Cryptocracy

This week we bring you news and announcements, the first installment of the panel “Ethics and Values in Privacy and Security Research” from the PET symposium 2007, and the abstract of a paper announced two days ago that has been making a bit of a splash across mainstream news headlines: Thinking inside the box: system-level failures of tamper proofing by Saar Drimer, Steven J. Murdoch, and Ross Anderson.

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This is a special episode (not part of the regular podcast) in which we bring you a field recording of a panel from a recent workshop held at EPFL Switzerland. The workshop was titled Secure Vehicular Communications: Results and Challenges Ahead.

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This week’s guest is Ian Goldberg with whom we discuss his observations on the evolution of the field of Privacy Enhancing Technologies and his recent work in the sub-field of Private Information Retrieval.I also narrate this week’s Anonymity Bibliography paper of the week: Compact E-Cash, by Jan Camenisch, Susan Hohenberger, and Anna Lysyanskaya. (BibTeX) (PDF)

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This week on the Cryptocracy podcast we interview Karsten Nohl about his joint work with Henryk Plötz on their recent break of the Mifare proprietary cipher known as “Crypto 1”. We also perform a narration of The Pynchon Gate: A Secure Method of Pseudonymous Mail Retrieval by Len Sassaman, Bram Cohen, and Nick Mathewson.

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This week I am starting a weekly podcast: The Cryptocracy Podcast brings you news, announcements, interviews, and narration of paper abstracts on privacy enhancing technologies, cryptography, security, and electronic society.

In this first episode I reading some abstracts from the Freehaven anonymity bibliography of which I am an editor. The papers I have selected this week span a variety of topics in privacy enhancing technology, and were published within the past two years.

Please make requests for future podcast episodes by sending me email (tshb@acm.org) or by leaving a comment here on my blog. I rely on you to suggest interviews you would like to hear, abstracts or venues you would like me to cover, or other things you would like to hear.

I also invite contributions. If you are interested in speaking on my show please contact me.

A list of papers mentioned in this week’s podcast after the jump.

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