Open Technology Fund Community Lab: PETS 2016 Travel Report Darmstadt, Deutschland: 17-24 July, 2016 Isis Agora Lovecruft, The Tor Project
Summary ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ The Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) [0] is a conference for privacy and anonymity researchers to present recent developments in their field. This year, it was held in conjuction with the Security and Privacy Week, [1] which included numerous other conferences and events, including CrossFyre, a cryptography and security conference for young women (those who identify with other genders were welcome too). Event Overview ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ For the most part, I attended only PETS and HotPETS sessions. I live-tweeted most of the ones I attended (along with my colleague Nick Mathewson), and I've created a collection of tweets covering the hilights. [3] For the rest of the coverage, see the #pets16 hashtag. [4] Proceedings ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ Prior to the event, I reviewed many of the PoPETS (the quarterly academic journal run by PETS) paper submissions. Several of these were pertinent to my interests. I'm not supposed to say which ones I reviewed, and I find this requirement to be in harsh conflict with cross-community open discussion of ideas. This may be the only time I'll ever be opposed to anonymity, but academia's manditorily-"anonymous" submission/review system should be destroyed. For the actual proceedings, I refer the reader again to the tweets linked. The coverage there is actually quite good. In between sessions, I was also fortunate to have several meetings with researchers who have ideas and proposals for Tor. I met with Philipp Jovanovic and several of Philipp's colleagues from EPFL to discuss a proposal for using collective signatures as an external mechanism for validating Tor's consensus documents. The report-back from that discussion is available here. [5] I also met with Peter Schwabe (Radboud Univerity Nijmegen), Nick Mathewson (also The Tor Project), John Schanck (one of the NTRU developers), and Trevor Perrin (Open Whispersystems), to discuss the various draft proposals for post-quantum secure handshakes for Tor, and the prospects for using Trevor's Noise Protocol [6] to define hybrid post-quantum cryptographic constructions. This meeting resulted in John's proposal for a generic, pluggable handshake construction being merged, [7] as well as mine and Peter's NewHope-based proposal. [8] [0]: https://petsymposium.org/2016/ [1]: https://www.securityweek2016.tu-darmstadt.de/spw2016/ [2]: https://www.crossfyre2016.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/de/home/ [3]: https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/timelines/761262834445611008 [4]: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23pets16+-amazon+-etsy+-puppy+-dog+-dogs+-petfood+-cat+-cats+-kitty+-kitten [5]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-July/011222.html [6]: http://noiseprotocol.org/ [7]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/commit/proposals?id=cd8ad93a [8]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/commit/proposals?id=64b6b72d Best regards, -- ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft _________________________________________________________ OpenPGP: 4096R/0A6A58A14B5946ABDE18E207A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 Current Keys: https://fyb.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt
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