A. Prof. Ron Steinfeld
Associate
Professor
Cybersecurity
Lab
Faculty
of Information Technology
Monash
University
Clayton
VIC 3800
Australia
Tel:
+61-3-99055225 Fax:
+61-3-99055159
Email:
ron.steinfeld@monash.edu
Home
Page: http://users.monash.edu.au/~rste
Monash Cybersecurity Lab:
http://www.monash.edu/cybersecurity-lab
Welcome
to my web page. I am an Associate Professor (Australian equivalent to
Professor in North America) at the Cybersecurity
Lab of the Faculty
of Information Technology, Monash
University. Currently, my main research interests are in the
design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms and cybersecurity
protocols, their applications, and the formulation and proof of their
security properties. Specific areas I have worked on include:
lattice-based cryptography, cryptographic primitives with extra
functionality (such as homomorphic encryption and multilinear maps),
user authentication protocols, privacy-preserving protocols and secure
multiparty computation, cryptographic hash functions, public key
encryption, digital signatures, signcryption.
Recent
Research Publications
- V. Kuchta, A. Sakzad, D. Stehle, R. Steinfeld, S. Sun: Measure-Rewind-Measure: Tighter Quantum Random Oracle Model Proofs for One-Way to Hiding and CCA Security. In Proceedings of EUROCRYPT 2020.
- R.K. Zhao, R. Steinfeld, A. Sakzad: FACCT: FAst, Compact, and Constant-Time Discrete Gaussian Sampler over Integers. IEEE Trans. Computers 69(1): 126-137 (2020). Preprint: pdf
- S. Bai, D. Das, R. Hiromasa, M. Rosca, A. Sakzad, D. Stehle, R. Steinfeld, Z. Zhang: MPSign: A Signature from Small-Secret Middle-Product Learning with Errors. In Proceedings of PKC 2020. Preprint: pdf
- S. Sun, A. Sakzad, R. Steinfeld, J.K. Liu, D. Gu: Public-Key Puncturable Encryption: Modular and Compact Constructions. In Proceedings of PKC 2020. Preprint; pdf
- R.K. Zhao, R. Steinfeld, A. Sakzad: COSAC: COmpact and Scalable Arbitrary-Centered Discrete Gaussian Sampling over Integers. In Proceedings of PQCrypto 2020. Preprint: pdf
- R. Steinfeld, A. Sakzad, R.K. Zhao: Practical MP-LWE-based encryption balancing security-risk versus efficiency. Designs Codes and Cryptography. 87(12): 2847-2884, 2019. Preprint: pdf
- M.F. Esgin, R.K. Zhao, R. Steinfeld, J.K. Liu, D. Liu: MatRiCT: Efficient, Scalable and Post-Quantum Blockchain Confidential Transactions Protocol. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2019). Preprint: pdf
- M.F. Esgin, R. Steinfeld, J.K. Liu, D. Liu: Lattice-based Zero-Knowledge Proofs: New Techniques for Shorter and Faster Constructions and Applications. In Proceedings of CRYPTO 2019. Preprint: pdf
- S. Bai, T. Lepoint, A. Roux-Langlois, A. Sakzad, D. Stehle, R. Steinfeld. Improved Security Proofs in Lattice-Based Cryptography: Using the Renyi Divergence Rather than the Statistical Distance. Journal of Cryptology. 31(2): 610-640, 2018. Preprint: pdf
- R. Steinfeld and A. Sakzad and R. Zhao. Titanium: Proposal for a NIST Post-Quantum Public-key Encryption and KEM Standard. Presented at First NIST PQC Standardization Conference, April 2018. Presentation Slides: pdf Full NIST submission document: pdf . For full details, software, and updates, please see the Titanium web page.
- M. Rosca, A. Sakzad, D. Stehle, and R. Steinfeld, Middle-Product Learning with Errors. In Proceedings of CRYPTO 2017. Full version: pdf
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S.
Bai and A. Langlois and T. Lepoint and D. Stehle
and R. Steinfeld. Improved Security Proofs in Lattice-Based
Cryptography: Using the Renyi Divergence Rather Than the Statistical
Distance. In Proceedings of ASIACRYPT (1) 2015, pp. 3-24,
Springer-Verlag, 2015. (BEST PAPER AWARD)
- Full List of
My Publications (out of date) Please refer to my DBLP
page for a more up to date list.
Professional Activities
- Program Committee member for the following recent conferences: ASIACRYPT 2014, EUROCRYPT 2014, EUROCRYPT 2016, CRYPTO 2016, ASIACRYPT 2016, ACISP 2017, ASIACRYPT 2017, ACISP2018, MATHCRYPT 2018 , ASIACRYPT 2019 , ASIACRYPT 2020
- The Monash Cyber Security Reading Group meets regularly to discuss recent developments in cyber security research.
- I am a member of the Discrete Mathematics Research Group.
Links
- Clayton School of IT
- Previously, I was with the Centre for Advanced Computing, Algorithms and Cryptography at the Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney
Last modified April 2018
by Ron Steinfeld