Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Over the last few months, I have been very busy with other projects, and so I couldn't follow the TC discussions very closely. But I hope this will change over the next few weeks. I have already added some more citations to the list of TC-related literature below. Until I have more time to comment on these issues, I just wanted to mention some interesting developments that occurred over the last few months:

• Seth Schoen has proposed to use "hard-to-verify signatures" to overcome some of the policy problems related to remote attestation. This proposal may have its own drawbacks, but it is definitely interesting to read the discussions over at Seth's blog (here, here, here and here) as well as the comments by Unlimited Freedom over here and the discussion thread on the cryptography mailing list.
  

Together with Professor Pamela Samuelson from Berkeley and some colleagues from Germany and the U.K., I am currently co-organizing a large conference on digital rights management, alternative compensation systems, and trusted computing. The bi-lingual conference will be held in Berlin, Germany, on January 13 & 14, 2005. For the trusted computing panel, we have speakers such as Graeme Proudler (Chair, Technical Committee, TCG), Thomas Rosteck (Infineon), Ahmad-Rez-Sadeghi (University of Bochum) and Seth Schoen (EFF). More information (including registration information) may be found over

Together with Professor Pamela Samuelson from Berkeley and some colleagues from Germany and the U.K., I am currently co-organizing a large conference on digital rights management, alternative compensation systems, and trusted computing. The bi-lingual conference will be held in Berlin, Germany, on January 13 & 14, 2005. We have quite a number of speakers from outside Germany, including Pam Samuelson, Hal Varian (UC Berkeley), Ross Anderson (Cambridge University), Barb Fox (Microsoft), Bill Way (RealNetworks), Bernt Hugenholtz (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Lee Bygrave (University of Oslo), Leonardo Chiariglione (Digital Media Project/MPEG), Fred von Lohmann (EFF), Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley), and Terry Fisher (Harvard University).

Jonathan Poritz, Matthias Schunter, Els Van Herreweghen, Michael Waidner, Property Attestation - Scalable and Privacy-friendly Security Assessment of Peer Computers, IBM Research Report RZ 3548, October 5, 2004, available via search engine (search for rz3548).

EFF Comments on TCG Design, Implementation and Usage Principles 0.95, October 1, 2004. Written by Seth Schoen.

Vivek Haldar & Michael Franz, Symmetric Behavior-Based Trust: A New Paradigm for Internet Computing, in: Marceau & Foley (eds.), New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW 2004), September 2004.

Martín Abadi & Ted Wobber, A Logical Account of NGSCB, in: de Frutos-Escrig & Núñez (eds.), Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems (FORTE 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3235, Springer 2004, pp. 1-12.

Daniel Gustafsson & Tomas Stewén, Trusted Computing & Digital Rights Management - Theory & Effects, University of Växjö (Sweden) Report 04086, September 2004.

Value-Centered Design of Digital Rights Management - Perspectives on an Emerging Scholarship, contribution to the INDICARE project, September 2004.

A short article by me that gives an overview of the emerging scholarship of value-centered design approaches towards DRM has been published online here.