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10 September 2021
Aydin Abadi, Steven J. Murdoch, Thomas Zacharias
Ward Beullens
Sven Heiberg, Kristjan Krips, Jan Willemson, Priit Vinkel
Shiping Cai, Zhi Hu, Zheng-An Yao, Chang-An Zhao
Giovanni Deligios, Martin Hirt, Chen-Da Liu-Zhang
Recent works by Blum, Katz and Loss [TCC'19], and Blum, Liu-Zhang and Loss [CRYPTO'20] introduced BA and MPC protocols achieving security guarantees in both settings: security up to $t_s$ corruptions in a synchronous network, and up to $t_a$ corruptions in an asynchronous network, under the provably optimal threshold trade-offs $t_a \le t_s$ and $t_a + 2t_s < n$. However, current solutions incur a high synchronous round complexity when compared to state-of-the-art purely synchronous protocols. When the network is synchronous, the round complexity of BA protocols is linear in the number of parties, and the round complexity of MPC protocols also depends linearly on the depth of the circuit to evaluate.
In this work, we provide round-efficient constructions for both primitives with optimal resilience: fixed-round and expected constant-round BA protocols, and an MPC protocol whose round complexity is independent of the circuit depth.
Robert Granger, Antoine Joux
08 September 2021
Virtual event, Anywhere on Earth, 13 September 2021
Clearmatics Technologies
Clearmatics is a protocol engineering company. We are building a new financial market architecture that is more open, fair, and resilient than the legacy systems that are in use today. We develop protocols and software that create new markets for risk and more efficient infrastructure for trading, backed by a robust and scalable blockchain network, and secured with modern cryptographic techniques and economic mechanism design.
The Research group at Clearmatics is dedicated to developing solutions to the hard problems needed to advance our mission. We are academics and protocol engineers collaborating with teams inside and outside the company to translate theoretical results into running software implementations.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assist in the design of cryptographic protocols
- Collaborate with your colleagues on the implementation of cryptographic primitives and protocols
- Produce technical design specifications
- Produce externally facing artefacts (e.g. blog posts, papers, documentation excerpts etc.)
- Support research colleagues in conducting their research
- Interface with the Engineering team to ease the transition of the research pieces of code into robust production software fully integrated with our stack
- Keep up with new research in the space
REQUIREMENTS
- Fluency in English (written and spoken)
- Background in applied Computer Science
- Experience with system programming (C/C++/Rust)
- Strong applied cryptography skills (experience implementing robust elliptic curve cryptography)
- Outstanding algorithmic thinking
- Strong focus on code quality/documentation and simplicity
Nice to haves
- Knowledge of Unix and bash
- Experience with constant time cryptography
- Experience with cryptography on embedded systems
- Experience with Ethereum or other blockchain projects
- Experience contributing to open-source cryptography libraries
- Experience with Python/SageMath
Closing date for applications:
Contact: https://boards.greenhouse.io/clearmatics/jobs/5326634002
More information: https://grnh.se/e40fe3cb2us
Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
Current Research Directions:
Current Research Directions:
Appointment term: 1 year commitment to postdoctoral training is expected (can be extended depending on performance).
Appointment start date: September 2021
Required Application Materials:
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Interested candidates should email their application materials to professor Changhoon Lee (chlee@seoultech.ac.kr).
More information: https://cis.seoultech.ac.kr/index.do
Advanced Blockchain
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Martina Burghi (martina@advancedblockchain.com)
More information: https://incredulous.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=36
07 September 2021
Kenneth G. Paterson, Mathilde Raynal
Ittai Abraham, Kartik Nayak, Nibesh Shrestha
Michael Burger, Juliane Krämer, Christian Bischof
Michael Burger, Christian Bischof, Juliane Krämer
Kamil Kluczniak, Leonard Schild
Alexander Maximov
Wouter Castryck, Thomas Decru
Fabio Campos, Juliane Krämer, Marcel Müller
Nominations are due by October 1st, 2021.
Information about nomination is available at https://iacr.org/elections/2021/announcement.html.