The First ACM
Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (STC'06)
Invited
Talk I: Scalable Trust: Engineering Challenge or Complexity Barrier?
by Kenneth P.
Birman, Cornell University
Abstract.
We're rapidly entering a
new world in which management of large-scale, dynamically evolving,
trust relationships and security policies will be of critical
importance. Potential applications range from electronic medical
health record management to protection of private banking data.
Yet we lack a scalable trust-management and enforcement technology.
This talk asks to what extent these challenges can be solved, with the
goal of identifying open problems on which basic research will be
needed.
BIO. Ken Birman is Professor of
Computer Science at Cornell University. He is
best known for developing the Isis Toolkit and founding a company, Isis
Distributed Systems, which introduced the virtual synchrony execution
model for multicast communication and then used it as the basis for a
wide range of robust software solutions for stock exchanges, air
traffic control, and factory automation. Although the company no longer
exists, Isis continues to operate the New York and Swiss Stock
Exchanges, the French air traffic control system, and the US Navy AEGIS
warship. The technology permits these and other systems to
automatically adapt themselves when failures or other disruptions
occur, to securely share keys and security policy data, and to
replicate critical services so that availability can be maintained even
while some system components are down. Birman is also the author of
several books, most recently "Reliable Distributed Computing:
Technologies, Web Services, and Applications", which was published by
Springer-Verlag in May of 2005. He was Editor in Chief of ACM
Transactions on Computer Systems from 1993-1998 and is a Fellow of the
ACM. Starting in 1990, Birman’s primary research emphasis has been on
scalability of distributed systems, security technologies, and system
management tools. A complete list of publications can be found at
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/ken
Invited
Talk II: The Role of Trusted Computing in Internet Scale DRM
by Geoffrey Strongin (AMD)
Abstract. The XRI
Data Interchange (XDI) protocols and schemas provide a foundation for
internet scale exchange of data between parties based on mutually
agreed upon policies. Local enforcement of the policy and the
preservation of the persistent binding between the data and policy
imply a local policy enforcement system. This talk explores the
relationship between trusted computing, remote attestation and local
policy enforcement capabilities in an Internet scale
environment.
BIO. Geoffrey Strongin
is an AMD Fellow, and serves as AMD’s chief platform security
architect. In this role he contributes to the definition of
security features incorporated into AMD’s processors and supporting
platforms. A long-time supporter of Trusted Computing, Mr.
Strongin was a founding board member of the Trusted Computing
Group. Mr. Strongin also serves as co-chair of the OASIS XDI
Technical Committee, and is Member of the Board of Trustees of XDI.ORG,
a non-profit public-trust organization responsible for overseeing and
administering XDI-based global services. Mr. Strongin’s outside
interests include the intersection of technology, public policy and
law. An award winning designer with over 30 patents, Mr. Strongin
holds a BSEE degree from Arizona State University.
