2012 Seminars

The Cryptography Seminar is being organized by Tariq Elahi, Alireza Sharifi, Kalikinkar Mandal, and Brandon Weir.

December

• Side-Channel Analysis and Embedded Systems Security
  Carols Moreno, University of Waterloo
  Dec 19 (Wed), 3:00 pm-4:00 pm, EIT 3151/3153

• Enhancing Tor's Performance using Real-time Traffic Classification
  Mashael Alsabah, University of Waterloo
  Nov 30 (Wed), 2:30 pm-3:30 pm, DC 1302
• Secure Montgomery Multiplication
  Robert Lambert, Research in Motion
  Nov 27 (Tue), 11:00 am-12:00 pm, DC 1304
• Enabling Dynamic Data and Indirect Mutual Trust for Cloud Computing Storage Systems
  Alireza Sharifi, University of Ottawa
  Nov 14 (Wed), 11:30 am-12:30 pm, E5 4106

• Repo Men Are Coming: Body EULAs, Privacy and Security of the Person
  Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa
  Oct 10 (Wed), 1:30-2:30 pm, DC 1302
• Practical PIR for Electronic Commerce
  Ryan Henry, University of Waterloo
  Oct 5 (Fri), 2:30-3:30 pm, DC 1304

• Extended Combinatorial Constructions for Peer-to-peer User-Private Information Retrieval
  Colleen Swanson, University of Waterloo
  Sep 28 (Fri), 10:00 - 11:00 am, DC 1316
• A Privacy-Friendly Architecture for Mobile Social Networking Applications
  Sarah Pidcock, University of Waterloo
  Sep 25 (Tue), 8:30 - 9:30 am, DC 1331
• The Future of Digital Signatures
  Johannes Buchmann, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
  Sep 19 (Wed), 1:30 - 2:30 pm, MC 5158
• Human Rights, Data Analysis, and the Truth: Technical and Epistemological Reflections from Twenty Years Building Software and Doing Analysis to Study Mass Atrocities
  Patrick Ball, Benetech
  Sep 11 (Tue), 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 1302

• Data Node Encrypted File System: Efficient Secure Deletion for Flash Memory
  Joel Reardon, ETH Zurich
  Aug 14 (Tue), 2:00 - 3:00 pm, DC 2585
• Security and Privacy of Legally Authorized Telephone Surveillance
  Micah Sherr, Georgetown University
  Aug 2 (Thu), 1:30 - 2:30 pm, DC 2585
• Relating Declarative Semantics and Usability in Access Control
  Vivek Krishnan, University of Waterloo
  Aug 1 (Wed), 1:00 - 2:00 pm, EIT 3141

• Four-Dimensional GLV Method
  Francesco Sica, University of Waterloo
  Jul 11 (Wed), 9:30 - 10:30 am, EIT 3142

• Unconditionally Secure Signature Schemes Revisited
  Colleen Swanson, University of Waterloo
  Jun 29 (Fri), 2:00 - 3:00 pm, DC 2314

• Johannes Blindfolded: Techniques and Applications of Oblivious Printing
  Aleksander Essex, University of Waterloo
  Apr 16 (Mon), 8:30 - 9:30 am, DC 1331
• Lattice Techniques for Efficient Pairing Implementation
  Edward Knapp, University of Waterloo
  Apr 25 (Wed), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, MC 4062

• MiST: Guaranteed Secure Transactions on Compromised Mobile Devices
  Yevgeniy Vahlis, AT&T Security Research Center
  Mar 1 (Thu), 3:00 - 4:00 pm, MC 6052
• Solving Discrete Logarithms in Smooth Order Groups with CUDA
  Ryan Henry, University of Waterloo
  Mar 8 (Thu), 2:00 - 3:00 pm, DC 1331
• A General Construction for 1-round RMT and SMT
  Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary
  Mar 15 (Thu), 2:00 - 3:00 pm, DC 1304

• SMT Solvers for Software Reliability and Security
  Vijay Ganesh, MIT
  Jan 15 (Mon), 10:30 - 11:30 am, E5 5106-5128
• The Convergence of Human Factors and Computer Security
  Sonia Chiasson, Carleton University
  Jan 19 (Thu), 4:00 - 5:00 pm, DC 1302
• Time-based Secure Pairing Protocol for Low-cost Passive RFID Systems
  Yong Guan, Iowa State University
  Jan 20 (Fri), 11:30 - 12:30 pm, EIT 3142