Project Outreach

In this page we describe diverse events where we gave presentations about the threshold cryptography standardization project.

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Shortcut to some slide-decks: Slide-deck (TIS 2019, Nov), Slide-deck (ICMC, May 2019), Slide-deck (NIST Crypto Club, Jul 2018)

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Event: Second Theory of Implementation Security (Tis) Workshop

Title: Sizing Up the Threshold: Challenges and Opportunities in the Standardization of Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives. Slides here

Presenters: Luís Brandão and Apostol Vassilev

Date & Place: January 9, 2018, 11:00am--12:00pm, Zurich, Switzerland

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Event: Dagstuhl Seminar 18021: Symmetric Cryptography

Title: Challenges and Opportunities for the Standardization of Threshold Cryptography

Presenter: Nicky Mouha. Abstract here.

Date & Place: Wednesday January 10, 2018, 11:05--11:20am, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany

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Event: FICS Research Annual Conference on Cybersecurity

Keynote presentation: Psst, can you keep a secret? Challenges and opportunities in the standardization of threshold schemes for cryptographic primitives.

Presenter: Apostol Vassilev. Slides: available upon request.

Date: February 28, 2018, 10:40-11:20am, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

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Event: International Cryptographic Module Conference 2018

Presentation Title: Sizing Up the Threshold: Challenges and Opportunities in the Standardization of Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives

Presenter: Apostol Vassilev. Slides: available upon request.

Date: May 11, 2018, 10:00-10:30am, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Event: Theory and Practice of Multi-Party Computation Workshop, rump session

Date & Place: May 29, 2018, Aarhus, Denmark

Title: Threshold Cryptographic Schemes

Presenter: Luís Brandão. Slides: available upon request.

Date & Place: May 29, 2018, Aarhus, Denmark

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Event: Crypto Reading Club, NIST

Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Techniques --- a step towards standardization?

Presenter: Luís Brandão. Slides here.

Date & Place: July 18, 2018, 10am-12pm, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

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Event: Crypto 2018 rump session

Title: NIST Update

Presenter: John Kelsey. Slides available upon request.

Date & Place: August 21, 2018, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

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Event: FCUL-DI seminar

Title: Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives --- Towards standardization

Presenter: Luís Brandão. Slides available upon request.

Date & Place: September 14, 2018, Lisboa, Portugal

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Event: CVP Industry Working Group

Title: The NIST Threshold Cryptography project

Presenter: Luís Brandão. Slides available upon request.

Date & Place: October 17, 2018, Rockville, MD, USA

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Event: NIST-ITL Science Day 2018

Title: NIST Threshold Cryptography Project

Presenter: Nicky Mouha, Apostol Vassilev.

Date & Place: November 01, 2018, Gaithersburg, USA

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Event: NIST Threshold Cryptography Workshop

Presenters: 2 panels, 5 papers, 8 presentation proposals; 2 invited keynotes, several NIST talks

Date & Place: March 11--12, 2019, Gaithersburg, USA

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Event: International Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC 2019)

Presenter: Luís Brandão. Slides here.

Date & Place: May 16, 2019, Vancouver, Canada

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Event: NIST-ITL Science Day 2019

Title: NIST Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives

Presenter: Luís Brandão, Michael Davidson, Apostol Vassilev. Poster here.

Date & Place: November 06, 2019, Gaithersburg, USA

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Event: Theory of Implementation Security Workshop (TIS 2019)

Presenter: Luís Brandão. Slides here.

Date & Place: November 11, 2019, London, UK