2007 Seminars

December

• Low Complexity Normal Bases
  David Thomson, University of Waterloo
  December 5 (Wednesday): 4:00 - 5:00 pm, DC 1331

• Hybrid HIBE Protocol Secure Against Addaptive Attacks
  Sanjit Chatterjee, University of Waterloo
  November 28 (Wednesday): 4:00 - 5:00 pm, DC 1331
• Security Arguments for the UM Key Agreement Protocol in the NIST SP800-56A Standard
  Berkant Ustaoglu, University of Waterloo
  November 21 (Wednesday): 4:00 - 5:00 pm, DC 1331
• New Nonlinear Functions for S-Boxes in Cryptography and their Fourier Transform
  Gary McGuire, University College Dublin
  November 16 (Friday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, MC 5158

• Improved User Authentication in Off-The-Record Messaging Christopher Alexander, University of Waterloo
  October 24 (Wednesday): 4:00 - 5:00 pm, DC 1331
• Combating Adverse Selection in Anonymity Networks
  Jeremy Clark, University of Waterloo
  October 17 (Wednesday): 4:00 - 5:00 pm, DC 1331

• Algebraic Feedback Shift Registers
  Andrew Kapper, University of Kentucky
  September 28 (Friday): 10:00 - 11:00 am, MC 5158
• Anonymity and Security in Delay Tolerant Networks
  Aniket Kate, University of Waterloo
  September 12 (Wednesday): 3:30 - 4:00 pm, DC 1331
• Secure Crash Reporting in Vehicular Adhoc Networks
  Sumair Ur Rahman, University of Waterloo
  September 12 (Wednesday): 3:00 - 3:30 pm, DC 1331
• Cryptographic Research on Digital Signatures
  Lein Harn, University of Missouri
  September 7 (Friday): 3:00 - 4:00 pm, EIT 1015

• On New Weaknesses of the RC4 Stream Cipher
  Goutam Paul, Jadavpur University
  August 22 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331
• An Introduction to Pairings
  Mike Scott, Dublin City University
  August 14 (Tuesday): 3:00 - 4:00 pm, DC 1331
• Library for Prototyping the Computer Arithmetic Level in Crypto Applications
  Arnaud Tisserand, CNRS
  August 10 (Friday): 10:30 - 11:30 am, EIT 3142
• Threshold Schemes in Byzantine Agreement
  Jonathan Hammell, University of Calgary
  August 1 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, MC 5136

• An Efficient and Secure Two-flow Zero-Knowledge Identification Protocol
  Jiang Wu, University of Waterloo
  July 25 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331
• A Security Analysis of the NIST SP 800-90 Elliptic Curve Random Number Generator
  Dan Brown, Certicom Corp.
  July 18 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331
• Pairing-Based Onion Routing
  Aniket Kate, University of Waterloo
  July 4 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331

• Implementation of pairing-based protocols based on supersingular elliptic curves
  Darrel Hankerson, Auburn University
  June 13 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331
• Louis, Lester and Pierre: Three Protocols for Location Privacy
  Ge Zhong, University of Waterloo
  June 6 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331

• Trust Enhanced Secure Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
  Venkat Balakrishnan, Macquarie University
  May 24 (Thursday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331
• Trusted Computing - what's all the fuss?
  Shane Balfe, Royal Holloway, University of London
  May 17 (Thursday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1304

• Pairing-friendly elliptic curves for cryptography
  Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
  April 18 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, MC 5136
• Securing wireless networks with resource-constrained devices
  Yuguang Fang, University of Florida
  April 16 (Monday): 10:30 - 12:00 pm, EIT 3151
• Power analysis attacks on elliptic curve cryptosystems and key randomization countermeasure
  Nevine Ebeid, University of Waterloo
  April 12 (Thursday): 9:30 - 11:00 am, DC 1304
• On the security of some variants of RSA
  Jason Hinek, University of Waterloo
  April 11 (Wednesday): 10:00 - 11:30 am, MC 5158
• Improving the robustness of private information retrieval
  Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo
  April 4 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331

• A simple and unified approach of proving several security notions related to indistinguishability
  Mridul Nandi, University of Waterloo
  March 28 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, MC 5158
• Some nice applications of lattice basis reduction
  Jason Hinek, University of Waterloo
  March 21 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331
• Authorship proof for textual document
  Jiang Wu, University of Waterloo
  March 14 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331
• PunchScan: The first truly-practical voter-verifiable election system
  David Chaum
  March 7 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, MC 5136

• Security failures in electronic voting machines
  J. Alex Halderman, Princeton University
  February 28 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, MC 5158
• A new interactive two-channel message authentication protocol
  Atefeh Mashatan, University of Waterloo
  February 14 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331

• Validation - or why not to trust incoming messages
  Berkant Ustaoglu, University of Waterloo
  January 31 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331