Keynote Speakers
We are very happy to announce the following keynote speakers (in alphabetical order):
Marten van Dijk, CWI Amsterdam and U Connecticut
Title: TBA
Speaker: Marten van Dijk, CWI Amsterdam and U Connecticut
Short Summary: TBA
Short Bio: TBA
Yuval Yarom, U Adelaide
Title: Automating cryptographic code generation
Speaker: Yuval Yarom, U Adelaide
Short Summary:
Cryptography provides the data protection mechanisms that underly security and privacy in the modern connected world. Given this pivotal role, implementations of cryptographic code must not only be correct, but also meet stringent performance and security requirements. Achieving these aims is often difficult and requires significant investment in software development and manual tuning.
This talk presents two approaches for automating the task of generating correct, secure, and efficient cryptographic code. The first, Rosita, uses a power consumption emulator to detect unintended leaky interactions between values in the microarchitecture. It then rewrites the code to eliminate these interactions and produce code that is resistant to power analysis. The second, CryptOpt, uses evolutionary computation to search for the most efficient constant-time implementation of a cryptographic function. It then formally verifies that the produced implementation is semantically equivalent to the original code.
Rosita is a joint work with Lejla Batina, Łukasz Chmielewski, Francesco Regazzoni, Niels Samwel, Madura A. Shelton, and Markus Wagner.
CryptOpt is a joint work with Adam Chlipala, Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Andres Erbsen, Daniel Genkin, Jason Gross, Joel Kuepper, Chuyue Sun, Markus Wagner, and David Wu.
Short Bio:
Yuval Yarom is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide in 2014, and an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1993 and 1990, respectively. In between he has been the Vice President of Research in Memco Software and a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Girafa.com.
Yuval’s research explores the security of the interface between the software and the hardware. In particular, He is interested in the discrepancy between the way that programmers think about software execution and the concrete execution in modern processors. He works on identifying micro-architectural vulnerabilities, and on exploitation and mitigation techniques.