[Colloq] Title: Advances in Non-Malleable Cryptography | Dr. Vipul Goyal, Microsoft Research, India | 3/14/16 10:30-11:30am 366WVH

[Walker, Lashauna]

Title: Advances in Non-Malleable Cryptography
Speaker: Vipul Goyal, Microsoft Research, India
Date: 3/14/16   Time: 10:30-11:30am  Location: 366 WVH


Title: Advances in Non-Malleable Cryptography


Abstract:
A central challenge in the design of secure systems is to defend against man-in-the-middle attacks, where an adversary can arbitrarily
tamper with the messages exchanged by two parties over a communication channel.  Starting with the early nineties, an important research goal
in cryptography has been to build ``non-malleable'' cryptographic protocols that are resilient to such attacks.

In this talk, I will describe my work that culminates this two-decade long research quest by constructing round-optimal non-malleable
protocols based on almost minimal cryptographic assumptions. I will also discuss how the techniques developed in these works have
transcended cryptography and found applications in randomness extraction, coding theory, and complexity theory. I will also briefly
talk about my work on applied cryptography and its impact.


Bio:
Dr. Vipul Goyal is a researcher at Microsoft Research, India. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Los
Angeles in 2010. He received his B.Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. He has wide interests
in all areas in cryptography, security & privacy, and theoretical computer science.

Dr. Goyal has won honors such as a Microsoft Research graduate fellowship and Google outstanding graduate student award. He was
named to the Forbes magazine 30 under 30 list in 2013. His research has received media coverage at popular science publications such as
MIT technology reviews, Slashdot, and Nature news. He has given invited lectures at places such as MIT, Princeton, and IIT Delhi. He
has regularly served on program committees of cryptography conferences such as Crypto, Eurocrypt, and TCC. He has published over 50 technical
papers at conferences such as Crypto, Eurocrypt, STOC, FOCS, and ACM CCS. He also holds 2 international patents.

Thank You.

LaShauna Walker
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