TRUST 2010

Abstract submission deadline:

Notfication due:

Workshop:

10th April 2010

28th April 2010

within conference, 21 June 2010

Ronny Bjones
Senior Architect, Microsoft
Title: A Microsoft perspective on anonymous credentials

Ronny Bjones currently is working for Microsoft Corporate as senior architect in the identity & security division. Ronny joined Microsoft in 2002 to contribute in trustworthy computing. Later he became the EMEA security lead for Microsoft's enterprise business.He has 27 years of experience in ICT, 21 of those in security.Ronny published QuEST together with several industry specialists in the subject of electronic signatures. The book is a comprehensive guide on how to implement Electronic Signatures solutions and can be downloaded from microsoft.com. Ronny also co-authored "Best Practice for Applications using the electronic Identity Card".

Ronny oversees the whole areas of security but has a special interest in smart cards, PKI, Identity Metasystem, cryptography and digital signatures. Ronny is a board member of EEMA, an organisation providing guidance on e-Business. Ronny is also member of the ISSE program committee. He is also member of the OASIS Security Conference program committee and the World-eID program committee.

Since '89 he is active in the field of Information Security doing large projects for the European Central banks, Police forces, big financial institutes, European Commission, etc. Ronny Bjones was one of the four founders of Utimaco Belgium, where he worked ten years as R&D director. Before Utimaco Ronny worked for a Belgian EFT specialist called Prodata and one of the first firms to specialize in cryptography in Europe called Cryptech. Ronny Bjones is an active speaker on conferences. Ronny holds a bachelor in electronics, Master in IT management and MSc in Information technology.

Xavier Boyen
Professor, University of Liege, Belgium
Title: to be announced

Prof. Xavier Boyen received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2003. For about a decade, he has held various roles at Silicon Valley start-ups, most recently that of Chief Cryptographer at Voltage Security Inc. A couple of years ago, he turned to academia to take a Research Associate position at Stanford University. He recently joined the Montefiore Institute at the University of Liege, where he is now Professor of Computer Science, chair of Information Security and Cryptography. His research interests touch many areas of mathematical security, directed at the creation of cryptographic schemes that can truly benefit people collectively and individually. He has authored influential research papers, and some of his designs have seen large-scale deployments in industry and government.

Jan Camenisch
Research Staff Member, IBM Research in Zurich
Title: Anonymous Authentication: From Theory into Practice

Dr. Jan Camenisch received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering Science at ETH Zurich in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science ETH Zurich in 1998 ("Group Signatures Schemes and Payment Systems Based on the Discrete Logarithm Problems"). From 1998 till 1999 he has been Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Since 1999 he is Research Staff Member and project leader at IBM Research in Zurich. He is currently also the technical leader of the EU-funded project PrimeLife (www.primelife.eu) that aims at making privacy enhancing identities a reality.

His research interests are: cryptographic protocols, in particular those supporting privacy and anonymity; practical secure distributed computation. He has published over 70 refereed papers in these areas.

Liqun Chen
Senior Researcher, HP Labs
Title: Standardization of Anonymous Signatures and Authentication

Liqun Chen received her BSc (1982), MSc (1985) and PhD (1988) in Information Science and Engineering from Southeast University, P.R. China. She has been senior researcher at HP Labs Bristol UK since 1997. Her main research interests are in information security, cryptography and trusted computing. She holds over 30 patents in different security technology areas. She has edited 4 international security technique standards, published over 60 research papers and co-authored a book in trusted computing. She was one of the principle designers for some cryptographic mechanisms used by Trusted Computing Group (TCG), including Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA). She is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.