Title: Securing Network Routing
Speaker: Yi-Chun Hu, UC Berkeley.


Networks are increasingly used for critical functions, such as
e-commerce and online banking. Unfortunately, networking services were
designed for trusted environments, and are consequently extremely
vulnerable to attack.

In this talk, I will describe my work on securing routing, the central
network service, in both wireless ad hoc networks and in the Internet.
In the context of securing wireless ad hoc network routing, I then
describe my work on SEAD, a simple and highly efficient protocol that
secures the distance vector protocol against attack. I then present SPV,
my protocol for secure Internet routing. This protocol is the first that
provides strong security properties even when relatively few ISPs deploy
the protocol, and even when those ISPs are not directly connected.
Furthermore, SPV is highly efficient in computation.

Bio: Yih-Chun Hu received his B.S. from the University of Washington in
1997 and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. In his
thesis work at Carnegie Mellon, he focused on security and performance
in wireless ad hoc networks. Yih-Chun's research interests include
security and systems. He is currently a visiting postdoctoral researcher
at the University of California, Berkeley.