Just presented our paper "SEAL: Attack Mitigation for Encrypted Databases via Adjustable Leakage" USENIX Security'20 (joint work with Dimitris Papadopoulos, Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou and Saurabh Shintre). You can find the paper, presentation video and slides here usenix.org/conference/use…

Very excited to join the @UCSC_BSOE family :)

Continuing to introduce our new #BaskinEngineering faculty! Prof. Yannis Demertzis focuses on building practical and provable secure cryptographic solutions with applications to cloud computing security, encrypted systems, and databases. Read more at: bit.ly/2020Faculty

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UC Santa Cruz is accepting applicants to its Ph.D. and M.S. programs for Fall 2021! Applications due Jan. 10, 2021 (Ph.D.) and Feb. 14, 2021 (M.S.). No GRE required. Learn more and apply at grad.soe.ucsc.edu/ece

Excited that the 3rd edition of Introduction to Modern #Cryptography is coming out soon! cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/imc.html

Please RT: I am hiring PhD students and Postdocs interested in the areas of applied cryptography, security & privacy, and secure databases & systems @UCSC CSE Dept.! The deadline is January 11, 2021. Please contact me directly if interested! More details: idemertzis.com/UCSC_PHD_Postd…

Join @GeorgiosTsimos from Univ. of Maryland ECE at UMD tomorrow at decrypto.org seminar (12 pm EST). His talk is on our new result (with Julian Loss) on communication-efficient (~n^2) protocols for parallel authenticated broadcast, that improves prior n^3 approaches!

Stop by the #SOSP21 security session at 1PM to hear Vivian Fang and I talk about "Snoopy: Surpassing the Scalability Bottleneck of Oblivious Storage" (joint work with Ioannis Demertzis, Natacha Crooks, Raluca Ada Popa) Paper: eprint.iacr.org/2021/1280.pdf Talk: youtu.be/BTickyGZgKA

Oblivious compute is key in removing many side channel attacks in hardware enclaves and confidential computing. Yet, for years it has not been scalable. My students Emma Dauterman Vivian Fang present our scalable solution #SOSP21(+ #IDemertzis Natacha Crooks). tinify.net/Lo7

Please RT: I am hiring PhD students and Postdocs interested in the areas of applied cryptography, security & privacy, and secure databases/systems @UCSC CSE Dept.! The deadline is January 10, 2022. More details:idemertzis.com/UCSC_PHD_Postd…

CryptoExperts hires! We're looking for a cryptography expert / engineer to work on white-box cryptography. Please share :-) cryptoexperts.com/job-offer-wbc.…

If you're interested in being my intern at VMware Research and working on privacy-preserving research, DM me!

I just watched Amit do an amazing job explaining Zero Knowledge proofs using our classic examples! You should have a look, watch it with your kids, and don't miss Shang-Hua's cameo. wired.com/video/watch/5-…

👏🏿👏🏼👏🏾 Yang Liu, #BaskinEngineering CSE professor, has won an U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his work on human-centered machine learning! The grant will fund Liu's research in developing theoretical frameworks & computational solutions for unbiased machine learning news.ucsc.edu/2022/03/liu-ca…

Very happy about our CRYPTO paper. Our CONVERGE protocol, the crucial building block of our parallel broadcast, could have other applications too. Congratulations to my student @GeorgiosTsimos for leading his first top-tier work and to my superstar collaborator Julian Loss!

This made my day! Very happy to see that Searchable Encryption is entering the industry space, and hopefully, more researchers and DB vendors will continue contributing to this effort. Many Congratulations Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz, and MongoDB!

Congratulations :)

Dynamic searchable encryption with optimal search time in the presence of deletes + forward/backward privacy + faster in practice? DONE! My student Amin K presents our work (eprint.iacr.org/2022/648) today at 2:15pm at USENIX Security (joint work w/ J.Chamani + Dimitris Papadopoulos)

I am hiring PhD students interested in the areas of applied cryptography, security/privacy, private computation, metadata-private communication, and secure databases/systems at UCSC! Deadline to apply is December 20, 2024. More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1a3…