Thursday, September 28, 2017

CHES 2017 Taipei, Taiwan

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CHES 2017 was held September 25th - 28th in Taipei, Taiwan. This being my first trip to CHES, I was glad to see a mix of academics and peop...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Crypto 2017 - How Microsoft Wants to Fix the Internet (Spoiler: Without Blockchains)

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In the second invited talk at Crypto, Cédric Fournet from Microsoft Research presented the recent efforts of Project Everest (Everest VERi...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Crypto 2017 - LPN Decoded

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Crypto 2017 kicked off this morning in Santa Barbara. After a quick eclipse-watching break, the lattice track ended with the presentation of...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Eurocrypt 2017 - Parallel Implementations of Masking Schemes and the Bounded Moment Leakage Model

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MathJax TeX Test Page Side-channel analysis made its way into Eurocrypt this year thanks to two talks, the first of which given by...

Eurocrypt 2017: On dual lattice attacks against small-secret LWE and parameter choices in HElib and SEAL

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This morning, Martin gave a great talk on lattice attacks and parameter choices for Learning With Errors (LWE) with small and sparse secret....
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Is Your Banking App Secure?

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Last week I was in Malta for Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2017  to present my recent work on securing the PKCS#11 cryptographic...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

PKC 2017: Kenny Paterson accepting bets on breaking TLS 1.3

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The member of the TLS 1.3 working group is willing to bet for a beer that the 0-RTT handshake of TLS 1.3 will get broken in the first two y...