Seminar Schedule

Introduction Phase:

April 15: Kick-off Session + Background for PCC 1/2
Optional Readings:
1) 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy - Daniel J. Solove
2) How to Read a Paper - S. Keshav
Original papers of the topics we covered in Kickoff:
1) Efficient Multiparty Protocols Using Circuit Randomization
(A more informal explanation is provided in Jesper Buus Nielsen's blog post)
2) Private Information Retrieval
3) Function Secret Sharing: Improvements and Extensions


April 22: Background for PCC 2/2

Student Presentations and Paper Discussions Phase:
(The topics and papers to be presented for these dates will become visible post the paper selection phase)
 

April 29   PIR Part 1  (Scribe: Mika Petak)
  Jan Dajnec   PIR with compressed queries and amortized query processing  
  Akansha Jain   Communication-Computation Trade-offs in PIR
   
May 6   PIR Part 2 (Scribe: Jan Dajnec)
  Gunnar Heide   One Server for the Price of Two: Simple and Fast Single-Server Private Information Retrieval
  Maximilian Ley   Constant-weight PIR: Single-round Keyword PIR via Constant-weight Equality Operators
   
May 13   ORAM Part 1  (Scribe: Gunnar Heide)
  Manar Mohamed   Scaling ORAM for Secure Computation
  Linda Müller   Duoram: A Bandwidth-Efficient Distributed ORAM for 2- and 3-Party Computation
   
May 20  No Session
   
May 27   ORAM Part 2 (Scribe: Manar Mohamed)
  Badr Ghouiri   ZeroTrace: Oblivious Memory Primitives from Intel SGX
  Aniketh Ashwath   GigaDORAM: Breaking the Billion Address Barrier
   
June 3   Trusted Hardware Tools and Applications (Scribe: Badr Ghouiri)
  Niclas Dauster   Fast Fully Oblivious Compaction and Shuffling
  Reshma Daniel   Prochlo: Strong Privacy for Analytics in the Crowd
   
June 11   Privacy-Preserving Search (Scribe: Niclas Dauster)
  Marius Schuh   DORY: An Encrypted Search System with Distributed Trust
  Mika Petak   Private Web Search with Tiptoe
   
June 18   Private-Preserving Search & Recommendation Systems (Scribe: Marius Schuh)
  Badr Ghouiri   Preco: Private Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Sublinear Communication
  Manar Mohamed   Scalable Private Search with Wally
   
June 25   Private Statistics (Scribe: Aniketh Ashwath)
  Marius Schuh   Prio: Private, Robust, and Scalable Computation of Aggregate Statistics
  Akansha Jain   Lightweight Techniques for Private Heavy Hitters
   
July 1   Private Recommendation Systems & Tor (Scribe: Akansha Jain)
  Gunnar Heide   You May Also Like...Privacy: Recommendation Systems Meet PIR
  Niclas Dauster   Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router
   
July 8   Metadata Protecting Communication Systems: DP & MPC Systems (Scribe: Reshma Daniel)
  Jan Dajnec   Vuvuzela: Scalable Private Messaging Resistant to Traffic Analysis
  Maximilian Ley   Clarion: Anonymous Communications from Multiparty Shuffling Protocols
   
July 15   No Session (Privacy Enhancing Technologies PETS'25)
   
July 22  Metadata Protecting Communication Systems: Mailbox/RPIR Systems (Scribe: Maximilian Ley)
  Linda Müller    Express: Lowering the Cost of Metadata-hiding Communication with Cryptographic Privacy
  Reshma Daniel   Sabre: Sender-Anonymous Messaging with Fast Audits
   
July 29   Private Blocklists (Scribe: Linda Müller)
  Mika Petak     Private Blocklist Lookups with Checklist
  Aniketh Ashwath     Orca: Blocklisting in Sender-Anonymous Messaging
   


 

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