Ron Rivest: Symmetric Encryption via Keyrings and ECC

Friday, July 15, 2016 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Refreshments: 
Lunch at noon
Location: 
Hewlett G882
Speaker: 
Ron Rivest
Abstract:
 
We present a new scheme for implementing a "fuzzy vault", wherein
a message can be encrypted using a biometric (a set of features) or
a set of keywords (a keyring) as a symmetric encryption key.  The
scheme is quite simple, robust against errors, and has small message sizes.