Seminars

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
November
  • 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
October
  • 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
September
  • 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
August
  • 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
July
  • 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
June
  • Implementation Attacks in the Wild
    Christof Paar, University of Bochum
    June 24 (Fri), 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, EIT 3142
May
  • Formalizing and Extending Anonymous Blacklisting Systems
    Ryan Henry, University of Waterloo
    May 18 (Wed), 2:00 - 3:00 pm, MC 5158
April
  • 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
March
  • 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
January
  • SPA-Resistant Binary Exponentiation with Optimal Execution Time
    Carlos Moreno, University of Waterloo
    Jan 27 (Thu), 2:00 - 3:00 pm, E5 4106/4128