Blockchain and Cryptography at JPMorgan Chase

An overview of JPMorgan's efforts to build a world class enterprise focused blockchain platform. The goal was to create a platform that is open source and free to use but also satisfies financial regulators, can be governed easily, and preserves privacy. This was achieved via Quorum, which is an enterprise focused version of Ethereum. Quorum is designed for applications requiring high speed and high throughput processing of private transactions within a permissioned group of known participants. A few research areas related to blockchain and cryptography that are of practical interest to JPMorgan will also be highlighted.

Yassir Nawaz is an Executive Director and a Distinguished Engineer in Global Cybersecurity at JPMorgan Chase (JPMC). He chairs the JPMC Cryptography Center of Excellence and helps drive security strategy and architecture for cloud, applications, and big data. Prior to joining JPMorgan he worked as a Technology Fellow at Pitney Bowes Advanced Technology Labs where he led the security and privacy research for the firm and helped develop several security platforms. He has filed 10 patents (5 granted) and published 10 technical papers in the area of digital privacy and security. He holds a Ph.D. in Cryptography & Information Security from University of Waterloo, Canada.

"Major key alert!" Anomalous keys in Tor relays. George Kadianakis (The Tor Project), Claudia V. Roberts, Laura M. Roberts, and Philipp Winter (Princeton University)

On purpose and by necessity: Compliance under the GDPR. David Basin (ETH Zürich), Søren Debois, and Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen)

MP3: A More Efficient Private Presence Protocol. Rahul Parhi, Michael Schliep, and Nicholas Hopper (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)

Short Unique Signatures from RSA with a Tight Security Reduction (in the Random Oracle Model). Hovav Shacham (UT Austin)

Weak-Unforgeable Tags for Secure Supply Chain Management. Reza Rahaeimehr, Hoda Maleki, Marten van Dijk, Chenglu Jin, and Phuong ha Nguyen (University of Connecticut)

Proof-of-Censorship: Enabling centralized censorship-resistant content providers. Ian Martiny (University of Colorado), Ian Miers (Johns Hopkins University), and Eric Wustrow (University of Colorado)

An Economic Study of the Effect of Android Platform Fragmentation on Security Updates. Sadegh Farhang (Penn State), Aron Laszka (University of Houston), and Jens Grossklags (Technical University of Munich)

The Rules of Engagement for Bug Bounty Programs. Aron Laszka (University of Houston), Mingyi Zhao (Snap Inc.), Akash Malbari (Pennsylvania State University), and Jens Grossklags (Technical University of Munich)

Why Johnny Doesn't Use Two Factor: A Two-Phase Usability Study of the FIDO U2F Security Key. Sanchari Das, Andrew C. Dingman, and L. Jean Camp (Indiana University Bloomington)

High-Precision Privacy-Preserving Real-Valued Function Evaluation. Christina Boura, Ilaria Chillotti (Universite de Versailles), Nicolas Gama (Inpher and Universite de Versailles), Dimitar Jetchev, Stan Peceny, and Alexander Petric (Inpher)

Faster Unbalanced Private Set Intersection. Amanda Cristina Davi Resende and Diego de Freitas Aranha (University of Campinas)

SWiM: Secure Wildcard Pattern Matching From OT Extension. Vladimir Kolesnikov (Bell Labs), Mike Rosulek, and Ni Trieu (Oregon State University)

Attacks against GSMA's M2M Remote Provisioning (short paper). Maxime Meyer (ENS Ulm Paris), Elizabeth A. Quaglia (Royal Holloway, University of London), and Ben Smyth (University of Luxembourg)

Rescuing LoRaWAN 1.0. Gildas Avoine (IRISA) and Loïc Ferreira (Orange)

Not So Predictable Mining Pools: Attacking Solo Mining Pools by Bagging Blocks and Conning Competitors. Jordan Holland, Joseph Connor, Parker Diamond, Jared M. Smith, and Max Schuchard (University of Tennessee)

West side tour with dinner at Dokterstuin.

Practically Efficient Secure Distributed Exponentiation without Bit-Decomposition. Abdelrahaman Aly, Aysajan Abidin, and Svetla Nikova (imec-COSIC ESAT, KU Leuven)

A Fourier Analysis Based Attack against Physically Unclonable Functions. Fatemeh Ganji, Shahin Tajik, and Jean-Pierre Seifert (Technische Universitaet Berlin)

On the Computational Complexity of Minimal Cumulative Cost Graph Pebbling. Jeremiah Blocki and Samson Zhou (Purdue University)

Pricing Anonymity. Daniel G. Arce (University of Texas at Dallas) and Rainer Böhme (Universität Innsbruck)

A New Look at Refund Mechanism in Bitcoin Payment Protocol. Sepideh Avizheh, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini (University of Calgary), and Siamak F. Shahandashti (University of York)

Anonymous Reputation Systems Achieving Full Dynamicity from Lattices. Ali El Kaafarani (University of Oxford), Shuichi Katsumata (The University of Tokyo, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)), and Ravital Solomon (University of Oxford)

Measuring Profitability of Alternative Crypto-currencies (short paper). Danny Yuxing Huang, Kirill Levchenko, and Alex C. Snoeren (University of California, San Diego)

A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin. Roman Matzutt, Jens Hiller, Martin Henze, Jan Henrik Ziegeldorf (RWTH Aachen University), Dirk Müllmann (Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main), Oliver Hohlfeld, and Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University)

Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum Networks. Adem Efe Gencer, Soumya Basu, Ittay Eyal, Robbert Van Renesse, and Emin Gün Sirer (Cornell University, IC3)

Anonymous Post-Quantum Cryptocash. Huang Zhang, Fangguo Zhang, Haibo Tian (Sun Yat-Sen University), and Man Ho Allen Au (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

SpaceMint: A Cryptocurrency Based on Proofs of Space. Sunoo Park, Albert Kwon (MIT), Joel Alwen (IST Austria), George Fuchsbauer (ENS Paris), Peter Gazi, and Krzysztof Pietrzak (IST Austria)

Kaleidoscope: An Efficient Poker Protocol with Payment Distribution and Penalty Enforcement. Bernardo David (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Rafael Dowsley (Aarhus University), and Mario Larangeira (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Designing Secure Ethereum Smart Contracts: A Finite State Machine Based Approach. Anastasia Mavridou (Vanderbilt University) and Aron Laszka (University of Houston)

A formal model of Bitcoin transactions. Nicola Atzei, Massimo Bartoletti, Stefano Lande (University of Cagliari), and Roberto Zunino (University of Trento)

A: Blue Curacao liquor factory, Fort Nassau, Scharloo Street, downtown historical walking tour, Kura Hulanda, Riffort Mall (Sponsored by Blockchain Institute)

B: Fortress Beekenburg, east side view point, ostrich farm and jeep tour (Sponsored by Binary District)

C: Hato Caves tour, Caracas Bay snorkeling

On your own, but group transportation will be arranged.

Note: the timing of the lunch and breaks is coordinated among all of the workshops, but some workshops might start earlier in the morning or end later in the afternoon. See their individual programs for details. Workshop registrants can attend any of the workshops and can switch between them as desired. Some workshop sessions are combined.

BITCOIN'18: 5th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research
WTSC'18: 2nd Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts
Location: Arawak Ballroom ADE
Keynote: Dahlia Malkhi (VMWare)

VOTING'18: 3rd Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting Schemes
Location: Arawak Ballroom BC

BITCOIN'18: 5th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research
Location: Arawak Ballroom A

VOTING'18: 3rd Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting Schemes
Location: Arawak Ballroom BC

WTSC'18: 2nd Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts
Location: Arawak Ballroom DE
Invited Talk: BURPA or BUST! How to build a Bio-Unified Research Program Agency? Bud Mishra (NYU & Mt. Sinai Medical School)

BITCOIN'18: 5th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research
VOTING'18: 3rd Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting Schemes
Location: Arawak Ballroom ABC

WTSC'18: 2nd Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts
Location: Arawak Ballroom DE
Invited Talk: Models for Smart Contracts: present and future perspectives. Arthur Breitman (Tezos)

BITCOIN'18: 5th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research
VOTING'18: 3rd Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting Schemes
WTSC'18: 2nd Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts
Location: Arawak Ballroom ABC

This event is for women in blockchain & cryptography and their allies. Women in Consensus seeks to build community and support the formation of more organizations and opportunities for women in our industry. Enjoy drinks and snacks on a 40-person catamaran during sunset hours, departing from the hotel pier, and meet your fellow FC attendees.