Episide #18 of STODID

In this episode of STODID, I interview Ben Adida.

Ben is a PhD student in the Cryptography and Information Security Group at MIT. He studies cryptographic solutions to public policy problems, including secure elections, anti-phishing, online identity, and secure health records.

He has published research on a number of topics including:

Cryptography and Computer Security

• Obfuscated Ciphertext Mixing, previously Public Mixing
  Ben Adida and Douglas Wikstram
  preliminary version on eprint.
• Lightweight Encryption for Email - [PDF] [Bibtex]
  Ben Adida, Susan Hohenberger, and Ronald L. Rivest
  Proceedings of Usenix Symposium on Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI 2005), July 2005.
• Lightweight Signatures for Email - [PDF]
  Ben Adida, David Chau, Susan Hohenberger, and Ronald L. Rivest
  preliminary version in the DIMACS Workshop on Theft in E-Commerce, April 2005.
• Ad-Hoc Group Signatures from Hijacked Keypairs - [PDF]
  Ben Adida, Susan Hohenberger, and Ronald L. Rivest
  preliminary version in the DIMACS Workshop on Theft in E-Commerce, April 2005.
• Self-Describing Cryptography Through Certified Universal Code - [PDF] [PS]
  Master's Thesis, MIT 1999

Technology Policy

• Evaluation of Voting Systems - [PDF] [Bibtex]
  P.L. Vora, B. Adida, R. Bucholz, D. Chaum, D.L. Dill, D. Jefferson, D.W. Jones, W. Lattin, A.D. Rubin, M.I Shamos, and M.Yung
  in Communications of the ACM, November 2004.

Show Links:

- Bruce Schneier
- Creative Commons
- Berkman Center for Law & Society (Harvard Law School)

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