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Presentation

The NIST project on privacy enhancing cryptography

September 23, 2020

Presenters

Angela Robinson

Description

Privacy-enhancing cryptography (PEC) techniques, such as zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and secure multi-party computation (SMPC), enable multiple agents to interact meaningfully without revealing superfluous private information to one another or to third parties. This talk will overview the NIST PEC project, still in an early stage. Several envisioned use-cases illustrate the potential of PEC, but their feasibility depends on the ability to perform practical implementations. To which extent can or should cryptographic modules be in scope? For example: should cryptographic modules produce ZKPs of correctness of their generated parameters? are cryptographic modules suitable to participate as agents in an SMPC? We would like to obtain feedback from the community.

Presented at

ICMC 2020, virtual event, 2020-September-23, 4:30pm

Presentation jointly prepared with Luís T.A.N. Brandão and René Peralta.

Parent Project

See: Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography

Related Topics

Security and Privacy: cryptography

Created September 28, 2020, Updated December 16, 2020