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 in Gates 405 (Ithaca) or Hackers (NYC).

Other Semesters

Schedule (Spring 2017)

Date	Topic	Discussion Leader
January 25	Organizational Meeting	Ethan Cecchetti
February 1	On Post-compromise Security Katriel Cohn-Gordon, Cas Cremers, and Luke Garratt CSF '16	Ethan Cecchetti
February 8	Big Data Analytics over Encrypted Datasets with Seabed Antonis Papadimitriou, Ranjita Bhagwan, Nishanth Chandran, Ramachandran Ramjee, Andreas Haeberlen, Harmeet Singh, Abhishek Modi, and Saikrishna Badrinarayanan OSDI '16	Theo Ghountouvas
February 15	USENIX Drafts	Ethan Cecchetti
February 22	Riffle Albert Kwon, David Lazar, Srinivas Devadas, and Bryan Ford PETS '16	Phil Daian
March 1	Du-Vote: Remote Electronic Voting with Untrusted Computers Gurchetan S. Grewal, Mark D. Ryan, Liqun Chen, and Michael R. Clarkson CSF '15	Edward Tremel
March 8	How I Learned to be Secure: a Census-Representative Survey of Security Advice Sources and Behavior Elissa M. Redmiles, Sean Kross, and Michelle L. Mazurek CCS '16	Tom Magrino
March 10 TPLS Crosslist 14:00 – 15:00	A Per Model of Secure Information Flow in Sequential Programs Andrei Sabelfeld and David Sands ESOP '99	Andrew Hirsch
March 15	(University Closed for Snow Emergency)
March 22	(PhD Visit Day)
March 29	Prio: Private, Robust, and Scalable Computation of Aggregate Statistics Henry Corrigan-Gibbs and Dan Boneh NSDI '17	Andrew Morgan
April 5	(Spring Break)
April 12	Opaque: An Oblivious and Encrypted Distributed Analytics Platform Wenting Zheng, Ankur Dave, Jethro G. Beekman, Raluca Ada Popa, Joseph E. Gonzalez, and Ion Stoica NSDI '17	Paul Grubbs
April 19	Verified Models and Reference Implementations for the TLS 1.3 Standard Candidate Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Bruno Blanchet, and Nadim Kobeissi Oakland '17	Isaac Sheff
April 26	Enhancing Security and Privacy of Tor's Ecosystem by Using Trusted Execution Environments Seongmin Kim, Juhyeng Han, Jaehyeong Ha, Taesoo Kim, and Dongsu Han NSDI '17	Eleanor Birrell
May 3	Counter-RAPTOR: Safeguarding Tor Against Active Routing Attacks Yixin Sun, Anne Edmundson, Nick Feamster, Mung Chiang, and Prateek Mittal Oakland '17	Phil Daian
May 10	Verifying Constant-Time Implementations Joséacelar Almeida, Manuel Barbosa, Gilles Barthe, Françs Dupressoir, and Michael Emmi USENIX '16	Lorenz Breidenbach

We also have a Google Calendar.