2018 Seminars

The CACR Seminar is being organized by Nik Unger (njunger [at] uwaterloo.ca), Yao Chen (y449chen [at] uwaterloo.ca), and Luis Ruiz-Lopez (luis.ruiz-lopez [at] uwaterloo.ca].

November

• Fantastically bad laws and where to find them
  Nate Cardozo, Electronic Frontier Foundation
  November 2 (Fri), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 1304

• Designing efficient algorithms for combinatorial repairable threshold schemes
  Bailey Kacsmar, University of Waterloo
  October 11 (Thu), 10:00 - 11:00 am, DC 1304
• Offline assisted group key exchange
  Gareth Davies , Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  October 12 (Fri), 10:30 - 11:15 am, MC 5417
• Quantifying location privacy in location-based services
  Peiyuan Liu , University of Waterloo
  October 12 (Fri), 4:00 - 5:00 pm, DC 1331

• Science of security -- could such a thing exist?
  Paul van Oorschot, Carleton University
  September 14 (Fri), 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, MC 5501
• Evaluating the Australian government's legislative response to the encryption debate
  Adam Molnar, Deakin University
  September 25 (Tue), 3:00 - 4:00 pm, DC 1304

• Quantum algorithms for the hidden subgroup problem (continued)
  Javad Doliskani, University of Waterloo
  August 3 (Fri), 1:30 - 2:30 pm, MC 6486
• When a small leak sinks a great ship: deanonymizing Tor hidden service users through bitcoin transactions analysis
  Aiman Erbad, Qatar University
  August 9 (Thu), 3:00 - 4:00 pm, DC 1304

• Where theory meets practice for privacy enhancing technologies
  Chelsea Komlo, HashiCorp
  July 9 (Mon), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 1304
• "Where's Waldo?" Privacy in the age of internet-connected mobile technology
  Matthew Finkel, The Tor Project
  July 10 (Tue), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 1304
• Quantum algorithms for the hidden subgroup problem
  Javad Doliskani, University of Waterloo
  July 12 (Thu), 3:00 - 4:00 pm, MC 6486
• More threshold cryptography for users with multiple devices
  Erinn Atwater, University of Waterloo
  July 30 (Mon), 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, DC 1304
• Finding very damaging needles in very large haystacks
  Vern Paxson, University of California, Berkeley
  July 31 (Tue), 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, DC 1304

• On isogeny graphs of supersingular elliptic curves over finite fields
  Gora Adj, University of Waterloo
  June 5 (Tue), 1:00 - 2:00 pm, MC 6486
• On isogeny graphs of supersingular elliptic curves over finite fields II
  Gora Adj, University of Waterloo
  June 12 (Tue), 1:00 - 2:00 pm, MC 6486
• Forensic analysis in access control - foundations and practice
  Nahid Juma, University of Waterloo
  June 27 (Wed), 11:00 - 12:00 pm, EIT 3145
• Super-happy censorship-resistant fun pages
  Cecylia Bocovich, University of Waterloo
  June 28 (Thu), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 2585

• Efficient fully homomorphic encryption scheme
  Shuhong Gao, Clemson University
  May 10 (Thu), 11:00 - 12:00 pm, EIT 3142
• A security reduction for the short integer solution problem
  Elena Bakos Lang, University of Waterloo
  May 22 (Tue), 1:00 - 2:00 pm, MC 6486

• Private information retrieval: How to get something, without revealing what you got
  Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland
  Apr 2 (Mon), 11:00 - 12:00 pm, E5 4106/4128
• Quantum collision-finding in non-uniform random functions
  Ted Eaton, ISARA Corp.
  Faster isogeny-based compressed key agreement
  Geovandro Pereira, University of Waterloo
  NTRU-HRSS-KEM
  John Schank, University of Waterloo
  Apr 2 (Mon), 1:00 - 2:30 pm, MC 6486
• Somebody think of the children: Examining COPPA compliance at scale
  Joel Reardon, University of Calgary
  Apr 19 (Thu), 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 1304

• Automated Android security assessment
  Joshua Garcia, University of Califorina, Irvine
  Mar 1 (Thu), 10:30 - 11:30 am, EIT 3142
• Enhancing the discovery and mitigation of vulnerabilities in binary programs
  Ruoyu Wang, University of Califorina, Santa Barbara
  Mar 6 (Tue), 10:30 - 11:30 am, DC 1304
• Identifying and mitigating trust violations in the mobile ecosystem
  Antonio Bianchi, University of Califorina, Santa Barbara
  Mar 6 (Tue), 10:30 - 11:30 am, EIT 3142
• Securing hardware-based trusted execution environment
  Sangho Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Mar 8 (Thu), 10:30 - 11:30 am, DC 1304
• LWE Part 1: The problem, the cryptosystem, and its relationsip to lattice problems
  Luis Ruiz, University of Waterloo
  Mar 12 (Mon), 1:30 - 3:00 pm, MC 6486
• Google's ALTS
  Ed Knapp, Google
  Mar 26 (Mon), 11:30 am - 12:20 pm, RCH 101
• LWE Part 2: A quantum discrete Gaussian sampler
  Luis Ruiz, University of Waterloo
  Mar 26 (Mon), 1:30 - 3:00 pm, MC 6486
• Implementing cryptography at scale
  Ed Knapp, Google
  Mar 27 (Tue), 4:00 - 5:00 pm, MC 5501
• Breaking cryptographic barriers
  Dakshita Khurana, UCLA
  Mar 28 (Wed), 10:30 - 11:30 am, DC 1304

• ALBANIS: A brief overview of lattice-based NIST submissions
  Luis Ruiz, University of Waterloo
  Feb 5 (Mon), 1:00 - 2:00 pm, MC 6486
• CSIS bulk data collection and national security surveillance
  Michael Vonn, BC Civil Liberties Association
  Feb 6 (Tue), 2:00 - 3:00 pm, DC 1304
• Post-quantum group-based cryptography
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York
  Feb 9 (Fri), 3:30 - 4:30 pm, MC 5501

• StyleCounsel: Seeing the (random) forest for the trees in adversarial code stylometry
  Chris McKnight, University of Waterloo
  Jan 5 (Fri), 3:00 - 4:00 pm, DC 2585
• Next-generation authentication and key exchange protocols
  Douglas Stebila, McMaster University
  Jan 15 (Mon), 9:30 - 10:30 am, MC 5417
• Are ideal lattices quantum-safe?
  Jean-François Biasse, University of South Florida
  Jan 22 (Mon), 9:30 - 10:30 am, QNC 1501
• System security: from theory to practice under tampering and leakage
  Daniel Genkin, Penn State University
  Jan 23 (Tue), 10:30 - 11:30 am, DC 1304