MIT Security Seminar

Functional encryption using Intel SGX

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

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…

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.

Hakim Weatherspoon from Cornell University gave a talk at the security seminar on his work at NSDI 2014 called Chupja, PHY Covert Channels: Can you see the idles? I will give a brief summary of his talk. If you want more details about his work, I would…

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…

Trammell Hudson came to the MIT security seminar to present his work on finding security bugs in Apple’s EFI firmware. I’ll give a brief overview of his talk and this area, but if you’re interested, you can find more information…

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.

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…

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