Software Seminar Series (S3)

Marco Guarnieri

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Marco Guarnieri, Assistant Professor, IMDEA Software Institute

Principled foundations for microarchitectural security

Abstract: Microarchitectural attacks, such as Spectre and Meltdown, illustrate that artifacts of hardware implementations (like sp...


Emanuele Giunta

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Emanuele Giunta, PhD Student, IMDEA Software Institute

On the Impossibility of Algebraic Vector Commitments

Abstract: Vector Commitments allow one to (concisely) commit to a vector of messages so that one can later (concisely) open the co...


Dimitris Kolonelos

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Dimitris Kolonelos, PhD Student, IMDEA Software Institute

Succinct Zero-Knowledge Batch Proofs for Set Accumulators

Abstract: Cryptographic accumulators are a common solution to proving information about a large set . They allow to compute a shor...


Juan Manuel Copia

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Juan Manuel Copia, PhD Student, IMDEA Software Institute

LISSA: Lazy Initialization with Specialized Solver Aid

Abstract: Programs that deal with heap-allocated inputs are difficult to analyze with symbolic execution (SE). Lazy Initialization...


Abstract: Cloud computing has revolutionized the access to and the use of emerging computing hardware technologies. To achieve eff...


Gaspard Anthoine

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Gaspard Anthoine, Research Engineer, IMDEA Software Institute

Dynamic proofs of retrievability with low server storage

Abstract: Proofs of Retrievability (PoRs) are protocols which allow a client to store data remotely and to efficiently ensure, via...


Abstract: Cybercriminals often leverage Bitcoin for their illicit activities. In this work, we propose back-and-forth exploration,...