Deirdre Connolly¹ ²LIVE FROM TAIPEI, IT'S REAL WORLD CRYPTO!
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First session is beyond secure messaging, starting with 'A Practical Wrapper Protocol for Metadata-Hiding in Messaging'
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Next up, 'Advanced Browsing Protection for [Facebook] Messenger', by Emma Connor and Kevin Lewi
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Protection in the browser against malicious links (reminds me of a similar Chrome feature); uses PIR
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Prefix matching support; multiple attempts
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How do we retrieve things from the server, and how can we trust that the machine is actually doing what we expect it to do? Answer: attestation
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Future work: further reducing reliance on hardware assumptions, improve efficiency of ORAM use
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Next up, 'Improving the Trustworthiness of Javascript on the Web', presented by Michael Rosenberg, Giulio Berra, Ezzudin Alkotob, and Dennis Jackson
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[uh i don't necessarily agree this is why we trust iOS Signal vs say a web page as it exists]
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Code Verify: content, manifest, hash, store in public transparency log
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Each leaf of the manifest merkle tree is hash of one js or css file
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