Post-Snowden Cryptography:
How to defend against Kleptographic attacks


Research and teaching activities:

  • My collaborators, Professors Qiang Tang and Moti Yung gave a 3-hour tutorial on our recent efforts on how to defend against kleptographic attacks at CCS 2017!


Research papers:

  • Let a Non-Barking Watchdog Bite: Cliptographic Signatures with an Offline Watchdog
    Sherman Chow, Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, Moti Yung, Yongjun Zhao, Hong-Sheng Zhou
    PKC 2019 -- Public Key Cryptography

  • Correcting Subverted Random Oracles
    Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, Moti Yung, Hong-Sheng Zhou
    CRYPTO 2018 -- Advances in Cryptology

  • Generic Semantic Security against a Kleptographic Adversary
    Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, Moti Yung, Hong-Sheng Zhou
    CCS 2017 -- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
    Seminar talk slides

  • Cliptography: Clipping the Power of Kleptographic Attacks
    Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, Moti Yung, Hong-Sheng Zhou
    ASIACRYPT 2016 -- Advances in Cryptology
    Oral presentation at SAT 2015 -- Workshop on Surveillance and Technology
    Invited to Journal of Cryptology
  • Secure Multi-Party Computation in the presence of Kleptographic Attacks
    Alexander Russell, Qiang Tang, Phuc Thai, Moti Yung, Hong-Sheng Zhou
    Manuscript


Research resources:

External collaborators:
Alexander Russell (UConn), Qiang Tang (NJIT), Moti Yung (Google and Columbia), Matt Green (JHU)