TheIACR Courses

Fast Homomorphic Evaluation of Deep Discretized Neural Networks

Explore fast homomorphic evaluation techniques for deep discretized neural networks, focusing on digit recognition and addressing challenges in activation and dynamic message space.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fast Large Scale Honest Majority MPC for Malicious Adversaries

Explore advanced techniques for secure multi-party computation, focusing on fast, large-scale protocols resistant to malicious adversaries. Learn about cheating detection, optimization, and efficient sum-of-products computation.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Correcting Subverted Random Oracles

Explores techniques to correct subverted random oracles in cryptography, addressing security vulnerabilities and proposing solutions for preventing attacks on hash functions and chain takeovers.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Verifiable Delay Functions

Explore verifiable delay functions, their security properties, and applications in random beacons and stock price manipulation prevention. Learn about various constructions and optimizations.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Threshold Cryptosystems From Threshold Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Explore threshold cryptosystems derived from threshold fully homomorphic encryption, covering key management, signatures, and public key encryption, with insights on security definitions and techniques.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Certified Randomness from Quantum Supremacy

Explore quantum supremacy, certified randomness, and their implications in cryptography with Scott Aaronson's insightful presentation on cutting-edge quantum computing concepts.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Idea to Impact, the Crypto Story - What's Next?

Explore the intersection of cryptography and machine learning, examining challenges, impacts, and future directions in digital privacy, adversarial learning, and quantum resilience.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Statistical Witness Indistinguishability -and More- in Two Messages

Explore statistical witness indistinguishability in interactive proofs, focusing on reducing interaction while maintaining secrecy and statistical zero knowledge.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A New Distribution Sensitive Secure Sketch and Popularity Proportional Hashing

Explores new techniques for secure password storage and authentication, including distribution-sensitive secure sketches and popularity proportional hashing, to enhance security against online and offline attacks.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Information Theoretic Indistinguishability via the Chi Squared Method

Explore information theoretic indistinguishability using the Chi squared method, covering problem overview, description, and conclusions in cryptography research.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Indifferentiability of Iterated Even Mansour Ciphers with Non Idealized Key Schedules

Explores indifferentiability of iterated Even-Mansour ciphers with non-idealized key schedules, presenting novel approaches and strategies for enhancing block cipher security.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Key Rotation for Authenticated Encryption

Explores key rotation techniques for authenticated encryption, discussing hybrid approaches, confidentiality, secret sharing, and attack models. Analyzes performance and concludes with insights.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bitcoin as a Transaction Ledger - A Composable Treatment

Explore Bitcoin's transaction ledger through a composable treatment, examining block structure, functionality, and key concepts in blockchain technology.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Ratcheted Encryption and Key Exchange - The Security of Messaging

Explore ratcheted encryption and key exchange in secure messaging, covering concepts, generic compilation, and a tricky exchange implementation with motivation and proof.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Non-Interactive Secure Multi-Party Computation - Eurocrypt 2023 Session

Explore cutting-edge advancements in non-interactive secure multi-party computation, including reusable NISC, witness encryption, and overcoming limitations in two-party and multi-party settings.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video