Information Theoretic Cryptography
February 17-20, 2020
School Overview
Information-theoretic cryptography aims at achieving security in the presence of computationally unbounded adversaries. This area covers a wide array of topics at the intersection of cryptography, coding theory, information-theory and theory of computation. Information-theoretic protocols provide unconditional security that is not based on unproven computational intractability assumptions, whereas information-theoretic lower-bounds reveal the inherent limitations on the achievability of unconditional security. In addition, information-theoretic methods and reductions lie at the heart of many computational constructions.
In the 10th BIU Winter School on Cryptography, we will study the theory of information-theoretic cryptography. The program will cover the following topics:
private-information retrieval, secret sharing and conditional disclosure of secrets, consensus, and secure multiparty protocols.
The winter school program is designed to teach the topic from its basics up to the latest research. The target audience for the school is graduate students and postdocs in cryptography (we will assume that participants have taken at least one university-level course in cryptography). However, all faculty, undergrads and professionals with the necessary background are welcome. The winter school is open to participants from all over the world; all talks will be in English.
School Lecturers
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- Ittai Abraham, VMware Research
- Benny Applebaum, Tel Aviv University
- Gilad Asharov, Bar-Ilan University
- Ivan Damgård, Aarhus University
- klim Efremenko, Ben-Gurion University
- Niv Gilboa, Ben-Gurion University
- Yuval Ishai, Technion
Additional Information
Organizers: Benny Applebaum, The School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Carmit Hazay, Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University and Benny Pinkas , Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Where: The winter school will take place at the Rayman hall at Kfar Hamaccabiah events & conference center in Ramat Gan
When: Monday, February 17, 2020 to Thursday, February 20, 2020
Registration: We are sorry but the maximum number of participants has already been reached, and registration is now closed.
Contact: For any questions or queries, please send an e-mail to: winterschool.biu@gmail.com
Hotel: We have arranged a special rate at the Kfar Hamaccabiah Hotel where the conference center is located. The rate is $180 a night for a single room, $200 a night for a double room (with two occupants) and $240 for a triple room (with three occupants). The rate includes breakfast. Hotel reservation form will be available soon.
Program Schedule
The detailed schedule for the winter school can be downloaded here.
Monday, February 17 – Part 1- PIR + Secret Sharing
- Benny Applebaum: School Overview (Slides) (Video)
- Gilad Asharov: Threshold Secret Sharing – part 1 (Slides) (Video)
- Gilad Asharov: Threshold Secret Sharing – part 2 (Video)
- Yuval Ishai: Private Information Retrieval – part 1 (Slides) (Video)
- Yuval Ishai: Private Information Retrieval – part 2 (Video)
- Klim Efremenko: Private Information Retrieval – part 3 (slides) (Video)
Tuesday, February 18 – Part 2- Secret Sharing + Consensus
- Klim Efremenko: Private Information Retrieval – part 4 (Slides) (Video)
- Benny Applebaum: General Secret Sharing + Conditional Disclosure of Secrets – part 1 (Slides) (Video)
- Benny Applebaum: General Secret Sharing + Conditional Disclosure of Secrets – part 2 (Video)
- Benny Applebaum: General Secret Sharing + Conditional Disclosure of Secrets – part 3 (Slides) (Video)
- Ittai Abraham: Consensus – part 1 (Slides) (Video)
- Ittai Abraham: Consensus – part 2 (Video)
Wednesday, February 19 – Part 3 – Consensus + MPC
- Ittai Abraham: Consensus – part 3 (Slides) (Video)
- Ittai Abraham: Consensus – part 4 (Video)
- Yuval Ishai: Introduction to Secure Multi-Party Computation (Slides) (Video)
- Excursion
Thursday, February 20 – Part 4 – MPC
- Gilad Asharov: Secure Multi-Party Computation – part 1 (Slides) (Video)
- Yuval Ishai: Secure Multi-Party Computation – part 2 (Sildes) (Video)
- Yuval Ishai: Secure Multi-Party Computation – part 3 (Sildes) (Video)
- Niv Gilboa: Fully-Linear PCPs and Their Cryptographic Applications (Sildes) (Video)
- Benny Applebaum: Randomized Encoding of Functions and Constant-Round MPC – part 1 (Slides) (Video)
- Benny Applebaum: Randomized Encoding of Functions and Constant-Round MPC – part 2 (Video)
We are sorry that our Chinese colleagues could not come to the winter school due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus. We wish the people of China all the best in these tragic circumstances. All the lectures of the school will be uploaded to Youtube soon after the school is over. Meanwhile, you can watch a live broadcast of the lectures on Dingtalk, on the group 2020 BIU Winter School using this QR code.
(Note that Israel time is 6 hours behind Beijng time)
This winter school is graciously supported by
The BIU Center for Research in Applied Cryptography and Cyber Security in conjunction with the Israel National Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister’s Office and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 639813) and the Alter Family.
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