DIMACS Tutorial on Computer Security

DIMACS Tutorial on Applied Cryptography and Network Security

August 4 - 7, 2003
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizer:: Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology, rwright@cs.stevens-tech.edu

Primary Lecturer:: Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University

Additional Lecturers:: Markus Jakobsson, RSA Laboratories; Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University; Hugo Krawczyk, Technion and IBM Research; Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology

Graduate Student Assistant:: Nelly Fazio, NYU

Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Communication Security and Information Privacy.

Workshop Program:

Monday, August 4, 2003

 8:30 -  8:50  Breakfast and Registration

 8:50 -  9:00  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Alexander Barg, Associate Director of DIMACS

 9:00 -  9:05  Tutorial Overview
               Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology

 9:05 - 10:30  Introduction, Principles of Security and Modern
               Cryptography, Symmetric Encryption
               Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:30  Symmetric Encryption (continued) 
               Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University

12:30 -  1:45  Lunch

 1:45 -  2:00  Problem Session
               Nelly Fazio, NYU

 2:00 -  2:45  Rijndael
               Arta Doci, University of Colorado

 2:45 -  3:30  Hashing
               Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University

 3:30 -  4:00  Break

 4:00 -  5:30  Message Authentication Codes (MAC)
               Hugo Krawczyk, Technion 

 6:00          Buffet Dinner

Tuesday, August 5, 2003

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 10:30  Public Key Cryptography
               Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:30  Public Key Cryptography (continued)
               Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00  Problem Session
               Nelly Fazio, NYU

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  5:30  Public Key Infrastructures (PKI), Access Control, Trust Management
               Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University
 
Wednesday, August 6, 2003

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 10:30  Resilience to Key Exposure: Revocation, Forward Security, 
               Secret Sharing, Threshold and Proactive Security
               Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:30  Resilience to Key Exposure (continued) 
               Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00  Problem Session
               Nelly Fazio, NYU

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  5:30  Distributed Denial of Service Attacks, Software Security 
               Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University

Thursday, August 7, 2003

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 10:30  Internet Crypto Tools
               Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:30  Internet Crypto Tools (continued)
               Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00  Problem Session
               Nelly Fazio, NYU

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  5:30  Electronic Commerce: Payment Protocols and Fair Exchange
               Markus Jakobsson, RSA Laboratories