Seminars

2019 Seminars

The CACR Seminar is being organized by Nik Unger (njunger [at] uwaterloo.ca), Yao Chen (y449chen [at] uwaterloo.ca), and Luis Ruiz-Lopez (luis.ruiz-lopez [at] uwaterloo.ca].

October

  • Group key exchange: A history
    Nik Unger, University of Waterloo
    Oct 4 (Fri), 3:00-4:00 pm, DC 1302
  • Are we susceptible to rowhammer? An end-to-end methodology for cloud providers
    Stefan Saroiu, Microsoft Research
    Oct 24 (Thu), 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, DC 1302
September
  • SFour: A protocol for cryptographically secure record linkage at scale
    Basit Khurram , University of Waterloo
    Sep 17 (Wed), 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, DC 1304
  • Hardware implementation of Barrett reduction exploiting constant multiplication
    Crystal Roma, University of Waterloo
    Sep 20 (Fri), 10:00 am - 11:00 am, EIT 3151/3153
  • Undermining key exchange
    Douglas Stebila, University of Waterloo
    Sep 20 (Fri), 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, MC 5501
  • Improving implementations of CSIDH
    Jason LeGrow, University of Waterloo
    Sep 25 (Wed), 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, MC 5417
August
  • Existence of linear all-or-nothing tranforms
    Navid Esfahani, University of Waterloo
    Aug 7 (Wed), 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 2585
  • Compilation techniques for actively secure mixed mode two party computation
    Alex Norton, University of Waterloo
    Aug 28 (Wed), 3:00 - 4:00 pm, DC 2310
  • Verification of outsourced computation using smart contracts
    Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary
    Aug 30 (Fri), 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, EIT 3142
July
  • Real-time prevention of smartphone loss via active acoustic sensing
    Jiayi Chen, University of Waterloo
    Jul 9 (Tue), 4:00 - 5:00 pm, DC 2310
June
  • Mitigator: Privacy policy compliance using Intel SGX
    Miti Mazumdar, University of Waterloo
    Jun 5 (Wed), 3:00 - 4:00 pm, DC 2585
May
  • Doing the internet's dirty work: commercial content moderators as social media's gatekeepers
    Sarah Roberts, UCLA
    May 13 (Mon), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 1304
April
  • How to encrypt the internet
    Nick Sullivan, Cloudflare
    Apr 1 (Mon), 9:30 - 10:20 am, RCH 101
  • IETF encryption standards post-TLS 1.3
    Nick Sullivan, Cloudflare
    Apr 2 (Tue), 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, MC 5501
March
  • Cryptocurrencies and blockchains: combining mechanism design and computation
    Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum
    Mar 25 (Mon), 4:00 - 5:00 pm, RCH 101
February
  • Detecting vulnerable JavaScript libraries in hybrid Android applications
    Nikita Volodin, University of Waterloo
    Feb 8 (Fri), 3:00 - 4:00 pm, DC 3317

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