Invited Talks

 
Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2013

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Seventeenth International Conference
April 1–5, 2013
Bankoku Shinryokan
Busena Terrace Beach Resort
Okinawa, Japan

 

FC Keynote

(Monday, April 1, 9:00-10:00)
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.