Special Topics on Privacy and Public Auditability — Event 5

Event schedule, Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5):

• 12:00–12:10: PEC-STPPA #5 Welcome
• 12:10–13:00: Identity Based Encryption: an Overview, by Dan Boneh (Stanford University)
• 13:00–13:50: Attribute-Based Encryption, Variants and Pairing-Based Encryption, by Melissa Chase (Microsoft Research)
• 13:50–14:10: Break
• 14:10–15:00: Attribute-Based and Broadcast Encryption from Lattices, by Hoeteck Wee (NTT Research)
• 15:00–15:50: Panel Conversation on IBE, ABE and Broadcast Encryption. Four panelists: Dan Boneh (Stanford University), Melissa Chase (Microsoft Research), Tanya Verma (Cloudflare), and Hoeteck Wee (NTT Research). Moderation by the NIST-PEC team: Luís Brandão (NIST/Strativia), René Peralta (NIST), and Angela Robinson (NIST)

List of invited speakers or panelists:

• Dan Boneh (Stanford University)
• Melissa Chase (Microsoft Research)
• Tanya Verma (Cloudflare)
• Hoeteck Wee (NTT Research)

List of bios (provided by the speakers/panelists):

• Dr. Boneh is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University where he heads the applied cryptography group and co-directs the Computer Security Lab.  Dr. Boneh's research focuses on applications of cryptography to computer security and blockchains.  He is the author of over 200 publications in the field, and is a recipient of the 2014 ACM prize and the 2013 Godel prize.  In 2016 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
• Melissa Chase is a principal researcher in the Cryptography and Privacy group at Microsoft Research Redmond. Her research focuses on defining and constructing and analyzing cryptographic protocols and primitives, with an emphasis on privacy-motivated applications. She has been at Microsoft for nearly 15 years; before that she received a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University. She has worked in a variety of areas within cryptography and privacy, including anonymous credentials, electronic cash, attribute based encryption, and most recently problems in identity, transparency, and encrypted messaging.
• Tanya Verma is a Research Engineer at Cloudflare, working as a systems engineer on projects involving applied cryptography engineering and privacy preserving protocols. Over the last two years, she has worked on a key management solution for Cloudflare that leverages Attribute Based Encryption to geographically restrict where keys can be accessed. Previously, she has worked on the design and implementation of Oblivious DNS over HTTPS. Recently, she has been working on privacy preserving federated learning, threshold signatures for TLS and delegated credentials. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
• Hoeteck Wee is a cryptographer as well as a senior scientist at NTT Research and a CNRS researcher at ENS, Paris. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Humboldt Research Fellowship, Google Faculty Award, and a ERC Starting Grant, as well as a contributor to the TLS 1.3 standard.