

His research explores the systems' challenges of applied cryptography, with an emphasis on using cryptography to build secure systems that preserve the privacy of their users. Short biography: Ryan Henry is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Calgary. Our new DPF-based technique provides a surprisingly efficient way to implement useful functionalities that were prohibitively costly to realize using prior approaches.

Secure MPC is a cryptographic primitive that allows a set of mutually distrustful parties to evaluate joint functions on their private inputs without revealing those inputs to one another (nor to any third party). Ryan Henry, Department of Computer Science, University of CalgaryĪbstract: This talk outlines some recent results demonstrating how to harness the power of so-called distributed point functions (DPFs) to implement efficient secure multiparty computations (MPC).
