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+       <eventitem date="2007-10-15" time="4:30 PM" room="MC4041" title="Off-the-Record Messaging: Useful Security and Privacy for IM">
+        <short>Ian Goldberg</short>
+        <abstract>
+<p>
+Instant messaging (IM) is an increasingly popular mode of communication
+on the Internet.  Although it is used for personal and private
+conversations, it is not at all a private medium.  Not only are all of
+the messages unencrypted and unauthenticated, but they are all
+routedthrough a central server, forming a convenient interception point
+for an attacker.  Users would benefit from being able to have truly
+private conversations over IM, combining the features of encryption,
+authentication, deniability, and forward secrecy, while working within
+their existing IM infrastructure.
+</p>
+<p>
+In this talk, I will discuss "Off-the-Record Messaging" (OTR), a widely
+used software tool for secure and private instant messaging.  I will
+outline the properties of Useful Security and Privacy Technologies that
+motivated OTR's design, compare it to other IM security mechanisms, and
+talk about its ongoing development directions.
+</p>
+<p>
+Ian Goldberg is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the
+University of Waterloo, where he is a founding member of the
+Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) research group.  He holds a
+Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he discovered
+serious weaknesses in a number of widely deployed security systems,
+including those used by cellular phones and wireless networks. He also
+studied systems for protecting the personal privacy of Internet users,
+which led to his role as Chief Scientist at Zero-Knowledge Systems (now
+known as Radialpoint), where he commercialized his research as the
+Freedom Network.
+</p>
+        </abstract>
+       </eventitem>
+
+
        <eventitem date="2007-10-16" time="4:30 PM" room="TBA" title="Genetic Algorithms in Haskell">
         <short>Andrei Barbu</short>
         <abstract>