Benny Pinkas Dept. of Computer Science University of Haifa, Israel Email: ????@????.net ????@??.haifa.ac.il

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Some events and projects in which I've been recently involved:

PC member, 6th Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks, SCN 2008, September 10-12, 2008, Amalfi, Italy.

Co-organizer, BSF-DyDAn/DIMACS Workshop on Data Privacy, February 4-8, 2008.

PC member, Workshop on Practical Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, April 2008.
PC member, 7th ACM DRM workshop (Workshop on Digital Rights Management), October 2007.
PC member, ACNS 2007 (5th Int. Conf. on Applied Cryptography and Network Security), June 2007.

Member of the editorial board, Journal of Privacy Technology.
Member of the editorial board, IET Information Security.
 

Research interests:

I am interested in Cryptography and in particular in the design of efficient cryptographic systems based on sound assumptions and solid proofs, and in privacy preserving protocols.

I was previously working at HP Labs in Haifa and in Princeton, and previously at  STAR Lab, Intertrust Technologies. Before that I was a Ph.D. student of Moni Naor at the Foundations of Computer Science Group at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Math in the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Research projects in which I was involved.

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Teaching:

• Current:

  Advanced Topics in Cryptography, University of Haifa, Spring 2008.

  I am also organizing the CS Colloquium this year.

• Past teaching

Publications (in reverse chronological order):

• A list of links to my coauthors
• Added links to citations to papers, according to Google Scholar. Citation count updated in late November 2006.
• See also my published patents and patent applications.
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Most cited papers (according to Google Scholar): Multicast Security: A Taxonomy and Some Efficient Constructions, R. Canetti, J. Garay, G. Itkis, D. Micciancio, M. Naor and B. Pinkas, 1999. [332 citations] Tracing Traitors, B. Chor, A. Fiat, M. Naor and B. Pinkas, 2000. [343 citations] Privacy Preserving Data Mining, Y. Lindell and B. Pinkas, 2000. [327 citations] Oblivious Transfer and Polynomial Evaluation, M. Naor and B. Pinkas, 1999.  [233 citations] Privacy Preserving Auctions and Mechanism Design, M. Naor, B. Pinkas and R. Sumner, 1999. [200 citations] Efficient Oblivious Transfer Protocols, M. Naor and B. Pinkas, 2001. [145 citations] Efficient Private Matching and Set Intersection, M. Freedman, K. Nissim and B. Pinkas. 2004. [119 citations]

Leo Dorrendorf, Zvi Gutterman and Benny Pinkas

the Proceedings of the ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference, October 2007.
Available files: [ eprint ]
This paper received some publicity in the press (see Slashdot, Computerworld, The Register).
See also Microsoft's confirmation of a similar problem in Windows XP Computerworld, Slashdot, The Register. 

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Ronen Gradwohl, Moni Naor, Benny Pinkas and Guy Rothblum