--- begin forwarded text Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:12:39 -0500 (EST) From: Christof Paar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: DCSB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WPI Cryptoseminar, Monday Dec. 6 (fwd) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Christof Paar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please note that Dr. Stanley will be offering a new graduate course EE579S, COMPUTER SECURITY, in the Spring 2000 semester. The class will meet Tuesdays 6:00-8:50pm on the WPI campus. Please contact Dr. Stanley or myself if you have further questions about the class. - Christof Paar ======================================================================== WPI Cryptography Seminar Using Cryptography to Combat Wireless Fraud - A Case Study Dr. Richard Stanley GTE Labs Monday, December 6 4:30 pm, AK 218 (refreshments at 4:15 pm) This talk will describe how the original technical specifications of the AMPS cellular system were exploited to defraud cellular carriers and avoid law enforcement. We will see how these technical shortcomings were mitigated using encryption technology, and how the first attempts to do that failed. The reasons for success and failure will be discussed. A review of the current state of wireless fraud will be given. A question and answer session will follow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DIRECTIONS: The WPI Cryptoseminar is being held in the Atwater Kent building on the WPI campus. The Atwater Kent building is at the intersection of the extension of West Street (labeled "Private Way") and Salisbury Street. Directions to the campus can be found at http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html ATTENDANCE: The seminar is open to everyone and free of charge. Simply send me a brief email if you plan to attend. TALKS IN THE FALL '99 SEMESTER: 10/4 Berk Sunar, SITI Comparison of Elliptic Curve Implementations 10/18 Jim Goodman, MIT Energy Scalable Reconfigurable Cryptographic Hardware for Portable Applications 10/28 Brendon Chetwynd, WPI/Raytheon Towards an Universal Block Cipher Module 11/15 Adam Elbirt, WPI A High-Speed FPGA Implementation of Serpent 12/6 Richard Stanley, GTE Labs Using Cryptography to Combat Wireless Fraud -- A Case Study See http://www.ece.WPI.EDU/Research/crypt/seminar/index.html for talk abstracts. MAILING LIST: If you want to be added to the mailing list and receive talk announcements together with abstracts, please send me a short mail. Likewise, if you want to be removed from the list, just send me a short mail. Regards, Christof Paar ! WORKSHOP ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (CHES 2000)! ! WPI, August 17 & 18, 2000 ! ! http://www.ece.wpi.edu/Research/crypt/ches ! *********************************************************************** Christof Paar, Assistant Professor Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Group ECE Dept., WPI, 100 Institute Rd., Worcester, MA 01609, USA fon: (508) 831 5061 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: (508) 831 5491 www: http://ee.wpi.edu/People/faculty/cxp.html *********************************************************************** For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'