Encrypting to a Mathematical Fact | Theoretically Speaking

Event details Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Time: 5:30 PM to 5:30 PM Location: Melvin Calvin Laboratory, UC Berkeley Type: Lecture / Workshop Audience: Alumni,Faculty,Public,Students About this event In this talk, Sanjam Garg (UC Berkeley) will discuss a different kind of encryption scheme, where a plaintext can be encrypted to a puzzle or, more generally, to any mathematical fact. Anyone who can solve the puzzle or prove the fact can recover the plaintext. This talk traces the evolution of this idea and highlights recent developments that are making such techniques increasingly practical and relevant to real-world deployments. Official event details: https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/324069-encrypting-to-a-mathematical-fact-theoretically