TLS Security - Where Do We Stand?

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• Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway
• Tuesday 15 October 2013, 16:15-17:15
• Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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Abstract: TLS is the de facto secure protocol of choice on the Internet. In this talk, I’ll give an overview of the state-of-the-art of TLS security, focusing mostly on the TLS Record Protocol which is responsible for providing the basic secure channel functionality in TLS . I’ll focus on recently-discovered vulnerabilities in the TLS specification and its cryptographic algorithms. These lead to plaintext recovery attacks against TLS -protected traffic. I will reflect on why the deployment of secure cryptography is seemingly so hard, and what the barriers are to adopting better approaches than the current techniques used in TLS .

Bio: Professor Kenny Paterson obtained his BSc (Hons) in 1990 from the University of Glasgow and a PhD from the University of London in 1993, both in Mathematics. He was a Royal Society Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, from 1993 to 1994 and a Lloyd’s of London Tercentenary Foundation Fellow at the University of London from 1994 to 1996. He joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 1996, becoming project manager in 1999. His technical work there involved him in international standards setting, internal consultancy on a wide range of mathematical and cryptographic subjects, and intellectual property generation. He also continued with more academic activities. In 2001, Kenny re-joined Royal Holloway as a Lecturer, becoming Reader in 2002 and Professor in 2004. He led the ISG ’s participation in the MoD/DoD-funded International Technology Alliance from 2006 to 2011. In March 2010, Kenny commenced a 5-year research fellowship funded by EPSRC on the topic of “Cryptography: Bridging Theory and Practice”. He was Program Chair for Eurocrypt 2011 and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cryptology. Kenny’s research interests span a wide range of topics in theoretical and applied cryptography, and information security. He has published more than 120 research papers on these topics.

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