[HGI-News-de] HGI-Kolloquium am 30.06.2014: "From Public Key Infrastructures to Secure Multiparty Computation"

[Newsletter des Horst Görtz Instituts]

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

im Rahmen des HGI-Kolloquiums, organisiert von der Arbeitsgruppe
Sichere Hardware und dem Horst-Görtz-Institut der Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, wird Yvo Desmedt von der University of Texas am nächsten
Montag, den 30. Juni 2014 um 12 Uhr s.t. in Raum ID 03/455 über
folgendes Thema referieren:

"From Public Key Infrastructures to Secure Multiparty Computation":
Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) are a cornerstone in the protection of
the internet, in particular electronic commerce. Already in 1996 the
speaker pointed out the weakness of the currently implemented X500/X509.
The hacking of DigiNotar confirmed the speaker's earlier predictions
that Certifying Authorities would be hacked.

In this lecture, we explain how a solution proposed to make PKIs more
secure against hackers lead to progress on Secure Multiparty
Computation. Secure Multiparty Computation allows parties to compute a
function in such a way that nothing leaks more to the parties than what
follows logically from the output.

This lecture is accessible to a large audience not familiar with
information security.

Bio: Yvo Desmedt is the Jonsson Distinguished Professor at the
University of Texas at Dallas, chair at the University College London
and a Fellow of the International Association of Cryptologic Research
(IACR). He received his Ph.D. (1984, Summa cum Laude) from the
University of Leuven, Belgium. He received the IBM Belgium Prize for
best PhD in Computer Science that year. He held positions at: Universite
de Montreal, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
(founding director of the Center for Cryptography, Computer and Network
Security), and Florida State University (Director of the Laboratory of
Security and Assurance in Information Technology, an NSA Center of
Excellence since 2000). He has held visiting appointments at AIST
(Japan), Macquarie University (Australia), Technion (Israel), Tokyo
Institute of Technology (Japan), University of Karlsruhe (Germany),
among others. He is an (associate) editor of The Journal of Computer
Security and Editor-in-Chief of IET Information Security and Chair of
the Steering Committees of CANS and ICITS. He was Program Chair of e.g.,
Crypto 1994, the ACM Workshop on Scientific Aspects of Cyber Terrorism
2002, and ISC 2013. He has authored over 200 refereed papers, primarily
on cryptography, computer security, and network security. He has made
important predictions, such as his 1983 technical description how cyber
could be used to attack control systems (realized by Stuxnet), his 1986
prediction computer viruses will one day attack the chip design (luckily
not yet fulfilled), and his 2001 prediction hackers will target
Certifying Authorities (DigiNotar was targeted in 2011).

Zu diesem und sämtlichen weiteren Vorträgen des HGI-Kolloquiums
sind alle Studenten und Interessierten herzlich eingeladen!
Eine Voranmeldung ist nicht erforderlich!

Weitere Informationen gibt es auf folgender Webseite:
http://hgi.rub.de/hgi/hgi-seminar/

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
  Pascal Sasdrich
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B.Sc. Pascal Sasdrich

Hardware Security Group
Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security
Ruhr-University Bochum
ID 2/651, Universitaetsstrasse 150
44801 Bochum, Germany

Phone: +49 234-32-29949
Fax:   +49 234-32-14389
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