A quick reminder that Saurabh Panjwani will be speaking this morning at 11am in 203!
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Eleanor O'Rourke < eorourke at cs.washington.edu> wrote: > On Monday, March 7 at 11am we will be hosting a roundtable discussion with > Saurabh > Panjwani <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/saurap/>, a post doc > researcher with the Technology for Emerging > Markets<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/tem/> group > at Microsoft Research India. Saurabh will be speaking about his work in > designing for end-to-end security in branchless banking. > > *Mobile-based branchless banking has become one of the key mechanisms for > extending financial services to low-income populations in the world?s > developing regions. One shortcoming of today?s branchless banking systems is > that they rely largely on network-layer services for securing transactions > and do not implement any application-layer security. Recent results show > that several of these systems are, in fact, not end-to-end secure.* > ** > > *We make the case for designing mobile-based branchless banking systems > which build security into the application layer and guarantee end-to-end > security to system users. We present a threat model which captures the goals > of authenticated transactions in these systems and then provide > recommendations for solution design based on our model?s requirements and > the practical constraints under which these systems operate.* > > Join us at a special time on Monday to learn more about mobile branchless > banking! > > *What:* Saurabh Panjwani on Designing for End-to-End Security in > Branchless Banking > *When:* Monday, March 7th from 11am to 12pm > *Where:* Paul Allen Center, Room 203 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20110307/08a2c39f/attachment.html>
