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Currently, I am a fourth year Ph.D. student under the MAPi doctoral programme, and a researcher at HASLab/INESC TEC, working for project SafeCloud and NanoSTIMA. I hold a M.Sc. thesis in Informatics Engineering from University of Minho.

My research interests are cryptography and information security, more specifically regarding secure multiparty computation protocols relying on trusted hardware. The goal of my Ph.D. project is to improve the implementation of high-assurance multiparty computation protocols, by bridging the gap between rigorous theoretical security models and efficient practical implementations. Relevant contributions in this context include the first provable security approach for formalizing security guarantees of Isolated Execution Environments (IEEs), and the first general approach to implementing MPC protocols using IEE-enabled systems.

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  • Name

    Bernardo Luís Portela
  • Cluster

    Computer Science
  • Role

    Senior Researcher
  • Since

    01st January 2014
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Publications

2022

Boolean Searchable Symmetric Encryption with Filters on Trusted Hardware

Authors
Ferreira, B; Portela, B; Oliveira, T; Borges, G; Domingos, H; Leitao, J;

Publication
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING

Abstract

2022

A formal treatment of the role of verified compilers in secure computation

Authors
Almeida, JCB; Barbosa, M; Barthe, G; Pacheco, H; Pereira, V; Portela, B;

Publication
JOURNAL OF LOGICAL AND ALGEBRAIC METHODS IN PROGRAMMING

Abstract
Secure multiparty computation (SMC) allows for complex computations over encrypted data. Privacy concerns for cloud applications makes this a highly desired technology and recent performance improvements show that it is practical. To make SMC accessible to non-experts and empower its use in varied applications, many domain-specific compilers are being proposed. We review the role of these compilers and provide a formal treatment of the core steps that they perform to bridge the abstraction gap between high-level ideal specifications and efficient SMC protocols. Our abstract framework bridges this secure compilation problem across two dimensions: 1) language-based source- to target-level semantic and efficiency gaps, and 2) cryptographic ideal- to real-world security gaps. We link the former to the setting of certified compilation, paving the way to leverage long-run efforts such as CompCert in future SMC compilers. Security is framed in the standard cryptographic sense. Our results are supported by a machine-checked formalisation carried out in EasyCrypt. © 2021 Elsevier Inc.

2022

Poster: User Sessions on Tor Onion Services: Can Colluding ISPs Deanonymize Them at Scale?

Authors
Lopes, D; Medeiros, P; Dong, JD; Barradas, D; Portela, B; Vinagre, J; Ferreira, B; Christin, N; Santos, N;

Publication
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 7-11, 2022

Abstract

2021

Secure Conflict-free Replicated Data Types

Authors
Barbosa, M; Ferreira, B; Marques, J; Portela, B; Preguica, N;

Publication
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND NETWORKING (ICDCN '21)

Abstract

2021

CODBS: A cascading oblivious search protocol optimized for real-world relational database indexes

Authors
Pontes, R; Portela, B; Barbosa, M; Vilaca, R;

Publication
2021 40TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RELIABLE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (SRDS 2021)

Abstract

Supervised
thesis

2022

Trustworthy and Robust Intra-Vehicle Communication

Author
Patrícia Adelaide Lopes Machado

Institution
UP-FCUP

2022

Security in Data Aggregation for Eventually Consistent Systems

Author
Pedro Miguel de Jesus Jorge

Institution
UP-FCUP

2022

Detection of Encrypted Malware Command and Control Traffic

Author
Carlos António de Sousa Costa Novo

Institution
UP-FCUP

2022

An efficient Rust implementation of BFT for supporting Byzantine Tolerant Distributed Storage

Author
Nuno Gonçalo Neto Martingo

Institution
UP-FCUP

2022

Security in Conflict-free Replicated Data Types

Author
Diogo João Veiga de Sousa

Institution
UP-FCUP