CS 350S: Privacy-Preserving Systems

Schedule

The schedule is subject to change.

Date	Topic	Required reading	Presenter reading	Optional reading
9/23	Course introduction [pdf]
9/25	Cryptography basics [pdf]	How to read a paper [no questions]
9/30	Transparency logs I [pdf]	Certificate transparency in Google Chrome: Past, present, and future Certificate Transparency: Public, verifiable, append-only logs [questions] [answers]		Transparent Logs for Skeptical Clients Certificate transparency and the WebPKI
10/2	Transparency logs II Guest speaker: Kevin Lewi [pdf]	CONIKS [questions] [answers]		SEEMless Parakeet WhatsApp key transparency
10/7	Secure hardware [pdf]	VC3 [questions] [answers]	Controlled-channel attack	Intel SGX Explained Intel TDX Demystified AMD SEV-SNP whitepaper Survey of published Intel SGX attacks MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
10/9	Oblivious RAM I [pdf]	Software Protection and Simulation on Oblivious RAMs (sections 1-4) [questions] [answers]	Path ORAM	Signal private contact discovery
10/14	Oblivious RAM II [pdf]	Obladi [questions] [answers]		Pancake Snoopy Ring ORAM
10/16	Private information retrieval I [pdf] Project proposal due	Private information retrieval (CGKS'95) [questions] [answers]		Kushilevitz-Ostrovsky Single-Server PIR Private Information Retrieval with Sublinear Online Time Doubly Efficient Private Information Retrieval
10/21	Private information retrieval II [pdf]	Splinter [questions] [answers]		Coeus Dory Function secret sharing
10/23	Private information retrieval III [pdf]	Tiptoe [questions] [answers]	Compass	SimplePIR
10/28	Anonymous messaging I [pdf]	Tor [questions] [answers]	Fingerprinting attack	The dining cryptographers problem
10/30	Anonymous messaging II [pdf]	Riposte [questions] [answers]	Pung	Vuvuzela
11/4	No class
11/6	Multi-party computation I [pdf] Guest speaker: Riana Pfefferkorn	Signal usernames blog post Pragmatic MPC book (chapters 1-2.3.3, 3.4) [questions] [answers]		Genetic analysis VaultDB
11/11	Multi-party computation II [pdf] Project progress report due	MAGE [questions] [answers]	Cerebro	A gentle introduction to Yao's garbled circuits
11/13	Private aggregate statistics [pdf] Guest speakers: Tim Geoghegan and Chris Patton	Prio [questions] [answers]		Private heavy hitters Whisper
11/18	Differential privacy [pdf]	Dwork-Roth book (chapters 1-2) [questions] [answers]	PINQ
11/20	Federated learning [pdf]	Blog post Flamingo [questions] [answers]	Exploiting Unintended Feature Leakage in Collaborative Learning
12/2	Student presentations I Project final report due
12/4	Student presentations II