EE Seminar: Secure computation in the presence of real-world attackers
(The talk will be given in English)
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Genkin
University of Pennsylvania and University of Maryland
Sunday, December 31st, 2017
15:00 - 16:00
Room 011, Kitot Bldg., Faculty of Engineering
Secure computation in the presence of real-world attackers
Abstract
The security of any system is only as good as its weakest link. Even if the system's security is theoretically proven under some set of assumptions, when faced with real-word adversaries, many of these assumptions become flaky, inaccurate and often completely incorrect.
In this talk I will present two cases for bringing this gap between security theory and security practice:
* Utilizing unintentional and abstraction-defying side-channel leakage from physical computing devices in order to extract secret cryptographic keys and the relation of these attacks to leakage resilient cryptography.
* Constructing and deploying secure computation schemes for arbitrary C programs.
The talk will discuss cryptographic techniques and will include live demonstrations.
