PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Mind the Gap: Ceremonies for Applied Secret Sharing

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Bailey Kacsmar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Secret sharing schemes are desirable across a variety of real-world settings due to the security and privacy properties they can provide, such as availability and separation of privilege. However, transitioning secret sharing schemes from theoretical research to practical use must account for gaps in achieving these properties that arise due to the realities of concrete implementations, threat models, and use cases. This talk gives an overview of Ellison’s notion of ceremonies and demonstrates its applicability to the evaluation of secret sharing schemes.