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 15:00 on Tuesdays in Gates 406 (Ithaca) / Bloomberg 497 (NYC).

Note to students: If you plan to attend regularly, please register for CS 7493.

Other Semesters

Schedule (Spring 2019)

Date	Topic	Discussion Leader
January 23	Organizational Meeting	Ethan Cecchetti
January 29	Organizational Meeting 2.0	Ethan Cecchetti
February 5	Prime and Prejudice: Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions Martin R. Albrecht, Jake Massimo, Kenneth G. Paterson, and Kenneth G. Paterson CCS '18	Isaac Sheff
February 12	(IC3 Winter Retreat)
February 19	Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno USENIX '11	Jasleen Malvai
February 26	(February Break)
March 5	Characterizing Pixel Tracking through the Lens of Disposable Email Services Hang Hu, Peng Peng, and Gang Wang Oakland '19	Julia Len
March 12	Lawful Device Access without Mass Surveillance Risk: A Technical Design Discussion Stefan Savage CCS '18	Ethan Cecchetti
March 19	Practical state recovery attacks against legacy RNG implementations Shaanan N. Cohney, Matthew D. Green, and Nadia Heninger CCS '18	Mahimna Kelkar
March 26	(Visit Day)
April 2	(Spring Break)
April 9	Analysis of Privacy Protections in Fitness Tracking Social Networks -or- You can run, but can you hide? Wajih Ul Hassan, Saad Hussain, and Adam Bates USENIX '18	Lucy Li
April 16	Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges Philip Daian, Steven Goldfeder, Tyler Kell, Yunqi Li, Xueyuan Zhao, Iddo Bentov, Lorenz Breidenbach, and Ari Juels	Phil Daian
April 23	KeyForge: Mitigating Email Breaches with Forward-Forgeable Signatures Michael Specter, Sunoo Park, and Matthew Green	Nirvan Tyagi
April 30	Prochlo: Strong Privacy for Analytics in the Crowd Andrea Bittau, Úlfar Erlingsson, Petros Maniatis, Ilya Mironov, Ananth Raghunathan, David Lie, Mitch Rudominer, Ushasree Kode, Julien Tinnes, and Bernhard Seefeld SOSP '17	Edward Tremel
May 7	(Cancelled)
May 14	Tough Times at Transitional Homeless Shelters: Considering the Impact of Financial Insecurity on Digital Security and Privacy Manya Sleeper, Tara Matthews, Kathleen O'Leary, Anna Turner, Jill Palzkill Woelfer, Martin Shelton, Andrew Oplinger, Andreas Schou, and Sunny Consolvo CHI '19	Sam Havron

We also have a Google Calendar.