Russell W. F. Lai

Russell W. F. Lai

My main research area is public-key cryptography, with focus on its algebraic aspects. 

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Contact information

Phone number
+358414849094

Areas of expertise

Cryptography, Security, Privacy

Honors and awards

The Andreas Pfitzmann - PETS Best Student Paper Award Runner Up 2022

On Defeating Graph Analysis of Anonymous Transactions
Award or honor granted for a specific work Professorship Lai Russell Jan 2022

Research groups

  • Professorship Lai Russell, Assistant Professor
  • Computer Science Professors, Assistant Professor

Publications

Chainable Functional Commitments for Unbounded-Depth Circuits

David Balbás, Dario Catalano, Dario Fiore, Russell W.F. Lai 2023 Theory of Cryptography - 21st International Conference, TCC 2023, Proceedings

On Provable White-Box Security in the Strong Incompressibility Model

Estuardo Alpirez Bock, Chris Brzuska, Russell W.F. Lai 2023 IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems

On Sustainable Ring-Based Anonymous Systems

Sherman S.M. Chow, Christoph Egger, Russell W.F. Lai, Viktoria Ronge, Ivy K.Y. Woo 2023 Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 36th Computer Security Foundations Symposium, CSF 2023

Lattice-Based Succinct Arguments from Vanishing Polynomials

Valerio Cini, Russell W.F. Lai, Giulio Malavolta 2023 Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2023 - 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2023, Proceedings, Part II

Efficient Laconic Cryptography from Learning with Errors

Nico Döttling, Dimitris Kolonelos, Russell W.F. Lai, Chuanwei Lin, Giulio Malavolta, Ahmadreza Rahimi 2023 Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2023 - 42nd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, 2023, Proceedings

Lattice-Based Timed Cryptography

Russell W.F. Lai, Giulio Malavolta 2023 Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2023 - 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2023, Proceedings

Quantum Rewinding for Many-Round Protocols

Russell W. F. Lai, Giulio Malavolta, Nicholas Spooner 2023 Theory of Cryptography

Lattice-Based SNARKs: Publicly Verifiable, Preprocessing, and Recursively Composable

Martin R. Albrecht, Valerio Cini, Russell W. F. Lai, Giulio Malavolta, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan 2022 Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2022 - 42nd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2022, Proceedings

On Defeating Graph Analysis of Anonymous Transactions

Christoph Egger, Russell W. F. Lai, Viktoria Ronge, Ivy K. Y. Woo, Hoover H.F. Yin 2022 Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Multichannel Optimal Tree-Decodable Codes are Not Always Optimal Prefix Codes

Hoover H.F. Yin, Harry W.H. Wong, Mehrdad Tahernia, Russell W.F. Lai 2022 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2022