Seminars

2015 Seminars

The CACR Seminar is being organized by Nik Unger, Alireza Sharifi and Kalikinkar Mandal.

December

  • Teaching users random system-assigned passwords
    Matthew Wright, University of Texas at Arlington
    Dec 2 (Wed), 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, DC 1302
November
  • Your online digital trail: Using smartphones sensors to track users
    Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois
    Nov 23 (Wed), 10:30 am - 11:30 pm, DC 1304
  • Key compression for isogeny-based cryptosystems
    Chris Leonardi, University of Waterloo
    Nov 18 (Wed), 4:45 pm - 5:45 pm, DC 1304
  • Real Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses
    Tao Wang, University of Waterloo
    Nov 2 (Mon), 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, DC 1304
September
  • The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma: New construction and applications
    Jalaj Upadhyay, University of Waterloo
    Sep 18 (Fri), 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, DC 1331
  • Secure load balancing in Tor with Peerflow
    Nicholas Hopper, University of Minnesota
    Sep 1 (Tue), 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, DC 1331
August
  • Hash-based signatures - an update
    Andreas Hulsing, TU Eindhoven
    Aug 26 (Wed), 10:00 am - 11:00 am, QNC 1201
  • Key length requirements for post-quantum cryptography
    David Jao, University of Minnesota
    Aug 14 (Fri), 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, MC 5501
July
  • A model for adversarial wiretap channel and its applications
    Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary
    Jul 31 (Fri), 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, EIT 3142
  • Cross-site search is practical: privacy attacks on webservice users
    Amir Herzberg, Bar Ilan University
    Jul 27 (Mon), 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, DC 1304
June
  • Internet voting protocols with everlasting privacy
    Jeroen van de Graaf, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
    Jun 26 (Fri), 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, MC 6486
  • ERINDALE, A polynomial-based hash algorithm
    Kumar Murty, University of Toronto
    Jun 3 (Wed), 10:30 am - 11:30 am, DC 1304
May
  • Deniable key exchanges for secure messaging
    Nik Unger, University of Waterloo
    May 13 (Wed), 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, DC 2310
April
  • Itus: An implicit authentication framework for Android
    Hassan Khan, University of Waterloo
    Apr 23 (Thu), 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, DC 1304
February
  • Isogeny-based cryptography
    Vladimir Soukharev, University of Waterloo
    Feb 9 (Mon), 10:30 am - 11:30 am, DC 1331
January
  • Some new results on binary polynomial multiplication
    Murat Cenk, Middle East Technical University
    Jan 27 (Tue), 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, EIT 3142