Encrypted Distributed Systems

Distributed computing is at the heart of modern system architectures and infrastructures. But as security and privacy have increasingly become critical to every organization, modern cryptography is making its way into core systems. In this talk, I will describe work that focuses on using modern cryptographic techniques in large scale practical distributed systems in order to improve their security and privacy guarantees. I will show how both cryptographic techniques and distributed systems need to be adapted to make this work and how to think about the security of these new encrypted distributed systems.