SecDG

Security and Privacy Discussion Group

Overview

The Security and Privacy Discussion Group meets weekly to discuss papers related to topics in security and privacy. The goal is to encourage interactions and discussions between students, researchers, and faculty with interests in this area. The seminar is open to everyone interested in security and privacy. First-year and second-year students are especially encouraged to participate.

Talks and discussions will be advertised on the secdg-l@cornell.edu email list. To sign up, you can simply send an empty email with the subject "join" to secdg-l-request@cornell.edu.

Meetings are at 13:30 on Wednesdays. They are held jointly across both the Ithaca and New York campuses in Gates 405 (Ithaca) / Bloomberg 497 (NYC) unless otherwise noted.

Other Semesters

Schedule (Fall 2018)

Date	Room†	Topic	Discussion Leader
Aug 29		Organizational Meeting	Ethan Cecchetti
Sept 5		(Cancelled)
Sept 12		Skill Squatting Attacks on Amazon Alexa Deepak Kumar, Riccardo Paccagnella, Paul Murley, Eric Hennenfent, Joshua Mason, Adam Bates, and Michael Bailey USENIX '18	Sam Havron
Sept 19		Oblix: An Efficient Oblivious Search Index Pratyush Mishra, Rishabh Poddar, Jerry Chen, Alessandro Chiesa, and Raluca Ada Popa Oakland '18	Natacha Crooks
Sept 26		Privacy Risk in Machine Learning: Analyzing the Connection to Overfitting Samuel Yeom, Irene Giacomelli, Matt Fredrikson, and Somesh Jha CSF '18	Ethan Cecchetti
Oct 3		Macaroons: Cookies with Contextual Caveats for Decentralized Authorization in the Cloud Arnar Birgisson, Joe Gibbs Politz, Ulfar Erlingsson, Ankur Taly, Michael Vrable, and Mark Lentczner NDSS '14	Andrew Hirsch
Oct 10	Bloomberg 201 (NYC)	(Postponed due to poor attendance 😞)
Oct 17		Clock Around the Clock: Time-Based Device Fingerprinting Iskander Sanchez-Rola, Igor Santos, and Davide Balzarotti CCS '18	Julia Len
Oct 24		General State Channel Networks Stefan Dziembowski, Sebastian Faust, and Kristina Hostáková CCS '18	Isaac Sheff
Oct 31		How You Get Shot in the Back: A Systematical Study about Cryptojacking in the Real World Geng Hong, Zhemin Yang, Sen Yang, Lei Zhang, Yuhong Nan, Zhibo Zhang, Min Yang, Yuan Zhang, Zhiyun Qian, and Haixin Duan CCS '18	Lucy Li
Nov 7		CONIKS: Bringing Key Transparency to End Users Marcela S. Melara, Aaron Blankstein, Joseph Bonneau, Edward W. Felten, and Michael J. Freedman USENIX '14	Jasleen Malvai
Nov 14		Towards Deep Learning Models Resistant to Adversarial Attacks Aleksander Madry, Aleksandar Makelov, Ludwig Schmidt, Dimitris Tsipras, and Adrian Vladu	Roei Schuster
Nov 21		(Thanksgiving Break)
Nov 28		DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof System Howard Wu, Wenting Zheng, Alessandro Chiesa, Raluca Ada Popa, and Ion Stoica USENIX '18	Phil Daian

†If unspecified, the meeting will be in Gates 405 (Ithaca) / Bloomberg 497 (NYC).

We also have a Google Calendar.