[cap-talk] Any hope in RSA 2008?

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Jed Donnelley dies 04/04/2008 hora 12:57:
> David says, "send more research".

I should mention that there has just been a call for poject[1] directed
a french IT labs, from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche[2] (national
research agency), about security. It is entitled « Défi Sécurité Système
d'Exploitation Cloisonné et Sécurisé pour l'Internaute », which should
translate to "Compartimented and Secure for the Internet User Operating
System Security Challenge".

  1. http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/AAPProjetsOuverts?NodId=17&lngAAPId=180
  2. http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/

The challenge will last two years, in three periods of 12, 6 and 6
months. In each period, the teams will have to produce a viable solution
for the first half of the time, and try to find vulnerabilities in
others' solutions the other half.

Among the wider call for projects, one is for embedded systems and wide
infrastructures[3], and has in its objectives:

- radicalization of issues concerning quality, reliability, security and
  safety of components and systems

  3. http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/AAPProjetsOuverts?NodId=17&lngAAPId=159

> I'm trying to energize forums that will better address the long term
> problem than the RSA 2008 conference or the Usenix Security conference
> (others?) have.

I wonder if EuroSys[4] may be willing to host a workshop about
capability computing and POLA. EuroSys is the european chapter of ACM
SIGOPS, with the goal of boosting system research in Europe, and we have
produced some famous POLA systems here.

  4. http://www.eurosys.org/

Have you looked at the following venues? Their orientation on formal
methods and theory may make them more willing to consider long-term
alternatives to the current "state of the art":

- http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/CSF2008/
- http://profs.sci.univr.it/~vigano/fcs-arspa-wits08/
- http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/secret08/

Theoretically,
Pierre
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