| Date: | April 18, 2017 |
| Time: | 4:00pm |
| Location: | Blocker 149 |
| Speaker: | Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research |
| Title: | Maxson Lecture I: How to Keep your Genome Secret |
| Abstract: | Over the last 10 years, the cost of sequencing the human genome has come down to around $1,000 per person. Human genomic data is a gold-mine of information, potentially unlocking the secrets to human health and longevity. As a society, we face ethical and privacy questions related to how to handle human genomic data. Should it be aggregated and made available for medical research? What are the risks to individual's privacy? This talk will describe a mathematical solution for securely handling computation on genomic data, and highlight the results of a recent international contest in this area. The solution uses "Homomorphic Encryption", based on hard problems in number theory related to lattices. This application highlights the importance of a new class of hard problems in number theory to be solved.
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| Date: | April 19, 2017 |
| Time: | 4:00pm |
| Location: | Blocker 149 |
| Speaker: | Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research |
| Title: | Maxson Lecture II: How to Keep your Secrets in a Post-Quantum World |
| Abstract: | This talk will give an overview of the history of various hard problems in number theory which are used as the basis for cryptosystems. I will survey the evolution of attacks and discuss the upcoming NIST competition to standardize new cryptographic schemes for a post-quantum world. I will present some current proposals for post-quantum systems based on supersingular isogeny graphs of elliptic curves and lattice-based cryptosystems in cyclotomic number fields and give the ideas behind some recent attacks.
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