General

The defense of Christoph Egger’s dissertation, titled “On Abstraction and Modularization in Protocol Analysis” will take place on 7 October 2022 at 1:00 PM CEST. You can join the Zoom meeting using the following details: https://fau.zoom.us/j/69761460307?pwd=bXorOG5mSkRCdVVrbW1TODFzRFY3UT09 ...

The paper „Verifiable Timed Linkable Ring Signatures For Scalable Payments for Monero“ has been accepted to 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. This is a joint work of Sri Aravindakrishnan Thyagarajan, Giulio Malavolta, Fritz Schmidt and Dominique Schröder. Decentralized cry...

The paper „On Defeating Graph Analysis of Anonymous Transactions“ has been accepted to 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. This is a joint work of Christoph Egger, Russell W. F. Lai, Viktoria Ronge, Ivy K. Y. Woo, and Hoover H. F. Yin. In a ring-signature-based anonymous cryptocurrency...

The paper „ROAST: Robust Asynchronous Schnorr Threshold Signatures“ has been accepted to  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2022. This is a joint work of Tim Ruffing, Viktoria Ronge, Elliott Jin, Jonas Schneider-Bensch, and Dominique Schröder. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrenci...

On 21. July 2022 at 15:00 CEST, Johannes Gasthuber will give a talk titled „Anonymizing trajectory data without accuracy loss (by suppression)“. You can join the Zoom meeting using the following details: https://fau.zoom.us/j/61567238876?pwd=TkF0SGp1NXdidkltdDNQSEljOHpTZz09 Meeting-ID: 615 ...

The paper „SoK: Assumptions Underlying Cryptocurrency Deanonymizations“ has been accepted to 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. This is a joint work of Dominic Deuber, Viktoria Ronge and Christian Rückert. In recent years, cryptocurrencies have increasingly been used in cybercrime and...

On 19. May 2022 at 12:00 CEST, Ruben Baecker will give a talk titled „Securing Passwords against Offline Dictionary Attacks“. You can join the Zoom meeting using the following details: https://fau.zoom.us/j/67341956588?pwd=a3VMUjQ4V1JUSDZuN2FnTk1IUWVJQT09 Meeting-ID: 673 4195 6588 Passcode...

The defense of Russell W.F. Lai's dissertation, titled “Succinct Arguments: Constructions and Applications” will take place on 17 February 2022 at 9:30 AM CET. You can join the Zoom meeting using the following details: https://fau.zoom.us/j/66632047839?pwd=YWwvcDNUZExmdGlSU1lNUmZFakV5QT09 M...

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...

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 ...