IPICS04 – Part 2
Because I’m having internet-access while sitting at IPICS04@TUG I will give a short overview over the last week.
Tuesday (20th of July):
Ahmed Patel from Ireland was talking about ‘Investigative Computing’. Main topics were comparison of existing models (Interpol, Casey, DRWS,…) and some main parts of computer forensic. Günther Pernul from University of Regensburg took a 4 units lecture on ‘Authorization and access control’. Till now this has been to most interesting lecture for me due to I learned some really new stuff. Pernul was talking about discretionary, mandatory and role-based access controls and presented some case studies (DAC+SQL-security, CSAP and RBAC in IRO-DB). All together 198 slides and about 5 coffees. ;) In the evening we took a tour through Graz, drinking some beers on Schlossberg.
Wednesday (21th of July):
Vincent Rijmen (TU Graz) was giving ‘an introduction to cryptology [part 1]’. Rijmen’s topics have been historical ciphers, modern ciphers (DES, AES, RC4) and asymmetric cryptology. Afterwards Simone Fischer-Hübner from Karlstad was talking about ‘privay and privacy-enhancing technologies’, topics like LBS (Location Based Services), mix nets and P3P (platform for privacy preferences). Only 87 slides and about 3 coffees for the whole day.
In the evening my girlfriend came from Klagenfurt to Graz together with her brother Christian and we went to JazzSommerGraz where global.kryner were playing a really great concert. There we met Sven Guckes and Karl Voit who had 3 seats for us 8-).
Thursday (22th of July):
Javier Lopez from university of Malaga (spain) was talking about ‘network security’ for 4 units and afterwards on ‘advanced security services and public key infrastructures’ for the other 3 units. His main topics in network security have been ISO/OSI-model, IPSec and SSH/SSL/S-HTTP. In the PKI-lecture his topics were X.509 and other hierachical models. IMO Lopez should get an entry in the book of world records, he has done 1 slide per minute in average in 7 units(!).
Friday (23th of July):
Udo Payer (TU Graz) was talking in ’embedded intrusion destection’ [58 slides] about FSM-implementations, SOM (self organizing maps) and OS-fingerprinting. Erland Jonsson from Chalmers university (Sweden) hold a lecture on ‘dependability and security’ – 39 slides, very theoretical content like dependability and it’s attributes, security and dependability metrics. Finally Jorma Kajava from Oulu (Finland) was talking about ‘end user perspecitve’ (article of 38 pages) with an ‘ill voice’ – quite hard to listen.
Saturday (24th of July):
The trip to the vineyard-street in styria was quite funny. Visiting a vine-museum and an accident from the bus with a car in a small city on countryside which took us for about 1,5 hours (till police arrived ;-)) were quite ‘interesting’ 8-).
Sunday (25th of July):
Some of the other visitors of IPICS04 were going to Schwarzlteich, but I decided to relax on this day (suffering from short of sleep over the last few days) and just did some work at home and watching movies.
Notice for ipics-visitors: check the password-restricted ipics04-webpage.