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[PAST EVENT] Schmidt Family Distinguished Lecture Series: Srini Devadas
Professor Srini Devadas (MIT) will present his talk: Designing Hardware for Cryptography and Cryptography for Hardware
Abstract:
Abstract: There have been few high-impact deployments of hardware implementations of cryptographic primitives. We present the benefits and challenges of hardware acceleration of sophisticated cryptographic primitives and protocols, and describe our recent design work in accelerating Fully Homomorphic Encryption by three to four orders of magnitude using programmable hardware accelerators. We argue the significant potential for synergistic codesign of cryptography and hardware, where customized hardware accelerates cryptographic protocols that are designed with hardware acceleration in mind. This is a joint work with Daniel Sanchez's group at MIT.
Biography:
Srini Devadas is the Webster Professor of EECS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. Devadas's current research interests are in computer architecture, computer security, and applied cryptography. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM. In 2021, he received the IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, and the ACM SIGSAC Award for Outstanding Innovation. Devadas is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow and an Everett Moore Baker teaching award recipient, considered MIT's two highest undergraduate teaching honors.
This talk is open to public and a part of the distinguished speaker series sponsored by the Schmidt Family.
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Dmitry Evtyushkin