[Colloq] [professors] Title: Securing the Internet by Proving the Impossible| David Levin, University of Maryland | 2/8/16 366WVH 1:30pm-2:30pm

[Dave Choffnes]

Note that due to the blizzard and school closure, this talk has been
postponed.

Best,
Dave

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Walker, Lashauna <la.walker at neu.edu> wrote:

> Title: Securing the Internet by Proving the Impossible
> Speaker: David Levin
> Date/Time: 2/8/16  1:30-2:30pm
> Location: 366 WVH
>
>
>
> Title: Securing the Internet by Proving the Impossible
>
> Abstract:
>
> The state of Internet security today is largely reactive, continually
> raising the defensive bar in response to increasingly sophisticated
> attackers.  In this talk, I will present an alternate approach to building
> Internet systems that underlies much of my work: instead of reactively
> working around some attacks, what if we were to make them impossible in the
> first place?
> I will discuss two primitives my collaborators and I have created that
> provide small proofs of impossibility, and I will demonstrate how they can
> be applied to solve large-scale problems, including censorship resistance,
> digital currency, and online voting.  First, I will present Alibi Routing,
> a peer-to-peer system provides proof that a user's packets could not have
> gone through a region of the world the user requested them to forbid.
> Second, I will present TrInc, a small piece of trusted hardware that
> provides proof that an attacker could not have sent conflicting messages to
> others.  Finally, I will describe some of my ongoing and future efforts to
> make eliminate impersonation attacks on the Web's public key infrastructure.
>
> Bio:
>
> Dave Levin is a research scientist and co-chair of the Computer Science
> Undergraduate Honors program at the University of Maryland. He previously
> worked in the Social Computing Group at Hewlett Packard Labs after getting
> his PhD from UMD in 2010.  His work lies at the intersection of networking,
> security, and economics. Dave has received a best paper award at NSDI, and
> a best reviewer award from ACM SIGCOMM.
>
>
>
> Thank You.
>
> LaShauna Walker
> Events and Administrative Specialist
> College of Computer and Information Science Northeastern University
> 617-373-2763
>
>
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