11th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop

June 9-11, 1998

Rockport, Massachusetts, USA

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society


Technical Program

Tuesday, June 9, 1998

8:50-9:00 Welcome
Simon Foley (Program Chair) & Jonathan Millen (General Chair).

9:00-10:30 Session 1: Distributed Services
Chair: Li Gong

Weakly Secret Bit Commitment: Applications to Lotteries and Fair Exchange P. Syverson (Naval Research Laboratory)

On the Structure of Delegation Networks, T. Aura (Helsinki University of Technology)

Two Facets of Authentication M. Abadi (DEC Systems Research Center)

10:30-11:00 Coffeebreak

11:00-12:00 Session 2: Noninterference
Chair: E.S. Lee

Probabilistic Noninterference in a Concurrent Language D. Volpano (Naval Postgraduate School), G. Smith (Florida International University)

Partial Model Checking and Theorem Proving for Ensuring Security Properties, F. Martinelli (Universita di Siena & Universita di Pisa)

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Session 3: Protocol Verification
Chair: Catherine Meadows

Formal Analysis of a Non-repudiation Protocol S. Schneider (University of London, RHBNC)

Honest Ideals on Strand Spaces, J. Thayer, J. Herzog, J. Guttman (MITRE Corporation)

15:00-15:30 Coffeebreak

15:30-17:30 Panel 1: Varieties of Authentication
Moderators: R. Gorrieri (University of Bologna) & P. Syverson (Naval Research Laboratory)
Panel Members: M. Abadi, R. Focardi, G. Lowe, C. Meadows, D. Gollmann

18:30-21:30 Dinner

Wednesday, June 10, 1998

9:00-10:30 Session 4: Protocol Model Checking
Chair: Jonathan Millen

Proving Security Protocols with Model Checkers by Data Independence Techniques A.W. Roscoe (University of Oxford)

Towards a Completeness Result for Model Checking of Security Protocols (Extended Abstract) G. Lowe (University of Leicester)

Efficient Finite-State Analysis for Large Security Protocols V. Shmatikov and U. Stern (Stanford University)

10:30-11:00 Coffeebreak

11:00-12:00 Session 5: Composition
Chair: Roberto Gorrieri

Composing Secure Systems that have Emergent Properties, A. Zakinthinos (ACCSL) & E.S. Lee (University of Cambridge)

Merging security policies: analysis of a practical example, F. Cuppens, L. Cholvy, C. Saurel, J Carrere (ONERA-CERT)

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Session 6: Protocol Logics
Chair: Gavin Lowe

Evaluating and Improving Protocol Analysis by Automatic Proof, S. Brackin (Arca Systems)

A Simple Logic for Authentication Protocol Design L. Buttyan and S. Staamann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

15:00-15:30 Coffeebreak

15:30-17:30 Panel 2: The Security Impact of Open/Distributed Computing Technologies
Moderator: P Ryan (Defence Research Agency)
Panel Members: G. Karjoth, G. Tsudik, L. Gong, D. Gollmann

18:30-21:30 Dinner

Thursday, June 11 1998

9:00-10:30 Session 7: Database and Intrusion Detection
Chair: Robert Morris

A Fair Locking Protocol for Multilevel Secure Databases, S. Jajodia (George Mason), L. Mancini (Universita La Sapienza di Roma), S. Setia (George Mason)

Data Level Inference Detection -- A Rule Based Approach, R. Yip, K. Levitt (University of California, Davis)

Abstraction-Based Misuse Detection: High-Level Specifications and Adaptable Strategies, J-L. Lin, X.S. Wang S. Jajodia (George Mason)

11:00 Coffeebreak

11:00-12:00 Business Meeting.