Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Seminar

Silas Richelson: On the Hardness of Learning with Rounding with Small Modulus
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Abstract: We show the following reductions from the learning with errors problem (LWE) to the learning with rounding problem (LWR): (1) Learning the se

Ranjit Kumaresan: Secure Computation with Minimal Interaction, Revisited
Friday, September 11, 2015 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Abstract: Motivated by the goal of improving the concrete efficiency of secure multiparty computation (MPC), we revisit the question of MPC with only two rounds of interaction.

Aloni Cohen: Publicly Verifiable Software Watermarking
Friday, May 15, 2015 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Abstract: Software Watermarking is the process of transforming a program into a functionally equivalent “marked” program in such a way that it is computationally hard to remove the mark without destroying functionality.

Mark Zhandry: Order-Revealing Encryption and the Hardness of Private Learning
Friday, May 8, 2015 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Justin Holmgren: Succinctly Garbling and Obfuscating RAM programs
Friday, May 1, 2015 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Abstract: 
Program obfuscation, and in particular the notion of Indistinguishability Obfuscation (IO) has
Ben Fisch: Physical Zero Knowledge and Secure Computation
Friday, March 6, 2015 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Abstract: Is it possible to prove that two DNA-fingerprints match, or that they do not match, without revealing any further information about the fingerprints? Is it possible to prove that two objects have the same design without revealing the design itself?

Ranjit Kumaresan: How to Use Bitcoin to Design Fair Protocols
Friday, March 13, 2015 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Abstract:
We study a model of fairness in secure computation in which an adversarial party that 
aborts on receiving output is forced to pay a mutually predefined monetary penalty. We 
Silas Richelson: Topology-Hiding Computation
Friday, February 13, 2015 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

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Vanishree Rao: Adaptive Multiparty Non-Interactive Key Exchange without Setup in the Standard Model
Friday, January 23, 2015 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Abstract: Non-interactive key exchange (NIKE) is a fundamental notion in Cryptography. This notion was introduced by Diffie and Hellman in 1976.

Raphael Bost: Machine Learning Classification over Encrypted Data
Friday, February 6, 2015 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Abstract:  Machine learning classification is used in numerous settings nowadays, such as medical or genomics predictions, spam detection, face recognition, and financial predictions.

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