Cloud and Mobile Security

Cloud and Mobile Security Seminar -- Spring 2014

Course Schedule

Below is the approximate paper reading schedule for the seminar. Please note that the schedule beyond one week is subject to change, so make sure you check this page frequently. Also, if you've been assigned to a paper and the paper changes, you will be in charge of presenting the new paper.

Topic
Date
Papers
Deadlines
Introduction
01/27

None; Class overview.

Slides.

Cloud Computing Challenges
02/03

Above the clouds: A Berkeley view of cloud computing. M. Armbrust, A. Fox, R. Griffith, A.D. Joseph, R.H. Katz, A. Konwinski, G. Lee, D.A. Patterson, A. Rabkin, I. Stoica, M. Zaharia. Technical Report UCB/EECS-2009-28, 2009. [PDF]
Presenter: Lindsay Neubauer

Hey, you, get off of my cloud: Exploring information leakage in third-party compute clouds. T. Ristenpart, E. Tromer, H. Shacham, and S. Savage. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computing Communications Security (CCS), 2009. [PDF]
Presenter: Chris D'Angelo

Slides.

Cloud Computing: Cryptographic Solutions
02/10

CryptDB: Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing. Raluca Ada Popa, Catherine M. S. Redfield, Nickolai Zeldovich, and Hari Balakrishnan. In Proceedings of SOSP, 2011. [PDF]. Presenter: Shun-Xuan Wang and Dewei Zhu

Slides.

02/17

SPORC: Group collaboration using untrusted cloud resources. A. Feldman, W. Zeller, M. Freedman, and E. Felten. In Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2010. [PDF]
Presenter: Wen-Ping Chi

Computing arbitrary functions of encrypted data. C. Gentry. In Communications of the ACM, 2008. [PDF]
Presenter: TBD

Slides.

02/24

On the impossibility of cryptography alone. M. van Dijk and A. Juels. In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), 2010. [PDF]
Presenter: Theofilos Petsios

On the (im)practicality of securing untrusted computing clouds with cryptography. Y. Chen and R. Sion. Technical report, State University of New York, 2010. [PDF]
Presenter: Michael Lo

Slides.

Cloud Computing: Trusted Hardware Solutions
03/03

Bootstrapping trust in commodity computers. B. Parno, J. M. McCune, and A. Perrig. In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2010. [PDF]
Presenter: Hao-Yu Hsieh

Private virtual infrastructure for cloud computing. F. Krautheim. In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), 2009. [PDF]
Presenter: Xingyu Wang

Slides.

03/10

Terra: a virtual machine-based platform for trusted computing. T. Garfinkel, B. Pfaff, J. Chow, M. Rosenblum, and D. Boneh. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2003. [PDF]
Presenter: Xin Lu

Slides.

03/17
No class (spring break).
Cloud Computing: Trusted Hardware Solutions
03/24

Flicker: an execution infrastructure for TCB minimization. J. M. McCune, B. Parno, A. Perrig, M. K. Reiter, H. Isozaki. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2008. [PDF].
Presenter: Ke Wu

Slides.

Cloud Computing: Distributed-Trust Solutions
03/31

FairplayMP: A system for secure multi-party computation. A. Ben-David, N. Nisan, and B. Pinkas. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computing Communications Security (CCS), 2008. [PDF]
Presenter: David Tagatac

Vanish: Increasing data privacy with self-destructing data. R. Geambasu, T. Kohno, A. Levy, and H. M. Levy. In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2009. [PDF]
Presenter: Jiaolong Shang

Slides.

Cloud Computing: Auditing Solutions
04/14

PORs: Proofs of retrievability for large files. A. Juels and B. S. Kaliski Jr. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computing Communications Security (CCS), 2007. [PDF]
Presenter: Tianliang Sun

How to tell if your cloud files are vulnerable to drive crashes. K. Bowers, M. van Dijk, A. Juels, A. Oprea, and R. Rivest. In Cryptology ePrint Archive (IACR), Report 2010/214, 2010. [PDF]
Presenter: Wenjun Xu

Slides.

Mobile Devices: Challenges and Some Solutions
04/21

TaintDroid: An information-flow tracking system for realtime privacy monitoring on smartphones. W. Enck, P. Gilbert, B. gon Chun, L. P. Cox, J. Jung, P. McDaniel, and A. N. Sheth. In Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2010. [PDF]
Presenter: Marios Pomonis

These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For: Retrofitting Android to Protect Data from Imperious Applications. P. Hornyack, S. Han, J. Jung, S. Schechter, and D. Wetherall In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) , 2011. [PDF]
Presenter: Pranita Dewan

Slides.

04/28
No class. Instructor unavailable. Work on projects.
Project presentations
05/05

No papers; students present their projects.

Final Reports
05/09

No class.