A quick reminder that Saurabh Panjwani will be speaking this morning at 11am in 203! On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Eleanor O'Rourke < eorourke@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
On Monday, March 7 at 11am we will be hosting a roundtable discussion with Saurabh Panjwani <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/saurap/>, a post doc researcher with the Technology for Emerging Markets<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/tem/> group at Microsoft Research India. Saurabh will be speaking about his work in designing for end-to-end security in branchless banking.
*Mobile-based branchless banking has become one of the key mechanisms for extending financial services to low-income populations in the world’s developing regions. One shortcoming of today’s branchless banking systems is that they rely largely on network-layer services for securing transactions and do not implement any application-layer security. Recent results show that several of these systems are, in fact, not end-to-end secure.* **
*We make the case for designing mobile-based branchless banking systems which build security into the application layer and guarantee end-to-end security to system users. We present a threat model which captures the goals of authenticated transactions in these systems and then provide recommendations for solution design based on our model’s requirements and the practical constraints under which these systems operate.*
Join us at a special time on Monday to learn more about mobile branchless banking!
*What:* Saurabh Panjwani on Designing for End-to-End Security in Branchless Banking *When:* Monday, March 7th from 11am to 12pm *Where:* Paul Allen Center, Room 203