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Krzysztof Pietrzak is a researcher affiliated with the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Austria. Their work primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on specific subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Hardware and Architecture, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist has contributed to various main research topics including Cryptography and Data Security, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Advanced Authentication Protocols Security, Security in Wireless Sensor Networks, Cryptographic Implementations and Security, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, as well as Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs.

Krzysztof Pietrzak's recent publications demonstrate active engagement in both theoretical and applied aspects of computer security and cryptography. Selected recent papers include:

  • Grafting Key Trees: Efficient Key Management for Overlapping Groups (2021) published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  • LightPIR: Privacy-Preserving Route Discovery for Payment Channel Networks (2021) in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Wiser: Increasing Throughput in Payment Channel Networks with Transaction Aggregation (2022) in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Trojan-Resilience Without Cryptography (2021) in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  • HIDE & SEEK: Privacy-Preserving Rebalancing on Payment Channel Networks (2021) in arXiv (Cornell University)

The researcher has published in a variety of venues, with the most frequent being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 5 publications
  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science with 2 publications
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies with 1 publication

Krzysztof Pietrzak has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Michelle Yeo
  • Benedikt Auerbach
  • Karen Klein
  • Chethan Kamath
  • Zeta Avarikioti

In addition to journal and conference papers, Krzysztof Pietrzak has contributed to book publications. Notably, they authored a book published by Springer Science+Business Media titled Theory of Cryptography in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Leakage-Resilient Cryptography

    S. Dziembowski;K. Pietrzak

  • A New Randomness Extraction Paradigm for Hybrid Encryption

    Eike Kiltz;Krzysztof Pietrzak;Martijn Stam;Moti Yung

  • Proofs of Space

    Stefan Dziembowski;Sebastian Faust;Vladimir Kolmogorov;Krzysztof Z Pietrzak

  • A Leakage-Resilient Mode of Operation

    Krzysztof Pietrzak

  • Non-Malleable Codes

    Stefan Dziembowski;Krzysztof Pietrzak;Daniel Wichs

  • Learning with Rounding, Revisited

    Joël Alwen;Stephan Krenn;Krzysztof Pietrzak;Daniel Wichs

  • On the parameterized complexity of the fixed alphabet shortest common supersequence and longest common subsequence problems

    Krzysztof Pietrzak

  • Leftover Hash Lemma, Revisited.

    Boaz Barak;Yevgeniy Dodis;Hugo Krawczyk;Olivier Pereira

  • Leakage-resilient signatures

    Sebastian Faust;Eike Kiltz;Krzysztof Pietrzak;Guy N. Rothblum

  • Simple verifiable delay functions

    Krzysztof Z Pietrzak

  • SpaceMint: A Cryptocurrency Based on Proofs of Space

    Sunoo Park;Albert Kwon;Georg Fuchsbauer;Peter Gaži

  • Improved security analyses for CBC MACs

    Mihir Bellare;Krzysztof Pietrzak;Phillip Rogaway

  • Leakage Resilient ElGamal Encryption

    Eike Kiltz;Krzysztof Pietrzak

  • Intrusion-Resilient Secret Sharing.

    Stefan Dziembowski;Krzysztof Pietrzak

  • Message authentication, revisited

    Yevgeniy Dodis;Eike Kiltz;Krzysztof Pietrzak;Daniel Wichs

  • Cryptography from learning parity with noise

    Krzysztof Pietrzak

  • The security of many-round Luby-Rackoff pseudo-random permutations

    Ueli Maurer;Krzysztof Pietrzak

  • Commitments and Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs from Learning Parity with Noise

    Abhishek Jain;Stephan Krenn;Krzysztof Pietrzak;Aris Tentes

  • Efficient Authentication from Hard Learning Problems

    Eike Kiltz;Krzysztof Pietrzak;Daniele Venturi;David Cash

  • On the generic insecurity of the full domain hash

    Yevgeniy Dodis;Roberto Oliveira;Krzysztof Pietrzak

Frequent Co-Authors

Eike Kiltz
Eike Kiltz Ruhr University Bochum
Daniel Wichs
Daniel Wichs Northeastern University
Sebastian Faust
Sebastian Faust Technical University of Darmstadt
Yevgeniy Dodis
Yevgeniy Dodis New York University
Stefan Dziembowski
Stefan Dziembowski University of Warsaw
Abhishek Jain
Abhishek Jain Johns Hopkins University
Ueli Maurer
Ueli Maurer ETH Zurich
Leonid Reyzin
Leonid Reyzin Boston University
Guy N. Rothblum
Guy N. Rothblum Weizmann Institute of Science
Alon Rosen
Alon Rosen Bocconi University

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