INVITED SPEAKERS

- Doug Tygar (UC Berkeley, USA) - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/

TITLE: Security in Sensor Webs

Abstract:

Sensor webs present fundamental new challenges for both security and privacy. I'll review recent developments in privacy of sensor webs, and discuss the implications for new applications, and other directions ranging from RFID enabled environments to large scale distributed systems.

Profile:

Doug Tygar is Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and also a Professor of Information Management at UC Berkeley. He works in the areas of computer security, privacy, and electronic commerce. His current research includes privacy, security issues in sensor webs, digital rights management, and usable computer security. His awards include a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, a teaching award from Carnegie Mellon, and invited keynote addresses at PODC, PODS, VLDB, and many other conferences. 

Doug Tygar has written three books; his book Secure Broadcast Communication in Wired and Wireless Networks (with Adrian Perrig) is a standard reference and has been translated to Japanese. He designed cryptographic postage standards for the US Postal Service and has helped build a number of security and electronic commerce systems including: Strongbox, Dyad, Netbill, and Micro-Tesla. He served as chair of the Defense Department's ISAT Study Group on Security with Privacy, and was a founding board member of ACM's Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce. He helped create and remains an active member of TRUST (Team for Research in Ubiquitous Security Technologies). TRUST is a new National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center with headquarters at UC Berkeley and involving faculty from Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Stanford, and Vanderbilt.

Before coming to UC Berkeley, Dr. Tygar was tenured faculty at Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science Department, where he continues to hold an Adjunct Professor position. He received his doctorate from Harvard and his undergraduate degree from Berkeley.

- David Naccache (Ecole Normale Superieure's Complexity & Cryptography Group and University of Paris II, France)

TITLE: National Security, Forensics and Mobile Communications

Abstract:

There are nearly 1.5 billion handset users in the world. As the recent attacks in London illustrate, this proliferation of inexpensive mobile phones provides criminals and terrorists with flexible communication means.

In this talk we will describe the forensic methodology used for analysing SIM cards and handsets within the French legal context. We will describe specific technical problems applicable to the analysis of cards (e.g., the impossibility to interact with a SIM without altering its internal state), underline seizure details, demonstrate the tools allowing to extract the contents of a handset and a SIM knowing their associated PIN codes.

We will overview some of the "heavy" analysis methods (physical reverse-engineering) used with various degrees of success when PIN codes are unknown and describe the protocol allowing to negotiate with the judiciary authorities an evidence destruction risk before undertaking the actual analysis of the SIMs and handsets.

Profile:

David Naccache is a member of the Ecole Normale Superieure's Complexity & Cryptography Group and a Professor at the University of Paris II, before joining academia, David managed Gemplus' Applied Research & Security Centre (80 researchers). He holds 59 patent families and served in more than 40 programme committees, all in cryptography and security. He served as a security expert for European Telecommunications Standards Institute, is a Probationary Forensic Scientist by the Court of Appeal Paris. He is an editorial board member of IEEE Security and Privacy, IEEE IT Pro and ACM TISSEC.