SANE 2006 abstract

Invited Talk

Time: Friday 19 May 2006 13:45 - 14:30 Location: Collegezaal A

Data: How to keep it when you want it and lose it when you want it gone

Abstract

This talk describes a design that provides data storage with high availability, protection against unauthorized disclosure, and the ability to expunge the data in a way that makes it unrecoverable. The obvious approach, of course, is to encrypt the data on nonvolatile storage, and then destroy keys at the appropriate times. But then there is the difficulty of managing the keys. This design minimizes that difficulty, and allows minimal trust in stable storage and key management, so that these functions can be outsourced. Although parts of the talk are technically deep, anyone should be able to understand the characteristics of this system. The target audience is anyone who might use or implement such a system.

Radia Perlman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Radia Perlman is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. She is well known for her work in routing and security protocols. She invented the spanning tree algorithm used by switches, and a lot of the key algorithms that make today's routing protocols scalable, manageable, and robust. She also has made significant contributions to network security protocols. She is the author of "Interconnections" and coauthor of "Network Security", both of which are widely used as textbooks in universities, as well as by engineers for reference and learning the field.

Holding 80 patents, she was named 2004 Inventor of the Year by SVIPLA (Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association). She has a PhD in computer science from MIT and an honorary doctorate from KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

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