Cryptography and Cyber Security

The crypto and cyber security hallway at Aarhus University is a fun place with diverse inhabitants whose interests span many topics. One of the group's focus areas is secure multiparty computation (MPC), which allows mutually distrusting parties to compute a joint function on their inputs while keeping those inputs private. Among other things, MPC can be used to build a secure version of the (fictional) OKCollab app, which lets Alice and Bob determine whether to work together while ensuring that unless Alice wants to work with Bob, she does not learn whether he wants to work with her (and vice versa). For more information about the exciting research from the Department, see cs.au.dk/research Script: Sophia Yakoubov Main speakers: Ivan Bjerre Damgaard (Professor) Sophia Yakoubov (Assistant Professor) Actors: Alice – played by Mahak Pancholi (PhD student) Bob – played by Damiano Abram (PhD student) Creepy basement dudes – played by Søren Eller Thomsen and Sebastian Kolby (PhD students) The voice of reason – Played by Luisa Siniscalchi (Postdoc) Interviews: Jesper Buus Nielsen (Professor) Carsten Baum (Assistant Professor) Diego F. Aranha (Assistant Professor) Bruce The Bear (Group Mascot) Damiano Abram (PhD Student) Kelsey Melissaris (Visiting Student) Bernardo Magri (Postdoc) Sophia Yakoubov (Assistant Professor) Maciej Obremski (Visiting Researcher) Mathias Hall-Andersen (PhD Student) Sebastian Kolby (PhD Student) Production team: Sebastian Krog Knudsen (Creative Content Creator)