Crypto 2019

Cryptography is often thought of as the bright spot of practical security, a mathematical paradise where security can be rigorously proven and issues like buffer overflows are in someone else’s department. However, there is a growing community of researchers who regularly find serious flaws in widely deployed cryptographic implementations and protocols. In recent years, this type of research has mostly been published in systems security conferences. This workshop will bring together researchers who work on cryptographic attacks and provide a showcase of their work for the Crypto community. This is the second edition of the WAC workshop, which has been established by Nadia Heninger.

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This workshop will focus on latest research developments on large-scale consensus, efficient cryptographic primitives for blockchains, the economics of decentralized cryptocurrencies. The workshop will bring together academic researchers and developers to create synergy and help build a bridge for state-of-the-art crypto/distributed systems research to be adopted in the real world.

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Modern cryptography relies on unproven hardness assumptions. Since the advent of public-key cryptography in the late 1970s, historically, new sources of structured hardness have been essential to understanding the boundary between what is feasible and infeasible in cryptography. Recent work on secure general-purpose obfuscation has once again brought the study of new sources of structured hardness to the forefront of understanding the limits of cryptography. This workshop will explore new sources of hardness, their implications, their limitations, and how we can chart a new path forward into the cryptographic wilderness.

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The workshop on privacy preserving Machine Learning includes but not limited to privacy-preserving techniques for training, inference, and disclosure. The goal is to establish collaborations to bridge the gap between the machine learning and cryptography communities.

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MathCrypt aims to provide a forum for exchanging ideas on new mathematical assumptions and attacks in cryptography. Its scope includes, but is not limited to:

• Introducing new assumptions which can be used to construct or improve crypto schemes.
• Proposing attacks on cryptographic assumptions, which is worthy to be considered.
• Implementation improvements for cryptographic schemes and attacks.

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The past decade has witnessed the first successful deployments of encrypted computing, multiparty computation, and cryptographic zero-knowledge proofs as privacy preserving technologies. In order to enable the mainstream use of these technologies and educate application developers, several community based standardization groups have been created (homomorphicencryption.org, zkproof.org), and standard organizations (ISO, NIST) are already considering how to standardize these advanced cryptographic techniques.

This workshop focuses on bringing together a community of researchers, practitioners, and organization bodies to highlight the importance and challenges around the standardization of these complex cryptographic protocols. The workshop covers many topics from applications, to security, to formal verification, to APIs and enterprise adoption.

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