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Thought I would pass this along in case anyone on the list might be interested. --Tim -----Original Message----- From: Be Blackburn [mailto:be at theory.lcs.mit.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:49 To: theory-seminars at theory.lcs.mit.edu Cc: cis-seminars at theory.lcs.mit.edu Subject: LCS/CIS Talk, OCT 18, TOMORROW Open to the Public Date: Friday, Oct 18, 2002 Time: 10:30 a.m.- 12:00 noon Place: NOTE: NE43-518, 200 Tech Square Title: Palladium Speaker: Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Corp. Hosts: Ron Rivest and Hal Abelson Abstract: This talk will present a technical overview of the Microsoft "Palladium" Initiative. The "Palladium" code name refers to a set of hardware and software security features currently under development for a future version of the Windows operating system. "Palladium" adds four categories of security services to today's PCs: a. Curtained memory. The ability to wall off and hide pages of main memory so that each "Palladium" application can be assured that it is not modified or observed by any other application or even the operating system. b. Attestation. The ability for a piece of code to digitally sign or otherwise attest to a piece of data and further assure the signature recipient that the data was constructed by an unforgeable, cryptographically identified software stack. c. Sealed storage. The ability to securely store information so that a "Palladium" application or module can mandate that the information be accessible only to itself or to a set of other trusted components that can be identified in a cryptographically secure manner. d. Secure input and output. A secure path from the keyboard and mouse to "Palladium" applications, and a secure path from "Palladium" applications to an identifiable region of the screen. Together, these features provide a parallel execution environment to the "traditional" kernel- and user-mode stacks. The goal of "Palladium" is to help protect software from software; that is, to provide a set of features and services that a software application can use to defend against malicious software also running on the machine (viruses running in the main operating system, keyboard sniffers, frame grabbers, etc). "Palladium" is not designed to provide defenses against hardware-based attacks that originate from someone in control of the local machine. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20021017/18ea28f5/attachment.bin>
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