DATE: Thursday, November 16, 2000
TIME: Noon - 1 pm
PLACE: Hammerschlag Hall D210

SPEAKER:
Patrick McDaniel
Ph.D. Student
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan

TITLE:
Antigone: Implementing Policy in Secure Multiparty Communication

ABSTRACT:
Significant strides have been made in achieving strong semantics and security guarantees within group communication and multicast systems. However, the scope of security guarantees available in existing frameworks is often limited. In contrast, applications increasingly require diverse security services in the face of changing environmental constraints.

This talk presents Antigone, a framework that provides a suite of mechanisms from which flexible application security policies can be implemented. A group security infrastructure is developed from the run-time composition and configuration of security mechanisms. Thus, using Antigone, developers may choose a policy that best addresses an application's immediate security and performance requirements. The design of the Antigone architecture is described, and several non-trivial policies illustrated. A number of design issues surrounding the construction of policy based security infrastructures are identified.

BIO:
Patrick McDaniel is a fifth year Doctoral Student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Software Systems Research Lab and a former NASA, Kennedy Space Center Fellow.

Patrick has focused much of his research efforts on applied security. Previous works have included projects on secure conferencing, scalable public key infrastructures, and secure group communication. Patrick is an active member of the IRTF working group developing standards for secure multicast.

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