A tutorial on cryptocurrencies

On Oct 15, 2015 Stefan Dziembowski will deliver a 4 hour tutorial entitled

Introduction to Cryptocurrencies

at the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS) 2015.

New papers accepted

We are happy to announce that the following papers coming from our group have recently been accepted for publications.

• Maciej Skorski,
  How to Smooth Entropy?International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science SOFSEM
• Maciej Skórski
  On Provable Security of wPRF-based Leakage-Resilient Stream CiphersInternational Conference on Provable Security (ProvSec) 2015
• Onur Günlü, Gerhard Kramer, and Maciej Skórski
  Privacy and Secrecy with Multiple Measurements of Physical and Biometric IdentifiersIEEE Conference on Communication and Network Security CNS 2015,
• Maciej Skórski
  How much randomness can be extracted from memoryless Shannon entropy sources?International Workshop on Information Security Applications WISA 2015
• Maciej Skórski
  Time-Success Ratios under Simple Transformations: Analysis and ApplicationsInternational Conference on Cryptography and Information Security BalkanCryptSec 2015
• Maciej Skórski
  Shannon Entropy versus Renyi Entropy from a Cryptographic ViewpointIMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding (IMACC) 2015
• Maciej Skórski
  A New Approximate Min-Max Theorem with Applications in Cryptography
  International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC) 2015

Papers accepted to LATINCRYPT

We are happy to announce that the following papers:

Krzysztof Pietrzak and Maciej Skorski
The Chain Rule for HILL Pseudoentropy, Revisited

Vincenzo Iovino and Karol Żebrowski
Simulation-Based Secure Functional Encryption in the Random Oracle Model

were accepted to LATINCRYPT 2015 - the Fourth International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America.

Two papers accepted to CRYPTO'15

We are happy to announce that our following two papers:

• Stefan Dziembowski, Sebastian Faust, Vladimir Kolmogorov and Krzysztof Pietrzak
  Proofs of Space
  
• Marcin Andrychowicz and Stefan Dziembowski
PoW-Based Distributed Cryptography with no Trusted Setup

have been accepted to CRYPTO'15.

A paper accepted to ACNS'15

We are happy to announce that the following paper:

Marcin Andrychowicz and Daniel Masny and Edoardo Persichetti
Leakage-Resilient Cryptography over Large Finite Fields: Theory and Practice

has been aaccepted to the 13th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2015)

A paper accepted to ICALP'15

We are happy to announce that the following paper:

Maciej Skórski, Alexander Golovnev and Krzysztof Pietrzak
Condensed Unpredictability

has been accepted to the 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2015).

Two papers accepted to ICITS'15

We are happy to announce that two following papers:

Maciej Skórski
Nonuniform Indistinguishability and Unpredictability Hardcore Lemmas: New Proofs with Applications to Pseudoentropy

and

Maciej Skórski
Metric Pseudoentropy: Characterizations, Transformations and Applications

have been accepted to the 8th International Conference on Information-Theoretic Security (ICITS 2015)

A paper accepted to STOC'15

We are happy to announce that the following paper:

Divesh Aggarwal, Yevgeniy Dodis, Tomasz Kazana, and Maciej Obremski,
Non-malleable Reductions and Applications

has been accepted to the 47th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2015).

TCC'15 in Warsaw

The Twelfth IACR Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2015) will start in less than 2 months. The early registration deadline is 19.02 so please register soon!

A paper accepted to Eurocrypt'15

We are happy to announce that our paper:

Stefan Dziembowski, Sebastian Faust and Maciej Skórski
Noisy Leakage Revisited

 was accepted to the 34th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques EUROCRYPT 2015