |
| Wednesday Jan 31 |
12:00 Klaus 1116 | Trent Jaeger, Pennylvania State University From Trusted to Secure: Building and Executing Applications that Enforce System Security Goals [Abstract] |
| Feb 6 | 12:00 Klaus 1456 | Prahlad Fogla, Georgia Tech Evading Network Anomaly Detection Systems [Abstract] |
| Feb 13 | 12:00 – 1:30 Klaus 3103, 3110, 3112, 3129, 3139 |
GTISC Open House |
| Feb 20 | 12:00 Klaus 1456 | |
| Wednesday Feb 28 |
12:00 Klaus 1116 W | J. R. Rao & Pankaj Rohatgi, IBM Security Research at IBM: Overview and Directions [Abstract] |
| Friday Mar 2 |
2:50 Klaus 1447 | New Face of Computing Symposium Providing Usable Security |
| Monday Mar 5 |
12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Christopher Kruegel, Technische Universität Vienna Malicious Code Analysis [Abstract] |
| Mar 13 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 W | Arup Acharya, IBM T.J. Watson SIP Classification Engine & Large-Scale Presence [Abstract] |
| Mar 20 | No seminar—Spring break | |
| Mar 27 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Anna Lysyanskaya, Brown University Compact Ecash and Applications [Abstract] |
| Apr 3 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Sasha Boldyreva, Georgia Tech On the Security of RSA-OAEP [Abstract] |
| Apr 10 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | GTISC Distinguished Lecture Rich DeMillo, Georgia Tech Security in Context: Challenges for Trustworthy E-Democracy [Abstract] |
| Apr 17 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Virendra Kumar, Georgia Tech (30 minutes) Provable-Security Analysis of Authenticated Encryption in Kerberos [Abstract] Yu-Xi Lim, Georgia Tech (30 minutes) Secure Wireless Location Services [Abstract] |
| Apr 24 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | GTISC/CERCS Distinguished Lecture Barton P. Miller, University of Wisconsin A Framework for Binary Code Analysis and Static and Dynamic Patching [Abstract] |
| May 1 | 1:00 MIRC 102 | Brent Waters, SRI Attribute-Based Encryption: A Cryptosystem for Expressive Access Control on Encrypted Data [Abstract] |
To schedule a talk in an open time slot, send an email to Jon Giffin at giffin@cc.
Grading
Grading in this course is based on attendance. Students pass the course by attending 11 or more of the seminar sessions beginning January 9. Students failing to attend at least 11 seminars will receive an unsatisfactory grade for the course.

