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DIMACS Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Security
November 3 - 4, 2004
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Organizers:
Bill Arbaugh, University of Maryland, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Communication
Security and Information Privacy.
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The rapid growth of both voice and data wireless communications has
resulted in several serious security problems in both the voice and
data spaces. Unfortunately, many of the early security mistakes made
with wireless voice communications were repeated with data
communications, i.e. the use of flawed authentication and
confidentiality algorithms. For example, the standards committee for
802.11 left many of the difficult security issues such as key
management and a robust authentication mechanism as open problems.
This has led many organizations to use either a permanent fixed
cryptographic variable or no encryption with their wireless networks.
Since wireless networks provide an adversary a network access point
that is beyond the physical security controls of the organization,
security can be a problem. Similarly, attacks against WEP, the
link-layer security protocol for 802.11 networks can exploit design
failures to successfully attack such networks. This workshop will
focus on addressing the many outstanding issues that remain in
wireless cellular and WLAN networking such as (but not limited to):
Management and monitoring; ad-hoc trust establishment; secure roaming
between overlay networks; availability and denial of service
mitigation; and network and link layer security protocols. We will
seek to extend work on ad hoc networking from a non-adversarial
setting, assuming a trusted environment, to a more realistic setting
in which an adversary may attempt to disrupt communication. We will
investigate a variety of approaches to securing ad hoc networks, in
particular ways to take advantage of their inherent redundancy
(multiple routes between nodes), replication, and new cryptographic
schemes such as threshold cryptography.
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Call for Participation:
Advances in wireless technology as well as several other areas are
changing the way the world does business and as a result computing is
becoming more mobile, and users are demanding continuous access to the
Internet. At the same time, the number of devices with embedded
networking technology is growing exponentially--from boxes with RFID
tags to Wi-Fi capable refrigerators since they destroy the notion of a
static defensive perimeter. Furthermore, these trends make the ease of
use and management of wireless based networks more important since
naive consumers in the future will be establishing and using wireless
networks on a scale significantly larger than today. This workshop
will focus on identifying the current and future problems in wireless
security and privacy and discuss possible solutions.
The three day workshop will be organized around a series of talks on
subjects related to mobility, wireless, and security and privacy
technologies. There will be a mix between invited talks and talks
selected from extended abstracts with plenty of discussion time
between talks.
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Workshop Program:
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast and Registration
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome and Overview of Program
Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director
10:15 - 11:00 Wireless Authentication Overivew
William Arbaugh
11:00 - 11:45 TBD
DJ Johnston, Intel (tentatively confirmed)
11:45 - 12:30 Role of Authorization in Wireless Network Security
Pasi Eronen, Nokia
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Network Access Control Schemes Vulnerable to Covert Channels
Florent Bersani
2:45 - 3:30 TBD
Jesse Walker, Intel
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00 Secure and Efficient Network Access
Jari Arkko, Ericsson
5:00 Social Event
Thursday, November 4, 2004
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:45 Extending the GSM/3G Key Infrastructure
Scott Guthery
9:45 - 10:30 Wireless Security and Roaming Overview
Nidal Aboudagga, UCL
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 TBD
James Kempf, DoCoMo USA Labs
11:45 - 12:30 TBD
Nancy Cam-Winget, Cisco
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Securing Wireless Localization
Zang Li, Rutgers
2:45 - 3:30 Discussion Period- how to move forward, hard problems?
William Arbaugh
3:30 Closing
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Registration:
Pre-registration deadline: October 27, 2004
Please see website for registration information.
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Information on participation, registration, accomodations, and travel
can be found at:
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/MobileWireless/
**PLEASE BE SURE TO PRE-REGISTER EARLY**
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