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SUMMARY:Cars and Voting Machines: Embedded Systems in the Field - Shacham\
 , H (UCSB)
DTSTART:20120202T094500Z
DTEND:20120202T103000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:How well are the tools of modern cryptography employed in fiel
 ded embedded systems? How are the common tasks of communication and authen
 tication\, key storage and distribution\, and firmware update and verifica
 tion performed? In this talk\, we describe evidence gathered from several 
 studies of deployed embedded systems: a modern mass-market automobile and 
 two electronic voting machines. These studies consisted of substantial rev
 erse-engineering efforts by large teams of researchers. We find that in ma
 ny cases the designers of the systems we studied are getting simple crypto
 graphic tasks wrong. These failures suggest a lack of engagement with the 
 cryptography and security research community. We consider some reasons for
  the status quo\, and some ways that it might be improved. Joint work with
  Danny Anderson\, Stephen Checkoway\, Alexei Czeskis\, Ariel Feldman\, Edw
 ard Felten\, J. Alex Halderman\, Srinivas Inguva\, Brian Kantor\, Tadayosh
 i Kohno\, Karl Koscher\, Damon McCoy\, Shwetak Patel\, Eric Rescorla\, Fra
 nziska Roesner\, Stefan Savage\, and Dan Wallach.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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