Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Seminar Series 2016
Daniel Genkin,
Daniel Genkin: Efficient Multi-Party Computation: from Passive to Active Security using Additive-Attack Resilient Circuits
Speaker(s): Daniel Genkin
Date: Friday, February 05, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Elette Boyle,
Elette Boyle: New Developments in Function Secret Sharing
Speaker(s): Elette Boyle
Date: Friday, February 12, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: G882, Hewlett
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Aloni Cohen, MIT
Aloni Cohen: GGM is a Weakly One-Way Family of Functions
Speaker(s): Aloni Cohen
Date: Friday, February 19, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Ron Rothblum, Omer Paneth, Silas Richelson and Muthu Venkitasubramaniam,
Charles River Crypto Day at MSR
Speaker(s): Ron Rothblum, Omer Paneth, Silas Richelson and Muthu Venkitasubramaniam
Date: Friday, February 26, 2016
Time: 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Location: MSR, Clara Barton Room (First Floor)
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Adam Sealfon, MIT,
Adam Sealfon: Network Oblivious Transfer
Speaker(s): Adam Sealfon, MIT
Date: Friday, March 11, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: G882, Hewlett
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Jean-Jacques Quisquater, UCL Crypto Group
Jean-Jacques Quisquater: Is the Group Theory Fully Used for Cryptography
Speaker(s): Jean-Jacques Quisquater
Date: Friday, March 18, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: G882, Hewlett
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Mark Zhandry,
Mark Zhandry: Title: Annihilation Attacks for Multilinear Maps: Cryptanalysis of Indistinguishability Obfuscation over GGH13
Speaker(s): Mark Zhandry
Date: Friday, April 01, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: MIT, Hewlett G882, 32 Vassar St, Gates Tower
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Ari Juels, Cornell Tech, Cornell University,
Ari Juels: The Ring of Gyges: Understanding Criminal Smart Contracts
Speaker(s): Ari Juels, Cornell Tech, Cornell University
Date: Thursday, April 07, 2016
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Prashant Vasudevan,
Prashant Vasudevan: Fine-Grained Cryptography
Speaker(s): Prashant Vasudevan
Date: Friday, April 08, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Daniel Genkin,
Daniel Genkin: Physical Side Channel Attacks on PCs and Mobile Devices
Speaker(s): Daniel Genkin
Date: Friday, April 15, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: G882, Hewlett
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Prabhanjan Ananth,
Prabhanjan Ananth: Universal Obfuscation and Witness Encryption: Boosting Correctness and Combining Security
Speaker(s): Prabhanjan Ananth
Date: Friday, April 22, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Valerio Pastro,
Valerio Pastro: Essentially Optimal Robust Secret Sharing with Maximal Corruptions
Speaker(s): Valerio Pastro
Date: Friday, April 29, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Rafael Pass,
Rafael Pass: Analysis of the Blockchain Protocol in Asynchronous Networks
Speaker(s): Rafael Pass
Date: Friday, May 06, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, Gates Bldg, G882
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Ron Rothblum,
Ron Rothblum: Spooky Encryption and its Application
Speaker(s): Ron Rothblum
Date: Friday, May 13, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Gates Bldg, 882, Hewlett
Contact: Deborah Lehto, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Joel Alwen, IST Austria,
Joel Alwen: Data-Independent Memory Hard Functions
Speaker(s): Joel Alwen, IST Austria
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Kobbi Nissim, Ben-Gurion University and Harvard University,
Kobbi Nissim: Accessing Data while Preserving Privacy
Speaker(s): Kobbi Nissim, Ben-Gurion University and Harvard University
Date: Friday, May 20, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: G882, Hewlett
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Dakshita Khurana,
Dakshita Khurana: Two-Message Non-Malleable Commitments
Speaker(s): Dakshita Khurana
Date: Friday, June 24, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617 324 7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Amit Sahai, UCLA,
Amit Sahai: State of the iO: where we stand in the quest for secure obfuscation
Speaker(s): Amit Sahai, UCLA
Date: Friday, July 15, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Ron Rivest, MIT,
Ron Rivest: Symmetric Encryption via Keyrings and ECC
Speaker(s): Ron Rivest, MIT
Date: Friday, July 15, 2016
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Zahra Jafargholi,
Zahra Jafargholi: Adaptive Security of Yao's Garbled Circuits
Speaker(s): Zahra Jafargholi
Date: Friday, August 05, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Gates Bldg., G882, Hewlett
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Renen Perlman,
Renen Perlman: Lattice-Based Fully Dynamic Multi-Key FHE with Short Ciphertexts
Speaker(s): Renen Perlman
Date: Friday, August 26, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Akshay Degwekar, MIT,
Akshay Degwekar: Structure vs Hardness Through the Obfuscation Lens
Speaker(s): Akshay Degwekar, MIT
Date: Friday, September 30, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
5 Great Speakers,
Charles River Crypto Day
Speaker(s): 5 Great Speakers
Date: Friday, October 14, 2016
Time: 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Ling Ren, MIT,
Ling Ren: Proof of Space from Stacked Expanders
Speaker(s): Ling Ren, MIT
Date: Friday, October 21, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882, Gates Tower
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Muthuramakrishnana Venkitasubramaniam, University of rochester,
Muthuramakrishnana Venkitasubramaniam: Composable Adaptive Secure Protocols without Setup Under Polytime Assumptions
Speaker(s): Muthuramakrishnana Venkitasubramaniam, University of rochester
Date: Friday, October 28, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Tancrede Lepoint, SRI,
Tancrede Lepoint: Using the Rényi Divergence Rather than the Statistical Distance in Lattice Crypto
Speaker(s): Tancrede Lepoint, SRI
Date: Friday, November 04, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Hewlett, G882
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Vassilis Zikas, Rensselaer Polytech Institute,
Vassilis Zikas: Fair and Robust Multi-Party Computation using a Global Transaction Ledger
Speaker(s): Vassilis Zikas, Rensselaer Polytech Institute
Date: Friday, November 18, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: D463 (Star)
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Joseph Bonneau, Stanford
Public randomness, blockchains and proofs-of-delay
Speaker(s): Joseph Bonneau
Date: Friday, November 18, 2016
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: D507
Contact: Rebecca Yadegar, ryadegar@csail.mit.edu
Rafael Pass, Cornell University,
Rafael Pass: Rethinking Large-Scale Consensus through Blockchains
Speaker(s): Rafael Pass, Cornell University
Date: Friday, December 02, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: G882, Hewlett
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 617.324.7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu