Invited Talks
Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2013
Seventeenth International Conference
April 1–5, 2013
Bankoku Shinryokan
Busena Terrace Beach Resort
Okinawa, Japan
FC Keynote
William H. Saito
Looking at nature to help us solve risk management issues
Abstract:
Risk management is not new. It is something we are born with. The most basic risk management systems are part of our DNA. We adapt, develop and occasionally improve on aspects of our natural heritage to build resilience. Nature evolves --it changes, it learns, it gets better. This is key to long-term success and one we must embrace.
Invited Talk
N. Asokan
The Untapped Potential of Trusted Execution Environments on Mobile Devices
Abstract:
Nearly every smartphone (and even some featurephones) today contains a
hardware-based trusted execution environment (TEE). Smartphones with
TEEs first appeared almost a decade ago. But their use has been
limited -- app developers have not had the means to make use of TEEs
to improve the security (and usability) of their apps. In this talk,
I will discuss why TEEs are so widely deployed in mobile devices, and
what kind of capabilities they support. I will then describe Nokia
Research Center's On-board Credentials (ObC) system which opens up the
device TEE to app developers. I will discuss some example
applications that make use of ObC and conclude by briefly outlining
recent developments in standardizing TEE functionality.
Speaker Biography:
N. Asokan is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of
Helsinki.
Between 1995 and 2012, he worked in industrial research laboratories
designing and building secure systems, first at the IBM Zurich
Research Laboratory and then at Nokia Research Center. His primary
research interest has been in applying cryptographic techniques to
design secure protocols for distributed systems. Recently, he has also
been investigating the use of Trusted Computing technologies for
securing endnodes, and ways to make secure systems usable, especially
in the context of mobile devices.
Asokan received his doctorate in Computer Science from the University
of Waterloo, MS in Computer and Information Science from Syracuse
University, and BTech (Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering from
the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur.
For more information about Asokan's work see his website
or e-mail him at asokan~at~acm~dot~org
This conference is organized annually by the International Financial Cryptography Association.