Practical Security Solutions Using Smartcards
Peter Honeyman
Topic: Security
Audience: All audiences
Description:
The University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration is taking a pragmatic and experimental approach to integrating smartcards with conventional distributed computing technologies.
The focus is on melding the inherent security of smartcard storage and cryptography with the security middleware prevalent in many higher education institutions.
In this talk I will describe some of the exciting smartcard solutions being investigated and deployed at CITI, including integration with Kerberos and other symmetric key systems, PalmPilot and JavaCard applications, Internet access to smartcards, and extending conventional file systems to work transparently with ISO7816 files.
The last of these allows, e.g., secure, portable, and transparent storage of web cookies on smartcards, emblematic of the kinds of security solutions smartcards enabled when fully integrated with enterprise middleware.
Prerequisites:
Some familiarity with security and cryptography.
History:
I gave a preliminary version of this in a rump session at a smartcard conference in September, 1998. (CARDIS98 in Belgium.)
I'll be giving it again in November, 1998 at the Smartcard Industry Assocaition and at IBM, Zurich.
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The Speaker: Peter Honeyman
Contact Organization: CITI, University of Michigan
Location: Michigan
Phone: 734-763-4413
Email: honey@citi.umich.edu
Website: http://www.citi.umich.edu/
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: All offers
Bio:
Peter Honeyman is Director of the Center for Information Technology Integration, Research Scientist in the Information Technology Division, and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Honeyman holds the B.G.S. (with distinction) from the University of Michigan and the M.S.E., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, where his research concerned database theory. He has been a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.
Honeyman has been instrumental in several software projects, including Honey DanBer UUCP, PathAlias, MacNFS, and Disconnected AFS. His research focus is on security in distributed systems and distributed file systems for mobile computing.
Honeyman is past Secretary of the USENIX Association and a member of AAAS and EFF.
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