Welcome to the Cryptography Lab at VCU!
We are part of Computer Science Department at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Our main research area is cryptography. We are
particularly interested in the following topics:
- Secure Computing and Communication
- Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies
- Voting, Governance, and
Collaborative Decision Making
- Cryptographic Protocols and
Composable Security
- Cryptographic Objects: Obfuscation, Trusted Hardware and Advanced Encryption
- Verifiable Computation
- Extreme Cryptography
News
- We are organizing a weekly local Bitcoin
and Blockchain meetup in Richmond.
- Professor Hong-Sheng Zhou won a 2018
Google Faculty Research Award
- Workshops (as organizer)
- DLoT 2019 --- Workshop on Distributed Ledger of Things
- BlockSEA 2018 --- Workshop on Blockchain and Sharing Economy Applications
- DLoT 2018 --- Workshop on Distributed Ledger of Things
- Recent conferences (as PC member)
- PKC 2020 -- 23rd international conference on
Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography
- ACNS
2020 --18th international conference on Applied
Cryptography and Network Security
- CT-RSA 2020 (cryptography track of the RSA Conference)
- AsiaCCS
2020 -- 15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and
Communications Security
- PENCiL
2019 -- 1st workshop on Privacy Enhancing Cryptography
in Ledgers
- SCC
2019 -- 7th international workshop on Security in
Cloud Computing
- SecureComm 2019
- Winter/summer schools
- Professor Hong-Sheng
Zhou has organized a winter school on Secure
Multi-Party Computation with Professor Bingsheng
Zhang, Nov 2018
- Professor Hong-Sheng Zhou has been invited to give a tutorial Cryptographic Foundations of Blockchains in the CACR organized summer school on Blockchain Technologies, Aug 2017
- Professor Hong-Sheng Zhou has organized a winter school on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies with Professors Jonathan Katz and Dawu Gu, Jan 2017