Cryptography reading group

From Theory

The purpose of this reading group is to study some significant results in cryptography, identify possible ways in which they might be improved or extended, and help prepare students to work on original research problems. The contents will tend to be more advanced, and it is recommended that attendees have taken (or are taking) Applied Cryptography (CS 6260) and/or Theoretical Foundations of Cryptography (CS 8803 TFC).

The reading group is headed by professors Chris Peikert and Sasha Boldyreva. Please contact them with any questions.

Spring 2010

The group meets regularly from 12-2pm on Mondays in Klaus 2100, except for the first meeting on Wednesday, Jan 27 from 12-2pm.

The current schedule of speakers and topics is given below. Virendra Kumar is organizing this term's schedule. Please contact him with any questions or requests.

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic	References
Apr 5	Adam O'Neill	Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Integers	Dijk-Gentry-Halevi-Vaikuntanathan
Mar 29		Canceled due to prospective PhD students' visit
Mar 22		Canceled due to Spring Break
Mar 15		Canceled due to ARC3	ARC3
Mar 8	Nathan Chenette	Mar 1 meeting contd.	Barak-Chaudhuri-Dwork-Kale-McSherry-Talwar
Mar 1	Virendra Kumar	Differential Privacy: A Survey of Results	Dwork
Feb 22		Canceled due to Crypto 2010 submission deadline	Crypto 2010
Feb 15	Adam O'Neill	Adaptive Trapdoor Functions and Chosen-Ciphertext Security	[Kiltz-Mohassel-O'Neill]
Feb 8	Virendra Kumar	Bit Encryption is Complete	Myers-Shelat
Feb 1	Sasha Boldyreva	Jan 27 meeting contd.	Cramer-Hofheinz-Kiltz
Jan 27	Sasha Boldyreva	A Twist on the Naor-Yung Paradigm & Efficient CCA-Secure Encryption from Search Problems	Cramer-Hofheinz-Kiltz