Date	Lecture topic	Video viewing	Post-lecture reading assignment
9/11	Intro to secure computing: definitions, (threshold) secret sharing, and BGW	Lindell: MPC definitions (watch 9:09-36:53)	Shen et al: MPC future vision Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust Lindell, Pinkas: Privacy-preserving data mining
9/18	MPC in the 1980s: Yao & GMW, oblivious transfer	Rosulek: GC optimizations	Bestavros et al: Privacy-preserving analytics Lindell, Pinkas: proof of Yao's Garbled Circuits Cramer et al: Chapters 1 and 3 (Optional)
9/25	Outsourced & distributed computing	Fuller: Cryptographically protected database search	Scalability! But at what COST?
10/2	Distributed computing frameworks: Hadoop, Spark, Naiad	Derek Murray: Naiad, A Timely Dataflow System	MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters Dryad, Naiad (Optional)
10/10*	Malicious security & Frameworks part 1 * Note: class is on a Tuesday	Ivan Damgard: The SPDZ Protocol, Part 1 and Part 2	SPDZ: Multiparty Computation from Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption
10/16	Frameworks part 2 & ORAM	Tal Rabin: Oblivious RAM for MPC	Chung and Pass: A Simple ORAM
10/23	Primer on malicious security and usability	Andrei Lapets https://youtu.be/Q3SP3-YKoc8 Sean Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPXK-Gt0H8A (Optional/interesting usability talk from same event)	Why Johnny Can't Encrypt Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt (Optional) Why Johnny Still, Still Can't Encrypt (Optional) Why Doesn't Jane Protect Her Privacy? (Optional)
10/30	MPC optimizations	Michael Zohner: ABY- A Framework for Efficient Mixed Protocol Secure Two-Party Computation	Read 1 of 3: Araki et al's high-throughput MPC Asharov et al's fast OT extensions Demmler et al's mixed protocol framework
11/6	Conclave: Secure Multi-Party Computation on Big Data & Project discussion	Cormac Herley: Science, Security, and the Elusive Goal of Security as a Scientific Pursuit	Draft of paper on conclave
11/13	Differential privacy (part 1) & Database search	Hugo Krawczyk: Highly-Scalable Searchable Symmetric Encryption with Support for Boolean Queries Optional: Hugo's longer set of videos at the 6th Bar-Ilan Winter School, parts 0 (the intro), 1, 2, and 3	Fuller et al: Cryptographically protected database search
11/20	Differential privacy (part 2) & Set intersection	(None)	Pinkas: Set intersection
11/27	Mixed mode 2PC	(None)	(None)
12/4	MPC versus blockchains	(None)	(None)
12/11	Project presentations	(None)	(None)

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