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The paper “Polynomial-Time Construction of Two-Channel Prefix-Free Codes with Given Codeword Lengths” has been accepted to the IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2021. This is a joint work of Hoover H. F. Yin, Ka Hei Ng, Yu Ting Shing, Russell W. F. Lai and Xishi Wang. Although n-channel prefix-fre... Continue

The paper “A Security Framework for Distributed Ledgers” has been accepted to the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2021. This is a joint work of Mike Graf, Daniel Rausch, Viktoria Ronge, Christoph Egger, Ralf Küsters and Dominique Schröder. A pre-print is available at IACR ... Continue

The following two papers have been accepted to ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2021: „OpenSquare: Decentralized Repeated Modular Squaring Service” Authors: Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Adithya Bhat, Tiantian Gong, Aniket Kate and Dominique Schröder Abstract: R... Continue

The paper "CoinJoin in the Wild: An Empirical Analysis in Dash" has been accepted to the 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. This is a joint work of Dominic Deuber and Dominique Schröder. Below you will find the abstract of the paper. CoinJoin is the predominant means to ... Continue

The paper "Efficient Key Recovery for all HFE Signature Variants" received the Best Paper Award at CRYPTO 2021. This is a joint work of Albrecht Petzoldt with Chengdong Tao and Jintai Ding. Continue

On 9 July 2021 at 16:00 CEST, Jonathan Bootle will give a talk titled “Sumcheck Arguments and their Applications”. You can join the Zoom meeting using the details provided here. Abstract: In this talk, I will present sumcheck arguments; a new class of interactive protocols which show that „... Continue

The paper “Subtractive Sets over Cyclotomic Rings: Limits of Schnorr-like Arguments over Lattices” has been accepted to CRYPTO 2021. This is a joint work of Russell W. F. Lai with Martin R. Albrecht. Below you will find the abstract of the paper. We study when (dual) Vandermonde systems of the... Continue

The paper "On Multi-Channel Huffman Codes for Asymmetric-Alphabet Channels" has been accepted to the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. This is a joint work of Russell W. F. Lai with Hoover H. F. Yin, Xishi Wang, Ka Hei Ng, Lucien K. L. Ng, and Jack P. K. Ma. Below you will ... Continue