Ten talks I heard at TCC'10

These notes refer to ten of the talks that I heard at the last TCC (see the conference's proceedings published as LNCS 5978). While one may definitely infer from the fact that a certain work is reviewed in these notes that I liked it, the converse may not be true. That is, the fact that some works are not reviewed here does not mean that I did not like them, since there may be other reasons for such omissions (e.g., failing to attend the talk, failing to understand it sufficiently well, etc.)

1. Parallel Repetition Theorems for Interactive Arguments
   By: Kai-Min Chung and Feng-Hao Liu
2. On Symmetric Encryption and Point Obfuscation
   By: Ran Canetti, Yael Tauman Kalai, Mayank Varia, and Daniel Wichs
3. From Passive to Covert Security at Low Cost
   By: Ivan Damgard, Martin Geisler, and Jesper Buus Nielsen
4. A Hardcore Lemma for Computational Indistinguishability: Security Amplification for Arbitrarily Weak PRGs with Optimal Stretch
   By: Ueli Maurer and Stefano Tessaro
5. Delayed-Key Message Authentication for Streams
   By: Marc Fischlin and Anja Lehmann
6. Founding Cryptography on Tamper-Proof Hardware Tokens
   By: Vipul Goyal, Yuval Ishai, Amit Sahai, Ramarathnam Venkatesan, and Akshay Wadia
7. Public-Key Cryptographic Primitives Provably as Secure as Subset Sum
   By: Vadim Lyubashevsky, Adriana Palacio, and Gil Segev
8. Bounds on the Sample Complexity for Private Learning and Private Data Release
   By: Amos Beimel, Shiva Kasiviswanathan, and Kobbi Nissim
9. Secure Computation and Its Diverse Applications (survey)
   By: Yuval Ishai
10. Eye for an Eye: Efficient Concurrent Zero-Knowledge in the Timing Model
    By: Rafael Pass, Wei-Lung Dustin Tseng, and Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam