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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Mitigator: Privacy policy compliance using Intel SGX
  Miti Mazumdar, University of Waterloo
  Jun 5 (Wed), 3:00 - 4:00 pm, DC 2585

• 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

• 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

• Cryptocurrencies and blockchains: combining mechanism design and computation
  Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum
  Mar 25 (Mon), 4:00 - 5:00 pm, RCH 101

• Detecting vulnerable JavaScript libraries in hybrid Android applications
  Nikita Volodin, University of Waterloo
  Feb 8 (Fri), 3:00 - 4:00 pm, DC 3317