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Title:
Law and Algorithms: A Cryptographic Lens
Speaker: Dr. Ran Canetti\
IACR Fellow, Boston University
Date:
23rd January, 2020
Time:
4 - 5 pm
Venue:
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Abstract:
Computer Science has had a complex relationship with Law since its early days. On the one hand, the ...Read more
Biography of the speaker:
Ran Canetti is a professor of Computer Science and the director of the center for Reliable Informati ...Read more
Title:
Secure Multiparty Computation
Speaker:
Dr. Yuval Ishai\ Abraham Tulin Professor of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Date:
17th January, 2020
Time:
4 - 5 pm
Venue:
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Abstract:
How can sensitive data be processed without introducing a single point of failure? How can several ...Read more
Biography of the speaker:
Yuval Ishai is presently a chaired professor of Computer Science at the Technion, Israel. He receiv ...Read more
Title:
Minicrypt Primitives with Algebraic Structure
Speaker:
Dr. Sikhar Patranabis\ Research Associate, Dept. of CSA, IISc
Date:
29th October, 2019
Time:
4 - 5 pm
Venue:
CSA Seminar Hall (Room No. 254, First Floor)
Abstract:
Algebraic structure lies at the heart of much of Cryptomania as we know it. An interesting question ...Read more
Biography of the speaker:
Sikhar Patranabis received his PhD in Computer Science with a specialization in cryptography from I ...Read more
Title:
Proof-of-Stake for Blockchain
Speaker:
Dr. Chaya Ganesh\ Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date:
26th and 28th February, 2019
Time:
3:30 - 5 pm
Abstract:
The talk will include issues with PoW, introduce PoS as an alternative, discuss basic structure of ...Read more
Biography of the speaker:
Chaya Ganesh is a post-doctoral researcher at the Aarhus Crypto group. She graduated with a PhD fro ...Read more
Title:
Proofs of Replicated Storage Without Timing Assumptions
Speaker:
Dr. Chaya Ganesh
Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date:
22nd November, 2018
Time:
11:00 am
Venue:
CSA Seminar Hall (Room No. 254, First Floor)
Abstract:
In this work we provide a formal treatment of proof of replicated storage, a novel cryptographic pr ...Read more
Biography of the speaker:
Chaya Ganesh is a post-doctoral researcher at the Aarhus Crypto group. She graduated with a PhD fro ...Read more
Title:
LevioSA: Lightweight Secure Arithmetic Computation
Speaker:
Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam\ Professor, Dept of Computer Science, University of Rochester, USA
Date:
15th November, 2018
Time:
04:00 pm
Venue:
CSA Seminar Hall (Room No. 254, First Floor)
Abstract:
We study the problem of secure two-party computation of arithmetic circuits. This problem is motiva ...Read more
Biography of the speaker:
Muthu Venkitasubramaniam is an Associate Professor at the University of Rochester. He received his ...Read more
Title:
Result Pattern Hiding Searchable Encryption for Conjunctive Queries
Speaker:
Debdeep Mukhopadhyay\ Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Date:
22nd October, 2018
Time:
02:30 pm
Venue:
CSA Seminar Hall (Room No. 254, First Floor)
Abstract:
Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) allows a party to outsource the storage of his data to anothe ...Read more
Biography of the speaker:
Debdeep Mukhopadhyay is currently a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engine ...Read more
Title:
Actively Secure Garbled Circuits with Constant Communication Overhead in the Plain Model
Speaker:
Dr. Carmit Hazay\ Senior Lecturer, Computer Engineering Department, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Date:
15th November, 2017
Time:
11:00 am
Venue:
CSA Seminar Hall (Room No. 254, First Floor)
Abstract:
We consider the problem of constant-round secure two-party computation in the presence of active (m ...Read more
Biography of the speaker:
Carmit Hazay is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Engineering Department, Bar-Ilan University, Isra ...Read more
