Philippe Janson

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Professor Emeritus

philippe.janson@epfl.ch +41 21 693 68 66

EPFL IC-DO
INJ 331 (Bâtiment INJ)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 68 66
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Fields of expertise

IT security

Biography

Phil Janson got a BS and MS in E.E. from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and holds an MS and PhD in IT security from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1976 to 1996 he Taught an Operating Systems course at the Ecole Polytechique of the ULB. In 1976 he joined IBM's Research Laboratory in Zurich, where he worked on LANs (incl. IBM's Token Ring). In 1986 he worked on LAN bridges at IBM's Development Laboratory in Austin, Texas. Back in Zurich in 1987 he led several projects in heterogeneous networking and IT security. In 1995 he headed a new Computer Science department. He was elected to IBM's Academy of Technology, of which he was Vice President in 2000 et 2001. In 2001 he joined the Advisory Board of the Communication and IT Department of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Research Council of the Swiss National Foundation. In 2010 to 2017 he held a professorship at EPFL, teaching IT security and Computer Science basics. From 2017 to 2019, he developed and taught cyber-defense courses for the Swiss army. He holds a dozen patents and published over 50 articles and a book on operating systems.

Publications

Selected publications

P. Janson, H. Rudin, eds. Special Issue, Computer Networks 31 8 (Apr.1999)	Computer Network Security
P. Janson, G. Tsudik and M. Yung Proc. IEEE INFOCOM '97, Tokyo, Japan (Apr. 1997)	Scalability and Flexbility in Authentication Services: the KryptoKnight Approach
P. Janson and M. Waidner DuD, Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 20 6 (1996), 350-361	Electronic Payment Systems
P. Janson and G. Tsudik Comput. Commun. 18 9 (Sept.1995), 645-653	Secure and Minimal Protocols for Authenticated Key Distribution
R. Bird, I. Gopal, A. Herzberg, P. Janson, S. Kutten, R. Molva and M. Yung IEEE J. Select. Areas in Comm. SAC-11 5 (1993), 679-693	Systematic Design of a Family of Attack-Resistant Authentication Protocols

Other publications

Patents & publications list

Patents List • P.A. Janson, H.R.Müller, E.H.Rothauser, "Flow control mechanism for block-switching nodes", US Patent 4,380,063 (filed 10 Jun. 1981). • W. Bux, H.R. Müller, P. Janson, D.T.W. Sze, "Method of transmitting information between stations attached to a unidirectional ring", EU Patent 0 054 077 (filed 8 Dec. 1980). • R.F. Bird, I.S. Gopal, P.A. Janson, S, Kutten, R.A. Molva, M.M. Yung, "Authentication protocols in communication networks", US Patent 5,148,479 (filed 10 Mar. 1991). • R.F. Bird, I.S. Gopal, A. Herzberg, P.A. Janson, S, Kutten, R.A. Molva, M.M. Yung, "Multi-party secure session / conference", US Patent 5,369,705 (filed 3 Jun. 1992). • P. Janson, G. Tsudik, "Method and system for authenticated key distribution in a communication system", EU Patent 0 711 480 (filed 27 Jul. 1993). • R. Hauser, P. Janson, R. Molva, G. Tsudik, E. Van Herreweghen, "Method and systems for changing the key or password in a secure distributed communication network", EU Patent 0 720 796 (filed 20 Sep. 1993). • P. Janson, H. Scherzer, "Data integrity in smart cards", US Patent 6,535,997 (filed 19 Mar. 2003). • P. Janson, A. Nadalin, N. Nagaratnam, "Security context maintenance within a distributed environment", US Patent (filed 2003). • P. Janson, T. Pietraszek, M. Schunter, C. Vanden Berghe, TRACK on Google Scholar “Computer program with meta-data management function”, US Patent (filed 31 Oct. 2005). • P. Janson, “Integrated software development system, method for enforcing input validation, computer arrangement and computer program product”, US Patent (filed 16 Dec. 2005). Publications • P. Janson, "Removing the Dynamic Linker from the Security Kernel of a Computing Utility", MAC-TR 132, Project MAC, Mass. Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, Mass. (June 1974). • P. Janson, "Dynamic Linking and Environment Initialization in a Multi-Domain Process", Proc. 5th ACM Symp. on Oper. Syst., Austin, Texas (Nov.1975), 43-50. • P. Janson, "Using Type Extension to Organize Virtual Memory Mechanisms", LCS-TR 167, Lab. for Comp. Sc., Mass. Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, Mass. (Sept.1976). • P. Janson, "Protection de l