[ASRG] Today 4pm, security holes: who cares AND preventing privilege escalation

[Kevin Fu]

Today (Monday) from 4-5pm in room 516 we'll discuss:

 Security Holes...Who Cares?
 Eric Rescorla
 http://www.rtfm.com/upgrade.pdf
 (discussion led by Simson)

The authors of the "genuinity" paper didn't get back to us, so instead
we'll discuss:

 Preventing Privilege Escalation 
 Niels Provos
 http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-02-2.pdf
 (discussion by Emil)

Bring a copy of the papers.

Those attending USENIX Security should register *today* to receive the
early bird discount.  See http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/.

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Kevin E. Fu (fubob at mit.edu)