{"id":2049,"date":"2016-04-08T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2016-04-08T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T17:07:17","slug":"busec-seminar-bryan-ford-epfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/2016\/04\/08\/busec-seminar-bryan-ford-epfl\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSec Seminar &#8211; Bryan Ford, EPFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, April 13, 2016<br \/>\n9:45am\u201310:45am<br \/>\nLocation:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/maps\/?id=3652\" target=\"_blank\">MCS-180 (Hariri Seminar Room), 111 Cummington Mall<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more View Details &gt;-->Collective Authorities: Securely Decentralizing Trust at Scale<\/p>\n<p>Online infrastructure depends on many security-critical authorities such as logging, time, directory, and software update services. These authorities represent high-value attack targets to hackers, criminals, and spy agencies, who can secretly compromise many hosts by stealing keys from or coercing only one such \u201cweakest-link\u201d authority. We propose to address these systemic weaknesses by decentralizing conventional authorities into scalable \u201cstrongest-link&#8221; authorities or cothorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/busec\/busec-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\">More information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:45am\u201310:45am Location:\u00a0MCS-180 (Hariri Seminar Room), 111 Cummington Mall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3897],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/riscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}