Research by Topics (DBLP)

Blockchain Techniques and Consensus

• Fair and Robust Multi-Party Computation using a Global Transaction Ledger
  Aggelos Kiayias, Hong-Sheng Zhou, Vassilis Zikas
  EUROCRYPT 2016 -- Advances of Cryptology

• Securing Bitcoin-like Backbone Protocols against a Malicious Majority of Computing Power
  Tuyet Duong, Lei Fan, Thomas Veale, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  IACR ePrint Report 2016/716

• Designing Proof of Human-work Puzzles for Cryptocurrency and Beyond
  Jeremiah Blocki, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  TCC 2016B -- Theory of Cryptography Conference
  
  
• Adaptively Secure Broadcast, Revisited
  Juan Garay, Jonathan Katz, Ranjit Kumaresan, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  PODC 2011 -- ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
  
  

• Cliptography: Clipping the Power of Kleptographic Attacks
  Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, Moti Yung, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  ASIACRYPT 2016 -- Advances of Cryptology
  Oral presentation at SAT 2015 -- Workshop on Surveillance and Technology
  

• Destroying Steganography via Amalgamation: Kleptographically CPA Secure Public Key Encryption
  Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, Moti Yung, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  IACR ePrint Report 2016/530
  Seminar talk slides
  

• Secure Computation against Kleptographic Attacks
  Tuyet Duong, Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  Manuscript

• How to Make Hidden Triggers to Misfire
  Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, Moti Yung, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  Manuscript

• Leakage-Resilient Public-Key Encryption from Obfuscation
  Dana Dachman-Soled, Dov Gordon, Feng-Hao Liu, Adam O'Neill,  Hong-Sheng Zhou
  PKC 2016 -- Public Key Cryptography
  

• Leakage-Resilient Circuits Revisited -- Optimal Number of Computing Components without Leak-free Hardware
  Dana Dachman-Soled, Feng-Hao Liu, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  EUROCRYPT 2015 -- Advances of Cryptology
  

• Locally Decodable and Updatable Non-Malleable Codes and Their Applications
  Dana Dachman-Soled, Feng-Hao Liu, Elaine Shi, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  TCC 2015 -- Theory of Cryptography Conference

• Physical Aware Composability
  Kai-Min Chung, Huijia Lin, Feng-Hao Liu, Rafael Pass,  Hong-Sheng Zhou
  Manuscript

• Incoercible Multi-Party Computation and Universally Composable Receipt-Free Voting
  Joël Alwen, Rafail Ostrovsky, Hong-Sheng Zhou, Vassilis Zikas
  CRYPTO 2015 -- Advances of Cryptology
  Oral presentation at SAT 2015 -- Workshop on Surveillance and Technology

Secure Computation and Universal Composability

• Distributing the Setup in Universally Composable Multi-Party Computation
  Jonathan Katz, Aggelos Kiayias, Hong-Sheng Zhou, Vassilis Zikas
  PODC 2014 -- ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

• (Efficient) Universally Composable Two-Party Computation using a Minimal Number of Stateless Tokens
  Seung Geol Choi, Jonathan Katz, Dominique Schröder, Arkady Yerukhimovich, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  TCC 2014 -- Theory of Cryptography Conference
  Invited to Journal of Cryptology

• Efficient, Adaptively Secure, and Composable Oblivious Transfer with a Single, Global CRS
  Seung Geol Choi, Jonathan Katz, Hoeteck Wee, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  PKC 2013 -- Public Key Cryptography

• A Framework for the Sound Specification of Cryptographic Tasks
  Juan Garay, Aggelos Kiayias, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  CSF 2010 -- IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium
  

• Somewhat Non-Committing Encryption and Efficient Adaptively Secure Oblivious Transfer
  Juan Garay, Daniel Wichs, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  CRYPTO 2009 -- Advances of Cryptology

• Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Witness Elimination
  Aggelos Kiayias, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  PKC 2009 -- Public Key Cryptography
  

• Equivocal Blind Signatures and Adaptive UC-Security
  Aggelos Kiayias, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  TCC 2008 -- Theory of Cryptography Conference
  

• Trading Static for Adaptive Security in Universally Composable Zero-Knowledge
  Aggelos Kiayias, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  ICALP 2007 -- International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming

Obfuscation, Functional Encryption and More

• Cryptography for Parallel RAM via Indistinguishability Obfuscation
  Yu-Chi Chen, Sherman Chow, Kai-Min Chung, Russell Lai, Wei-Kai Lin, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  ITCS 2016 -- Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science
  Rump session slides

• A Unified Approach to Idealized Model Separations via Indistinguishability Obfuscation
  Matthew Green, Jonathan Katz, Alex Malozemoff, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  SCN 2016 -- Security and Cryptography for Network

• Multi-Client Verifiable Computation with Stronger Security Guarantees
  Dov Gordon,  Jonathan Katz, Feng-Hao Liu, Elaine Shi, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  TCC 2015 -- Theory of Cryptography Conference
  

• Multi-Input Functional Encryption
  Shafi Goldwasser, Dov Gordon, Vipul Goyal, Abhishek Jain, Jonathan Katz, Feng-Hao Liu, Amit Sahai, Elaine Shi, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  EUROCRYPT 2014 -- Advances of Cryptology
  Merge of [GKLSZ] and [GGJS]
  

• Functional Encryption from (Small) Hardwae Tokens
  Kai-Min Chung, Jonathan Katz, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  ASIACRYPT 2013 -- Advances of Cryptology
  

• Feasibility and Infeasibility of Adaptively Secure, Fully Homomorphic Encryption
  Jonathan Katz, Aishwarya Thiruvengadam, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  PKC 2013 -- Public Key Cryptography

• Quantum One-Time Memories from Stateless Hardware
  Anne Broadbent, Sevag Gharibian, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  IACR ePrint Report 2015/1072

• Feasibility and Completeness of Cryptographic Tasks in the Quantum World
  Serge Fehr, Jonathan Katz, Fang Song, Hong-Sheng Zhou, Vassilis Zikas
  TCC 2013 -- Theory of Cryptography Conference
  Oral presentation at ICITS 2012 -- International Conference on Information-Theoretic Security
  Poster at STOC 2012

• On the Security of the "Free-XOR" Technique
  Seung Geol Choi, Jonathan Katz, Ranjit Kumaresan, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  TCC 2012 -- Theory of Cryptography Conference

• Secure Function Collection with Sublinear Storage
  Maged Ibrahim, Aggelos Kiayias, Moti Yung, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  ICALP 2009 -- International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming

• Hidden Identity-Based Signatures
  Aggelos Kiayias, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  FC 2007 -- Financial Cryptography and Data Security
  Journal version in IET Information Security, 3(3), pages 119-127, September 2009
  

• Concurrent Blind Signatures without Random Oracles
  Aggelos Kiayias, Hong-Sheng Zhou
  SCN 2006 -- Security and Cryptography for Network