Boilermakers' Applied Research in Cryptography

@ Purdue University, West Lafayette
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The Boilermakers Applied Research in Cryptography (BARC) lab works on a variety of research projects related to applied cryptography and network security. We are always looking to recruit highly motivated and interested students! Please feel free to apply even if you have no prior research experience!

You can contact at clg@cs.purdue.edu for any questions, and if you are interested in getting involved, fill out the Google Form

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Meet our Team


Assistant Professor

Christina Garman

Assistant Professor
Trainer

Priyam Biswas

PhD Candidate, Graduate Research Assistant
Trainer

Alex Seto

PhD Student, Graduate Research Assistant
Trainer

Arushi Arora

MS Student, Graduate Research Assistant

Meet our Interns


    Devansh Panirwala
    Nikhilendra Singh Rathore
    Sehajbir Randhawa
    Sonia Rista
    Varun Shah
    Shravan Suravarjjala
    Zheying Lu
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Our Projects

Bento

Our architecture, Bento, allows users to write functions and upload them to willing Tor relays. The architecture protects relays from the functions they are running on behalf of other users, and protects the users from the relays running their functions. We are developing a myriad of functions that demonstrate that a programmable Tor can be a more secure, robust, and anonymous Tor. Learn more about Bento!

Crypto Binaries

Identification of cryptographic primitives can be used to detect the presence of malicious payloads in binaries as well as a tool for binary analysis. This project aims to develop a novel approach to identify different cryptographic algorithms in heavily obfuscated binaries.
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Our Papers

Achieving Keyless CDNs with Conclaves (pdf)

Stephen Herwig, Christina Garman, Dave Levin, USENIX Security 2020
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News and Updates

Our paper introducing the first truly "keyless CDN" has been accepted to USENIX Security 2020.(read)

Our poster "Bento -- Bringing Network Function Virtualization to Tor" has been accepted to ACM CCS 2020. Congratulations Bento Team!