MACS Retreat, October 2015

Thursday, October 1

Location: Boston University, Metcalf Trustee Center

8:30-9:00 Welcome & breakfast
9:00-10:30 MPC in the real world (paper 1, paper 2, slides)
Azer Bestavros, Andrei Lapets, and Nikolaj Volgushev
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Sanctum, part 1 (paper)
Victor Costan and Ilia Lebedev
12-1 Lunch
1:00-1:45 Sanctum, part 2
Victor Costan, and Ilia Lebedev
1:45-2:00 Break
2:00-3:45 Clouds in practice: opportunities and challenges (paper 1, paper 2)
Jonathan Proulx, George Silvis, Mayank Varia, and Jason Hennessey
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-4:30 Vuvuzela, a metadata-private messaging system (paper)
David Lazar
4:30-5:00 Discussion

 

Friday, October 2

Location: MIT Stata Center, Hewlett Room (32-G882)

9:30-10:00 Breakfast
10:00-10:25 Differentially Private Histograms for Range-Sum Queries: A Modular Approach
Georgios Kellaris (paper, slides)
10:25-10:45 Non-malleable commitments
Silas Richelson
10:45-11:05 How To Outsource Your Database
Justin Holmgren
11:05-11:35 Spacecoin: A Cryptocurrency Based on Proofs of Space
Sunoo Park
11:35-11:40 Analysis of Hacking Team’s Anti-Virus Evasion Tool: Core-Packer (blog)
Ethan Heilman
11:40-12:00 Cryptographic Watermarking
Aloni Cohen
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:30 Multi-key FHE and two-round MPC (slides)
Daniel Wichs
1:30-1:45 How to Use Bitcoin to Design Fair Protocols (slides)
Ranjit Kumaresan