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                    Seminar Announcement

            School of Computer Science, CECS
             The Australian National University
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Date:  Thursday, 26 November 2009
Time:  4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]


Speaker: Bob Edwards, SoCS

Title:   Yubikey Authentication in a Mid-sized Organisation


Abstract:
   The Swedish company Yubico manufacture the Yubikey
   One-Time-Password (OTP) USB device and have released all
   protocol and other relevant details which makes the Yubikey
   particularly attractive as a low-cost and non-vendor-lock-in
   authentication solution.

   Bob will demonstrate the Yubikey for the purposes of secure
   authentication on untrusted end-user systems (eg. PCs at
   an Internet Cafe or a friends house etc.) and will discuss
   some of the advantages as well as some of the weaknesses
   of the Yubikey system. He will then go on to describe the
   development of an  authentication server written in C and
   based on a PostgreSQL database and implementing LDAP and
   other authentication protocols. This will include some
   technical details of how to use the APIs for connection to
   the database, parsing the ASN1 LDAP queries, dealing with
   denial-of-service attacks etc. He will also discuss some
   of the code he has written to implement the Yubikey protocol
   on devices with no USB port (eg. a PDA or mobile phone etc.).

   This talk is a prelude to a paper Bob will present at the
   Linux Conference of Australia in 2010 (LCA2010) in Wellington,
   NZ in January. 

Biography:
   Bob Edwards is (currently) the Chief IT Officer in the
   School of Computer Science at the ANU. He also teaches
   into the Computer Networks course and the Free and Open
   Source Software Development (FOSSD) course, amongst others. 

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars09/dept20091126




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