Paul Kocher
President and Chief Scientist, Cryptography Research
May 22th, 2015, 11am-12pm, DBH 6011
Title:
Cryptography, Moore's Law, and Hardware Foundations for Security
Abstract:
As computing devices become more complex and inter-connected,
data security is becoming more difficult. Paul Kocher, founder
of Cryptography Research, will explore these challenges and the
role of cryptography and chip architectures in managing the data
security challenges ahead. The presentation begins by exploring
how approaches to security have failed to scale with technical
advances, in part because engineering strategies that have proven
effective for implementing functionality are counterproductive
for security. Power Analysis attacks will be used as an example
of how layers of abstraction can conceal security challenges. The
final part of the talk will focus on security strategies aimed at
scaling more effectively, including solutions being developed at the
Cryptography Research division of Rambus. These include on-chip
hardware security solutions for SoCs, as security infrastructure for
device manufacturing and management.
Speaker Bio:
Paul Kocher's technological work includes co-authoring the
widely used SSL 3.0 standard, pioneering the field of side channel
attacks, leading the design of the DES key search machine Deep
Crack, and architecting the BD+ anti-piracy technology in the Bluray
disc format. He founded and led Cryptography Research, which
was acquired and became a division of Rambus in in 2011. Paul
was also a founding member of Valicert, Inc. (IPO in 2000) and has
served as an advisor to many computer security start-ups. Paul
holds a BS in biology from Stanford University, and was elected to
the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.