DATE: Thursday, September 20, 2001
TIME: Noon - 1 pm
PLACE: Wean Hall 8220
SPEAKER:
Chenxi Wang
Research Faculty, ECE, Carnegie Mellon
TITLE:
Security Issues for Publish/Subscribe
Systems
ABSTRACT:
Publish/subscribe has emerged as a promising paradigm for distributed
computing and wide-area content dissemination. A pub/sub system is more
flexible and can be more efficient than traditional multicasting, and
is well-suited for dynamic membership behaviors. Current research in pub/sub
tends to focus on performance and routing algorithms. In this talk I will
lay out the security issues present in a general publish/subscribe system.
I distinguish between those that can be solved with existing technologies
that those that demand new and innovative solutions. I will characterize
two open problems--opaque routing and payment in pub/sub--in depth, and
explore potential research directions.
BIO:
Chenxi is currently a research faculty at the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department at CMU. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from
the University of Virginia. Her research interests include security
solutions for large-scale, distributed systems, and security issues with
respect to software engineering. Chenxi held a research associate position
at Citibank from 1996 to 1997. She is the recipient of ACM DC Chapter's
1999 Samuel Alexander award for Doctoral Candidates and the 1999 outstanding
student research award from the University of Virginia. Chenxi served
on the program committee for ACM's New Security Paradigm's workshop from
1997 to 1999. She is the work-in-progress chair for ACM's ACSAC 2001.
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