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…

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…

Muhammad Naveed from UIUC gave a talk about Controlled Functional Encryption. The motivation behind this work is to bring modern cryptographic technology to real applications.

Zakir Durumeric from University of Michigan came to give a talk at the MIT security seminar. His research focuses on measurement-driven security. Specifically, he is interested in developing tools for researchers to better measure the Internet, and using this…

Yonatan Sompolinsky from The Hebrew University, Jerusalem came to MIT to give a talk about the Bitcoin blockchain. This talk covered a lot of his most recent work, so I refer you to his publications for more details outside of this blog post.

Cristina Nita-Rotaru came from Northeastern to give talk on her recent Oakland S&P paper. In her talk, she discussed the trade-offs between provable security and guaranteed performance in adversarial networks. I will give a summary of the work here…

Bryan Ford gave a talk at the security seminar this past week. He talked about recent work on decentralizing cothorities. This is still a work in progress, so there is no specific paper on it. I provide a…

On the Risk of Misbehaving RPKI Authorities

Sharon Goldberg from Boston University came to give a talk last week on her recent…

Farinaz Koushanfar from Rice University gave a talk at the security seminar about a new method to generate and evaluate garbled circuits using hardware optimizations to drastically improve performance. This work, TinyGarble, will appear at…