CEG 891: Internet Security College of Engineering & CS Wright State University Dayton, Ohio 45435-0001

Internet Security PhD Seminar   Prabhaker Mateti Fine Print:  Schedule is tentative.  Links may not be valid until the week's work is completed.

Secure Multicast

• C. Shields, "Secure Hierarchical Multicast Routing and Multicast Internet Anonymity", PhD Thesis, Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, June 1999.
• Tony Ballardie, Paul Francis and Jon Crowcroft, " Core Based Tree Protocol", SIGCOMM'93 - Ithaca, N. Y., USA, 9/93, pp.85-95.  
•  C. Shields and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "The HIP Protocol for Hierarchical Multicast Routing", Proc. Seventeenth Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 98), Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, June 28-July 2, 1998.
•  C. Shields and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "The Ordered Core Based Tree Protocol", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 97, Kobe, Japan, April 7-11, 1997.
• C. Shields and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, " KHIP - A Scalable Protocol for Secure Multicast Routing", Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 99, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 1-3, 1999.
• Ian Clarke, Oskar Sandberg, Brandon Wiley, Theodore W. Hong, "Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System," ICSI Workshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability, July 25-26, 2000, Berkeley, California. http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ index.php?page=theoppr
• FreeNet Project Home Site http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

DDoS

• Marcel Jackowski, slides of a presentation on DDOS, Oct 2000, http://www.cs.wright.edu/ ~pmateti/ Courses/891/ddosMJ.html
• David Dittrich, "Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks/tools," USENIX Security Symposium, August 16, 2000, http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/ddos/

Buffer Overflow

• Aleph One, "Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit," Phrack,  Vol 7, Issue 49, File 14 of 16, 1995?, www.phrack. com.
• Arash Baratloo, Navjot Singh, and Timothy Tsai, "Transparent Run-Time Defense Against Stack Smashing Attacks," Usenix 2000, http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/docs/usenix00/paper.html 

Centers of Excellence in Information Assurance

CMU | Florida State | James Madison | George Mason | Idaho State | Iowa State | Purdue | National Defense U | Naval Postgraduate School | Purdue | Stanford | UC at Davis | Uof Idaho | U of Tulsa

On 11 May 1999, the above seven universities were designated as the first Centers of Excellence in Information Assurance. NSA granted the designations following a rigorous review of university applications against published criteria based on training standards established by the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee. 

A Few Recent PhD Dissertations

C. Shields, "Secure Hierarchical Multicast Routing and Multicast Internet Anonymity", PhD Thesis, Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, June 1999.

A Few Recent Papers

S. Cheung and K.N. Levitt. 2000. "A Formal-Specification Based Approach for Protecting the Domain Name System." Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, New York City, New York, June 25-28, 2000, pp.641-651. [Postscript] From UC at Davis