Speaker: Mohammad Mahmoody, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Title: Lower Bounds on Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Zero-One Encryption Abstract: Indistinguishability Obfuscation (IO) has recently emerged as a central primitive in cryptography, enabling many heretofore out-of-reach applications.[...]

Speaker: Avishay Tal Affiliation: IAS Title:Time-Space Hardness of Learning Sparse Parities Abstract: How can one learn a parity function, i.e., a function of the form $f(x) = a_1 x_1 + a_2 x_2 + … + a_n x_n[...]

SPEAKER: Yevgeniy Dodis, New York University TITLE: Fixing Cracks in the Concrete: Random Oracles with Auxiliary Input, Revisited ABSTRACT: We revisit security proofs for various cryptographic primitives in the random oracle model with auxiliary input[...]

Speaker: Ori Rottenstriech, Princeton Title: Novel Approaches to Challenges in Emerging Network Paradigms Abstract: SDN (Software defined networking) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) are two emerging network paradigms that enable simplification, flexibility and cost-reduction in[...]