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This talk was given by undergraduate Matt Corallo during the 8th Annual Computer Science Undergraduate Research Symposium in 2014. Matt‘s research was supervised by Dr. Michael Reiter.
"Securing Data on Compromised Hardware"
Advancements in attacks with physical access to commodity hardware has resulted in a general consensus that, given physical access, all of the data on a machine should be considered compromised. In this talk, I will consider existing attacks and mitigations and propose a practical system under which certain data security guarantees can be made. Specifically, I propose a system which attempts to protect encryption keys absolutely against physical attackers and uses them to protect both main memory and disk access.
Matt Corallo‘s research interests in computer science include security and distributed systems. A Bitcoin developer, Matt is graduating early to pursue research in advancing the flexibility and security of Bitcoin.
This talk was given by undergraduate Matt Corallo during the 8th Annual Computer Science Undergraduate Research Symposium in 2014. Matt‘s research was supervised by Dr. Michael Reiter.
"Securing Data on Compromised Hardware"
Advancements in attacks with physical access to commodity hardware has resulted in a general consensus that, given physical access, all of the data on a machine should be considered compromised. In this talk, I will consider existing attacks and mitigations and propose a practical system under which certain data security guarantees can be made. Specifically, I propose a system which attempts to protect encryption keys absolutely against physical attackers and uses them to protect both main memory and disk access.
Matt Corallo‘s research interests in computer science include security and distributed systems. A Bitcoin developer, Matt is graduating early to pursue research in advancing the flexibility and security of Bitcoin.
