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David Chaum

David Chaum

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Computer Science

D-Index
59
Citations
42421
World Ranking
3314
National Ranking
1605

Overview

David Chaum is affiliated with DigiCash in the United States and works primarily in the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Signal Processing.

Their research topics cover several core areas including:

  • Cryptography and Data Security
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data

David Chaum has published papers in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Cryptologia, the Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium), and the Journal of digital banking. Their recent publications include:

  • "How to issue a central bank digital currency," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "VoteXX: A Remote Voting System that is Coercion Resistant," 2020, Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium)
  • "UDM: Private user discovery with minimal information disclosure," 2021, Cryptologia
  • "Essential requirements for central bank digital currency," 2024, Journal of digital banking.

Among frequent collaborators are Mario Yaksetig, Mario Larangeira, Alan T. Sherman, Thomas Moser, and Richard Carback, with collaboration counts ranging from two to six joint works.

Best Publications

  • Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms

    David L. Chaum

  • Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments

    Devid L. Chaum

  • Security without identification: transaction systems to make big brother obsolete

    David Chaum

  • Group signatures

    David Chaum;Eugène Van Heyst

  • Group Signatures

    Unknown

  • Multiparty unconditionally secure protocols

    David Chaum;Claude Crépeau;Ivan Damgard

  • The dining cryptographers problem: unconditional sender and recipient untraceability

    D. Chaum

  • Untraceable Electronic Cash

    David Chaum;Amos Fiat;Moni Naor

  • Wallet Databases with Observers

    David Chaum;Torben P. Pedersen

  • Minimum disclosure proofs of knowledge

    Gilles Brassard;David Chaum;C. Crépeau

  • Distance-bounding protocols

    Stefan Brands;David Chaum

  • Undeniable Signatures

    David Chaum;Hans van Antwerpen

  • Blind signature systems

    David Prof. Dr. Chaum

  • A practical voter-verifiable election scheme

    David Chaum;Peter Y. A. Ryan;Steve Schneider

  • Secret-ballot receipts: True voter-verifiable elections

    D. Chaum

  • Multiparty Unconditionally Secure Protocols (Extended Abstract)

    David Chaum;Claude Crépeau;Ivan Damgård

  • Achieving Electronic Privacy

    David Chaum

  • Zero-knowledge undeniable signatures

    David Chaum

  • An improved protocol for demonstrating possession of discrete logarithms and some generalizations

    David Chaum;Jan-Hendrik Evertse;Jeroen Van De Graaf

  • Multiparty Computations Ensuring Privacy of Each Party's Input and Correctness of the Result

    David Chaum;Ivan Damgård;Jeroen van de Graaf

  • Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of Crypto 84

    George Robert Blakley;David Chaum

  • Distance-Bounding Protocols (Extended Abstract).

    Stefan Brands;David Chaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Y. A. Ryan
Peter Y. A. Ryan University of Luxembourg
Ivan Damgård
Ivan Damgård Aarhus University
Claude Crépeau
Claude Crépeau McGill University
Bart Preneel
Bart Preneel KU Leuven
Gilles Brassard
Gilles Brassard University of Montreal
Aniket Kate
Aniket Kate Purdue University West Lafayette
Jørgen Brandt
Jørgen Brandt Aarhus University

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