Speakers: Luís Brandão & René Peralta.

Abstract: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Unites States advances standards and technology that enhance economic security and improve quality of life. We will start this talk with a brief overview of the activity of the Cryptographic Technology Group at NIST, and present the “Interoperable Randomness Beacons” project, for which we seek international engagement. A main goal of that project is to promote public randomness as a public good, with the aim to foster public auditability and transparency of services that depend on randomized processes.

Bio:

• Luís Brandão is a Guest Researcher with the Cryptographic Technology Group at NIST, where he is mainly engaged with the Threshold Cryptography, Interoperable Randomness Beacons, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and Circuit Complexity projects. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering obtained in the scope of the CMU|Portugal program between Carnegie Mellon University and Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon;
• René Peralta is a Computer Scientist with the Cryptographic Technology Group at NIST, where he is mainly engaged with the Interoperable Randomness Beacons, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Circuit Complexity, and Post-Quantum Cryptography projects. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at various universities in the US, Chile, and Japan.