Cryptography Nico Döttling and Julian Loss

For those interested, our CISPA distinguished lecture will start in a few moments, invitation below:

As part of CISPA’s Distinguished Lecture Series, we are happy to
announce that Huijia (Rachel) Lin (University of Washington) will give a talk on

How to Hide Secrets in Software? 

on Wed, May 18, 2022, at 17:00am via Zoom on
https://cispa-de.zoom.us/j/93997221436?pwd=QlRzT3RPS2ZKM1BSRVEvc2xoV2R1dz09


Abstract:
At least since the initial public proposal of public-key cryptography based on computational hardness assumptions (Diffie and Hellman, 1976), cryptographers have contemplated the possibility of a “one-way compiler” that translates computer programs into “incomprehensible” ones that compute the same function. In this talk, we will describe a mathematical formalization of this goal known as  indistinguishability obfuscation (iO). Over the past decade, It has been demonstrated that iO is a fascinating and powerful tool that enables a host of new cryptographic goals and beyond. We then show how to construct iO based on three well-studied hardness assumptions.
Joint work with Aayush Jain at CMU and Amit Sahai at UCLA. 


Bio:
Huijia (Rachel) Lin is an Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where she co-leads the Cryptography Lab. Before joining the University of Washington, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Earlier, she obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, and was a post-doctoral researcher at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Department of Computer Science at Boston University. Her research interests are in Cryptography, and its interplay with theory of computer science and security. She is a recipient of a US National Science Foundation CAREER award, a Hellman Fellowship, a best paper award honorable mention at Eurocrypt 2016, and best paper awards at Eurocrypt 2018 and STOC 2021.


Best regards,
Nico Döttling