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Building and Using Trusted Computing Platforms at the Server
Professor Sean Smith
Department of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
Date : Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Time : 11:00 - 12:00 p.m.
Location : Science & Tech II, Room 320
Abstract:
A key part of making our society's information infrastructure work is
enabling the parties involved---human users as well as programs---to
make effective trust judgments about each other. One avenue of
research is enabling relying parties to trust computation at a remote
server against subversion by the server operator. In this talk, I
will present my experiences creating the IBM 4758 secure coprocessing
platform and the server-side applications we built for it, as well my
lab's newer platform based on the TCPA/TCG 1.1b TPM (since it's
already somewhat ubiquitous) and the applications we've built using
that.
This talk will also briefly survey some of our other research in the
technological issues underlying effective trust judgments.
Bio: Sean Smith is currently on the faculty of the Department of
Computer Science at Dartmouth College. His current research focuses
on how to build trustworthy systems in the real world. He previously
worked as a scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, doing secure
coprocessor design, implementation and validation; and at Los Alamos
National Laboratory, doing security designs and analyses for a wide
range of public-sector clients. Dr. Smith was educated at Princeton
(B.A., Math) and CMU (M.S., Ph.D., Computer Science).
Seminar Point of Contact: Prof. Sushil Jajodia
The Information Assurance Scholarship
Program is open to U.S. Citizens pursuing undergraduate, masters,
and doctoral degrees from the Centers of Academic Excellence in
Information Assurance Education
Copyright © 1994-2004 Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University.
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