Russell W. F. Lai

Russell W. F. Lai

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

Full researcher profile
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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

Hollow LWE : A New Spin: Unbounded Updatable Encryption from LWE and PCE

Martin R. Albrecht, Benjamin Benčina, Russell W.F. Lai 2025 Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2025 - 44th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, 2025, Proceedings

Ringtail : Practical Two-Round Threshold Signatures from Learning with Errors

Cecilia Boschini, Darya Kaviani, Russell W.F. Lai, Giulio Malavolta, Akira Takahashi, Mehdi Tibouchi 2025 Proceedings - 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2025

Traitor Tracing Without Trusted Authority from Registered Functional Encryption

Pedro Branco, Russell W.F. Lai, Monosij Maitra, Giulio Malavolta, Ahmadreza Rahimi, Ivy K.Y. Woo 2025 Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2024 - 30th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Proceedings

Multi-client Oblivious RAM

Sherman S.M. Chow, Russell W.F. Lai 2025 Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy

Lattice-based Multi-Authority/Client Attribute-based Encryption for Circuits

Valerio Cini, Russell Lai, Ivy Woo 2025 IACR Communications in Cryptology

Lattice-Based Obfuscation from NTRU and Equivocal LWE

Valerio Cini, Russell W. F. Lai, Ivy K. Y. Woo 2025 Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2025 - 45th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 17–21, 2025, Proceedings, Part VII

Lattice-Based Proof-Friendly Signatures from Vanishing Short Integer Solutions

Adrien Dubois, Michael Klooß, Russell W. F. Lai, Ivy K. Y. Woo 2025 Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2025 - 28th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, Proceedings

Vanishing Short Integer Solution, Revisited : Reductions, Trapdoors, Homomorphic Signatures for Low-Degree Polynomials

Kalle Jyrkinen, Russell W.F. Lai 2025 Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2025 - 28th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, 2025, Proceedings

RoK, Paper, SISsors Toolkit for Lattice-Based Succinct Arguments

Michael Klooß, Russell W.F. Lai, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen, Michał Osadnik 2025 Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2024 - 30th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Proceedings

Leaky LWE : Learning with Errors with Semi-Adaptive Secret- and Error-Leakage

Russell Lai, Monisha Swarnakar, Ivy Woo 2025 IACR Communications in Cryptology