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For our fifth Zero-knowledge meetup, we are pleased to welcome you at Microsoft Reactor, Dubnov St 7, Tel Aviv-Yafo, on April, 1st.

This Chapter will include two new topics, given by three fabulous speakers :

  • Introduction to homomorphic encryption (HE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption) given by Max Leibovich who is researching FHE as part of his Ph.D at Haifa U.

  • How Enigma (https://enigma.co/) is using Intel's SGX as part of a system to get privacy in smart contracts. Talk will be given by Isan Rivkin and Moria Abadi, software engineers working at Enigma.

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Schedule:

  • 6.00pm: greetings, food and drinks
  • 6.30pm:
  • SGX as Driver for Privacy in the Decentralised Web // Moria & Isan
  • The wonderful world of HE // Max

Talks will be given in English.
For more details, here the abstracts and bios of our speakers:

Title: The wonderful world of HE

Advancements in cryptography in the last few decades introduced several novel tools that allow Alice (client) to encrypt the data in her possession, pass the ciphertexts to Bob (server) and ask Bob to compute any function of her choosing on these ciphertexts, without disclosing any information about her data.
One such tool is Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).
To get a small taste on how FHE works and how it's even possible to compute on ciphertexts we will see a toy Homomorphic Encryption scheme over the Integers.
Next, we will have a bird's-eye view on several techniques that make FHE schemes faster and mention several state-of-the-art implementations.

Max is a multidisciplinary software developer with about 10 years of experience in many different technologies and a curious and enthusiastic academic.
Nowadays he is working towards a Ph.D. at Haifa University under the guidance of Dr. Adi Akavia.

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Title: SGX as Driver for Privacy in the Decentralised Web

The talk will cover SGX as a security solution for decentralised networks and how the Enigma protocol utilizes its functionality together with Ethereum to create a safe environment for private contracts

Moria is software engineer at Enigma, previously at IBM research. Moria has developed the WASM engine and framework for Enigma secret contracts

Isan is a software engineer at Enigma, designing and implementing the P2P network side and SGX related features.

Join the discussion on the zero knowledge facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/800441673459620/

We thank Enigma for sponsoring the event.

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