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Susan Landau
Susan Landau is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems
Laboratories, where she concentrates on the interplay between security
and public policy. She is currently working on surveillance issues.
Her earlier activities included digital rights management, where she
helped establish Sun's stance on DRM, and work on cryptography and
export control. Before joining Sun,
Landau was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and
Wesleyan University, and held visiting positions at Yale, Cornell, and
the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley. She also
spent many summers teaching at
the Hampshire College Summer Studies
in Mathematics, a program for high-ability high school students
(cf. Supporting
a National Treasure).
In recent years Landau has focused on the security risks of
embedding surveillance within communications infrastructures. She has
participated in several industry reports on the issue, and has written
articles for the Washington Post, IEEE Security and Privacy, the
Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, and the
Communications of the ACM. Her earlier focus was on cryptographic
policy issues. Landau and Whitfield Diffie have
written Privacy
on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, which won
the 1998 Donald McGannon Communication Policy Research Award, and the
1999 IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions
Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession (an updated and
expanded edition was published in spring 2007.) Landau is also primary
author of the 1994 Association for Computing Machinery report ``Codes,
Keys, and Conflicts: Issues in US Crypto Policy.'' With Sun CTO Greg
Papadopoulos, Landau helped establish Sun's principles on
digital-rights management, including ``All creators are users, and
many users are creators,'' and ``Respect for users' privacy is
essential.'' Sun's DRM project, DReaM, provides support for fair use,
the only DRM system to do so. Prior to her work in policy, Landau did
research in symbolic computation and algebraic algorithms, discovering
several polynomial-time algorithms for problems that previously only
had exponential-time solutions.
Landau
started researcHers,
a mailing list for women computer science researchers in academia,
industry and government labs and with Elaine Weyuker, she created
the
ACM-W Athena Lectureship, an award celebrating outstanding women
researchers. In 2008 Landau co-chaired
the MIT
Celebration of Women in Math meeting. She is a member of
the Computing Research
Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
(CRAW), and serves on the advisory board of ACM-W.
Landau is the recipient of
the
2008 Women of Vision Social Impact Award, a Fellow of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and
an ACM Distinguished Engineer. She
served for six years on the National Institute of Standards and
Technology's Information
Security and Privacy Advisory Board, and has been a member of the
Association for Computing Machinery's Advisory Committee on Privacy
and Security and ACM's Committee on Law and Computing Technology as
well as an associate editor of
the Notices of the American
Mathematical Society. She has appeared on NPR several times, and
has had articles published in the ``Boston Globe,'' ``Chicago
Tribune,'' ``Christian Science Monitor,'' ``Scientific American,''
``Washington Post,'' as well as in numerous scientific journals.
Landau received her PhD from MIT (1983), her MS from Cornell (1979),
and her BA from Princeton (1976).
(Publications are arranged by subject and may be listed in more than one
category if appropriate.)
Digital Rights Management
- S. Landau, R. Stratulate, and D. Twilleager,
"Consumers, Fans, and Control: What the Games Industry Has to Teach
Hollywood about DRM,", CCS Workshops: DRM '06.
- G. Papadopoulos and S. Landau, "Innovate, Create, and
Compensate!," 19 July 2005.
Security and Public Policy
- S. Landau, ``A Multidimensional Problem,'' Viewpoints
Column, Communications of the
ACM, to appear, November 2008.
- W. Diffie and
S. Landau, ``Brave
New World of Wiretapping,''
Scientific American, September 2008, pp. 33-39.
- S. Landau, ``Security and
Privacy Landscape in Emerging
Technologies,''
IEEE Security and Privacy, Vol. 6, No. 4, August/September 2008,
pp. 74-77.
- S. Bellovin, M. Blaze, W. Diffie, S. Landau, P. Neumann, and
J. Rexford, "Risking Communications Security:
Potential Hazards of the ``Protect America Act,''"
IEEE Security and
Privacy, Vol. 6, No. 1, January/February 2008, pp. 24-33. A
short version appeared as
"Internal Risks, External
Surveillance" Inside Risks 209, CACM 50, p. 128, Dec,
2007.
- S. Landau,
"A Gateway for Hackers: The Security Threat in the New Wiretapping
Law," Washington Post, August 9, 2007, p. A17.
- S. Bellovin, M. Blaze, E. Brickell, C. Brooks, V. Cerf, W. Diffie,
S. Landau, J. Peterson, J. Treichler, "Security Implications
of Applying the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to Voice
over IP," 2006.
- S. Landau, "National Security on the Line," Journal of
Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Vol. 4, Issue 2
(2006), pp. 409-447.
- S. Landau, "Security, Wiretapping, and the
Internet," IEEE
Security and Privacy, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 26-33,
November/December 2005.
- S. Bellovin, M. Blaze, and S. Landau, "The
Real National-Security Needs for VoIP", Inside Risks 180, CACM
48, Nov, 2005, p. 120.
- S. Landau and M. Stytz, "Overview of Cyber Security: A Crisis of
Prioritization", IEEE Security and
Privacy, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 9-11 and sidebar, S. Landau,
C. Landwehr, and F. Schneider, "The PITAC Report: A Brief Analysis,"
p. 10.
- S. Landau, "What Lessons Are We Teaching,", Inside Risks 180, CACM 48, June, 2005, p. 144.
- S. Landau, "Security, Liberty, and
Electronic Communications," (invited talk), in Matt Franklin
(ed.), Advances in Cryptology: CRYPTO 2004, Springer Verlag,
pp. 355-372.
- S. Landau, "The Transformation of Global Surveillance," in Bytes,
Bombs, and Bandwidth: Information Technology and Global Security,
Social Science Research Council, 2003, pp. 117-131.
- W. Diffie and S. Landau, "Cybersecurity Should be Kept in Civilian
Hands," Boston Globe, August 19, 2002, pp. E-4. Appeared in
slightly different form as "Ensuring Cybersecurity" in NGO
Reporter, Vol. 10, No. 2, Sept. 2002.
- W. Diffie and S. Landau, "The Export
of Cryptography in the 20th Century and the 21st," The
History of Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook, Karl
De Leeuw and Jan Bergstra (eds.), Elsevier, 2007, pp. 725-736. Originally appeared
in Treichel, Jeanie and Mary Holzer (eds.), Sun Microsystems
Laboratories: the First Ten Years, 2001. Sun
Labs Tech Report 2001-102.
A modified version of this paper, September 11th Did Not Change Cryptography
Policy, Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
April 2002, pp. 450-454.
- W. Diffie and S. Landau, "The Threat of .NET," New Technology
Week, Nov. 5, 2001.
- S. Landau,
Cryptography in Crisis, Commentary (In My
Opinion), Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
April 1998, p. 461.
- S. Landau, "Dangerous Increase of FBI Surveillance,"
Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune, March 6, 1998, p. 23.
- W. Diffie and S. Landau, Privacy on the Line: The
Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, MIT Press, 1998; updated and expanded
edition, 2007.
- S. Landau and W. Diffie, "Cryptography Control: FBI Wants It, but
Why?", Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 6, 1997, p. 19.
- S. Landau, Eavesdropping and Encryption: U.S. Policy in an
International Perspective, Conference on the Impact of the Internet
on Communications Policy (1997), John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University.
- S. Landau, S. Kent, C. Brooks, S. Charney, D. Denning, W. Diffie,
A. Lauck, D. Miller, P. Neumann and D. Sobel, "Codes, Keys and
Conflicts: Issues in U.S. Crypto Policy," ACM Press, 1994. This report,
funded by the NSF, was an undertaking of the USACM Committee on Public
Policy. Dr. Stephen Kent, Chief Scientist - Security Technology, Bolt,
Beranek and Newman, chaired the panel, which consisted of senior members
of the cryptography and security communities, including members of the
government, industry, and academia. A summary of the report appeared
under the title Crypto Policy Perspectives, in Communications of
the ACM, Vol. 37 (Aug. 1994), pp. 115-121.
- S. Landau, Zero Knowledge and the Department of Defense, Notices
of the American Mathematical Society [Special Article Series],
Vol. 35, No. 1 (1988), pp. 5-12.
- S. Landau, Primes, Codes and the National Security Agency, Notices
of the American Mathematical Society, [Special Article Series],
Vol. 30, No. 1 (1983), pp. 7-10.
Cryptography
- S. Landau, entries for "Clipper and Capstone"; "cryptography"; "digital signatures," in William Staples, ed. Encyclopedia of Privacy, Greenwood Press, 2007.
- S. Landau,
"Find Me a
Hash," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, March
2006, pp. 330-332.
- S. Landau, ""RSA and
Public-Key Cryptography; Introduction to Cryptography; Cryptography: Theory
and Practice; Algebraic Aspects of Cryptography; Elliptic Curves: Number
Theory and Cryptography; Elliptic Curves in Cryptography; Modern
Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs, and Pseudorandomness; Foundations of
Cryptography: Basic Tools; The Design of Rijndael: AES --- the Advanced
Encryption Standard; Handbook of Applied Cryptography,"
Vol. 41, No. 3 (2004), pp. 357-367," Bulletin of the American Mathematical
Society.
S. Landau, "Polynomials in
the Nation's Service: Using Algebra to
Design the Advanced Encryption Standard", American
Mathematical Monthly, February 2004, pp. 89-117.
W. Diffie and S. Landau, September 11th Did Not Change Cryptography
Policy, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, April
2002, pp. 450-454.
Landau, Susan. "Cryptography." Computer Sciences, Ed., Roger
R. Flynn. Vol. 4: Electronic Universe. New York: Macmillan Reference USA,
pp. 49-53.
S. Landau, Advanced
Encryption Standard Choice is
Rijndael, Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
Jan. 2001, p. 38.
S. Landau, Communications Security for the Twenty-First Century: the
Advanced Encryption Standard, Notices of the American Mathematical
Society, April 2000, pp. 450-459. Reprinted, in translation, in
"Surveys in Applied and Industrial Mathematics," TVP Publishers
(Moscow), Vol. 7, No. 2 (2000), pp. 259-281.
S. Landau, Standing the Test of Time: the Data Encryption
Standard, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, March
2000, pp. 341-349. Reprinted, in translation, in "Surveys in Applied and
Industrial Mathematics," TVP Publishers (Moscow), Vol. 7, No. 2 (2000),
pp. 240-258.
S. Landau, "Designing Cryptography for the New
Century," Communications of the Association for Computing
Machinery, Vol. 43, No. 5, May 2000, pp. 115-120.
S. Landau, Cryptography in Crisis, Commentary (In My
Opinion), Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
April 1998, p. 461.
Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, Privacy on the Line: The
Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, MIT Press, 1998.
S. Landau, S. Kent, C. Brooks, S. Charney, D. Denning, W. Diffie,
A. Lauck, D. Miller, P. Neumann and D. Sobel, "Codes, Keys and
Conflicts: Issues in U.S. Crypto Policy," ACM Press, 1994. This report,
funded by the NSF, was an undertaking of the USACM Committee on Public
Policy. Dr. Stephen Kent, Chief Scientist - Security Technology, Bolt,
Beranek and Newman, chaired the panel, which consisted of senior members
of the cryptography and security communities, including members of the
government, industry, and academia. A summary of the report appeared
under the title Crypto Policy Perspectives, in Communications of
the ACM, Vol. 37 (Aug. 1994), pp. 115-121.
S. Landau, Some Remarks on computing the Square Parts of
Integers, Information and Computation, Vol. 78, No. 3 (1988),
pp. 246-253.
S. Landau, Zero Knowledge and the Department of Defense, Notices
of the American Mathematical Society [Special Article Series],
Vol. 35, No. 1 (1988), pp. 5-12.
S. Landau, Primes, Codes and the National Security Agency, Notices
of the American Mathematical Society, [Special Article Series],
Vol. 30, No. 1 (1983), pp. 7-10.
Identity Management and Project Liberty
- S. Landau and D. Mulligan, I'm
Pc01002/SpringPeeper/ED288l.6; Who are You?,
IEEE Security
and Privacy, Vol. 6, No. 2, March/April 2008, pp. 13-15.
- S. Landau,
Liberty ID-WSF Security and Privacy Overview, October 2003.
- S. Landau and J. Hodges, A
Brief Introduction to Liberty, February 13, 2003.
- G. Ellison, J. Hodges, and S. Landau,
Risks Presented by Single
Sign-On Architectures October 18, 2002.
- G. Ellison, J. Hodges, and S. Landau,
Security and Privacy Concerns
of Internet Single Sign-On,September 6, 2002.
Symbolic Computation
- S. Landau, "Computations with Algebraic Numbers," in J. Grabmeier,
E. Kaltofen, and V. Weispfennig (eds.), Computer Algebra
Handbook, Spring Verlag, 2003, pp. 18-19.
- S. Landau and N. Immerman, Embedding Linkages in Integer
Lattices, Algorithmica, Vol. 43, No. 5, May 2000,
pp. 115-120. A preliminary version appeared in MSI Workshop on
Computational Geometry, October, 1994.
- S. Landau, Compute and Conjecture, Commentary (In My
Opinion), Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
Feb. 1999, p. 189.
- S. Landau,
: Four
Different Views, Mathematical Intelligencer,
Vol. 20, No. 4 (Fall 1998), pp. 55-60.
- D. Kozen, S. Landau, and R. Zippel, Decomposition of Algebraic
Functions, Journal of Symbolic Computation, Vol. 22 (1996),
pp. 235-246. A preliminary version appeared in Algorithmic Number
Theory Symposium (1994).
- S. Landau, How to Tangle with a Nested Radical, Mathematical
Intelligencer, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Spring 1994), pp. 49-55.
- S. Landau, "Finding Maximal Subfields," SIGSAM Bulletin,
Vol. 27, No. 3 (1993), pp. 4-8.
- S. Landau, Simplification of Nested Radicals, SIAM J. of
Comput., Vol. 21 (1992), pp. 85-110. A preliminary version
appeared in Thirtieth Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of
Computer Science (1989), pp. 314-319.
- S. Landau, A Note on `Zippel Denesting,' J. Symb. Comput., Vol. 13
(1992), pp. 41-47.
- J. Cremona and S. Landau, Shrinking Lattice Polyhedra, SIAM J. of
Discrete Math, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1990), pp. 338-348. A preliminary
version appeared in Proceedings of the First ACM-SIAM Symposium on
Discrete Algorithms (1990), pp. 188-193.
- D. Kozen and S. Landau, Polynomial Decomposition
Algorithms, J. Symb. Comput., Vol. 7 (1989), pp. 445-456.
Appeared in a different version as J. von zur Gathen, D. Kozen and
S. Landau, "Functional Decomposition of Polynomials" Twenty-Eight
Annual IEEE Symposium on the Foundations of Computer Science
(1989), pp. 314-319.
- S. Landau, Factoring Polynomials Quickly, Notices of the American
Mathematical Society, [Special Article Series], vol. 34, No. 1
(1987), pp. 3-8.
- S. Landau and G. Miller, Solvability by Radicals is in Polynomial
Time, J. Comput. Sys. Sci., Vol. 30, No. 2 (1985), pp. 179-208. A
preliminary version appeared in Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Theory of
Computing (19830, pp. 140-151.
- S. Landau, Factoring Polynomials over Algebraic Number
Fields, SIAM J. of Comput., Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 184-195.
- S. Landau, "Polynomial Time Algorithms for Galois
Groups," Proceedings of the Int'l. Symposium on Symbolic and
Algebraic Computation (1984), Spring Verlag Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, No. 174, pp. 225-236.
Complexity
- N. Immerman and S. Landau, The Complexity of Iterated
Multiplication, Information and Computation Vol. 116, No. 1
(1995), pp. 103-116. A preliminary version appeared in Fourth Annual
Structure in Complexity Conference (1989), pp. 104-111.
- S. Landau and N. Immerman, The Similarities (and Differences) between
Polynomials and Integers, Int'l. Conf. on Number Theoretic and
Algebraic Methods in Computer Science (1993), pp. 57-59.
Women in Science
- S. Landau,
"Anywhere, Anytime -- Or Just Where is Your Office Anyhow?," Pipeline series,
Computing Research News, September 2005, p. 2.
- S. Landau, A Far Cry from Galois Fields, Newsletter of the
Association for Women in Mathematics, November-December 2003,
pp. 11-13.
- S. Landau,
Time to Move Mountains, Commentary (In My
Opinion), Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
Sept. 2000, p. 853.
- S. Landau, Universities and the Two-Body Problem, Computing
Research News, March, 1994, p. 4. Also reprinted in the Association
for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, March 1994,
pp. 12-14, and SIGACT News, Dec. 1994, pp. 41-43 and reprinted in "Complexities: Women in Mathematics," Bettye Anne Case and Anne Leggett (eds.), Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 253-256.
- S. Landau, Tenure Track, Mommy Track, Association for Women in
Mathematics Newsletter, May-June 1991. Also reprinted in
shortened
form in Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
Sept. 1991, pp. 703-4 and reprinted in "Complexities: Women in Mathematics," Bettye Anne Case and Anne Leggett (eds.), Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 260-263.
Miscellaneous
- S. Landau,
Internet Time, Commentary (In My
Opinion), Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
March 2000, p. 325.
- S. Landau, The Myth of the Young Mathematician, Letter from the
Editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Nov. 1997,
p. 1284.
- S. Landau, Mathematicians and Social Responsibility, Letter from
the Editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
Feb. 1997, p. 188.
- S. Landau, Rising to the Challenge, Letter from
the Editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
June, 1996, p. 652.
- S. Landau, "Joseph Rotblat: From Fission Research to a Prize for Peace,"
Scientific American, Jan. 1996, pp. 38-39.
- S. Landau, Joseph
Rotblat: The Road Less Traveled,
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jan.-Feb. 1996, pp. 46-54.
- S. Landau, Something There is That Doesn't Love a Wall, Letter from
the Editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
Nov. 1995, p. 1268.
- S. Landau, Letter from
the Editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
May 1995, p. 524.
- S. Landau, "The Secret of Life is a Nontrivial Computation," SIAM
News, May 1991, pp. 12-13.
- S. Landau, "The Responsible Use of `Expert' Systems," Proceedings
of the Symposium on Directions and Implications of Advanced
Computing (1987), pp. 167-181. Also appeared in Directions and
Implications of Advanced Computing, Vol. 1, Ablex Publishing
Corp. (1989), pp. 191-202.
- S. Landau, "What's Doing in Ithaca, New York," New York Times,
Sept. 9, 1979, Section X, p. 7.
- member, ACM-W Executive Committee, 2008-present.
- co-editor, special issue on identity management,
IEEE Security
and Privacy, March/April 2008.
- section board member,
Viewpoints,
Communications of the ACM, 2008-present.
- co-chair, MIT Women in Math: A Celebration, April 12-13, 2008.
- member, Panels, Workshops, and Presentations Committee, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer
Science, 2007.
- member, Industry Advisory Committee, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computer Science, 2007.
- chair, selection committee,
Athena Lecturer,
2006-present.
- program committee member, Computers, Freedom, and Privacy,
2007.
- program committee member, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2006.
- program committee member, Industry and Government Track, 12th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Privacy, 2005.
- associate editor, IEEE Security and
Privacy, 2005 - present.
- program committee member, Workshop on Privacy in the
Electronic Society, 2004.
- member, CRA
Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, 2003 -
present.
- advisory board member, ACM
Committee on Women, 2003 - 2003.
- program committee member, Computers,
Freedom, and Privacy, 2004.
- program committee member, CRA Grand Challenges in Information Security
and Assurance, 2003.
- advisory board member, Computers,
Freedom, and Privacy, 2003.
- member, Information Security and Privacy
Advisory Board, 2002-2008.
- member, ACM Advisory Committee on Security and Privacy, 2001 - 2003.
- member, ACM Committee on Law and Computing Technology, 1999 - 2003.
- program committee member, Computers,
Freedom, and Privacy, 2000.
- distinguished lecturer, Sigma Xi, 1999 - 2001.
- member, Symbolic Computation Review Panel, NSF, 1997.
- member, Discipline Advisory Committee (Computer Science), Fulbright Scholars, 1995 - 1997.
- associate editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 1994 - 2001.
- member-at-large, Section Committee, Mathematics Section, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994 - 1998.
Sun Microsystems
MS UBUR02-311
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Phone: 413-259-2018
Fax: 413-253-2156
Email: susan.landau at sun.com
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