Components for Building Secure Decentralized Networks
Christian Grothoff
TU Muenchen
SWS Colloquium
Christian Grothoff is currently on the faculty of the Technische
Universitaet Muenchen leading an Emmy-Noether research group in the
area of computer networks. He earned his PhD in computer science from
UCLA, an M.S. in computer science from Purdue University, and both a
Diplom II in mathematics and the first Staatsexamen in chemistry from
the Bergische Universitaet Gesamthochschule (BUGH) Wuppertal. His
research interests include compilers, programming languages, software
engineering, networking and security
This talk will present technical solutions towards a secure and fully
decentralized future Internet, with focus on the GNU Name System. The
GNU Name System is a new decentralized public key infrastructure which
we propose as an alternative to DNS(SEC) and X.509, in particular for
online social networking applications. I will also give an overview
of the GNUnet architecture and give pointers to ongoing related
research.