DIMACS Workshop on Coding-Theoretic Methods for Network Security

April 1 - 3, 2015
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Mahdi Cheraghchi, University of California, Berkeley

Salim El Rouayheb, IIT

Emina Soljanin, Bell Labs, emina at research.bell-labs.com

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

 8:00 -  9:00  Registration and Breakfast - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 9:00 -  9:15  Welcome and Greetings by the organizers 
               Emina Soljanin, Mahdi Cheraghchi, Salim El Rouayheb
               
Chair: Salim

 9:15 - 10:15  New Techniques for Rebuilding Data Efficiently and Securely
               Jason Resch, Cleversafe

10:15 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  Noisy Connections: A Survey of Interactive Coding and its Borders with Other Topics
               Allison Bishop Lewko, Columbia University

12:00 -  1:50  Lunch - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 1:50 -  2:00  DIMACS Director's Welcome
               Rebecca Wright, DIMACS Director

Chair: Mahdi
  
 2:00 -  3:00  Polytope Codes in Networks, Storage, and Multiple Descriptions
               Oliver Kosut, Arizona State University

 3:00 -  3:45  Break

 3:45 -  4:45  Codes with Local Decoding Procedures
               Sergey Yekhanin, Microsoft Researcher

 4:45 -  5:30  Discussion groups


Thursday April 2, 2015

 8:30 -  9:15  Breakfast - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

Chair: Rei

 9:15 - 10:15  Applications of Secure Coding in Distributed Storage and Wireless Networking
               Reza Curtmola, NJIT
 
10:15 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  Non-malleable Codes in the Split-State Model
               Yevgeniy Dodis, New York University

12:00 -  2:00  Lunch - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

Chair: Cristina

 2:00 -  2:20  Limited View Adversaries: Reliability and Security
               Rei Safavi, Calgary

 2:20 -  2:40  On the Computational Security of the Static Distributed Storage System
               Annina Bracher, ETH Zurich

 2:40 -  3:00  Towards Universal Weakly-Secure Codes for Data Exchange and Storage
               Alex Sprintson, TAMU

 3:00 -  3:20  Robust Secret Sharing Schemes Against Local Adversaries
               Valerio Pastro, Columbia University

 3:20 -  4:00  Break

 4:00 -  4:20  On the Connection Between Multiple-Unicast Network
               Coding and Single-Source Single-Sink Network Error Correction
               Joerg Kliewer, NJIT

 4:20 -  4:40  How to Store a Secret
               Salim El Rouayheb, IIT

 4:40 -  5:00  An NSF view of Information-theoretic Network Security
               Philip Regalia, NSF

 5:00          Dinner

Friday April 3, 2015

 8:30 -  9:15 Breakfast - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

Chair: Emina

 9:15 - 10:15  Tamper Detection and Non-malleable Codes
               Daniel Wichs, Northeastern University

10:15 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  Byzantine-resilient routing and key management protocols using network coding
               Cristina Nita, Purdue

12:00 -  2:00  Lunch - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 2:00 -  5:00  Discussion 

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