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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 ...

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...

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 ...