Georgios Portokalidis came to MIT to talk about his recent work on understanding code-reuse attacks.

What is a code reuse attack? They are attacks repurposing existing components. In particular, they…

This week at the MIT security seminar, Peter Y A Ryan from University of Luxembourg came to talk about Selene, a new way to do vote verifications. I only provide a high level overview in this post, but if you are interested, Peter has made his…

Aanchal Malhotra from Boston University came to the MIT security seminar to talk about attacks on NTP. This talk was related to a paper she published and presented at NDSS 2016. I will give an overview and outline of the talk, and I refer you to the paper…

Ranjit Kumaresan from MIT gave a talk about his recent CCS paper, “How to Use Bitcoin to Play Decentralized Poker.” It is an interesting piece of work, and I will provide a summary of the talk here. The paper has many technical details that I will…

Raluca Ada Popa came to MIT to give a talk on her recent NSDI paper that provides a platform to perform oblivious distributed analytics.

Functional encryption using Intel SGX

Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy came to MIT to discuss Iron, a system that does functional…

Kostya Serebryany from Google came to give a talk about his experience building dynamic testing tools. I’ll present an overview of his talk, which includes work from various papers. To learn more about each individual tool, you can…

Ethan Heilman from Boston University gave a talk on TumbleBit: An Untrusted Bitcoin-Compatible Anonymous Payment Hub. I’ll present an overview of the work, and you can refer to his paper for more details.