2011 Seminars

The Cryptography Seminar is being organized by Marcio Juliato, Ed Knapp and Colleen Swanson

December

• Approximate Common Divisors Via Lattices
  Nadia Heninger, UC San Diego
  Dec 12 (Mon), 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, MC 5136
• Secret Sharing and Its Applications
  Lein Harn, University of Missouri
  Dec 13 (Tue), 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, EIT 3142
• BridgeSPA: A Single Packet Authorization System for Tor Bridges
  Rob Smits, University of Waterloo
  Dec 15 (Thu), 10:00 am - 11:00 am, DC 1331

• Secret Sharing Based on the Social Behaviors of Players
  Mehrdad Nojoumian, University of Waterloo
  Nov 11 (Fri), 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, DC 2314
• Censorship Resistant Overlay Publishing
  Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University
  Nov 14 (Mon), 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Random Continued Fractions and New Attacks on Small Exponent RSA
  Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Microsoft and University of Toronto
  Nov 16 (Wed), 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, DC 1304
• Computing Blindfolded: New Developments in Fully Homomorphic Encryption
  Vinod Vaikuntanathan, University of Toronto
  Nov 21 (Mon), 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, DC 1304

• Unconditionally Secure Sealed-Bid Auctions
  Mehrdad Mourmian, University of Waterloo
  Oct 3 (Mon), 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, DC 2314
• Improving Security and Performance in Low-Latency Anonymity Networks
  Kevin Bauer, University of Waterloo
  Oct 24 (Mon), 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, DC 1304
• Emerging Methods in the Analysis of Aperiodic Autocorrelations
  Jonathan Jedwab, Simon Fraser University
  Oct 28 (Fri), 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, DC 1331

• Generalized Oblivious Transfer by Secret Sharing
  Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel
  Sep 7 (Wed), 10:30 am - 11:30 am, DC 1331
• Software Implementation of Pairings
  Diego Aranha University of Brasilia
  Sep 9 (Fri), 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, MC 4062
• Lattice-Based Cryptography: From Practice to Theory to Practice (IQC seminar)
  Vadim Lyubashevsky ENS, Paris
  Sep 12 (Mon), 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, RAC 2008

• Cloudy and Phony: On the Convergence of Cloud and Smartphone Security
  Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University Darmstadt
  Aug 8 (Mon), 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, DC 1331

• Quantum-Resistant Public-Key Cryptosystems from Supersingular Elliptic Curve Isogenies
  David Jao, University of Waterloo
  July 8 (Fri), 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, MC 5158
• Security Games in Online Advertising: Can Ads Help Secure the Web & The Inconvenient Truth about Web Certificates
  Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL
  Jul 26 (Tue), 2:00-3:00 pm, DC 1331

• Implementation Attacks in the Wild
  Christof Paar, University of Bochum
  June 24 (Fri), 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, EIT 3142

• Formalizing and Extending Anonymous Blacklisting Systems
  Ryan Henry, University of Waterloo
  May 18 (Wed), 2:00 - 3:00 pm, MC 5158

• Removing Detectable Statistics from Covert Channels
  Matthew Wright, University of Texas at Arlington
  Apr 1 (Fri), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• The McEliece Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Fourier Sampling Attacks
  Chris Moore, Santa Fe Institute
  Apr 4 (Mon), 12:30 - 1:30 pm, RAC1 2009
• Comparing Hardware Performance of Round 2 and 3 SHA-3 Candidates using Altera and Xilinx FPGAs
  Kris Gaj, George Mason University
  Apr 15 (Fri), 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, E5 5106-5128

• New Results on Periodic Sequences With Large k-Error Linear Complexity
  Honggang Hu, University of Waterloo
  Mar 1 (Thu), 3:30 - 4:30 pm, EIT 3145
• Game Theory Meets Network Security and Privacy
  Mohammad Hossein Manshaei, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
  Mar 8 (Tue), 3:30 - 4:30 pm, DC 1331
• Fast SPA-Resistant Exponentiation Through Simultaneous Processing of Half-Exponents
  Carlos Moreno, University of Waterloo
  Mar 10 (Thu), 3:30 - 4:30 pm, EIT 3151-3153
• Throughput Fingerprinting-based Traffic Analysis of Low Latency Anonymous Communication
  Prateek Mittal, UIUC
  Mar 11 (Fri), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• SPA-Resistant Binary Exponentiation with Optimal Execution Time
  Carlos Moreno, University of Waterloo
  Jan 27 (Thu), 2:00 - 3:00 pm, E5 4106/4128