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Dennis Hofheinz

Dennis Hofheinz

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
41
Citations
7313
World Ranking
8836
National Ranking
161

Dennis Hofheinz publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dennis Hofheinz sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 121 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Dennis Hofheinz D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dennis Hofheinz sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Dennis Hofheinz is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science. Their research primarily focuses on cryptography and data security, with additional work spanning complexity and algorithms in graphs, coding theory and cryptography, cryptographic implementations and security, privacy-preserving technologies in data, advanced authentication protocols security, and chaos-based image/signal encryption.

Their publication record includes work featured in several venues, with notable frequent contributions to the Journal of Cryptology, as well as appearances in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Communications Chemistry, and the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Dennis Hofheinz include:

  • Identity-Based Encryption with (Almost) Tight Security in the Multi-instance, Multi-ciphertext Setting, 2024, Journal of Cryptology
  • On the Impossibility of Short Algebraic Signatures, 2024, IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive
  • Compact Structure-Preserving Signatures with Almost Tight Security, 2023, Journal of Cryptology
  • Reading mixtures of uniform sequence-defined macromolecules to increase data storage capacity, 2020, Communications Chemistry
  • Multilinear Maps from Obfuscation, 2020, Journal of Cryptology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Julia Kästner
  • Roman Langrehr
  • Suvradip Chakraborty
  • Karen Klein
  • Eike Kiltz

The main fields of study that Dennis Hofheinz has contributed to are concentrated in computer science, with prolific output related to artificial intelligence and computational theory and mathematics, as well as computer networks and communications and computer vision and pattern recognition. Their work also extends to molecular biology.

Topics consistently addressed in their research reflect a strong emphasis on cryptography and data security, along with related areas such as complexity and algorithms, coding theory, cryptographic implementations, privacy-preserving technologies, authentication protocols, and encryption techniques.

Best Publications

  • Bonsai trees, or how to delegate a lattice basis

    David Cash;Dennis Hofheinz;Eike Kiltz;Chris Peikert

  • A Modular Analysis of the Fujisaki-Okamoto Transformation

    Dennis Hofheinz;Kathrin Hövelmanns;Eike Kiltz

  • Tightly secure signatures and public-key encryption

    Dennis Hofheinz;Tibor Jager

  • Secure Hybrid Encryption from Weakened Key Encapsulation.

    Dennis Hofheinz;Eike Kiltz

  • Possibility and Impossibility Results for Encryption and Commitment Secure under Selective Opening

    Mihir Bellare;Dennis Hofheinz;Scott Yilek

  • Bonsai Trees, or How to Delegate a Lattice Basis

    David Cash;Dennis Hofheinz;Eike Kiltz;Chris Peikert

  • Obfuscation for Cryptographic Purposes

    Dennis Hofheinz;John Malone-Lee;Martijn Stam

  • Multicomponent reactions provide key molecules for secret communication.

    Andreas C. Boukis;Kevin Reiter;Maximiliane Frölich;Dennis Hofheinz

  • Bounded key-dependent message security

    Boaz Barak;Iftach Haitner;Dennis Hofheinz;Yuval Ishai

  • Practical Chosen Ciphertext Secure Encryption from Factoring

    Dennis Hofheinz;Eike Kiltz

  • Programmable Hash Functions and Their Applications

    Dennis Hofheinz;Eike Kiltz

  • Non-Interactive Key Exchange

    Eduarda S. V. Freire;Dennis Hofheinz;Eike Kiltz;Kenneth G. Paterson

  • A Practical Attack on Some Braid Group Based Cryptographic Primitives

    Dennis Hofheinz;Rainer Steinwandt

  • The Group of Signed Quadratic Residues and Applications

    Dennis Hofheinz;Eike Kiltz

  • Tightly CCA-Secure Encryption Without Pairings

    Dennis Hofheinz;Eike Kiltz;Hoeteck Wee

  • Bounded CCA2-secure encryption

    Ronald Cramer;Goichiro Hanaoka;Dennis Hofheinz;Hideki Imai

  • Tightly-Secure Authenticated Key Exchange

    Christoph Bader;Dennis Hofheinz;Tibor Jager;Eike Kiltz

  • Encryption schemes secure against chosen-ciphertext selective opening attacks

    Serge Fehr;Dennis Hofheinz;Eike Kiltz;Hoeteck Wee

  • Universally Composable Commitments Using Random Oracles

    Dennis Hofheinz;Jörn Müller-Quade

  • All-But-Many lossy trapdoor functions

    Dennis Hofheinz

  • Practical Chosen Ciphertext Secure Encryption from Factoring

    Dennis Hofheinz;Eike Kiltz;Victor Shoup

  • Programmable Hash Functions and Their Applications

    Dennis Hofheinz;Eike Kiltz

Frequent Co-Authors

Eike Kiltz
Eike Kiltz Ruhr University Bochum
Dominique Unruh
Dominique Unruh University of Tartu
Michael Backes
Michael Backes University of Oxford
Ralf Küsters
Ralf Küsters University of Stuttgart
Hoeteck Wee
Hoeteck Wee École Normale Supérieure
Ronald Cramer
Ronald Cramer Leiden University
Mihir Bellare
Mihir Bellare University of California, San Diego
Chris Peikert
Chris Peikert University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brent Waters
Brent Waters The University of Texas at Austin

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