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  • Towards privacy-preserving and fairness-aware federated learning framework

    • September 19, 2025 (11:00 - 12:00)

    • Inria Center of the University of Rennes - Petri/Turing room

    Speaker : Nesrine Kaaniche - Télécom SudParis

    Federated Learning (FL) enables the distributed training of a model across multiple data owners under the orchestration of a central server responsible for aggregating the models generated by the different clients. However, the original approach of FL has significant shortcomings related to privacy and fairness requirements. Specifically, the observation of the model updates may lead to privacy[…]
    • Cryptography

    • SoSysec

    • Privacy

    • Machine learning

  • CHERI standardization and software ecosystem

    • September 12, 2025 (11:00 - 12:00)

    • Inria Centre of the University of Rennes - Room Métivier

    Speaker : Carl Shaw - Codasip

    This talk will describe the current status of the RISC-V International standardization process to add CHERI as an official extension to RISC-V. It will then explore the current state of CHERI-enabled operating systems, toolchains and software tool development, focusing on the CHERI-RISC-V hardware implementations of CHERI. It will then go on to give likely future development roadmaps and how the[…]
    • SoSysec

    • SemSecuElec

    • Compartmentalization

    • Operating system and virtualization

    • Hardware/software co-design

    • Hardware architecture

  • CHERI: Architectural Support for Memory Protection and Software Compartmentalization

    • September 12, 2025 (10:00 - 11:00)

    • Inria Center of the University of Rennes - Room Métivier

    Speaker : Robert Watson - University of Cambridge

    CHERI is a processor architecture protection model enabling fine-grained C/C++ memory protection and scalable software compartmentalization. CHERI hybridizes conventional processor, instruction-set, and software designs with an architectural capability model. Originating in DARPA’s CRASH research program in 2010, the work has progressed from FPGA prototypes to the recently released Arm Morello[…]
    • SoSysec

    • SemSecuElec

    • Compartmentalization

    • Hardware/software co-design

    • Hardware architecture

  • A non-comparison oblivious sort and its application to private k-NN

    • June 20, 2025 (11:00 - 12:00)

    • Inria Center of the University of Rennes - - Room TBD

    Speaker : Sofiane Azogagh - UQÀM

    Sorting is a fundamental subroutine of many algorithms and as such has been studied for decades. A well-known result is the Lower Bound Theorem, which states that no comparison-based sorting algorithm can do better than O(nlog(n)) in the worst case. However, in the fifties, new sorting algorithms that do not rely on comparisons were introduced such as counting sort, which can run in linear time[…]
    • Cryptography

    • SoSysec

    • Privacy

    • Databases

    • Secure storage

  • [CANCELLED] Black-Box Collision Attacks on Widely Deployed Perceptual Hash Functions and Their Consequences

    • June 13, 2025 (11:00 - 12:00)

    • Inria Center of the University of Rennes - Aurigny room

    Speaker : Diane Leblanc-Albarel - KU Leuven

    [CANCELLED] Perceptual hash functions identify multimedia content by mapping similar inputs to similar outputs. They are widely used for detecting copyright violations and illegal content but lack transparency, as their design details are typically kept secret. Governments are considering extending the application of these functions to Client-Side Scanning (CSS) for end-to-end encrypted services:[…]
    • Cryptography

    • SoSysec

    • Protocols

  • Empower New Code Citizens to Reflect and Communicate on Code Security

    • May 20, 2025 (11:00 - 12:00)

    • Inria Center of the University of Rennes - Aurigny room

    Speaker : Manuel Maarek - Heriot-Watt University

    Creating secure software code requires software engineers to elicit and follow the security requirements of the system they are building. Software engineer teams might not have the security expertise to approach this angle of software development confidently. With the democratisation of access to software development and deployment, software are often built by developers with neither software[…]