Eric BREWER, Ian GOLDBERG, & David WAGNER 
Computer Science Division
University of California at Berkeley
623 Soda Hall
Berkeley, CA94720-1776
USA
Email : brewer@cs.berkeley.edu

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Session Chair :      Manuel BLUM, UC Berkeley, USA

Abstract  

We will cover a number of practical issues in computer security from a systems perspective. Starting with a discussion of issues of trust in computer and network security, we will proceed by reviewing the security community's accumulated experience in network security, and conclude with a tutorial on practical ways to improve the security of your computers and networks.

We will give detailed examples of what has and hasn't worked through the years, including how passwords have failed as an authentication technology, how cryptography can and can't help, what we've learned since the Internet worm, and why "security through obscurity" has such a horrible track record. We will summarize with a number of simple system design principles that can help to avoid the most common security weaknesses.

Biographies

The speakers are the founding members of the ISAAC research group at the University of California, Berkeley. The ISAAC Research group was founded in September 1995 after Ian and David made headlines by finding a security flaw in the PRNG of Netscape's SSL implementation. The ISAAC Group has since gone on to make more headlines in other areas, including cell phone security and cracking exportable cryptography. The group's broad research interests include security, anonymity, privacy, portable devices, and digital cash.

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