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EE Seminar: Cryptographic Primitives for Hardware Security
Thu, Apr 26, 2018 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ling Ren, MIT CSAIL
Talk Title: Cryptographic Primitives for Hardware Security
Abstract: Hardware plays a critical role in today's security landscape. Every protocol with security or privacy guarantees inevitably includes some hardware in its trusted computing base. The increasing number of vulnerability disclosures calls for a more rigorous approach to secure hardware designs. In this talk, I will present several cryptographic primitives to enhance the security of hardware.
I will first discuss the use of Physically Obfuscated Keys (POK) to strengthen the security of private keys. In particular, I will present a computational fuzzy extractor based on the Learning Parity with Noise (LPN) problem. Our construction uses stability information as a trapdoor to correct a constant fraction of POK errors efficiently. Next, I will describe our work on Oblivious RAM (ORAM), a cryptographic primitive to prevent access pattern leakage. I will present both architectural and algorithmic improvements to ORAM.
While hardware is often trusted as a line of defense, it can also be utilized by attackers. The advent of ASIC hash units calls into question the security of hash functions and proof-of-work protocols. I will describe bandwidth-hard functions to achieve ASIC resistance and briefly touch on my other projects in blockchains and consensus.
Biography: Ling Ren is a final year graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University. His research interests span computer security, cryptography, computer architecture and distributed computing. He received the best student paper award at CCS 2013.
Host: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, bkrishna@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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CCI Seminar: Karan Motwani (Starbucks Coffee Company) – Developing Blockchain Solutions Beyond Cryptocurrency
Thu, Apr 26, 2018 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Karan Motwani, Starbucks Coffee Company
Talk Title: Developing Blockchain Solutions Beyond Cryptocurrency
Series: USC Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things Seminar Series
Abstract: Talk will cover:
- Fundamentals of Blockchain -“ highlights key differences between few Blockchain platforms.
- Considerations when developing Blockchain solutions with emphasis on Ethereum
- Components required to deploy a fully functioning Blockchain solution
- Evaluating use cases which can benefit from Blockchain implementation
- Challenges around Blockchain technology and its future ahead.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: Karan Motwani is an IT Leader with 17+ years of experience in consulting, architecture, engineering, and strategic leadership roles. He has worked with companies from Europe, Latin America, Asia, Middle East and the United States on supply chain and finance solutions. From this experience, he brings an entrepreneurial perspective, and an ability to work across business and engineering on Blockchain application to Supply chain and Finance scenarios.
Host: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Location: Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB) - Michelson Building (MCB) 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Computer Science Department
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Epstein Institute Seminar, ISE 651
Thu, Apr 26, 2018 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Osman Ozaltin, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
Talk Title: Improving Patient Safety in the External Beam Radiation Therapy Process
Host: Dr. Julie Higle
More Information: April 26, 2018_Ozaltin.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - GER 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Grace Owh
