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Thursday, March 8, 2012
GTISC Distinguished Lecture
Professor Adi Shamir
"What is the Simplest Possible Provably Secure Block Cipher"
3:00 pm
Klaus 1116 E&W
Reception immediately following
ABSTRACT: In 1991, Even and Mansour tried to answer this question by developing a new type of block cipher which uses a single publicly known random permutation as its core component. However, the exact security of their scheme remained unknown, since the best known lower bound proof uses known messages, whereas the best known upper bound attack requires chosen messages. In this talk I will present the Even-Mansour scheme, describe the new SLIDEX attack on it which finally solves this long standing open problem, and introduce the single key variant of the Even Mansour scheme which is arguably the simplest possible block cipher which has a tight bound on its security.
BIO: Adi Shamir was born, July 6, 1952. He is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adelman), a co-inventor of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.
PAST Events
2011 Georgia Tech Cyber Security Summit
"Evolving Nature of Cyber Security Threats"
Admiral William J. Fallon, United State Navy (Retired)
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
9:30am – 12:00pm
Georgia Tech College of Management
LeCraw Auditorium
800 West Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
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Keynote Speaker: Admiral William J. Fallon, U.S. Navy (ret.)
A retired four-star Admiral with a distinguished 40-year career of military and strategic leadership, Admiral Fallon led U.S. and Allied forces in eight separate commands and played a leadership role in military and diplomatic matters at the highest levels of U.S. government. Former head of both U.S. Central Command and U.S. Pacific Command, he has worldwide experience in international, political and commercial affairs.
Owner of his own consulting and advisory business, William J. Fallon & Associates, LLC, he is a partner in Tilwell Petroleum, LLC. Admiral Fallon recently completed a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for International Studies as a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow and chairs the Center's Advisory Board. He is a distinguished Fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses and is a member of the U.S. Secretary of Defense Science Board. Admiral Fallon holds an A.B. and an honorary Ph.D. from Villanova University as well as an M.A. in International Studies from Old Dominion University. He is a graduate of the Naval War College and the National War College.
Georgia Tech Information Security Center Distinguished Lecture
"The Evolution of Security of Cloud Computing"
John L. Manferdelli, Senion Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
Monday, October 10, 2011
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Klaus Advanced Computing Building
Room 1116
ABSTRACT: Amazon is reported to have said that "Cloud Computing is another name for the Internet." Many companies have policy initiatives encouraging or even mandating the use of "cloud" computing despite, or perhaps because of, the current confusing marketing miasma about clouds. While IT organizations hope for significant cost savings on existing applications from clouds, cloud computing has distinct features and technology that offer new capabilities like the ability to scale quickly without large capital expenditures and efficient sharing and curation of very large data sets.
Cloud computing in all its incarnations (Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, Platform as a Service) raises a number of security questions that current providers have not addressed (or remain ominously silent about): increased susceptibility to insider attacks due to concentration of valuable data, "fate-sharing" and other vulnerabilities due to multi-tenancy, policy issues arising from multi-jurisdictional siting, and security vulnerabilities and benefits arising from scale operations.
Despite these potential issues, cloud computing can be safe with judicial and transparent application of some simple security principles. We discuss cloud infrastructure, economics, operations and security infrastructure and the special benefits that clouds can provide.
BIO: John Manferdelli is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation and co-Principal Investigator (with David Wagner) of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Secure Computing at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to Intel John was a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and an affiliate faculty member in Computer Science at University of Washington.
John got a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in the Math Department. John also worked at TRW, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Bell Labs Research, Natural Language Incorporated (a company he started with his friend, Jerrold Ginsparg) and Microsoft.
At Berkeley and Microsoft, he and his group did research and development on operating systems, quantum computing, computer security and cryptography notably the Trusted Computing Initiative. John is a member of DARPA's Information Science and Technology group. His personal research of interest: Cryptography, Number Theory, Group Theory, Combinatorics, Operating Systems, Algebra, Quantum Computing, Computer Security and Computer Architecture.
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