[Nets-seminars] TODAY: talk by Professor Adrian Perrig, ETH Zurich, 4 PM

[Brad Karp]

Hello, everyone.

Just a reminder that Professor Adrian Perrig of ETH Zurich (and before
that, of Carnegie Mellon), a leading computer security researcher, will
be giving a talk at 4 PM today in MPEB 1.03 on a new Internet
architecture that incorporates strong security mechanisms.

All are strongly encouraged to attend!

Original talk announcement follows.

-Brad, bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk

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Subject: talk by Professor Adrian Perrig, ETH Zurich, Fri 15 Nov, 4 PM
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:52:22 +0000
From: Brad Karp <bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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Greetings, everyone.

I'm pleased to announce that Professor Adrian Perrig, a leading figure
in security research, who has spent much of his academic career on the
faculty of Carnegie Mellon, and recently moved to ETH Zurich, will be
giving a talk at UCL CS this Friday, the 15th of November at 4 PM.

Adrian is well known for his contributions to network security and
systems security, including security extensions to the Internet's
architecture, secure hypervisors, and cryptographic protocols for
sensor networks, among many others.

In this talk, he'll be speaking on his recent and ongoing work on
SCION, a new secure architecture for the Internet. All are strongly
encouraged to attend!

Full talk announcement follows.

-Brad, bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk

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SCION: Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-Generation Networks

Speaker: Professor Adrian Perrig, ETH Zurich

Time: Friday, 15th November, 4 PM

Location: MPEB 1.03

Abstract

We present the first Internet architecture designed to provide route
control, failure isolation, and explicit trust information for
end-to-end communications. SCION separates ASes into groups of
independent routing sub-planes, called trust domains, which then
interconnect to form complete routes. Trust domains provide natural
isolation of routing failures and human misconfiguration, give
endpoints strong control for both inbound and outbound traffic,
provide meaningful and enforceable trust, and enable scalable routing
updates with high path freshness. As a result, our architecture
provides strong resilience and security properties as an intrinsic
consequence of good design principles, avoiding piecemeal add-on
protocols as security patches. Meanwhile, SCION only assumes that a
few top-tier ISPs in the trust domain are trusted for providing
reliable end-to-end communications, thus achieving a small Trusted
Computing Base. Both our security analysis and evaluation results show
that SCION naturally prevents numerous attacks and provides a high
level of resilience, scalability, control, and isolation.

Speaker Bio

Adrian Perrig is a Professor of Computer Science at the Department of
Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in
Zürich, where he leads the network security group. From 2002 to 2012,
he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering
and Public Policy, and Computer Science (courtesy) at Carnegie Mellon
University. He served as the technical director for Carnegie Mellon's
Cybersecurity Laboratory (CyLab). He earned his Ph.D. degree in
Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University under the guidance of
J. D. Tygar, and spent three years during his Ph.D. degree at the
University of California at Berkeley. He received his B.Sc. degree in
Computer Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
Lausanne (EPFL). Adrian's research revolves around building secure
systems--in particular security of future Internet architectures.