CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy

This speaker series is made possible by an anonymous charitable donation in memory of Len Sassaman.

Upcoming speakers

Past speakers

2012-2013

16 Apr 2013: Michael Reiter, University of North Carolina

"How to Misuse, Use, and Mitigate Side Channels in Virtualized Environments"

5 Apr 2013: Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven

"Two tales of privacy in online social networks"

3 Apr 2013: Michael Brennan, SecondMuse

"Catalyzing Social Change as a Privacy and Security Technologist" (video)

14 Mar 2013: Dawn Song, UC Berkeley

"Privacy in Emerging Technologies: Challenges, Attacks, and Defenses"

28 Jan 2013: Gabriella Coleman, McGill University

"Weapons of the Geek" (video)

10 Oct 2012: Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa

"Repo Men Are Coming: Body EULAs, Privacy and Security of the Person" (video)

11 Sep 2012: Patrick Ball, Benetech

"Human rights, data analysis, and the truth: technical and epistemological reflections from twenty years building software and doing analysis to study mass atrocities" (video)

14 Aug 2012: Joel Reardon, ETH Zurich

"Data Node Encrypted File System: Efficient Secure Deletion for Flash Memory" (video)

2 Aug 2012: Micah Sherr, Georgetown University

"Security and Privacy of Legally Authorized Telephone Surveillance" (video)

2011-2012

19 Jan 2012: Sonia Chiasson, Carleton University: "The convergence of human factors and computer security"
12 Dec 2011: Nadia Heninger, UC San Diego: "Approximate common divisors via lattices"
14 Nov 2011: Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University: "Censorship Resistant Overlay Publishing"
21 Nov 2011: Vinod Vaikuntanathan, University of Toronto: "Computing Blindfolded: New Developments in Fully Homomorphic Encryption"
24 October 2011: Kevin Bauer, University of Waterloo: "Improving Security and Performance in Low-Latency Anonymity Networks"
7 September 2011: Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel: "Generalized Oblivious Transfer by Secret Sharing"
8 August 2011: Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University Darmstadt: "Cloudy and Phony: On the Convergence of Cloud and Smartphone Security"
26 July 2011: Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL: "Two Short Talks about the Security of Web Applications"
28 May 2011: Ryan Henry, University of Waterloo: "Formalizing and Extending Anonymous Blacklisting Systems"

2010-2011 (MITACS Speaker Series on Privacy)

1 April 2011: Matthew Wright, University of Texas at Arlington: "Removing Detectable Statistics from Covert Channels"
11 March 2011: Prateek Mittal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: "Throughput Fingerprinting-based Traffic Analysis of Low Latency Anonymous Communication"
8 Mar 2011: Mohammad Hossein Manshaei, EPFL: "Game Theory Meets Network Security and Privacy"
15 Dec 2010: Femi Olumofin, University of Waterloo: "Preserving Access Privacy Over Large Databases"
10 Dec 2010: Aleksander Essex, University of Waterloo: "Eperio: Mitigating Technical Complexity in Cryptographic Election Verificaiton"
9 Dec 2010: Ryan Henry, University of Waterloo: "Nymbler: Privacy-enhanced Protection from Abuses of Anonymity"
3 Dec 2010: Jeremy Clark, University of Waterloo: "Selections: An Internet Voting System with Over-the-shoulder Coercion Resistance"
1 Dec 2010: Femi Olumofin, University of Waterloo: "Revisiting the Computational Practicality of Private Information Retrieval"
26 Nov 2010: Aleksander Essex, University of Waterloo: "Hacking Democracy: An Election Fraudster's Tricks of the Trade"
12 Nov 2010: Stacey Jeffery, University of Waterloo: "Dealing with Ghosts: Trading Robustness for Correctness and Privacy in Certain Multiparty Functions, Beyond an Honest Majority"
22 October 2010: Kevin Bauer, University of Colorado: "Toward Improving Tor's Security and Performance"
24 September 2010: Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University: "Privacy, Behavioral Economics, and the Control Paradox"
9 Sep 2010: Christian Henrich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: "Bingo Voting — Verifiable Voting Scheme Based on a Trusted Random Number Generator"
26 July 2010: Maura Paterson, Birkbeck, University of London: "Distinct-difference configurations: multihop paths and key predistribution in sensor networks"
14 July 2010: Atefeh Mashatan, EPFL: "A Message Recognition Protocol Based on Standard Assumptions"
12 July 2010: Tara Whalen, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: "Technology and Privacy: A Short Tour through an Emerging Landscape"
A video of the talk is available.
8 July 2010: Greg Zaverucha, University of Waterloo: "Constant-Size Commitments to Polynomials and Their Applications"
5 July 2010: Qi Xie, University of Waterloo: "Privacy-Preserving Interest Matching for Mobile Social Networking"
25 June 2010: Michael Reiter, University of North Carolina: "Defending Against Client Compromises in Client-Server Applications"
21 Jun 2010: Can Tang, University of Waterloo: "An Improved Algorithm for Tor Circuit Scheduling"
27 May 2010: Aniket Kate, University of Waterloo: "Distributed Private-Key Generators for Identity-Based Cryptography"
11 May 2010: Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project: "Tor and censorship: lessons learned"
7 May 2010: Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University: "Privacy & Stylometry: Exploring the Limitations and Potential of Automated Authorship Recognition"

2009-2010 (MITACS Speaker Series on Privacy)

19 March 2010: Rosario Gennaro, IBM Research: "Non-Interactive Verifiable Computing: Outsourcing Computation to Untrusted Workers"
9 March 2010: Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington: "Increasing Privacy with Self-destructing Data"
5 March 2010: Wanying Luo, University of Waterloo: "Designing a Privacy-Aware Location Proof Architecture"
5 February 2010: Jeremy Clark, University of Waterloo: "The First Governmental Election with a Voter Verifiable Tally: Experiences using Scantegrity II at Takoma Park"
15 January 2010: Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota: "Scalable Anonymous Overlay Networks"
14 January 2010: Aniket Kate, University of Waterloo: "Using Sphinx to Improve Onion Routing Circuit Construction"
3 December 2009: Sherman Chow, New York University: "Improving Privacy and Security in Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Encryption"
1 December 2009: Periklis Papakonstantinou, University of Toronto: "On the Impossibility of Basing Identity Based Encryption on Trapdoor Permutations"
29 October 2009: Berkant Ustaoğlu, NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories: "Multi-party Off-the-Record Messaging"
15 October 2009: Greg Zaveruca, University of Waterloo: "The Identity Mixer Anonymous Credential System"
1 October 2009: Jason Hinek, University of Calgary: "Towards Attribute-Based Encryption Without Key Delegation"
22 July 2009: Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo: "Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format"
15 June 2009: Aniket Kate, University of Waterloo: "Distributed Key Generation for the Internet"
27 May 2009: Aniket Kate, University of Waterloo: "Anonymous Key Agreement in an Identity-Based Infrastructure"
8 May 2009: Prof. Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: "Peer-to-peer Anonymous Communication: Approaches and Pitfalls"

2008-2009 (MITACS Speaker Series on Privacy)

30 March 2009: Chris Alexander, University of Waterloo: "Plinko: Polling with a Physical Implementation of a Noisy Channel"
23 February 2009: Jennifer Granick, Electronic Frontier Foundation: "Cutting Edge Cases in Digital Privacy and Crime"
18 February 2009: Greg Zaverucha, University of Waterloo: "Private Intersection of Certified Sets"
11 November 2008: Atefeh Mashatan, University of Waterloo: "Message recognition protocols for ad hoc networks"
29 September 2008: Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian: "Change the Paradigm: Embed Privacy into Technology and Ride the Next Wave"
A video of the talk is available.
18 September 2008: Joel Reardon, University of Waterloo: "Improving Tor using a TCP-over-DTLS tunnel"
19 August, 2008: Kevin Henry, University of Waterloo: "The theory and applications of homomorphic cryptography"
16 July 2008: Ge Zhong, University of Waterloo: "Distributed approaches for location privacy"
9 July 2008: Ryan Stedman, University of Waterloo: "A user study of Off-the-Record Messaging"
2 July 2008: Maura Paterson, Royal Holloway, University of London: "Aspects of key management in wireless sensor networks"
9 June 2008: Chengxi Zhang, University of Waterloo: "On achieving security and privacy preservation for vehicular communications"
8 April 2008: Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto: "Towards eradicating phishing attacks"

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