Inaugural Lecture by Sophia Yakoubov

Title

Scaling Secure Computation - Withstanding Adaptivity and Coercion

Abstract

As data breaches become more common, in some scenarios it is desirable to transfer the secure storage and processing of sensitive data to large-scale distributed platforms - such as clouds and blockchains - to eliminate single points of failure. However, such distributed systems are still susceptible to attacks by sophisticated adversaries who can target multiple machines (or even all of the machines) at once. This talk will focus on some recent approaches to defending against such sophisticated adversaries.

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Everyone is welcome! 

There will be refreshments after the lecture.