Abstract: Automated trust negotiation is a new approach to access control and authentication for the open, flexible systems formed by sets of organizations that must dynamically form coalitions and work together to respond to unforeseen needs and opportunities. Automated trust negotiation enables open computing by assigning an access control policy to each resource that is to be made accessible to "outsiders"; an attempt to access the resource triggers a trust negotiation, consisting of the iterative, bilateral disclosure of digital credentials and related information. In this talk, I will motivate the need for trust negotiation, explain how it works in simple situations, describe how it can be used in example applications, and present recent research directions and opportunities for future research.

Biography: Marianne Winslett has been a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1987. Her current research interests include security in open systems and data management for high-performance parallel scientific applications. She has been an editor for ACM Transactions on Database Systems since 1994, and the vice-chair of ACM SIGMOD since 2000. She received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989.

More information may be found at: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/winslett.html