Benny Pinkas Dept. of Computer Science University of Haifa, Israel Email (click the links to reveal the address): ????@????.net ????@??.haifa.ac.il

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Some events and projects in which I've been recently involved:

PC member, Crypto 2009, August 16-20, 2009, Santa Barbara, California.

PC member, 12th Public Key Conference, PKC 2009, March 18-20, 2009, UC Irvine.

PC member, 6th Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks, SCN 2008, September 10-12, 2008, Amalfi, Italy.

Co-organizer, BSF-DyDAn/DIMACS Workshop on Data Privacy, February 4-8, 2008.

Member of the editorial board, Journal of Privacy Technology.
Member of the editorial board, IET Information Security.
 

Research interests:

• I am interested in computer security, privacy and cryptography, and in particular in the design of efficient security systems based on sound assumptions and solid proofs.

• Currently my research focuses on secure multi-party computation (MPC), and on the security of pseudo-random number generators.

• I was previously working at HP Labs in Haifa and in Princeton, and at  STAR Lab, Intertrust Technologies. Before that I was a Ph.D. student of Moni Naor at the Foundations of Computer Science Group at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Math in the Weizmann Institute of Science.

• My research is funded by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation, the CACE project (Computer Aided Cryptography Engineering) which is an EU project funded under FP7, and a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

• Previous research projects in which I was involved.

Teaching:

• Current:

  Introduction to Cryptography, University of Haifa, Fall 2008.

  The Elements of Computing Systems, University of Haifa, Fall 2008.

• Past teaching

Publications (in reverse chronological order):

• A list of links to my coauthors
• Added links to citations to papers, according to Google Scholar. Citation count updated in late November 2006.
• See also my published patents and patent applications.
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Most cited papers (according to Google Scholar): Multicast Security: A Taxonomy and Some Efficient Constructions, R. Canetti, J. Garay, G. Itkis, D. Micciancio, M. Naor and B. Pinkas, 1999. [332 citations] Tracing Traitors, B. Chor, A. Fiat, M. Naor and B. Pinkas, 2000. [343 citations] Privacy Preserving Data Mining, Y. Lindell and B. Pinkas, 2000. [327 citations] Oblivious Transfer and Polynomial Evaluation, M. Naor and B. Pinkas, 1999.  [233 citations] Privacy Preserving Auctions and Mechanism Design, M. Naor, B. Pinkas and R. Sumner, 1999. [200 citations] Efficient Oblivious Transfer Protocols, M. Naor and B. Pinkas, 2001. [145 citations] Efficient Private Matching and Set Intersection, M. Freedman, K. Nissim and B. Pinkas. 2004. [119 citations]

Assaf Ben-David, Noam Nisan, and Benny Pinkas
FairplayMP - A System for Secure Multi-Party Computation
 Proceedings of the ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference (ACM CCS), October 2008.
Available files: [ pdf, web site ]

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Yehuda Lindell, Benny Pinkas and Nigel Smart
Implementing two-party computation efficiently with security against malicious adversaries
Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN), Amalfi, Italy, September 2008.
Available files: [ pdf ]

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D. Bickson, D. Dolev, G. Bezman and B. Pinkas
Secure Multi-party Peer-to-Peer Numerical Computation
Proceedings of the 8^th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'08), Sept. 2008, Aachen, Germany, September 2008.
Available files: [ pdf ]

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Y. Lindell and B. Pinkas
Secure Multiparty Computation for Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
To appear in the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.
Available files: [ eprint ]

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Leo Dorrendorf, Zvi Gutterman and Benny Pinkas

LNCS 4475, Springer-Verlag, pp. 166-182, June 2007.
Full version to appear in

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M. Naor and B. Pinkas
Secure and Efficient Metering
Advances in Cryptology - Eurocrypt '98 Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, 1998.
Available files: [ Postscript ]                            [69 citations]

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M. Naor and B. Pinkas
Secure Accounting and Auditing on the Web
Proc. of the 7th World Wide Web Conference (Computer Networks, Vol. 30, Issues 1-7, 1998, pp. 541-550).
Available files: [ HTML ]                                   [17 citations]

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M. Naor and B. Pinkas
Visual Authentication and Identification
Advances in Cryptology - Crypto '97 Proceedings, LNCS 1294, Springer-Verlag, pp. 322-336, 1997. A full version is available.
Available files: [ Postscript (proceedings) ] [ Postscript (full version) ]   [79 citations]

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and here's an old one...
J. McInnes and B. Pinkas
On the Impossibility of Private Key Cryptography with Weakly Random Keys
Advances in Cryptology - Crypto '90 Proceedings, LNCS 537, Springer-Verlag, pp. 421-435, 1990.  [11 citations]

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Internet Drafts and TRs:

R. Canetti and B. Pinkas
A taxonomy of multicast security issues
An updated version of internet draft draft-irtf-smug-taxonomy-00.txt>, April 1999 (the original version was published in June 1998).
Available files: [ Text ]   [80 citations]

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R. Canetti, A. Herzberg and B. Pinkas
Distributed Computing Simulator
TR #566, Dept. of Computer Science, Technion, June 1989.

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Last updated: December 18, 2008.

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