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…

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…

Salvatore Stolfo came to MIT to give a talk about his work on symbiote defense. It is very interesting work and is now part of a startup called Red Balloons Security, who deploys this technology for Hewlett-Packard printers.

Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan came to MIT to give a talk on his work redesigning the Bitcoin network. I’ll provide an overview here, but for more details, I refer you to his paper.

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs came to give a talk on his NSDI paper on private computation of aggregate statistics. I’ll provide an overview of his work, but for more details, especially on the cryptography…

Raphael Bost came to MIT to give a talk on his recent CCS paper about forward private searchable encryption. I’ll give an overview of his work, but I refer you to his paper for more details.