2008 Seminars

The Cryptography Seminar is being organized by Koray Karabina, and Aniket Kate, and Marcio Juliato.

November

• Message recognition protocols for ad hoc networks
  Atefeh Mashatan, University of Waterloo
  November 11 (Tuesday): 4:00-5:00 pm, DC 1331
• Constructing expander graphs from the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis
  David Jao, University of Waterloo
  November 28 (Friday): 3:30-4:30 pm, MC 5158

• A SEU-sesistant, FPGA-based implementation of the substitution transformation in AES for security on satellites
  Solmaz Ghaznavi, University of Waterloo
  October 2 (Thursday): 3:00-4:00 pm, DC 1331

• Improving Tor using a TCP-over-DTLS tunnel
  Joel Reardon, University of Waterloo
  September 18 (Thursday): 3:00-4:00 pm, DC 1331
• SEU-Resistant SHA-256 Design for Security in Satellites
  Marcio Juliato, University of Waterloo
  September 30 (Tuesday): 4:00-5:00 pm, DC 1331

• The theory and applications of homomorphic cryptography
  Kevin Henry, University of Waterloo
  August 19 (Tuesday): 2:00-3:00 pm, DC 1331
• Bit security of elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman secret keys
  Dimitar Jetchev, Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France
  August 22 (Friday): 3:30-4:30 pm, MC 5158

• Aspects of key management in wireless sensor networks
  Maura Paterson, Royal Holloway, University of London
  July 2 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, DC 1331
• A user study of Off-the-Record Messaging
  Ryan Stedman, University of Waterloo
  July 9 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, DC 1331
• Distributed approaches for location privacy
  Ge Zhong, University of Waterloo
  July 16 (Wednesday), 1:30-2:30 pm, DC 1331
• Pairing computation on genus 2 hyperelliptic curves
  Xinxin Fan, University of Waterloo
  July 23 (Wednesday), 1:30-2:30 pm, DC1331
• One-more discrete logarithm problems
  Alfred Menezes, University of Waterloo
  July 25 (Friday): 3:30-4:30 pm, MC 5158
• Multi-factor password authenticated key exchange
  Douglas Stebila, University of Waterloo
  July 30 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, DC 1331

• On achieving security and privacy preservation for vehicular communications
  Chengxi Zhang, University of Waterloo
  June 9 (Monday): 4:00-5:00 pm, EIT 3142
• Statistical models for intrusion detection systems
  Alvaro Cardenas, University of California
  June 10 (Tuesday): 11:00 am-12:00 pm, EIT 3142
• An approach for recovering satellites and their cryptographic capabilities in the presence of SEUs and attacks
  Marcio Juliato, University of Waterloo
  June 11 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, DC 1331
• Key establishment -- goals, security arguments and applications
  Berkant Ustaoglu, University of Waterloo
  June 13 (Friday): 3:30-4:30 pm, MC 5158
• Addressing two challenges in access control
  Mahesh Tripunitara, Purdue University
  June 18 (Wednesday): 11:00 am-12:00 pm, EIT 3142
• Key predistribution and random intersection graphs
  Simon Blackburn, Royal Holloway, University of London
  June 25 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, DC 1331

• On elliptic curves with embedding degrees k=3, 4 and 6
  Koray Karabina, University of Waterloo
  May 14 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, MC 5158

• Towards eradicating phishing attacks
  Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto
  April 8 (Tuesday): 11:00-12:00 pm, DC 1304
• Parallel multiplier designs for the Galois/counter mode of operation
  Pujan Patel, University of Waterloo
  April 24 (Thursday): 10:00-11:00 am, CEIT 3151
• A security analysis of some physical content distribution systems
  Jiayuan Sui, University of Waterloo
  April 30 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, MC 5158

• Side-channel monitoring of contactless Java cards
  Jem Berkes, University of Waterloo
  March 12 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, MC 5158
• A new family of multibase methods for efficient scalar multiplication
  Patrick Longa, University of Waterloo
  March 19 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, MC 5158
• Minimum node degree and k-connectivity for key predistribution schemes and distributed sensor networks
  Jiang Wu, University of Waterloo
  March 26 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, MC 5158

• Linear complexity and autocorrelation of prime cube sequences
  Hongyeop Song, Yonsei University, Korea
  February 5 (Tuesday): 10:00-11:00 am, DC 1304
• Automatically generating and defending against exploits by binary code analysis
  David Brumley, Carnegie Mellon University
  February 20 (Wednesday): 11:00-12:00 pm, DC 1302
• Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman bits
  David Jao, University of Waterloo
  February 27 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, MC 5158

• Low complexity normal bases
  David Thomson, University of Waterloo
  January 16 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, MC 5158
• Subquadratic binary field multiplier using double polynomial system
  Christophe Negre, University of Perpignan, France
  January 25 (Friday): 11:00-12:00 pm, EIT 3142