Overview
The Encrypted Systems Lab (ESL) is a research lab in the Computer Science Department at Brown University. We are part of the Cryptography, Anonymity, Privacy and Security (CAPS) group.
Our research is focused on the design and analysis of encrypted systems which are information systems that can operate on end-to-end encrypted data. Our work is motivated by real-world problems in privacy, security and surveillance. Our approach is interdisciplinary, leveraging ideas from applied and theoretical cryptography, algorithms and data structures, data systems, statistics and optimization.
News
- Jan'21 - Our paper on dynamic leakage suppression will appear at Eurocrypt ‘21
- Jan'21 - Our collaboration with Senator Wyden (D-OR) will appear at Oakland ‘21 (paper)
- Jan'21 - Our paper on encrypted databases appeared at CIDR ‘21 (paper)
- Dec'20 - Our paper on encrypted key value stores appeared at Indocrypt ‘21 (paper)
- Aug'20 - Kweku Kwegyir-Aggrey joins ESL!
- Aug'20 - Our paper on encrypted blockchain databases appeared at AFT ‘21
- Jul'20 - Abdelkarim Kati from UM6P joins ESL!
- Jun'20 - Congratulations to Marilyn who is starting an internship at UTU this summer
- Jun'20 - Congratulations to Ghous who is starting a second internship at Google this summer
- Apr'20 - Check out Archita’s blog post describing her work on encrytped distributed hash tables
- Apr'20 - Congratulations to Lucy for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
- Mar'20 - ESL receives a Google Faculty Research Award!
- Jan'20 - Check out our playlist of Encrypted Search Talks
- Aug'19 - Slides for our encrypted search tutorial @ SAC: intro, leakage attacks, leakage suppression
- Aug'19 - Lucy Qin joins ESL as a PhD student
- Jul'19 - Seny and Tarik work with MongoDB (Brown blog and Wired)
- Jun'19 - Congratulations to Ghous who is starting a summer internship at Google!
- Jun'19 - ESL is co-organized the ICERM Workshop on Encrypted Search. Check out Archita and Tarik’s talks!
- Feb'19 - Our paper on Forward and Backward Private Searchable Encryption with Intel SGX will appear at EuroSec ‘19
- Jan'19 - ESL appears on PBS’s White House Chronicle
- Jan ‘19 - Our paper on Encrypted Multi-Maps with Computationally-Secure Leakage will appear at Eurocrypt ‘19
- Jan ‘19 - Our paper on Encrypted Databases for Differential Privacy will appear PETS ‘19
- Aug'18 - Our paper on SQL on Structurally-Encrypted Databases will appear at Asiacrypt ‘18
- Aug'18 - Our paper on Breach-Resistant Structured Encryption will appear at PETS'19
- May'18 - Our paper on Structured Encryption and Leakage Suppression will appear at CRYPTO ‘18
- Feb'18 - ESL contributes to the National Academies of Sciences’ report on encryption and law enforcement
- Jan'18 - The Clusion-based Pixek app is featured in Wired, BoingBoing and CBC’s Spark
- Jan'18 - ESL advises on US Senate bill
- Dec'17 - Our work on inference attacks listed as the 7th most influential paper in security from 2015
- Dec'17 - Thank you to Oracle for their generous support. Looking forward to a great collaboration!
- Oct'17 - CAPS and ESL featured in the Brown Alumni Magazine
- Sep'17 - Archita Agarwal joins ESL as a PhD student
- Sep'17 - Marilyn George joins ESL as a PhD student
- Sep'17 - Sam Zhao joins ESL as a PhD student
- Jun'17 - We released v0.2.0 of the Clusion encrypted search library. See this blog post for more
- May ‘17 - Our work on dynamic SSE listed as the 6th most influential paper in security from 2012
- May'17 - Our work on SSE listed as the 23rd most influential paper in security since 1981 and the 2nd most influential from 2006.
- Apr'17 - We released the Signal Search project! See this writeup for an overview
- Jan'17 - Our paper on Boolean Searchable Symmetric Encryption was accepted to Eurocrypt ‘17
- Sep'16 - Ghous Amjad joins ESL as a PhD student
- Jul'16 - Tarik Moataz joins ESL as postdoctoral researcher and associate director
Selected Projects
- Signal Search: a version of the Signal encrypted messaging app with secure search functionality
- Clusion: an encrypted search library written in Java and available open source under GPLv3
- Metacrypt: an encrypted system that supports privacy-preserving contact chaining