Bay Area Roundtable (BART)
Scaling for the Internet Series, meeting 9: Trust, but Verify
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*Friday, October 9, 1998*
9:00am-9:30am: Coffee/Network
9:30am-12:00pm: BART Meeting
Hyatt Rickeys Hotel - Palo Alto
4219 El Camino Real
There is a $15.00 charge for non-sponsors.
Checks should be made payable to UC Regents.
This charge is waived for students and the unemployed.
Weaving a Web of Trust
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Rohit Khare, UC Irvine, rohit@uci.edu, www.ics.uci.edu/~rohit
As once-proprietary mission-specific information systems migrate onto
the Web, traditional security analysis cannot sufficiently protect each
subsystem atomically. The Web encourages open, decentralized systems
that span multiple administrative domains. Trust Management is an emerging
framework for decentralizing security decisions that helps developers and
others in asking "why" trust is granted rather than immediately focusing
on "how" cryptography can enforce it. This talk introduces the fundamental
principles, principals, and policies of Trust Management, as well as Web-
specific pragmatic issues. [This work was originally presented in the
World Wide Web Journal, First Monday, and the National Research Council
Computer Science and Telecommunication Board's Information Systems
Trustworthiness committee. See http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/papers/
trust.html]
Biography: Rohit Khare joined the Ph.D. program in computer science at
the University of California, Irvine in Fall 1997, after serving as a
member of the MCI Internet Architecture staff. He was previously on the
technical staff of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT, where he focused
on security and electronic commerce issues. He has been involved in the
development of cryptographic software tools and Web-related standards
development. Rohit received a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science
and in Economics from the California Institute of Technology in 1995.
Validating the Net: an Internet-scale Certificate Validation Service
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Ambarish Malpani, Founder and Lead Architect, ValiCert,
ambarish@valicert.com, www.valicert.com
ValiCert's universal approach addresses potentially debilitating
performance and compatibility problems related to certificate validation.
A key component of the ValiCert solution is its high performance
Certificate Revocation Tree (CRT) technology, which allows validation
of digital certificates without downloading the entire global revocation
list. This approach scales easily to accommodate hundreds of billions of
certificates without creating an undue burden on the client requesting
validation information. The result: vastly improved performance compared
to earlier mechanisms, such as Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs).
Biography: Ambarish Malpani is ValiCert's first employee and joined the
company with over ten years of industry experience as a systems designer
and architect. Most recently, Ambarish was a consultant specializing in
cryptography and Internet applications. Ambarish holds an M.S. degree
from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a B.S. degree from
the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Coordinator: Richard N. Taylor, Director, UC Irvine/IRUS,
taylor@ics.uci.edu, www.ics.uci.edu/~taylor
Meeting 10: Friday, November 13, 1998
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Topic: Scaling for the Internet Series, meeting 10:
Search Engines/Databases/Data Mining (tentative)
Speakers: TBA
Coordinator: Patricia Cornwell, Hewlett Packard, patricia_cornwell@hp.com
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The Irvine Research Unit in Software wishes to thank its
corporate sponsors:
Sustaining:
The Boeing Company * Boeing North American, Inc.
Microsoft Corporation * Northrop Grumman Corporation
Raytheon Company * Sun Microsystems Laboratories * TRW
Supporting:
Beckman Coulter * FileNet Corporation * Printronix, Inc.
Continuus Software Corporation * Hewlett Packard
For further information on IRUS,
contact Debra Brodbeck at (949) 824-2260; brodbeck@ics.uci.edu
Directions
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Hyatt Rickeys
4219 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306
(650) 493-8000
Take the San Antonio Road south exit. Follow San Antonio Road two
miles to El Camino Real turn right onto El Camino Real. Hyatt Rickey's
is one half mile on the right just before the second stop light.
Take the Page Mill Road/Arastradero exit. Follow Page Mill east to
El Camino Real and turn right on El Camino Real. Hyatt Rickey's will
be on the left, at the corner of East Charleston and El Camino Real
(approximately one and one half miles from exit).
OR
Take the Page Mill Road/Arastradero exit. Follow Arastradero east to
El Camino Real. Hyatt Rickeys is at the coner of
Arastradero/East Charleston and El Camino Real. From Arastradero, you
will need to go right onto El Camino Real and make an immediate left
into the hotel parking lot.