DIMACS/MACS to host 3-day workshop on Cryptography, June 8-10, 2016

June 8-10, 2016
MIT Media Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building E14, LH-633
75 Amherst Street

Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS Special Focus on Cryptography as part of the DIMACS/Simons Collaboration in Cryptography and the Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project funded by an NSF Frontier grant.

Cryptography for the RAM Model of Computation Workshop

In today’s day and age, outsourced computation has become prevalent. This workshop will bring together cryptographers as well as security and programming language researchers to explore how to protect computations and programs designed for machines with random access memory that are executed over untrusted platforms or by untrusted agents.

Topics of interest include the challenges of RAM-model cryptography, the abstraction gap between cryptography and real-world programs, schemes for oblivious memory access, oblivious algorithms, homomorphic encryption, program obfuscation, leakage resilient computation, functional encryption, as well as programming language techniques that automate RAM-model cryptography.

This workshop is co-sponsored by Boston University’s Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project. MACS addresses the grand challenges in building secure cloud services, and acts as a testbed for developing tools that enable meaningful, modular, multi-layered and user-centric security guarantees.

For more details about the events, including program information and travel accommodations, please visit the DIMACS website.

Registration fees:

Regular rate: $450
Academic/nonprofit/governmental rate: $280
Non-local Postdocs, Graduate & Undergraduate students: $45

DIMACS Postdocs, DIMACS partner institution Graduate & Undergraduate students,
DIMACS partner institution employees, and DIMACS long-term visitors may register for free.

Registration fees include participation in the workshop, all workshop materials, breakfast, lunch, breaks and any scheduled social events (if applicable).

Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis so please reserve your seat ASAP by registering here by June 1, 2016.