2006 South Central Information Security Symposium
(SCISS '06)

Abstracts

The following abstracts are for presentations that were given at the 2005 South Central Information Security Symposium (SCISS '05), held April 30, 2005 at the University of Texas at Austin.

Long Presentation Session 1

Session chair: Ernst L. Leiss (University of Houston)

	Allergy Attacks Against Automatic Signature Generators
	Simon P. Chung, Aloysius K. Mok (UT Austin)
	Defending Multicast Against State Overload Attacks
	Jinu Kurian, Kamil Sarac (UT Dallas)
	Incentives Issues in Anonymous Communication Networks
	Tsuen-Wan "Johnny" Ngan (Rice University); Roger Dingledine (The Free Haven Project); Dan S. Wallach (Rice University)

Short Presentations and Work in Progress

Session chair: Dan S. Wallach (Rice University)

	Review and Classification of Approaches to Protecting Digital Content
	Ernst L. Leiss (University of Houston)
	Payload in Time-Variant Watermarks of MPEG Videos: An Empirical Study
	Cheng-Fang Yang (UT Austin); Natasha Simon (Southern University); Ernst L. Leiss (University of Houston)
	Safeguarding the Transmission of Biometric Measurements Used for Authenticating Individuals
	Ernst L. Leiss (University of Houston)
	Intrusion Detection via Automatic Rule-Base Generation and Semantic Analysis
	Albert M.K. Cheng (University of Houston)
	Finding the Longest Similar Subsequence of Thumbprints for Intrusion Detection
	Ming D. Wan, Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang, Jianhua Yang (University of Houston)
	A Clustering Method to Detect Stepping-Stone Intrusion
	Jianhua Yang, Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang, Ming D. Wan (University of Houston)
	A New Worm Traffic Generator
	Chia-Tien Dan Lo, Luis Ignacio Ortiz Villasenor (UT San Antonio)
	Generalized Role-Based Access Control: Using a Novel Event-Based Approach
	Raman Adaikkalavan, Sharma Chakravarthy (UT Arlington)
	Towards a Framework for Configurable Security Policies
	Mark Reith, Jianwei Niu (UT San Antonio)
	DeSPAC-SE: Delegated Security Policy for Alien Code under SELinux
	Ryan Spring, Luc Longpre, Nick West, Eric Freudenthal (UT El Paso)
	HB+ and an Active Attack
	Bridget Beamon (UT Arlington)
	On the Complexity of Checking Security for Cryptographic Protocols
	Zhiyao Liang, Rakesh M. Verma (University of Houston)
	On Protocol Formalization
	Zhiyao Liang, Rakesh M. Verma (University of Houston)
	How to Efficiently Process Uncertainty within an Cyberinfrastructure without Sacrificing Privacy and Confidentiality
	Luc Longpre, Vladik Kreinovich, Eric Freudenthal (UT El Paso)
	Evaluating VoIP Performance over the Tor Anonymous Communications Network
	Nayantara Mallesh, Matthew Wright (UT Arlington)

Long Presentation Session 2

Session chair: Stephen R. Tate (University of North Texas)

	Securing P2P Systems with Webs of Trust
	Anwis Das, Dan S. Wallach (Rice University)
	Towards Stronger Peer-To-Peer Anonymity
	Arjun R. Nambiar, Matthew K. Wright (UT Arlington)
	An Analysis of Two BitTorrent Distributed Trackers
	Scott A Crosby, Dan S Wallach (Rice University)
	Efficient Authenticated Key-Exchange for Devices with a Trusted Manager
	He Ge, Stephen R. Tate (University of North Texas)