Past meeting presentations
The following list covers presentations given in Friday meetings of the Security Group
during March 1999 to September 2006. Subsequent meetings are listed on
talks.cam.
- 1999-03-12
- Ulrich Lang: The new CORBA security
specification (~20 min)
- Markus Kuhn: Certified email
delivery (~10 min).
- 1999-03-19
- Virgil Gligor: Concrete
Security Analysis of Symmetric Encryption Schemes (~20 min).
- 1999-03-26
- Frank Stajano: Romantic Cryptography (~10 min).
- 1999-04-23
- William Harris: Romantic Cryptography II (~10
min).
- 1999-07-23
- Robert
Watson: Power Analysis Lab Work: IEEE 488 and HP Oscilloscope
Remote Control (~10 min).
- 1999-08-20
- Jong-Hyeon Lee: The Jikzi Notary Service (~10 min).
- 1999-08-27
- Ulrich Lang: A Quick Introduction to LDAP (~10 min).
- 1999-09-03
- Andreas Westfeld:
Principles of Secure Steganography (~30 min).
- 1999-09-17
- Kai Rannenberg: Multilateral Security
Technology – Concepts and Examples (~30 min).
- 1999-09-24
- Andrew McDonald: StegFS: A
Steganographic File System for Linux (~20 min).
- 1999-10-15
- Jeff
Yan (严建新): Technical protection of software
secrets – an engineering approach in China (~20 min).
- 1999-10-22
- no meeting due to 2nd year PhD talks
- 1999-11-19
- Roberto Gorrieri: CVS – A Compiler for Verifying
Security Protocols. University of Bologna. (~30 min).
- 1999-11-26
- Ulrich Lang: Why CORBA Security Fails (~20 min).
- Jean-François
Blanchette: Standardization of Digital Signature Systems in Europe
(~20 min).
- 1999-12-03
- George Danezis: Experiences
with implementing a Chaum-style mix network (~10 min).
- 1999-12-10
- Stephen Early: MIMESIS: Operating system support for
confined execution environments (~30 min).
- 2000-03-10
- Jeff
Yan: Smart brute-force attacks on passwords (~20 min).
- 2000-04-07
- Markus Kuhn: Some Introductory
Notes on Quantum Computing (~60 min).
- 2000-05-26
- Markus Kuhn: Fair Sample
Selection (~10 min).
- 2000-06-02
- Marijke De Soete (Europay International): Security
in an International Electronic Payment System (EMV) (~60 min).
- 2000-06-30
- Adrian Perrig:
Efficient authentication and signing of multicast streams over lossy
channels (~60 min). [MSR seminar room]
- 2000-07-28
- Markus Kuhn: ENTACARD
Demystified (~0.5 ks).
- 2000-08-11
- Carter
Bancroft (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, US-NY): Hiding Messages in DNA Microdots
(~60 min). Literature: Nature 399:534-535 (1999)
- 2000-09-08
- Bharat
Bhargava (Purdue University, US-IN): Fault Tolerant Authentication in Mobile
Computing (~60 min).
- 2000-10-06
- John
Ioannidis (AT&T Research, Floorham Park, US-NJ): Distributed
Denials of Service (~30 min).
- 2000-11-24
- Mike
Bond: Meet-in-the-middle attack on IBM 4758 Cryptoprocessor Keys
(~20 min).
- 2000-12-01
- Richard Clayton, George Danezis, Markus Kuhn:
Love Means Never Having to Say Security (~20 min). We also invited John Surcombe, the developer of the romance.ucam.org dating website,
on which this little penetration study was performed.
- Markus
Kuhn: Solution of
the November 2000 GCHQ Challenge (~5 min).
- Also John Ioannidis visits us
today.
- 2000-12-08
- Richard Clayton, George Danezis, Markus Kuhn:
Cookies of Love – JavaScript-based deanonymisation techniques (~10
min).
- 2000-12-13
- Richard Clayton, Markus Kuhn: Eminem is not dead -
A quick note on URL syntax (~5 min).
- George Danezis: Observations on keystroke timing entropy (~5 min).
- No meeting on 22 and 29 Dec 2000.
- 2001-02-02
- Matt Blaze and John Ioannidis
visit.
- 2001-02-16
- Richard
Clayton, George
Danezis: A note on all-or-nothing transforms (~15 min).
- 2001-04-20
- Richard
Clayton: Real
World Patterns of Failure in Anonymity Systems (~25 min). Practice
talk for IH'2001 presentation.
- 2001-05-03
- Richard
Clayton, George
Danezis: Highlights from the 2001 Information Hiding Workshop in
Pittsburgh (~25 min).
- 2001-07-13
- Maarten
Botterman (RAND Europe) and Andrew Rathmell (King's
College London) visit and are interested in information technology
policy research.
- 2001-07-20
- Chris Walsh (one of the developers of the Starlight
system mentioned in Ross' book): Development of an ITSEC E6 MLS
Capability (~40 min).
- 2001-08-21
- First meeting in the new William Gates Building
- 2001-08-31
- Moritz Strasser (Univ. Freiburg):
The Tele-Witness – An option for binding telecooperation. (~30
min, host: Kai Rannenberg).
- 2001-09-07
- George
Danezis: Traffic Analysis Results (~10 min).
- 2001-09-21
- Simon Tatham
(author of PuTTY)
visits and has a few questions about implementation security of a good
random number source for DSA under Windows. Literature: NIST
DSA, NIST RNG Tests, Yarrow, Gutmann, RFC 1750.
- 2001-09-28
- Sergei
Skorobogatov: Semi-invasive attacks on SRAM (~20 min).
- 2001-10-19
- Mike
Bond: Practical covert-channel attack on a Windows
content-protection product (~10 min).
- Silas Brown:
Bypassing firewalls via SYN-cookies. (~10 min).
- 2001-10-26
- Richard Sharp and David Scott: Abstracting
Application Level Web Security (~10 min).
- 2001-11-30
- Andrei
Serjantov: Anonymizing censorship resistant systems (~20 min). Richard Clayton: How 11
September affected Internet operation (~10 min).
- No meetings on 21 and 28 Dec 2001 and 4 Jan 2002.
- 2002-02-08
- Markus Kuhn: The EURion
constellation – identifying a copying-machine disabling
geometric pattern on banknotes (~10 min).
- 2002-03-22
- Christian
Hauknes: Attitudes towards privacy in conjunction with
location-based services (~20 min).
- 2002-03-29
- Kanta
Matsuura: How Financial Tools Help Information Security (~30 min,
hosted by Ross).
- 2002-04-05
- Markus Kuhn: A practical construction for arbitrary
domain encryption (~10 min).
- 2002-04-12
- Poorvi Vora (HP
labs, Corvallis, Oregon): Variable Privacy through Randomized
Responses of Specified Probability. (~20 min, hosted by Ross)
- Andrei Serjantov, George Danezis: Towards an
information theoretic metric for anonymity (~20 min, practice talk for
PET2002).
- 2002-04-26
- Bill
Caelli: Current Research at the Information Security Research
Centre at the Queensland University of Technology : The WYSIWYS
(What-You-See-is-What-You-Sign) Problem and Electronic Notaries (15
min, invited by Ross).
- 2002-06-16
- George Danezis: Third-generation
remailer architectures – resistance to tagging attacks (~20
min).
- 2002-06-21
- Andrei
Serjantov: Anonymity and onion routing (~30 min).
- 2002-07-12
- Sergei
Skorobogatov: New optical probing results (~10 min)
- Richard Clayton: On
IBM 4758 DES-key generation timing attacks (10 min).
- 2002-10-04
- Andrei
Serjantov: From a trickle to a flood: Active attacks on several
mix types (~25 min). George
Danezis, Richard
Clayton: Chaffinch : Secrecy in the face of legal threats (~25
min). Both are practice talks for InfoHiding 2002.
- 2002-10-11
- Reports from InfoHiding 2002
Frank J. Furrer: Our PKI experience.
- 2002-10-18
- Security Seminar: Rebecca
Mercuri
- 2002-11-07
- John DeTreville (Microsoft Research, Redmond,
Palladium team) visits.
- 2002-11-22
- Tony Hutchings from the UK's National
High-Tech Crime Unit (nhtcu) visits.
- 2002-11-29
- Steven Murdoch: Security Enhanced Linux
overview (20 min).
- 2003-01-17
- 14:00-16:00: Open House for prospective PhD
applicants
16:00-17:00: Security
Seminar talk by Russel Coker on SELinux in LT2, therefore no
meeting.
- 2003-01-31
- 15:30-17:00: Laboratory for Communications
Engineering open house (WGB, SN/SE corridor). Therefore group
meeting moved to 16:30.
- 2003-02-07
- Jeff
Yan: Collusion prevention and detection – a case study using
online Bridge (~20 min). Meeting this time in room GS15 (our
normal room FW11 was already booked).
- 2003-02-14
- Bruce
Christianson: CryptoBridge – On the use of cryptographic
protocols in tournament Bridge (~10 min).
- 2003-02-28
- Meeting this time in room FC22 (our normal
room FW11 has builders working in that day to improve the acoustics).
- 2003-03-14
- Richard Clayton: Improving onion notation (~15
min, practice talk for PET'03)
- 2003-03-21
- George Danezis: Mix networks with restricted
routes (~20 min, practice talk for PET'03)
- 2003-03-28
- no meeting today
- 2003-04-18
- no meeting today
- 2003-05-16
- no meeting today (because of FIPR meeting)
- 2003-05-23
- Stephen Lewis: How much is
stronger DRM worth? (20 min)
Zheng Li: Some thoughts on an
authorization framework in a grid environment (10 min)
- 2003-06-06
- Meeting this time in room GS15 (our normal
room FW11 was already booked).
- 2003-06-13
- Matt
Miller: Watermarking with explicit channel simulations (30 min).
Peter Eckersley: Virtual Markets for
Virtual Goods: an alternative approach to digital copyright (20 min).
- 2003-06-20
- Kai
Rannenberg may be around.
- 2003-10-10
- Welcome of new research students
- 2003-10-17
- Stephen Lewis talks about his project with kelkoo.
- 2003-10-24
- Andrei Serjantov: Passive attack analysis for
connection-based anonymity systems (ESORICS talk)
- 2003-11-14
- Matthias Jacob
(Princeton University): Attacking
an obfuscated cipher by injecting faults (30 min)
- 2003-12-05
- Mike Bond: Formal analysis of Security APIs
- 2003-12-12
- Moritz Becker: Cassandra:
a role-based policy language, applied to electronic health records
(30 min)
- 2003-12-19
- no meeting today
- 2003-12-26
- no meeting today
- 2004-02-27
- Glen Slade from StegoStik will talk about a stego
file system product his company has developed
- 2004-03-12
- Andrej Serjantov: Secure multiparty computation: Yao's millionaire's
protocol
- 2004-03-19
- Discussion topic: Anti-forgery extensions for SMTP:
RMX,
SPF, Microsoft,
DMP.
- 2004-03-26
- Andrej Serjantov:
Universal reencryption.
Mike Bond: Report from my visit to MIT.
Stephen Lewis: The witty worm.
- 2004-04-09
- no meeting today (bank holiday)
- 2004-04-23
- Richard Clayton, Steve Bishop: TCP Reset attacks (20 min).
- 2004-05-07
- Meeting starts today at 15:20 with practice
talks for WEIS, to leave time for those who want to attent Rabin's
talk.
- 2004-05-28
- Meeting this time in room FW26 (our normal room
FW11 was already booked). Several people are in Toronto (IHW/PET)
anyway.
- 2004-06-04
- Meeting this time in room GS15 (our normal room
FW11 was already booked). Several people are in Cologne (MS) anyway.
- 2004-07-09
- Helen Nissenbaum visits (may talk about
her work on privacy)
- 2004-07-16
- Ford Long Wong: A tutorial on password based
public-key crypto (IEEE 1363.2)
- 2004-08-13
- Tony
Finch, Computing Service: Protecting
against email forgery in Cambridge (60 min)
- 2004-08-20
- Yue Li: Two-way authentication PAM module for
Linux (Diploma project, 10 min).
- 2004-08-27
- Martin Vuagnoux: CBC
pad timing attack on SSL/TLS1.0 (30 min).
- 2004-09-24
- Meeting this time in room FW26 (our normal room
FW11 is used for lectureship interviews).
- 2004-10-15
- No meeting today, due to a Security
Seminar.
- 2004-11-26
- George Danezis: Conference trip reports (CCS
and WPES).
- 2004-12-24
- no meeting today
- 2004-12-31
- no meeting today
- 2005-01-07
- no meeting today
- 2005-01-14
- Steven Murdoch, Stephen Lewis, George Danezis:
Report from CCC 2004.
- 2005-01-21
- Markus Kuhn: Intel's
new VMX extension (Vanderpool Technology).
- 2005-02-18
- Tyler Moore: Foundations of social capital (30 min).
- 2005-02-25
- Leendert
van Doorn visits.
Suggested discussion paper: Arjen Lenstra: Further progress in
hashing cryptanalysis
- 2005-05-20
- Piotr Zieliński: Latency-optimal fault-tolerant
replication (45 min).
- 2005-06-03
- Joon Woong Kim visits (hosted by Frank Stajano).
Meeting this time in room FW09 (our normal room
FW11 is used for exam preparations).
- 2005-06-10
- Meeting this time in room FW26 (our normal room
FW11 is used for a School of Technology Council meeting).
- 2005-07-15
- Ben Medlock (NLP group) will talk on his work
on anonymising free-form text.
- 2005-08-05
- Marcus Granado: Attacking Windows Kerberos
password security (20 min).
- 2005-08-19
- Gerhard Hancke: An RFID distance bounding protocol.
(25 min, practice talk for SecureComm 2005)
- 2005-10-07
- Various conference reports (SECURECOMM, etc.)
- 2005-10-14
- Marcus Granado: report from FOSAD?
- 2005-10-21
- Security Seminar: Steve Belovin (LT2)
- 2005-10-28
- Pedro Adão: How concrete is the Dolev-Yao model? (25 min)
- 2005-12-23
- no meeting today
- 2005-12-30
- no meeting today
- 2006-01-06
- no meeting today
- 2006-02-10
- Richard Clayton: Some notes on the Great
Firewall of China (20 min)
- 2006-02-17
- Feng Hao: Remarks on Kish's "Totally
secure classical communication system utilising Johnson(-like) noise
and Kirchoff's law" (20 min)
Meeting this time in room FW26 (our normal room FW11 is used for a
"Group Project syndicate" meeting).
- 2006-03-03
- Meeting this time in room FW26 (our normal room
FW11 is used for a "Group Project syndicate" meeting).
- 2006-03-10
- Tyler Moore: Collusion attacks on sensor
networks (PERSEC practice talk) (20 min)
- 2006-03-24
- Hao Feng: Anonymous veto protocol (20 min,
practice talk for SPW)
- 2006-03-31
- Jeff Yan: Enhancing signature-based collaborative
spam detection
- 2006-04-21
- JoonWoong Kim: Remark on HB protocol: RFID
protocol using LPN. (15 min)
- 2006-06-16
- Meeting this time in room FW26 (our normal room
FW11 is used for a School of Technology Council meeting).
- 2006-09-08
- Security
Seminar in LT2
- 2006-09-15
- Piotr Zieliński: Low-latency Atomic Broadcast in the presence of contention. (20 min, DISC'06 practice talk)
- 2006-09-22
- Joseph Bonneau: Cache
collision timing attacks against AES (20 min)
Subsequent talks
Since October 2006, Security Group meeting talks have been
announced on the talks.cam website.