Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Seminar

Sophia Yakoubov: "Fuzzy Password-Authenticated Key Exchange"
Friday, May 18, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

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Sophia Yakoubov: "Fuzzy Password-Authenticated Key Exchange"
Friday, May 11, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

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Jack Doerner: ORAM for Secure Computation
Friday, March 23, 2018 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Hayim Shaul: Scalable Secure Computation of Moments with Application to k-Nearest Neighbors
Friday, March 9, 2018 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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Given a set S of n d-dimensional points, the k-nearest neighbors (kNN) is the problem of quickly finding k points in S that are nearest to a query point q.
Rio LaVigne: Topology Hiding Computation for All Graphs
Friday, March 2, 2018 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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Mukul Kulkarni: on-Malleable Codes from Average-Case Hardness: AC0, Decision Trees, and Streaming Space-Bounded Tampering
Friday, February 23, 2018 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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Saleet Klein: The Edited Truth
Friday, February 2, 2018 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Abstract:  We introduce two new cryptographic notions in the realm of public and symmetric key encryption.
Yupeng Zhang: Verifiable Databases and RAM Programs
Friday, February 9, 2018 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Abstract: The talk covers the following two papers:
 
vSQL: Verifying Arbitrary SQL Queries over Dynamic Outsourced Databases
 
Xiao Wang: Authenticated Garbling: Efficient Maliciously Secure Two-Party Computation and Global-Scale Secure Multiparty Computation
Friday, January 26, 2018 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Abstract:  This talk consists of two papers:
== Authenticated Garbling and Efficient Maliciously Secure Two-Party Computation ==
 
Peter Byerley rindal: Fast and Secure Private Set Intersection
Friday, December 8, 2017 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
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Yilei Chen: Fiat-Shamir and Correlation Intractability from Strong KDM-Secure Encyrption
Friday, December 8, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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We construct simple functions that suffice for realizing the Fiat Shamir paradigm when applied to any interactive proof. More generally, our functions are correlation intractable w.r.t. all relations.
 
Alex Lombardi: Anonymous IBE, Leakage Resilience and Circular Security from New Assumptions
Friday, December 1, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

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Ran Cohen: Round-Preserving Parallel Composition of Probabilistic-Termination Cryptographic Protocols
Friday, November 17, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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Rafael Pass: Explorations into Algorithmic Fairness
Friday, October 27, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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Adi Akavia: Secure search in the cloud: homomorphic encryption meets coresets
Friday, September 15, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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CIS Seminar: Amit Sahai "Why We Rewind"
Friday, July 28, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Why do cryptographers who work on protocols keep talking about rewinding? Are they all stuck in the past? Why do we need to rewind anyway, and what does this have to do with obfuscation?

Dakshita Khurana: How to Achieve Non-malleability in One or Two Rounds, or, A Knowledge Extraction Technique for Two Round Protocols
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Abstract: Knowledge extraction is an important technique central to several cryptographic protocols. Usually, protocols requiring knowledge extraction based on standard assumptions require at least three rounds of interaction.
On the Quantitative Hardness of CVP
Friday, May 26, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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Jonathan Ullman: Tight Lower Bounds for Differentially Private Selection
Friday, April 28, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

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Sunoo Park: New Constructions of Non-Malleable Commitments and Applications
Friday, April 21, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Abstract: Non-malleable commitments (NMC) are fundamental cryptographic
primitives.  Since their conception by Dolev, Dwork and Naor (STOC 91),
numerous applications of NMC have been discovered including
round-efficient MPC.  Recently Goyal, Pandey and Richelson (STOC 16)
Nir Bitansky: Verifiable Random Functions from Non-Interactive Witness-Indistinguishable Proofs
Friday, April 14, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Abstract:  Verifiable random functions (VRFs), introduced by Micali, Rabin, and Vadhan (FOCS 99), are pseudorandom functions where the owner of the seed, in addition to computing the function's value at any point, can also generate a non-interactive proof that the value is correct, without comp
Aloni Cohen: Cryptography with Updates
Friday, April 7, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Abstract: Starting with the work of Bellare, Goldreich and Goldwasser, a rich line of work has studied the design of updatable cryptographic primitives.
From Algebraic Complexity to Zero Knowledge Protocols
Friday, March 24, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

We present new techniques for achieving unconditional zero knowledge within models that combine probabilisti

Yilei Chen: Constraint-hiding constrained PRFs for NC1 from LWE
Friday, March 10, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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Itay Berman: Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Proximity
Friday, March 17, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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Oxana Poburinnaya: Equivocating Yao: Constant-Round Adaptively Secure Multiparty Computation in the Plain Model
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Abstract: Yao's garbling scheme is one of the basic building blocks of cryptographic protocol design.

Prashant Nalini Vasudevan: Average-Case Fine-Grained Hardness, and what to do with it
Friday, February 10, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Abstract:  We present functions that are hard to compute on average for algorithms running in some fixed polynomial time, assuming widely-conjectured worst-case hardness of certain problems from the study of fine-grained complexity.

Rafael Pass: Rethinking Large-Scale Consensus through Blockchains
Friday, December 2, 2016 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

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Joseph Bonneau: Public Randomness, Blockchains and Proofs-of-delay
Friday, November 18, 2016 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm

A public, unpredictable source of randomness would enable many exciting applications, starting with verifiable public lotteries. It is an essential building block for many types of smart contract requiring random inputs, from online games to random audits.

Vassilis Zikas: Fair and Robust Multi-Party Computation using a Global Transaction Ledger
Friday, November 18, 2016 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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