Reading Project Titles

Pseudorandom Generators:

Naor-Reingold construction of pseudorandom permutations.

M. Naor and O. Reingold, Synthesizers and their application to the parallel construction of pseudorandom functions, Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), 1999. Preliminary Version: FOCS 1995.

Random Oracles

M. Bellare and P. Rogaway.
Random oracles are practical: A paradigm for designing efficient protocols.
Proceedings First Annual Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM, 1993.

R. Canetti, O. Goldreich, S. Halevi.
The Random Oracle Methodology, Revisited
FOCS 1998

C. Dwork, M. Naor, O. Reingold and L. J. Stockmeyer.
Magic functions,
J. ACM, 2003.

Noninteractive Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Feige, U. Lapidot, D. Shamir, A.
Multiple non-interactive zero knowledge proofs based on a single random string Proceedings., 31st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 1990.

Group Signatures, Ring Signatures, Designated Verifiers

J. Camenisch and M. Stadler
Efficient Group Signature Schemes for Large Groups

J. Camenisch and J. Groth
Group Signatures: Better Efficiency and New Theoretical Aspects

G. Ateniese, J. Camenisch, M. Joye and G. Tsudik
A Practical and Provably Secure Coalition-Resistant Group Signature Scheme

R. Rivest, A. Shamir, and Y. Tauman
How to Leak a Secret

Biometrics

X. Boyen, Y. Dodis, J. Katz, R. Ostrovsky, and A. Smith
Secure remote authentication using biometric data

Alternate Public-Key Cryptosystems

Moni Naor, Moti Yung:
Public-key Cryptosystems Provably Secure against Chosen Ciphertext Attacks
STOC 1990: 427-437

Russell Impagliazzo and Moni Naor.
Efficient Cryptographic Schemes Provably as Secure as Subset Sum,
J. of Cryptology 9(4):, 1996, pp. 199--216.

O. Regev.
New Lattice Based Cryptographic Constructions
Journal of the ACM 51(6), pp. 899-942, 2004. Preliminary version in Proc. of STOC 2003.

Electronic Voting

R. Cramer, R. Gennaro and B. Schoenmakers.
A Secure and Optimally Efficient Multi-Authority Election Scheme,
Proceedings of EUROCRYPT '97, Konstanz, Germany, Springer Verlag LNCS, vol. 1233.

Avi Rubin's e-voting page

Non-malleability, Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

O. Dolev, C. Dwork, and M. Naor
Non-malleable cryptography

B. Barak
Constant-Round Coin-Tossing with a Man in the Middle or Realizing the Shared Random String Model

Electronic Cash

D. Chaum, A. Fiat and M. Naor.
Untraceable Electronic Cash

J. Camenisch, S. Hohenberger, A. Lysyanskaya.
Compact E-Cash.
Eurocrypt 2005.

Multiparty Computation

D. Chaum, C. Crepeau, and I. Damgaard.
Multiparty unconditionally secure protocols.
In 19th Symp. on Theory of Computing , pages 11-19. ACM, 1988. M. Ben-Or, S. GOldwasser, A. Wigderson
Completeness theorems for non-cryptographic fault-tolerant distributed computation
Proceedings of the twentieth annual ACM symposium on Theory of Computing.

Oblivious Transfer

C. Crepeau.
Verifiable disclosure of secrets and applications.
In Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of Eurocrypt '89 C. Crepeau and J. Kilian.
Achieving oblivious transfer using weakened security assumptions.
In 29th Symp. on Found. of Computer Sci. , pages 42-52. IEEE, 1988.

Private Information Retrieval

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, and Jean-Francois Raymond.
Breaking the O(n^{1/(2k-1)}) Barrier for Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval.
Proc. of FOCS '02. E. Kushilevitz and R. Ostrovsky.
Replication is not needed: Single data base computationally-private information retrieval.
In Proc. 38th IEEE Symposium on the Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), pages 364-- 373. C. Cachin, S. Micali, and M. Stadler.
Computationally private information retrieval with polylogarithmic communication.
In Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT '99, 1999.

Elliptic Curves and the Weil Pairing

D. Boneh and M. Franklin.
Identity based encryption from the Weil pairing.
SIAM J. of Computing, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 586-615, 2003.
Extended abstract in proceedings of Crypto '2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2139, Springer-Verlag, pp. 213-229, 2001. D. Boneh, H. Shacham, and B. Lynn.
Short signatures from the Weil pairing.
J. of Cryptology, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 297-319, 2004.
Extended abstract in proceedings of Asiacrypt '01, LNCS Vol. 2248, Springer-Verlag, pp. 514-532, 2001.