Re: [MLS] Fwd: XRD: Scalable Messaging System with Cryptographic Privacy

Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> Fri, 04 January 2019 18:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [MLS] Fwd: XRD: Scalable Messaging System with Cryptographic Privacy
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Interesting.  Looks more metadata-focused than MLS; curious to see if it
might dovetail well.

Albert was involved in some pre-BoF MLS discussions.  I think he might even
be on this list?

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 11:04 AM =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com>
wrote:

>
> Of possible interest...
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:        Tuesday, January 8 -- Albert Kwon: XRD: Scalable Messaging
> System with Cryptographic Privacy
> Date:   Thu, 3 Jan 2019 19:42:20 -0800
> From:   Saba Eskandarian <saba@cs.stanford.edu>
> To:     security-seminar@lists.stanford.edu
>
>
>    XRD: Scalable Messaging System with Cryptographic Privacy
>
>                           Albert Kwon
>
>                     Tuesday, January 8, 2019
>                          Talk at 4:15pm
>                            Gates 463A
>
> Abstract:
>
> Even as end-to-end encrypted communication becomes
> more popular, private messaging remains a challenging problem
> due to metadata leakages, such as who is communicating
> with whom. Most existing systems that hide communication
> metadata either (1) do not scale easily, (2) incur
> significant overheads, or (3) provide weaker guarantees than
> cryptographic privacy, such as differential privacy or heuristic
> privacy.
> In this talk, I will presents XRD, a metadata private messaging system
> that provides cryptographic privacy, while scaling easily to support
> more users
> by adding more servers. At a high level, XRD uses multiple
> mix networks in parallel with several techniques, including a
> novel technique to efficiently and privately verify the correctness of
> mix network operations. As a result, XRD is more than 10x
> faster than prior messaging systems that provide cryptographic privacy.
>
> Bio:
>
> Albert Kwon is a sixth year student at MIT working with Srini Devadas.
> He is broadly interested in applied cryptography, and likes to design
> and implement systems that can enhance users' privacy.
> His most recent focus has been on anonymous and private communication
> systems.
>
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