Crypto in the Clouds Workshop

Program

Where everything is:

Note the change in room of workshop...

• On Sunday (8/1), the tutorial will be in room 32-155 at CSAIL at the Stata Center. All doors are locked on Sunday so we have someone to man the main entrance at particular times. The main entrance is at the corner of Main and Vassar Street and someone will let you in at 12:45-1:10pm, 2:30pm-2:45pm, 4:15pm-4:25pm, and 5:15pm-5:25pm. Room 32-155 is on the first floor of stata-- and is a classroom.
• On Monday-Wednesday (8/3-8/5), the workshop will also be held CSAIL Stata in room 32-155.
• Evening session on Tuesday (8/4) will be held at Microsoft, located at 1 Memorial Drive, in the first floor lecture room.

Restaurant Information:

Here is a list of local restaurants. Catered lunch for invited participants only will be on Monday and Tuesday.

Parking Information:

Free parking on Sunday. There is a public parking lot at the corner of Mass Avenue and Vassar Street which is $4.00-$16.00 per day. If you would like to arrange and pay for parking through MIT's parking office, please call 617-258-6510.

Workshop Description:

A fast growing worldwide trend is to view computation as a commodity: Instead of maintaining their own computer systems, organizations or individuals may pay specialized providers to carry out the desired computation for them. This trend (often called "Cloud Computing") carries with it great promise in terms of overall computing efficiency, power consumption, and financial flexibility. However, it also opens the door to much more acute security threats than those we have encountered so far: Without additional protection, the client must completely trust the provider to perform the computation correctly, and at the same time keep the secrecy of the clients' most sensitive private data.

Allowing the client to benefit from this service without putting such an unreasonable amount of trust in the provider turns out to be an extremely complex and delicate task. In particular, traditional cryptographic techniques and concepts are of no help here. Indeed, the cryptographic community is recently abuzz with a set of new techniques that are aimed at dealing with such adversarial scenarios. These include exciting new techniques for:

- Computation on encrypted data (often called "fully homomorphic encryption")
- Verifiable Delegated Computation
- Program Obfuscation
- Leakage-Resilient Cryptography
- Circular Encryption
- Searchable and Conditionally Decryptable Encryption

The workshop will bring together researchers that work on different aspects of this problem, allowing for exchange of ideas and coming up with new research directions.

Accomodations:

• Single occupancy rooms at New House, an undergraduate dormitory at MIT at the rate of $57 per night are available. New House is located at 471-476 Memorial Drive.
  Our page on New House.
  MIT's page on guests housing in dorms
  Contact Joanne Talbot Hanley ASAP if you would like to reserve a room.

• We also have a block of rooms available at the Kendall Hotel, located at 350 Main Street which is just minutes away from the Stata Center where the workshop will be held. The rate is $149 and is not covered by the Workshop. You can call the hotel directly at 617.577.1300 or 1.866.566.1300, and mention the Workshop name "Crypto in the Clouds".
  Please make your reservation before July 25th in order to get this rate.
  All room rates include:
  * Full Fireman's American Breakfast buffet
  * High speed Internet access (Wi-Fi & wired)
  * Complimentary pass to Fitcorp (fitness club)
  * Hosted Wine Hour in the Rooftop Retreat (Monday - Thursday)

Ran Canetti
Shafi Goldwasser
Admin. Asst: Joanne Hanley