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Cryptography Reading Group

Meetings take place on Friday mornings from 10:30 - 12:00 in the 4th floor meeting room of Margaret Street. We normally proceed to lunch afterwards for those who are interested.

Timetable

Note that this timetable is subject to change.

DateLeaderPaper Notes
11/4/08George Lippold Predicate Encryption Supporting Disjunctions, Polynomial Equations and Inner Products Slides
2/5/08Choudary Gorantla Universally Composable Security: A New Paradigm for Cryptographic Protocols Slides
See also: Security and Composition of Cryptographic Protocols: A Tutorial
16/5/08Huseyin Hisil Faster addition and doubling on elliptic curves No slides yet
30/5/08Craig Costello Steven Galbraith's chapter on pairings (hard copy only) Slides
13/6/08Craig Costello Steven Galbraith's chapter on pairings (part 2) Slides
27/6/08JuanmaTwin Diffie-Hellman No slides yet
15/8/08Choudary Gorantla Attribute-Based Signatures: Achieving Attribute-Privacy and Collusion-Resistance No slides yet
29/8/08HuseyinEndomorphisms for faster elliptic curve cryptography on general curves No slides yet
12/9/08Colin Provable-Security Analysis of Authenticated Encryption in Kerberos No slides yet
26/9/08Craig Security Proof of Sakai-Kasahara's Identity-Based Encryption Scheme No slides yet
10/10/08Choudary Deterministic and Efficiently Searchable Encryption No slides yet
24/10/08Juanma The Uber-Assumption Family No slides yet
7/11/08George Identity-based Key Agreement from Pairings No slides yet
21/11/08Juanma Multi-factor authenticated key exchange No slides yet
5/12/08James Efficient Chosen Ciphertext Secure Public Key Encryption under the Computational Diffie-Hellman Assumption No slides yet
19/12/08Huseyin Improved Techniques for Fast Exponentiation No slides yet
13/2/09George An ID-based Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol Based on Bilinear Diffie-Hellman Problem
13/3/09Donald Conjunctive, Subset, and Range Queries on Encrypted Data
27/3/09JamesEncryption Schemes Secure under Selective Opening Attack
24/4/09DouglasOn the Theory and Practice of Personal Digital Signatures
8/5/09CraigThe Eta Pairing Revisited

Future Papers

Please let me know if you have papers to add to the list and if you volunteer to lead the discussion.
Last modified: 21st April 2009
Colin Boyd