TRUST 2 nd Year Site Visit, March 19 th, 2007 ID Theft Knowledge Transfer

TRUST 2 nd Year Site Visit, March 19 th, 2007KT-ID Theft2 Impact Phishing attacks growing in scale and sophistication – Main reason: phishers can steal real money. Research goal: – Make it harder for phishers to obtain user information that can lead to monetary theft Technology transfer – Freely distributed open-source software – Talks at conferences, industry meetings (ITTC, …) – Startups – Partnering arrangements

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TRUST 2 nd Year Site Visit, March 19 th, 2007KT-ID Theft4 Technology Transition Plan PwdHash: RSA Security ( – Initial integration completed fall 2006 – Hope to convince IE team to embed natively in IE SpyBlock deployment: – Available at – Relevant companies: Mocha5, VMWare – Dialog with companies about transaction generators SafeHistory: Microsoft, Mozilla. – Available at

TRUST 2 nd Year Site Visit, March 19 th, 2007KT-ID Theft5 Public relations activities News articles on PwdHash: – Many articles in popular press, still appearing – Computerworld Horizon Award: August 2006 SafeHistory & SafeCache: – WWW ’06 paper Timing attacks – WWW ’07 paper SpyBlock and transaction generation – Report completed; conference paper in process

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TRUST 2 nd Year Site Visit, March 19 th, 2007KT-ID Theft8 PwdHash and RSA SecurID Tech transfer: available as IE and Firefox extensions – Working to convince MS to embed natively into IE Integration with RSA SecurID: – Motivation: “man in the middle” phishing attacks Defeats one-time password systems – Phase I: apply PwdHash to one-time passwords Requires updates to SecurID server and PwdHash – Phase II: authenticate server to client Planned for next year