[Cryptography Meetup] A Crash Course on Multiparty Computation.

Online Meetup.

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Title: A Crash Course on Multiparty Computation

Multiparty Computation, or MPC for short, is a set of techniques that enable multiple parties to jointly compute a function on private data while leaking only its output. MPC has been studied for several decades, which has led to many different protocols with multiple security-performance trade-offs, as well as a large knowledge base on the theoretical limits of this technology.

It is natural to expect something as powerful and general as MPC to be overly complicated and hard to grasp. However, it turns out that many of the core ideas used in MPC are not really that complex, and one can get a fairly solid understanding of the field by learning these concepts. The goal of this talk is to introduce the audience to what MPC is, present some basic terminology, and discuss some essential results and constructions that serve as the basis for many other practically-oriented protocols. In a bit more detail, the talk will start by introducing some essential concepts in MPC like honest and dishonest majority or passive and active security, then we will discuss what is known to be achievable and what is known to be impossible, and proceed to present some basic constructions based on additive and Shamir secret-sharing.

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Presenter: Daniel Escudero (https://deescuderoo.github.io)

I'm a last year PhD student at Aarhus University, Denmark, working under the supervision of Ivan Damgård. My background is in Mathematics, and my current interests are the different interactions between these and Cryptography, specially when it comes to performing computation on 'hidden' data. I am also interested in the applicability of these techniques to different real-world challenges. I also enjoy knowledge dissemination, and I am a strong believer of the existing value in making seemingly complex idea simple.

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Cryptography Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Cryptography-Meetup)

The goal of the Cryptography Meetup is to make cryptography more approachable for programmers.

If you’re a programmer looking to explore, understand and build systems that use cryptographic algorithms, come learn with us. If you’re a cryptographer come share your knowledge with implementers.

We start all our discussions & presentations from the basics, without assuming any prior knowledge of complex mathematics or cryptographic primitives.

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Bay Area OWASP (https://meetup.com/Bay-Area-OWASP)

This meetup is a joint meetup with the Bay Area chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) group which is dedicated to bringing together Bay Area web application security talent and interest in the form of presentations, talks, conferences.

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Organizers:

Mrinal Wadhwa (https://twitter.com/mrinal)
Prashant KV

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