Dune Workshop on Secrets

The concluding workshop of the research project ‘How Secret is a Secret?’ was held in Skagen, Denmark. The workshop was organized by the research group for Reliable and Secure Communication at Aalborg University.

Taking place at Klitgården, a former royal residence nestled in the dunes of Skagen, the workshop consisted of a series of talks within the topics of multiparty computation and quantum codes. Between talks, further research ideas were discussed.

Despite the time of year, the rainy and windy weather retreated for long enough to allow us to visit Grenen and catch a view of the surroundings atop Skagen Grey Lighthouse. Additionally, we visited Skagens Museum to see some of the famous paintings of the Skagen painters.

Participants

• Ignacio Cascudo, Aalborg University
• René B. Christensen, Aalborg University
• Mrinmoy Datta, Technical University of Denmark
• Carlos Galindo, Universitat Jaume I
• Olav Geil, Aalborg University
• Markus Grassl, Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts
• Jaron S. Gundersen, Aalborg University
• Johan P. Hansen, Aarhus University
• Tom Høholdt, Aalborg University
• Umberto Martínez-Peñas, Aalborg University
• Diego Ruano, Aalborg University

Talks

• Ignacio Cascudo: An introduction to secret-sharing based secure multiparty computation
• Jaron S. Gundersen: Bounds on the Thresholds in Secret Sharing

• René B. Christensen: Reliable message transmission
• Umberto Martínez-Peñas: Communication efficient secret sharing schemes based on algebraic geometry codes
• Mrinmoy Datta: Generalized Hamming weights of affine Cartesian codes
• Ignacio Cascudo: Construction of homomorphic commitment schemes based on linear codes
• Umberto Martínez-Peñas: Bounding the number of common zeros of multivariate polynomials and their consecutive derivatives

• Markus Grassl: Basic Principles of QECC & Hybrid Quantum Codes
• Diego Ruano: Classical and Quantum Evaluation Codes at the Trace Roots
• Carlos Galindo: Stabilizer quantum codes from J-affine variety codes
• Johan P. Hansen: Asymmetric Quantum Codes on Toric Surfaces