crypto Reading club

NIST Computer Security Division is hosting Crypto Reading Club talks, to foster research and collaboration. Talks are held biweekly on Wednesday in Room B341, Building 222, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, unless noted otherwise.

Reminders will be sent to subscribers of the Crypto Reading Club List. If you want to be included to the Crypto Reading Club List and/or give a talk, please contact Morris J. Dworkin or Meltem Sonmez Turan.

Upcoming Talks

• August 16, 2017; Michael Davidson; Smart Contract Security

Previous Talks

2017

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
August 2, 2017	Pavol Zajac	On the explicit reduction between MQ and decoding problems
July 19, 2017	Meltem Sonmez-Turan and Cagdas Calik	The Multiplicative Complexity of Boolean Functions
May 24, 2017	Jintai Ding	RLWE-based authentication and key reuse for RLWE-based key exchanges
May 10, 2017	Yehuda Lindell and Avner Mor	An Introduction to Secure Multiparty Computation with Applications to Key Protection
April 26, 2017	Kerry McKay	On the Practical (In-)Security of 64-bit Block Ciphers
April 12, 2017	Qiang Tang	_Cliptography: Post-Snowden Cryptography_
March 29, 2017	Nicky Mouha	http://SHAttered.io/ - The first public collision on SHA-1
March 15, 2017	Betul Durak	Breaking the FF3 Format Preserving Encryption Standard over Small Domains
March 1, 2017	David Kravitz	ABC Blocks: Auditable Blockchain Communications for Securing User and Device Authentication and Authorization
February 1, 2017	Moses Liskov	Accessible Protocol Analysis with the CPSA Tool

 

2016

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
December 7, 2016	Liqun Chen	Anonymous Attestation
November 23, 2016	Nicky Mouha	Simpira v2: A Family of Efficient Permutations Using the AES Round Function
November 9, 2016	Ray Perlner	Cost analysis of hash collisions: Will quantum computers make SHARCS obsolete
October 26, 2016	Nicky Mouha	Insights from the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2016
October 12, 2016	Marco Bucci	A Fully-Digital Chaos-Based Random Bit Generatory
September 28, 2016	Carl Miller	Generating true randomness from quantum measurements
September 14, 2016	Charles Bennett	Public randomness: harvesting it, using it, and making it trustworthy
August 31, 2016	Cagdas Calik	A Survey on Timed-release Crypto and Crypto Puzzles
August 3, 2016	Daniel Smith-Tone	Multivariate Cryptography with “Big” Algebraic Structures
June 22, 2016	Dmitry Cousin	Uniformity and Entropies
June 8, 2016	Ray Perlner	Key Recovery Attack on the Cubic ABC Simple Matrix Multivariate Encryption Scheme
May 25, 2016	Rene Peralta	Epsilon-biased Ddistributions, What They Are, How We Construct Them, What Are They Good For
April 28, 2016	Ludovic Lescieux	Laser technologies for IC security evaluation
April 13, 2016	Angelos Stavrou	Leveraging Blockchain-based protocols in IoT systems
March 30, 2016	Francois Dupressoir	Verified Security Proofs for Cryptographic Standards -- SHA3”
March 16, 2016	Aishwarya Thiruvengadam	10-Round Feistel is Indifferentiable from an Ideal Cipher
February 3, 2016	Dustin Moody	Post-Quantum Cryptography
January 20, 2016	Sharon Keller	Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program
January 15, 2016	Jean-Phillippe Aumasson	Password Hashing Competition
January 13, 2016	Jacob Alperin Sheriff	Lattice-based cryptography

2015

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
December 23, 2015	Rene Peralta	Random thoughts about randomness, primality, and covering arrays
December 9, 2015	Meltem Sonmez Turan, Magnus Find	Multiplicative Complexity
October 14, 2015	Morrie Dworkin	Chosen-ciphertext attack to XEX
September 30, 2015	Adam L. Young	The Drunk Motorcyclist Protocol for Anonymous Communication
September 16, 2015	Kerry McKay	Not all Exports are Good for the Economy: FREAK and Logjam Attacks
September 2, 2015	David McGrew	Robustness and Transparency in Cryptography
August 5, 2015	Kerry McKay and Meltem Sonmez Turan	Short talks on papers on CRYPTO15
July 22, 2015	Young-Hoon Park	Multicast for mobile networks
June 24, 2015	Magnus Gausdal Find	On Computing the Multiplicative Complexity
June 10, 2015	Bryan Ford	Decentralizing Authorities into Scalable Strongest-Link Cothorities
May 27, 2015	Daniel Smith-Tone	Polynomial rings and finite fields
May 13, 2015	Dustin Moody	Breaking the Japanese Codes in World War II
April 29, 2015	Christine Task	Addressing the Problem of Privacy-preserving Social Network Analysis
April 15, 2015	Dmitry Cousin	Why Neural Network Models and What They Can Do?
March 18, 2015	Kerry McKay	Intro to Machine Learning for Cryptologist
March 4, 2015	Carl Miller and Yaoyun Shi	Quantum Random Number Generation
February 4, 2015	Christine Task	Publishing Sensitive Data Safely with Differential Privacy
January 21, 2015	Morrie Dworkin	The Riddle of the Labyrinth
January 7, 2015	Meltem Sonmez Turan	How Random is your RNG

2014

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
December 10, 2014	Gedare Bloom	MORPH: an FPGA SoC to Defend Against Hardware Trojans
November 12, 2014	Mike Gault and Ken Zatyko	Keyless Signature Infrastructure
October 29, 2014	Kerry McKay	The block cipher Present
October 15, 2014	Adam O’Neill	Relaxed Cryptography for Application-Driven Security
Septemeber 17, 2014	Matt Robshaw	UHF RFID, Security, and Future Directions
August 6, 2014	Meltem Sonmez Turan, Ray Perlner, Allen Roginsky, Apostol Vassilev	Crypto Small Talks II
July 28, 2014	Magnus Gausdal Find	The Relationship Between Multiplicative Complexity and Nonlinearity
July 23, 2014	Yi-Kai Liu, Kerry McKay, Dustin Moody, John Kelsey	Crypto Small Talks I
June 25, 2014	Morrie Dworkin	The Riddle of the Labyrinth
June 11, 2014	Meltem Sonmez Turan	Honeywords: Making Password-Cracking Detectable
May 28, 2014	Ray Perlner	Optimizing Information Set Decoding Algorithms to Attack Cyclosymmetric MDPC Codes
May 14, 2014	Dustin Moody	Elliptic Curves: Efficiency, Security, and Standards
April 30, 2014	Vadim Lyubashevsky	Lattice Based Cryptography
April 16, 2014	Kerry McKay	I Know Why You Went to the Clinic: Risks and Realization of HTTPS Traffic Analysis
April 2, 2014	Dr. Jintai Ding	Post-Quantum Cryptography - Multivariate Public Key Cryptography
March 19, 2014	Dr. Tromer, Josh Kanner and Dr. Sasson	Moving to a New Paradigm of Trust in Continuous Monitoring of Cloud Computing
March 5, 2014	Rene Peralta	NIST Randomness Beacon
Feb 19, 2014	John Kelsey	Tor Users Get Routed

2013

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
Nov 13, 2013	Morrie Dworkin	How to Share a Secret
Oct 30, 2013	Kerry A. McKay	Introduction and Analysis of Geometric and Polygram Substitution Ciphers
Sept 18, 2013	Santanu Sarkar	Cryptanalysis of RSA Variants and Implicit Factorization
Sept 4, 2013	Kyle J. Bunch	The Use of Homomorphic Encryption Combined with Configurable Computing for Implementing Information Barriers in a Future Inspection Regime
Aug 7, 2013	Cagdas Calik	Nonlinearity Computation for Sparse Boolean Functions
July 24, 2013	Sean Weaver	Cryptol
July 10, 2013	John Kelsey	Discussion on Bitcoin
June 12, 2013	Kerry McKay	Discussion on TLS
May 22, 2013	David McGrew	Hash-based Signatures
May 15, 2013	Dustin Moody	Fully Homomorphic Encryption
April 17, 2103	Kerry McKay	Decrypting Classical Cipher Text Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo
March 20, 2013	Morris J. Dworkin and Meltem Sonmez Turan	Tutorial on Differential Cryptanalysis
March 6, 2103	Kerem Varici	Differential Analysis of the LED Block Cipher
Jan. 13, 2013	Ray Perlner	A Chosen-Ciphertext Attack on the Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) Mode
Jan. 9, 2103	Rene Peralta	Four Measures of Nonlinearity

2012

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
Dec. 12, 2012	Stefan Lucks, Meltem Sonmez Turan and Morrie Dworkin	Authenticated Encryption
Nov. 28, 2012	Santanu Sarkar	Side Channel Attack to Actual Cryptanalysis: Breaking CRT-RSA with Low Weight Decryption Exponents
Nov. 7, 2012	Stefan Lucks	Key Stretching, Memory Consumption, and the Pebbling Game
Oct. 31, 2012	Oscar Garcia-Morchon	Towards Fully Collusion-Resistant ID-based Establishment of Pairwise Keys
Oct. 17, 2012	Ketan Mehta	OPACITY and PLAID Authentication Protocols
Oct. 3, 2012	Stephen Jordan	Classical and Quantum Circuit Obfuscation with Braids
Sept. 19, 2012	Meltem Sonmez Turan	Efficient Dissection of Composite Problems, with Applications to Cryptanalysis, Knapsacks, and Combinatorial Search Problems Crypto 2012 Best Paper by I. Dinur, O. Dunkelman, N. Keller, A. Shamir
Aug. 9, 2012	Morrie Dworkin	Any Finite Subgroup of the Multiplicative Group of a Field is Cyclic
July 25, 2012	Arnab Roy	Big data - WEBINAR
July 11, 2012	Peter Mell	Overview on Big Data and its Security Implications
June 27, 2012	Luís Brandão	1-output 2-party Secure Function Evaluation with Malicious Parties
May 30, 2012	Daniel Smith-Tone	Differential Properties of MPKCs with Multiple Variable Types
May 16, 2012	Arnab Roy	Relatively-Sound NIZKs and Password-Based Key-Exchange
May 9, 2012	Lars Jonas Andersson	System on Card
April 18, 2012	Quynh Dang	Randomized Hashing
March 7, 2012	Ray Perlner	On Error Correcting Code and Cryptographic Schemes Based on Coding Theory
Feb. 21, 2012	Dr. Anna Lysyanskaya	Authentication without Identification
Feb. 8, 2012	Lily Chen	Security in Mobility
Jan. 25, 2012	John Kelsey	Order Preserving Encryption (OPE)
Jan. 8, 2012	Ismet Sahin	Random Lines Global Optimization Algorithm

2011

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
Sept. 22, 2011	Wayne Patterson	The Cryptology of Baseball
Sept. 14, 2011	Filip Zagorski	An Absentee Voting System
Aug. 3, 2011	Yi-Kai Liu	Quantum Algorithms for Algebraic Problems
July 13, 2011	Errol Markland Jr.	Implementing Cryptographic Algorithms
June 29, 2011	John Kelsey	Side Channel Attacks
May 18, 2011	Cathy Tilton	Using Biometrics for Authentications
May 11, 2011	Poorvi Vora	Paperless Independently-Verifiable Voting
April 27, 2011	Tyler Shields	Dirty Little Secrets: Mobile Apps Invading Your Privacy - WEBINAR
April 20, 2011	Rick Kuhn and Raghu Kacker	Combinatorial Testing
April 6, 2011	Meltem Sonmez Turan	Distance Bounding Protocols
Feb. 23, 2011	Sheila Frankel	Security in IPv6
Feb. 9, 2011	Serge Egelman	It's All About The Benjamins: An empirical study on incentivizing users to ignore security advice
Jan. 26, 2011	Rene Peralta	Selective-Disclosure Envelopes: Construction and Applications

2010

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
Dec. 15, 2010	Souradyuti Paul	Mode of Operations of SHA-2 candidates
Dec. 1, 2010	John Kelsey	“Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security” and “The psychology of scams: Provoking and committing errors of judgment” papers
Nov. 3, 2010	Lily Chen	Tunneled Authentication
Oct. 6, 2010	Meltem Sonmez Turan	Cryptographic Key Derivation from Passwords
Sept. 22, 2010	Dustin Moody	Verheul’s Theorem and the Security of Pairing-based Cryptography
July 28, 2010	Mridul Nandi	Security Notions and Some Popular Examples of Multi party Protocols
July 7, 2010	Allen Roginsky	Distribution of Prime Numbers
June 16, 2010	Elaine Barker	Transition of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Length
May 5, 2010	Francesca Slade	Classification of Peer Production: The Identification of Malfeasance on Collaborative Online Systems
April 21, 2010	John Kelsey	Fuzzy Extractors
April 7, 2010	Kerry McKay	Pseudo-linear Statistical Distinguishers for Block Ciphers
March 24, 2010	Annabelle Lee	Smart Grid and Related Security Issues
March 10, 2010	Lily Chen	Authenticated Key Establishment in Practice
Feb. 24, 2010	Bill MacGregor	Chip and Pin Attack
Jan. 27, 2010	Mridul Nandi	Zero Knowledge Proofs

2009

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
Dec. 2, 2009	Allen Roginsky	Authenticated Key Establishment
Nov. 4, 2009	Mridul Nandi	Primes is in P
Oct. 21, 2009	Allen Roginsky	Introduction to Bloom Filters
Oct. 7, 2009	Meltem Sonmez Turan	Introduction to Feedback Shift Registers
Sept. 9, 2009	Souradyuti Paul	AES Related-Key Attacks
Aug. 11, 2009	Allen Roginsky	Discrete Logarithm Problem (DLP) and Reduction of DLP over an Elliptic Curve
July 29, 2009	Mridul Nandi	Security Preserved Padding Methods on MD Hash
July 8, 2009	Radia Perlman	Privacy-Preserving DRM
June 17, 2009	Mridul Nandi	Survey on Twenty years of Attack on RSA
June 3, 2009	John Kelsey	Preimage Attacks on JH
May 6, 2009	Souradyuti Paul	Cryptanalysis of Shavite and EnRupt
April 22, 2009	Souradyuti Paul	Cryptanalysis on MD6 and CubeHash
April 8, 2009	Ray Perlner	Quantum Resistant Public Key Cryptography
March 25, 2009	Lily Chen	Trusted Platform Technologies
March 11, 2009	Rene Peralta	Circuits in Crypto Applications
Jan. 28, 2009	Mridul Nandi	Fast and Secure CBC Type MAC Algorithms
Jan. 24, 2009	Souradyuti Paul	Hash Cryptanalysis

2008

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
Dec. 17, 2008	Peter Mell	Cloud Computing Horizons
Dec. 3, 2008	Lee Badger	Virtualization Models and Security
Nov. 12, 2008	Souradyuti Paul	Hash Functions
Oct. 8, 2008	Andrew Regenscheid	General Overview of Cryptographic Voting Schemes
Sept. 24, 2008	Mridul Nandi	MAC based on Compression Functions
Aug. 27, 2008	Allen Roginsky	Signcryption
July 16, 2008	Mridul Nandi	Collision-Resistant Hashing: Towards Making
March 26, 2008	John Kelsey	On Hash Functions
Feb. 27, 2008	Jose A. Montenegro	Secure Sealed-Bid Online Auctions Using Discreet Cryptographic Proofs
Feb. 13, 2008	Morrie Dworkin	GCM Mode
Jan. 16, 2008	John Kelsey	Hash functions

2007

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
August 8, 2007	John Kelsey	Discussions on MD4
June 20, 2007	John Kelsey	Parallel Collision Search
June 6, 2007	Allen Roginsky	RSA Digital Signature and its Security
April 23, 2007	Katrin Hoeper	Security Analysis of EAP Methods

2006

Date:	Speaker:	Title:
May 09, 2006	Rene Peralta	Weil Pairing