2014 Seminars

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

December

• Secret-Key Generation and Secure Communication at the Physical Layer in Wireless Systems
  Ashish Khisti, University of Toronto
  Dec 3 (Wed), 9:30 am-10:30 am, EIT 3142

• Juggling With Points on an Elliptic Curve
  Gabriel Gauthier-Shalom, University of Waterloo
  Nov 25 (Fri), 3:30 pm-4:30 pm, MC 5136B
• Engineering Event Evidencing for Legal Documents Using Cryptography Framework, Algorithms and Standards
  Leon Pintsov, SignitSure Inc.
  Nov 19 (Wed), 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, QNC 1201
• Exploring the Asymptotic Bounds on the Trade-off Between Query Anonymity and Communication Cost in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Alireza Mortezaei, University of Waterloo
  Nov 10 (Mon), 10:00 am-11:00 am, EIT 3142
• Isogeny-based Quantum-Resistant Undeniable Signatures
  Vladimir Soukharev, University of Waterloo
  Nov 7 (Fri), 1:30 pm-2:30 pm, DC 1304

• Muddler: Using Oblivious RAM For A Privacy Preserving Location-Based Service
  Danish Mehmood, University of Waterloo
  Oct 14 (Tue), 2:30 pm-3:30 pm, DC 2310
• The UNIX Process Identity Crisis: A Standards-Driven Approach to Setuid
  Mark Stephen Dittmer, University of Waterloo
  Oct 28 (Tue), 11:00 am-12:00 pm, E5 4007

• Provable Security of Advanced Properties of TLS and SSH
  Douglas Stebila, Queensland University of Technology
  Sep 22 (Mon), 1:00 pm-2:00 pm, DC 1304

• Large-Scale Emulation of Anonymous Communication Networks
  Sukhbir Singh, University of Waterloo
  Aug 1 (Tue), 1:30 pm-2:30 pm, DC 1331
• New Adversary Models for Censorship Circumvention Schemes
  Nicholas Hopper, University of Minnesota
  Aug 5 (Tue), 3:00 pm-4:00 pm, DC 2585
• Censorship Games
  Tariq Elahi, University of Waterloo
  Aug 13 (Wed), 1:30 pm-2:30 pm, DC 2585

• Resilient Aggregation Techniques for Linear and Tree-Based Wireless Sensor Networks
  Kevin Henry, University of Waterloo
  Jul 2 (Wed) 2:30 pm-3:30 pm, DC 2310
• Stuck on the Agenda: Lesson Drawing from "Lawful Access" Issues in Canada
  Christopher Parsons, University of Toronto
  Jul 4 (Fri), 2:00 pm-3:30 pm, DC 1304
• Recent Advances in Algorithms for the Discrete Logarithm Problem
  Alfred Menezes, University of Waterloo
  Jul 4 (Fri), 3:30 pm-4:30 pm, M3 3103
• Quantum Position Verification
  Dominique Unruh, University of Tartu
  Jul 7 (Mon), 2:30 pm-3:30 pm, QNC 0101
• Storing 56-Bit Keys in Human Memory
  Joseph Bonneau, Center for Information Technology Policy
  Jul 25 (Fri), 2:00 pm-3:00 pm, DC 1304
• The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Information-Theoretic and Computational Private Information Retrieval for Communication
  Casey Devet, University of Waterloo
  Jul 31 (Thu), 2:30 pm-3:30 pm, DC 1331

• Using Static Analysis and Machine Learning to Improve the Security and Configuration Management of Systems
  David Lie, University of Toronto
  Jun 11 (Wed), 11:00 am-12:00 pm, EIT 3151-3153
• Modern Secure Data Management
  Radu Sion, Stony Brook University
  Jun 18 (Wed), 2:30 pm-3:30 pm, DC 1302

• Effective Attacks and Provable Defenses for Website Fingerprinting
  Tao Wang, University of Waterloo
  May 12 (Mon), 10:30 am-11:30 am, DC 2310

• Designing, Implementing and Validating Random Bit Generators
  Jithra Adikari and Farhad Haghighizadeh, Elliptic Technologies Inc.
  Apr 11 (Fri), 11:00 am-12:00 pm, E5 5106-5128
• Policy Enforcement on Unstructured Information via Machine Learning
  Atif Khan, University of Waterloo
  Apr 16 (Wed), 11:00 am-12:00 pm, DC 2585
• Privacy Preserving User Data Collection in Anonymity Networks
  Tariq Elahi, University of Waterloo
  Apr 16 (Wed), 2:15-3:15 pm, DC 2310
• The LiveLabs Urban LifeStyle Innovation Platform : Opportunities, Challenges, and Current Results
  Rajesh Krishna Balan, Singapore Management University
  Apr 24 (Thu), 2:30-3:15 pm, DC 1304

• Beyond Bitcoin 1.0: The Second Wave of Cryptocurrency, Challenges and Opportunities
  Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum
  Mar 18 (Tue), 3:00-4:00 pm, DC 2585
• Flexible Combinatiorial Key Pre-Distribution for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Kevin Henry, University of Waterloo
  Mar 20 (Thu), 4:00-5:00 pm, DC 1331
• A Guide to Exporting Quantum Cryptography from Canada
  Steve Whitney, BlackBerry
  Mar 24 (Mon), 1:00-2:00 pm, QNC TBD
• A User-Friendly Toolkit for Constructing Practical Format-Abiding Encryption Schemes
  Kevin Dyer, Portland State University
  Mar 27 (Thu), 3:00-4:00 pm, DC 2585

• On the Computational Complexity of a Circuit Obfuscation Problem
  Mohamed El Massad, University of Waterloo
  Feb 3 (Mon), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, EIT 3142
• Nonlinear Mappings and Sequence Design for Good Correlation
  Jin-Ho Chung, UNIST (Korea)
  Feb 18 (Tue), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, E5 5106/5128
• Algorithms for Gaussian Normal Bases Multipliers
  David Jao, University of Waterloo
  Feb 28 (Fri), 3:30 - 4:30 pm, MC 5158

• Post-Quantum Cryptography: Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystems
  Jintai Ding, University of Connecticut
  Jan 14 (Tue), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, MC 5158
• Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses
  Rob Johnson, Stony Brook University
  Jan 31 (Fri), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 1304