The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

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What Your Cell Knows About You

Fri, October 12, 2007CERIAS Media Citings

“…forensic code breakers (are) working to go beyond the obvious and familiar…”



Group says e-voting paper trail wouldn’t improve security

Fri, October 12, 2007CERIAS Media Citings

“The argument that people trust computers in other places is specious — safety-critical systems have been developed in other contexts using rigorous standards that are not applied to voting machines,” said Eugene Spafford.



Purdue Biometrics Lab featured in ScienceDaily Purdue Biometrics Lab featured in ScienceDaily

Fri, October 12, 2007CERIAS Media Citings

A study on the cleanliness of biometrics security devices by Christine Blomeke and Stephen Elliot of the Biometric Standards, Performance and Assurance Laboratory has been featured in ScienceDaily.



Spafford quoted on diversity in browser rendering engines Spafford quoted on diversity in browser rendering engines

Fri, October 12, 2007CERIAS Media Citings

“Why do we want more than one layout engine? It helps to spur innovation and means that if a flaw occurs it won’t necessarily be in every browser at once. Having some different implementations of anything is a good thing,” Gene Spafford, computer science professor at Purdue University, told LinuxInsider.











Who is Hacking Whom? [Updated]

Fri, September 14, 2007General