CRYPTO READING GROUP
ADVANCED PKEs

Organizers: Leonardo Colò, Seunghoon Lee, Bruno Sterner
When: Friday, 10:30a.m.
Where: MC6048
Goal: Explore Post-Quantum approaches to Encryption schemes.

PROGRAM

  1. Roman Langrehr 16/01/2026
    > Towards a Separation of Semantic and CCA Security for Public Key Encryption. (Y. Gertner, T. Malkin, and S. Myers)
  2. Sam Jaques 23/01/2026
    > Impossibility Results for Post-Compromise Security in Real-World Communication Systems. (C. Cremers, N. Medinger, and A. Naska)
  3. Mojtaba Fadavi 30/01/2026
    > A New Lattice-Based Threshold Signature Scheme with Identifiable Aborts (IA).
  4. Youcef Mokrani 13/02/2026
    > Adaptive Attacks Against FESTA Without Input Validation or Constant-Time Implementation. (T. Moriya, H. Onuki, M. Xu, and G. Zhou )
  5. Jack Zhao 27/02/2026
    > Post-Quantum PKE from Unstructured Noisy Linear Algebraic Assumptions: Beyond LWE and Alekhnovich's LPN. (R. Ghosal, A. Jain, P. Lou, A. Sahai, and N. Vafa)
  6. Leonardo Colò 06/03/2026
    > IS-CUBE: An isogeny-based compact KEM using a boxed SIDH diagram. (T. Moriya)
  7. Huanhuan Chen 13/03/2026
    > CCA-1 Secure Updatable Encryption with Adaptive Security. (H. Chen, Y. J. Galteland, and K. Liang)
  8. Pranshu Kumar 20/03/2026
    > Generic Transformations for Updatable PKEs. (J. Alwen, G. Fuchsbauer, and M. Mularczyk)
  9. Mohammad Hajiabadi 27/03/2026
    > Challenges in Realizing CCA in Advanced Encryption Schemes.
  10. Elnaz Hessami Pilehrood 10/04/2026
    > TBD.
  11. Maggie Simmons 17/04/2026
    > Enabling FrodoKEM on Embedded Devices. (J.W. Bos, O. Bronchain, F. Custers, J. Renes, De. Verbakel, and C. van Vredendaa)

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