DATE: Thursday, December 9, 2010
TIME: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
PLACE: Gates 8102

SPEAKER: Xiaowei Yang, Duke University

TITLE: Bootstrapping Accountability in the Internet We Have

ABSTRACT:
The lack of accountability makes the Internet vulnerable to numerous attacks, including prefix hijacking, route forgery, source address spoofing, and DoS flooding attacks. This work takes a "dirty-slate" approach to bring accountability to the present Internet with low-cost and deployable enhancements. This talk will present IPA, a network architecture that uses the readily available top-level DNSSEC infrastructure and BGP to bootstrap accountability. We integrate IPA with a suite of security building blocks to combat various network-layer attacks. Our evaluation shows that IPA introduces modest overhead, is gradually deployable, and offers incentives for early adoption.

BIO:
Xiaowei Yang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Duke University. Before joining Duke, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine. She received a PhD in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BE in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University. She is a receipt of the NSF CAREER award.

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