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Christian Cachin

Christian Cachin

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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
55
Citations
15982
World Ranking
4225
National Ranking
95

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2019 - ACM Fellow For contributions to secure distributed computing and cryptographic protocols
  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to steganography and secure distributed systems
  • 2009 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Christian Cachin is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with an emphasis on distributed systems, blockchain technology, cryptography, and security.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with 75 publications covering several subfields such as artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, information systems, electrical and electronic engineering, and sociology and political science.

Main topics in their work include:

  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Blockchain technology applications and security
  • Cryptography and data security
  • Security and verification in computing
  • Logic, reasoning, and knowledge
  • Internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting
  • Age of information optimization

Christian Cachin has published research in a variety of venues. The most frequent publication sources include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Distributed Computing
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Recent papers by Cachin include:

  • "Communication-Efficient BFT Using Small Trusted Hardware to Tolerate Minority Corruption," 2023, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "Asymmetric Distributed Trust," 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "Asymmetric distributed trust," 2024, Distributed Computing
  • "Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) Protection on a DAG," 2023, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "When is Spring coming? A Security Analysis of Avalanche Consensus," 2022, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Christian Cachin include:

  • Luca Zanolini
  • Ignacio Amores-Sesar
  • Orestis Alpos
  • David Lehnherr
  • Thomas Studer

The scientist has been recognized with several awards throughout their career. These include being named an ACM Fellow in 2019 for contributions to secure distributed computing and cryptographic protocols. They were named an IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contributions to steganography and secure distributed systems. Additionally, they were designated as an ACM Distinguished Member in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Hyperledger fabric: a distributed operating system for permissioned blockchains

    Elli Androulaki;Artem Barger;Vita Bortnikov;Christian Cachin

  • An information-theoretic model for steganography

    Christian Cachin

  • Computationally private information retrieval with polylogarithmic communication

    Christian Cachin;Silvio Micali;Markus Stadler

  • Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming

    Christian Cachin;Rachid Guerraoui;Lus Rodrigues

  • Random Oracles in Constantinople: Practical Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement Using Cryptography

    Christian Cachin;Klaus Kursawe;Victor Shoup

  • Secure and Efficient Asynchronous Broadcast Protocols

    Christian Cachin;Klaus Kursawe;Frank Petzold;Victor Shoup

  • Efficient private bidding and auctions with an oblivious third party

    Christian Cachin

  • Blockchain Consensus Protocols in the Wild

    Christian Cachin;Marko Vukolić

  • Trusting the cloud

    Christian Cachin;Idit Keidar;Alexander Shraer

  • Entropy measures and unconditional security in cryptography

    Christian Cachin

  • CheapBFT: resource-efficient byzantine fault tolerance

    Rüdiger Kapitza;Johannes Behl;Christian Cachin;Tobias Distler

  • Asynchronous Verifiable Secret Sharing and Proactive Cryptosystems.

    Christian Cachin;Klaus Kursawe;Anna Lysyanskaya;Reto Strobl

  • Unconditional security against memory-bounded adversaries

    C. Cachin;U. Maurer

  • Linking information reconciliation and privacy amplification

    Christian Cachin;Ueli M. Maurer

  • Random oracles in constantipole: practical asynchronous Byzantine agreement using cryptography (extended abstract)

    Christian Cachin;Klaus Kursawe;Victor Shoup

  • Cryptographic security for mobile code

    J. Algesheimer;C. Cachin;J. Camenisch;G. Karjoth

  • One-Round Secure Computation and Secure Autonomous Mobile Agents

    Christian Cachin;Jan Camenisch;Joe Kilian;Joy Müller

  • Asynchronous verifiable information dispersal

    C. Cachin;S. Tessaro

  • Secure INtrusion-Tolerant Replication on the Internet

    C. Cachin;J.A. Poritz

  • Optimal Resilience for Erasure-Coded Byzantine Distributed Storage

    C. Cachin;S. Tessaro

  • Venus: verification for untrusted cloud storage

    Alexander Shraer;Christian Cachin;Asaf Cidon;Idit Keidar

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Shoup
Victor Shoup New York University
Michael Backes
Michael Backes University of Oxford
Paulo Veríssimo
Paulo Veríssimo King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Rüdiger Kapitza
Rüdiger Kapitza Technische Universität Braunschweig
Idit Keidar
Idit Keidar Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Anna Lysyanskaya
Anna Lysyanskaya Brown University
Michael Waidner
Michael Waidner Technical University of Darmstadt
Ueli Maurer
Ueli Maurer ETH Zurich
Brian Randell
Brian Randell Newcastle University

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