Publications

Publications by research theme and year, in reverse chronological order.

2026

  1. When Threshold Meets Anamorphic Signatures: What is Possible and What is Not!
    Hien Chu, Khue Do, Lucjan Hanzlik, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2026
    To appear
    Privacy Threshold Cryptography
  2. Anchor-DKG: Distributed Key Generation with Repeating Parties
    Hanwen Feng, Qiang Tang, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2026
    To appear
    Threshold Cryptography Blockchain & Payments
  3. How To Make Delegated Payments on Bitcoin: A Question for the AI Agentic Future
    Jay Taylor, Paul Gerhart, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security – FC 2026, 2026
    To appear
    Blockchain & Payments
  4. New Constructions of Functional Adaptor Signatures: Broader Functions and Improved Efficiency
    Nikhil Vanjani, Garrett Greiner, Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, and Pratik Soni
    In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2026, 2026
    To appear
    Blockchain & Payments Fairness
  5. Morphic Accumulators and Applications
    Dimitrios Papadoupolous, Qiang Tang, and Jiajun Xin
    In Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2026, 2026
    To appear
    Crypto Foundations
  6. Õptimal Adaptively Secure Hash-based MVBA and Asynchronous Common Subset
    Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, and Qiang Tang
    In Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2026, 2026
    To appear
    Byzantine Consensus
  7. Balanced and Adaptively Secure Asynchronous Common Coin and Byzantine Agreement With Subquadratic Communication
    Hanwen Feng, Tiancheng Mai, and Qiang Tang
    In ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2026, 2026
    To appear
    Byzantine Consensus
  8. Practical Asynchronous Distributed Key Reconfiguration and Its Applications
    Hanwen Feng, Yingzi Gao, Yuan Lu, Qiang Tang, and Jing Xu
    In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2026, 2026
    To appear
    Threshold Cryptography
  9. Optimistic Asynchronous Dynamic-committee Proactive Secret Sharing
    Bin Hu, Jianwei Liu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Zhuolun Xiang, and Zongyang Zhang
    In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2026, 2026
    To appear
    Threshold Cryptography
  10. Non-Interactive Distributed Key Management with Pre-Determined Shares
    Yaqing Song, Yuan Zhang, Shiyu Li, Weijia Li, Zeqi Lai, and Qiang Tang
    In IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2026, 2026
    To appear
    Threshold Cryptography
  11. Game Theory Does Not Always Help: The Case of Statistical Multi-party Coin Tossing
    Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Elisaweta Masserova, João Miguel Lourenço Ribeiro, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    In Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2026 - 45th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Rome, Italy, May 10-14, 2026, Proceedings, Part III, 2026
    Fairness
  12. How To Make Delegated Payments on Bitcoin: A Question for the AI Agentic Future
    Jay Taylor, Paul Gerhart, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2026
    Blockchain & Payments
  13. Computational Robust (Fuzzy) Extractors for CRS-dependent Sources with Minimal Min-entropy
    Hanwen Feng and Qiang Tang
    J. Cryptol., 2026
    Privacy Crypto Foundations

2025

  1. VRaaS: Verifiable Randomness as a Service on Blockchains
    Jacob Gorman, Lucjan Hanzlik, Aniket Kate, Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Pratyay Mukherjee, Pratik Sarkar, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    In 38th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, CSF 2025, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, June 16-20, 2025, 2025
    Blockchain & Payments Threshold Cryptography
  2. Verifiable Weighted Secret Sharing
    Kareem Shehata, Han Fangqi, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    In Crypto Valley Conference, CVC 2025, Rotkreuz, Switzerland, June 5-6, 2025, 2025
    Threshold Cryptography
  3. Efficient Distributed Randomness Generation from Minimal Assumptions Where PArties Speak Sequentially Once
    Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Elisaweta Masserova, João Ribeiro, Pratik Soni, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    In Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2025 - 44th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Madrid, Spain, May 4-8, 2025, Proceedings, Part V, 2025
    Threshold Cryptography
  4. Rapidash: Atomic Swaps Secure Under User-Miner Collusion
    Hao Chung, Elisaweta Masserova, Elaine Shi, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 29th International Conference, FC 2025, Miyakojima, Japan, April 14-18, 2025, Revised Selected Papers, Part I, 2025
    Blockchain & Payments Fairness
  5. Vitārit: Paying for Threshold Services on Bitcoin and Friends
    Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Lucjan Hanzlik, Aniket Kate, and Pratyay Mukherjee
    In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 12-15, 2025, 2025
    Blockchain & Payments Threshold Cryptography
  6. Verifiable Weighted Secret Sharing
    Kareem Shehata, Han Fangqi, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    CoRR, 2025
    Threshold Cryptography
  7. VITARIT: Paying for Threshold Services on Bitcoin and Friends
    Lucjan Hanzlik, Aniket Kate, Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Pratyay Mukherjee, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
    Blockchain & Payments Threshold Cryptography
  8. Efficient Distributed Randomness Generation from Minimal Assumptions where PArties Speak Sequentially Once
    Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Elisaweta Masserova, João Ribeiro, Pratik Soni, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
    Threshold Cryptography
  9. InstaRand: Instantly Available and Instantly Verifiable On-chain Randomness
    Jacob Gorman, Lucjan Hanzlik, Aniket Kate, Pratyay Mukherjee, Pratik Sarkar, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
    Blockchain & Payments Threshold Cryptography
  10. When Threshold Meets Anamorphic Signatures: What is Possible and What is Not!
    Hien Chu, Khue Do, Lucjan Hanzlik, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
    Privacy Threshold Cryptography
  11. Fairness in the Wild: Secure Atomic Swap with External Incentives
    Hao Chung, Elisaweta Masserova, Elaine Shi, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
    Blockchain & Payments Fairness
  12. Game-Theoretically Fair Distributed Coin Tossing With Private Preferences
    Pedro Branco, Pratik Soni, Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, and Ke Wu
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
    Fairness
  13. EpiOracle: Privacy-Preserving Cross-Facility Early Warning for Unknown Epidemics
    Shiyu Li, Yuan Zhang, Yaqing Song, Fan Wu, Feng Lyu, Kan Yang, and Qiang Tang
    Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2025
    Privacy
  14. \textdollar}mathsf {JUMBO}\textdollarJUMBO: Fully Asynchronous BFT Consensus Made Truly Scalable
    Hao Cheng, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuxuan Zhang, and Zhenfeng Zhang
    IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput., 2025
    Byzantine Consensus
  15. What Makes a Good Exchange? Privacy-Preserving and Fair Contract Agreement in Data Trading
    Xinyu He, Yuan Zhang, Yaqing Song, Weidong Qiu, Hongwei Li, and Qiang Tang
    IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., 2025
    Privacy Fairness
  16. Turritopsis: Practical Dynamic Asynchronous BFT
    Yingzi Gao, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuyi Wang, and Jing Xu
    IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., 2025
    Byzantine Consensus
  17. End-to-Same-End Encryption: Modularly Augmenting an App with an Efficient, Portable, and Blind Cloud Storage
    Long Chen, Ya-Nan Li, Qiang Tang, and Moti Yung
    ACM Trans. Priv. Secur., 2025
    Privacy
  18. Optimal Byzantine Agreement in the Presence of Message Drops
    Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, and Yuchen Ye
    In Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2025 - 31st International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, December 8-12, 2025, Proceedings, Part V, 2025
    Byzantine Consensus
  19. End-to-End Encrypted Git Services
    Ya-Nan Li, Yaqing Song, Qiang Tang, and Moti Yung
    In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2025, Taipei, Taiwan, October 13-17, 2025, 2025
    Privacy
  20. Asymptotically Optimal Adaptive Asynchronous Common Coin and DKG with Silent Setup
    Hanwen Feng and Qiang Tang
    In Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2025 - 45th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 17-21, 2025, Proceedings, Part III, 2025
    Threshold Cryptography Byzantine Consensus
  21. Short Paper: Decentralized Fair Exchange for Assets across Blockchain and the Internet
    Long Chen, Yuguo Liu, Yuan Lu, and Qiang Tang
    In Crypto Valley Conference, CVC 2025, Rotkreuz, Switzerland, June 5-6, 2025, 2025
    Blockchain & Payments Fairness
  22. Faster Hash-based Multi-valued Validated Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement
    Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Tiancheng Mai, and Qiang Tang
    In 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2025, Naples, Italy, June 23-26, 2025, 2025
    Byzantine Consensus
  23. Asynchronous Dynamic Committee Proactive Secret Sharing for Large Data
    Zhenliang Lu, Tianyi Zhang, Alan D. Fekete, Kwok-Yan Lam, and Qiang Tang
    In 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2025, Glasgow, United Kingdom, July 21-23, 2025, 2025
    Threshold Cryptography
  24. Constant Latency and Finality for Dynamically Available DAG
    Hans Schmiedel, Runchao Han, Qiang Tang, Ron Steinfeld, and Jiangshan Yu
    In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 12-15, 2025, 2025
    Byzantine Consensus
  25. Dumbo-MPC: Efficient Fully Asynchronous MPC with Optimal Resilience
    Yuan Su, Yuan Lu, Jiliang Li, Yuyi Wang, Chengyi Dong, and Qiang Tang
    In 34th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2025, Seattle, WA, USA, August 13-15, 2025, 2025
    Threshold Cryptography
  26. Constant latency and finality for dynamically available DAG
    Hans Schmiedel, Runchao Han, Qiang Tang, Ron Steinfeld, and Jiangshan Yu
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
    Byzantine Consensus
  27. Practical Asynchronous Distributed Key Reconfiguration and Its Applications
    Hanwen Feng, Yingzi Gao, Yuan Lu, Qiang Tang, and Jing Xu
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
    Threshold Cryptography
  28. Optimistic Asynchronous Dynamic-committee Proactive Secret Sharing
    Bin Hu, Jianwei Liu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Zhuolun Xiang, and Zongyang Zhang
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
    Threshold Cryptography
  29. End-to-End Encrypted Git Services
    Ya-Nan Li, Yaqing Song, Qiang Tang, and Moti Yung
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
    Privacy
  30. Optimal Byzantine Agreement in the Presence of Message Drops
    Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, and Yuchen Ye
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
    Byzantine Consensus

2024

  1. Functional Adaptor Signatures: Beyond All-or-Nothing Blockchain-based Payments
    Nikhil Vanjani, Pratik Soni, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    In Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14-18, 2024, 2024
    Blockchain & Payments Fairness
  2. Non-interactive VSS using Class Groups and Application to DKG
    Aniket Kate, Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Pratyay Mukherjee, Hamza Saleem, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    In Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14-18, 2024, 2024
    Threshold Cryptography Blockchain & Payments
  3. Game-Theoretically Fair Distributed Sampling
    Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Pratik Soni, and Ke Wu
    In Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2024 - 44th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 18-22, 2024, Proceedings, Part VIII, 2024
    Fairness
  4. Foundations of Adaptor Signatures
    Paul Gerhart, Dominique Schröder, Pratik Soni, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    In Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2024 - 43rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Zurich, Switzerland, May 26-30, 2024, Proceedings, Part II, 2024
    Blockchain & Payments Crypto Foundations
  5. Improved YOSO Randomness Generation with Worst-Case Corruptions
    Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Elisaweta Masserova, João Ribeiro, Pratik Soni, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 28th International Conference, FC 2024, Willemstad, Curaçao, March 4-8, 2024, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, 2024
    Threshold Cryptography
  6. Sweep-UC: Swapping Coins Privately
    Lucjan Hanzlik, Julian Loss, Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, and Benedikt Wagner
    In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2024, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 19-23, 2024, 2024
    Blockchain & Payments Privacy
  7. Functional Adaptor Signatures: Beyond All-or-Nothing Blockchain-based Payments
    Nikhil Vanjani, Pratik Soni, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    CoRR, 2024
    Blockchain & Payments Fairness
  8. Game-Theoretically Fair Distributed Sampling
    Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Ke Wu, and Pratik Soni
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Fairness
  9. VRaaS: Verifiable Randomness as a Service on Blockchains
    Jacob Gorman, Lucjan Hanzlik, Aniket Kate, Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Pratyay Mukherjee, Pratik Sarkar, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Blockchain & Payments Threshold Cryptography
  10. Improved YOSO Randomness Generation with Worst-Case Corruptions
    Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Elisaweta Masserova, João Ribeiro, Pratik Soni, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Threshold Cryptography
  11. Functional Adaptor Signatures: Beyond All-or-Nothing Blockchain-based Payments
    Nikhil Vanjani, Pratik Soni, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Blockchain & Payments Fairness
  12. Foundations of Adaptor Signatures
    Paul Gerhart, Dominique Schröder, Pratik Soni, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Blockchain & Payments Crypto Foundations
  13. Crooked Indifferentiability of the Feistel Construction
    Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, and Jiadong Zhu
    In Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2024 - 30th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Kolkata, India, December 9-13, 2024, Proceedings, Part VI, 2024
    Crypto Foundations
  14. Scalable and Adaptively Secure Any-Trust Distributed Key Generation and All-hands Checkpointing
    Hanwen Feng, Tiancheng Mai, and Qiang Tang
    In Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14-18, 2024, 2024
    Threshold Cryptography
  15. Modeling Mobile Crash in Byzantine Consensus
    Hans Schmiedel, Runchao Han, Qiang Tang, Ron Steinfeld, and Jiangshan Yu
    In 37th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, CSF 2024, Enschede, Netherlands, July 8-12, 2024, 2024
    Byzantine Consensus
  16. AOAB: Optimal and Fair Ordering of Financial Transactions
    Vincent Gramoli, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, and Pouriya Zarbafian
    In 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2024, Brisbane, Australia, June 24-27, 2024, 2024
    Blockchain & Payments Fairness
  17. Resilience to Chain-Quality Attacks in Fair Separability
    Vincent Gramoli, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, and Pouriya Zarbafian
    In Computer Security - ESORICS 2024 - 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 16-20, 2024, Proceedings, Part IV, 2024
    Blockchain & Payments Fairness
  18. CORE: Transaction Commit-Controlled Release of Private Data Over Blockchains
    Shan Wang, Ming Yang, Jiannong Cao, Zhen Ling, Qiang Tang, and Xinwen Fu
    In 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2024, Jersey City, NJ, USA, July 23-26, 2024, 2024
    Blockchain & Payments Privacy
  19. Pisces: Private and Compliable Cryptocurrency Exchange
    Ya-Nan Li, Tian Qiu, and Qiang Tang
    In 31st Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2024, San Diego, California, USA, February 26 - March 1, 2024, 2024
    Blockchain & Payments Privacy
  20. Dragon: Decentralization at the cost of Representation after Arbitrary Grouping and Its Applications to Sub-cubic DKG and Interactive Consistency
    Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, and Qiang Tang
    In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2024, Nantes, France, June 17-21, 2024, 2024
    Threshold Cryptography
  21. JUMBO: Fully Asynchronous BFT Consensus Made Truly Scalable
    Hao Cheng, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuxuan Zhang, and Zhenfeng Zhang
    CoRR, 2024
    Byzantine Consensus
  22. Correcting Subverted Random Oracles
    Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, Moti Yung, Hong-Sheng Zhou, and Jiadong Zhu
    CoRR, 2024
    Crypto Foundations Privacy
  23. Crooked indifferentiability of the Feistel Construction
    Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, and Jiadong Zhu
    CoRR, 2024
    Crypto Foundations
  24. Breaking the Cubic Barrier: Distributed Key and Randomness Generation through Deterministic Sharding
    Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, and Qiang Tang
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Threshold Cryptography
  25. Modeling Mobile Crash in Byzantine Consensus
    Hans Schmiedel, Runchao Han, Qiang Tang, Ron Steinfeld, and Jiangshan Yu
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Byzantine Consensus
  26. Making Hash-based MVBA Great Again
    Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Tiancheng Mai, and Qiang Tang
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Byzantine Consensus
  27. Optimal Asynchronous Byzantine Consensus with Fair Separability
    Vincent Gramoli, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, and Pouriya Zarbafian
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Byzantine Consensus Fairness
  28. Crooked Indifferentiability of the Feistel Construction
    Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, and Jiadong Zhu
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Crypto Foundations
  29. Dumbo-MPC: Efficient Fully Asynchronous MPC with Optimal Resilience
    Yuan Su, Yuan Lu, Jiliang Li, Yuyi Wang, Chengyi Dong, and Qiang Tang
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Threshold Cryptography
  30. Õptimal Adaptively Secure Hash-based Asynchronous Common Subset
    Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, and Qiang Tang
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Byzantine Consensus
  31. Asymptotically Optimal Adaptive Asynchronous Common Coin and DKG with Silent Setup
    Hanwen Feng and Qiang Tang
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
    Threshold Cryptography Byzantine Consensus