Protecting Internet communications from pervasive monitoring
- 17:00 27th February 2014 ( week 6, Hilary Term 2014 )Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building
The traditional threat model assumed in the design of communications protocols developed within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) accounts for an attacker having nearly complete control over the communications channel that connects end systems, but has generally conceptualized attackers as focusing on defined attack targets. The recent surveillance revelations reveal that targeted attacks co-exist with pervasive, untargeted ones. In this seminar we will discuss the implications of this for Internet protocol and architectural design and the associated mitigations being discussed and developed within the IETF.
Speaker bio
Alissa Cooper is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems, where she is responsible for driving privacy and policy strategy within the company's portfolio of collaboration products. She currently serves on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Previously, Alissa served as the Chief Computer Scientist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, where she was a leading public interest advocate and technologist on issues related to privacy and net neutrality. Alissa holds a DPhil from the Oxford Internet Institute and MS and BS degrees in computer science from Stanford University.Stephen Farrell is a research fellow in the school of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches and researches on security and delay/disruption-tolerant networking (DTN). Stephen has been involved in Internet standards for more than a decade and half; and previously co-chaired the IETF DKIM and SACRED working groups, and the W3C XKMS working group. Stephen continues to co-chair the IRTF Delay Tolerant Networking Research Group, and is one of the IETF's two security Area Directors. Stephen is also a founder of Tolerant Networks Limited, a TCD campus company offering DTN consulting and support. He has a PhD in computer science from Trinity College Dublin, and a BSc in mathematics and computer science from University College Dublin.
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