2009 Seminars

The Cryptography Seminar is being organized by Greg Zaverucha, Marcio Juliato, and Koray Karabina

December

• Privacy-preserving Queries over Relational Databases
  Femi Olumofin, University of Waterloo
  December 10 (Thursday), 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, DC 1331
• Improving Privacy and Security in Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Encryption
  Sherman Chow, New York University
  December 3 (Thursday), 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, DC 1304
• On the Impossibility of Basing Identity Based Encryption on Trapdoor Permutations
  Periklis Papakonstantinou, University of Toronto
  December 1 (Tuesday), 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, MC 5158

• New Ternary and Quaternary Sequences with Two-Level Autocorrelation
  Honggang Hu, University of Waterloo
  November 12 (Thursday), 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, EIT 3145

• Towards Attribute-Based Encryption Without Key Delegation
  Jason Hinek, University of Calgary
  October 1 (Thursday), 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, DC 1302
• The Idemix Anonymous Credential System
  Greg Zaverucha, University of Waterloo
  October 15 (Thursday), 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
• How Cryptosystems Are Really Broken
  Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute
  October 22 (Thursday): 4:00 - 5:00 pm, DC 1351
  (CS Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar)
• Plumbing 101: How to Deal With a Small Cryptographic Leakage
  Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute
  October 23 (Friday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, MC 5158
• Multi-party Off-the-Record Messaging
  Berkant Ustaoglu, NTT Japan
  October 29 (Thursday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1331

• Sum-Product Problem: New Generalisations and Applications
  Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University
  September 18 (Friday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, MC 5158

• Cryptographic Applications of Indifferentiability via Leaking Random Oracle Models
  Kazuo Ohta, University of Electro-Communications
  August 12 (Wednesday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, MC 2018B

• Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format
  Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo
  July 22 (Wednesday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Modeling Jamming Attacks on Wireless Networks
  Radha Poovendran, University of Washington
  July 27 (Monday): 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, DC 1302

• Distributed Key Generation for the Internet
  Aniket Kate, University of Waterloo
  June 15 (Monday): 2:00 - 3:00 pm, DC 1304
• Isogenies in Cryptography
  Francois Morain, l'École Polytechnique
  June 17 (Wednesday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• Peer-to-peer Anonymous Communication: Approaches and Pitfalls
  Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  May 8 (Friday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, MC 5158
• The Standardization of NTRUEncrypt
  Nick Howgrave-Graham, NTRU
  May 20 (Wednesday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, MC 5158
• Isogeny Computation in Small Characteristic
  Luca De Feo, l'École Polytechnique
  May 22 (Friday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, MC 2018A
• Anonymous Key Agreement in an Identity-Based Infrastructure
  Aniket Kate, University of Waterloo
  May 27 (Wednesday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Boneh-Boyen Signatures and the Strong Diffie-Hellman Problem
  David Jao, University of Waterloo
  May 29 (Friday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, MC 5158

• Comparing Two Pairing-Based Aggregate Signature Schemes
  Ed Knapp, University of Waterloo
  April 6 (Monday): 1:30-2:00 pm, DC 1331

• Efficient Fault Tolerant SHA-2 Hash FUnctions for Space Applications
  Marcio Juliato, University of Waterloo
  March 2 (Monday): 4:30-5:00 pm, EIT 3142
• Plaintext Recovery Attacks Against SSH
  Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway College
  March 4 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, DC 1302
• Faster Scalar Multiplication using the Multibase NAF Method
  Patrick Longa, University of Waterloo
  March 12 (Thursday): 2:30-3:30 pm, DC 1331
• PLINKO: Polling with a Physical Implementation of a Noisy Channel
  Chris Alexander, University of Waterloo
  March 30 (Monday): 1:30-2:30 pm, DC 1331

• Private Intersection of Certified Sets
  Greg Zaverucha, University of Waterloo
  February 18 (Wednesday): 1:30-2:30 pm, DC 1302
• Monitoring-Based Key Revocation Schemes for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Guang Gong, University of Waterloo
  February 20 (Friday): 2:30-3:30 pm, DC 1304
• Cutting Edge Cases in Digital Privacy and Crime
  Jennifer Granick, Electronic Frontier Foundation
  February 23 (Monday): 1:30-2:30 pm, DC 1304

• Pseudopowers and pswudosquares
  Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University
  January 22 (Thursday): 3:30-4:30 pm, MC 5136
• Fermat quotients
  Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University
  January 23 (Friday): 3:30-4:30 pm, MC 5158
• Class invariants
  Francois Morain, l'École Polytechnique
  January 29 (Thursday): 3:30-4:30 pm, MC 5136