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Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:12:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Christof Paar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: DCSB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: WPI Cryptoseminar, Monday Dec. 6 (fwd)
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Reply-To: Christof Paar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Please note that Dr. Stanley will be offering a new graduate course
EE579S, COMPUTER SECURITY, in the Spring 2000 semester. The class will
meet Tuesdays 6:00-8:50pm on the WPI campus. Please contact Dr. Stanley or
myself if you have further questions about the class.
- Christof Paar
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WPI Cryptography Seminar
Using Cryptography to Combat Wireless Fraud - A Case Study
Dr. Richard Stanley
GTE Labs
Monday, December 6
4:30 pm, AK 218
(refreshments at 4:15 pm)
This talk will describe how the original technical specifications of
the AMPS cellular system were exploited to defraud cellular carriers
and avoid law enforcement. We will see how these technical
shortcomings were mitigated using encryption technology, and how the
first attempts to do that failed. The reasons for success and
failure will be discussed. A review of the current state of wireless
fraud will be given. A question and answer session will follow.
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DIRECTIONS:
The WPI Cryptoseminar is being held in the Atwater Kent building on the
WPI campus. The Atwater Kent building is at the intersection of the
extension of West Street (labeled "Private Way") and Salisbury Street.
Directions to the campus can be found at
http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html
ATTENDANCE:
The seminar is open to everyone and free of charge. Simply send me a brief
email if you plan to attend.
TALKS IN THE FALL '99 SEMESTER:
10/4 Berk Sunar, SITI
Comparison of Elliptic Curve Implementations
10/18 Jim Goodman, MIT
Energy Scalable Reconfigurable Cryptographic
Hardware for Portable Applications
10/28 Brendon Chetwynd, WPI/Raytheon
Towards an Universal Block Cipher Module
11/15 Adam Elbirt, WPI
A High-Speed FPGA Implementation of Serpent
12/6 Richard Stanley, GTE Labs
Using Cryptography to Combat Wireless Fraud -- A Case Study
See
http://www.ece.WPI.EDU/Research/crypt/seminar/index.html
for talk abstracts.
MAILING LIST:
If you want to be added to the mailing list and receive talk
announcements together with abstracts, please send me a short mail.
Likewise, if you want to be removed from the list, just send me a
short mail.
Regards,
Christof Paar
! WORKSHOP ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (CHES 2000)!
! WPI, August 17 & 18, 2000 !
! http://www.ece.wpi.edu/Research/crypt/ches !
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Christof Paar, Assistant Professor
Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Group
ECE Dept., WPI, 100 Institute Rd., Worcester, MA 01609, USA
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