Security

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.

Building Secure Systems from Memory Enclaves

Sergey Gorbunov from University of Waterloo gave a talk at MIT on his experience…

Aanchal Malhotra from Boston University came to give a talk about her work on a universally composable treatment of network time. Here, I’ll give a brief overview of the work, but you can find more information in their paper.

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…

Yossi Gilad came to give a talk at the MIT on using untrusted IaaS clouds to prevent DDoS attacks, which was published in NDSS 2016. I will outline some keys points in his talk, but for more information, I refer you…

Engin Kirda from Northeastern University came to MIT to talk about recent work from his lab regarding Firefox extension-reuse vulnerabilities. I will outline the talk and work here, but for more information and…

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…