Reading Group
Once a week the crypto community of the Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica (Catania) and the Centro Ricerche IPPARI (Comiso) gets together to listen an informal blackboard presentation on new (and old) results in cryptography.
Incoming meetings: (no public meeting at the moment...)
Past meetings:
- (15:30, July 3, 2008 - DMI-CT - Aula 41) speaker: Dario Fiore, paper to present: Predicate Encryption Supporting Disjunctions, Polynomial Equations and Inner Products (Katz, Sahai, Waters);
- (16:00, 10 April, 2008 - DMI-CT - Aula 127) speaker: Fabrizio Caruso (University of Pisa), paper to present: Groebner Bases in Public Key Cryptosystems (Caboara, Caruso, Traverso);
- (16:00, 3 April, 2008 - DMI-CT - Aula 36) speaker: Dario Fiore, paper to present: The Twin Diffie-Hellman Problem and Applications (Cash, Kiltz, Shoup);
- (16:00, 27 March, 2008 - DMI-CT - Aula 36) speaker: Mario Di Raimondo, paper to present: Updatable Zero-Knowledge Databases (Liskov);
- (15:00, 16 October, 2007 - DMI-CT - Aula 36) speaker: Dario Fiore, paper to present: Verifiable Random Functions (Micali, Rabin, Vadhan);
- (15:30, 14 June, 2007 - DMI-CT) speaker: Dario Fiore, paper to present: Provably Secure Ciphertext Policy ABE (Cheung, Newport);
- (15:30, 17 May, 2007 - DMI-CT) speaker: Mariagrazia Messina, paper to present: Independent Zero-Knowledge Sets (Gennaro, Micali);
- (15:30, 12 April, 2007 - DMI-CT) speaker: Dario Fiore, paper to present: Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption (Sahai,Waters);
- (15:30, 29 March, 2007 - DMI-CT) speaker: Dario Catalano, paper to present: Zero Knowledge Sets (Micali, Rabin, Kilian);
- (15:30, 1 March, 2007 - DMI-CT) speaker: Dario Fiore, paper to present: Efficient Identity-Based Encryption without Random Oracles (Waters);
- (11:00, 16 February, 2007 - DMI-CT, Room 41) speaker: Dario Fiore, paper to present: Hierarchical ID-Based Cryptography (Gentry, Silverberg);
- (11:00, 9 February, 2007 - DMI-CT) speaker: Mario Di Raimondo, paper to present: Evaluating 2-DNF Formulas on Ciphertexts (Boneh, Goh, Nissim);
- (11:00, 2 February, 2007 - DMI-CT) speaker: Dario Fiore, continuation of last talk;
- (15:30, 1 February, 2007 - DMI-CT) speaker: Dario Fiore, continuation of last talk;
- (16:30 - 23 January, 2007 - DMI-CT) speaker: Dario Fiore, continuation of last talk;
- (11:00 - 19 January, 2007 - DMI-CT) speaker: Dario Fiore, paper to present: Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing (Boneh, Franklin);
(Somewhat) Related papers:
- Boneh-Franklin Identity Based Encryption Revisited (Galindo); comments: this paper points out that there is a a flawed step in the security reduction exhibited by Boneh and Franklin in their work. Galindo shows how to fix it without changing the scheme or the underlying assumption.
- Random oracles are practical: A paradigm for designing efficient protocols (Bellare, Rogaway); comments: this paper explains and motivates the Random Oracle model;
- The Random Oracle Methodology, Revisited (Canetti, Goldreich, Halevi); comments: this paper introduces a separation between the RO model and the standard one;