Seminar on Computer Security and Cryptography

Overview

This weekly seminar on security and cryptography is organized by Cynthia Dwork and John Mitchell. Our goal is to cover a range of topics, from applications requiring security to engineering of secure systems to basic concepts and techniques in cryptography.

Time and Place

We will meet on Tuesdays at 4:15 in Gates 104. This room is just inside the Serra Street entrance to the Gates Building. (This is the building entrance that has Bill Gates' name over the door.)

Mailing List

Announcements will be posted to a mailing list called secure; to join that list, send email to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu with the line subscribe secure in the body of the message. There is an archive of this list.

Schedule

Oct 1	Peter Neumann (SRI)	Security Risks in the Infrastructure	handout
Oct 8	Mihir Bellare (UCSD)	Verifiable cryptographic time capsules with application to key escrow	Slides
Oct 15	Cynthia Dwork (IBM Almaden)	Non-Malleable Cryptography.
Oct 22	Martin Abadi (DEC SRC)	The Millicent Protocol for Inexpensive Electronic Commerce
Oct 29	Ian Goldberg (UC Berkeley)	Making Change for Anonymous Payers using DigiCash's Ecash
Nov 5	Paul C. Kocher	Timing attack against RSA
Nov 12	No Seminar
Nov 19	Andrew Yao (Princeton)	Some Recent Unconventional Attacks on Cryptosystems
Nov 26	Dan Simon, Microsoft	Cryptography in the Age of Export Control
Dec 3	Jon Kleinberg (IBM/Cornell)	The Security of Ping-Pong Protocols
Dec 10	Cynthia Dwork	A Pubic Key Cryptosystem with Worst-Case/Average-Case Equivalence

John C. Mitchell
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford CA 94305-9045 Phone: (415) 723-8634
Fax: (415) 725-7411