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Overview

Moti Yung is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a particular focus on cryptography and data security. Their research encompasses diverse topics, ranging from cryptographic implementations to privacy-preserving technologies and algorithms applied to network security and user authentication systems.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Dynamic Volume-Hiding Encrypted Multi-Maps with Applications to Searchable Encryption, 2023, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • The Self-Anti-Censorship Nature of Encryption: On the Prevalence of Anamorphic Cryptography, 2023, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Seeking Foundations for the Science of Cyber Security, 2021, Information Systems Frontiers
  • Special issue on security and privacy of blockchain technologies, 2020, International Journal of Information Security
  • Eddystone-EID: Secure and Private Infrastructural Protocol for BLE Beacons, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Duong Hieu Phan
  • Giuseppe Persiano
  • Rongmao Chen
  • Xinyi Huang
  • Mirosław Kutyłowski

They have published multiple works in prominent venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer
  • Information Systems Frontiers
  • International Journal of Information Security

Moti Yung's book publications are notable and published primarily through Springer Science+Business Media and the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. The titles include:

  • Information Security and Cryptology (2020, 2021, 2024)
  • Science of Cyber Security (2021)
  • Information and Communications Security (2023)
  • Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (2021)
  • Applied Cryptography and Network Security Second International Conference ACNS 2004 Yellow Mountain China June 8-11 2004 Proceedings (2021)

Their main fields of study encompass computer science broadly, with subfields in:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Systems
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Their primary research topics cover:

  • Cryptography and Data Security
  • Cryptographic Implementations and Security
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • User Authentication and Security Systems

Best Publications

  • Polynomial reconstruction based cryptography

    Aggelos Kiayias;Moti Yung

  • Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2004

    Aggelos Kiayias;Yiannis Tsiounis;Moti Yung

  • Perfectly-Secure Key Distribution for Dynamic Conferences

    Carlo Blundo;Alfredo De Santis;Amir Herzberg;Shay Kutten

  • Public-key cryptosystems provably secure against chosen ciphertext attacks

    M. Naor;M. Yung

  • Universal one-way hash functions and their cryptographic applications

    M. Naor;M. Yung

  • Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2002

    Moti Yung

  • A Unified Framework for the Analysis of Side-Channel Key Recovery Attacks

    François-Xavier Standaert;Tal G. Malkin;Moti Yung

  • Proactive Secret Sharing Or: How to Cope With Perpetual Leakage

    Amir Herzberg;Stanislaw Jarecki;Stanislaw Jarecki;Hugo Krawczyk;Moti Yung

  • How to withstand mobile virus attacks (extended abstract)

    Rafail Ostrovsky;Moti Yung

  • Efficient Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Using Human-Memorable Passwords

    Jonathan Katz;Rafail Ostrovsky;Moti Yung

  • Key-Insulated Public-Key Cryptosystems.

    Yevgeniy Dodis;Jonathan Katz;Shouhuai Xu;Moti Yung

  • Perfectly secure message transmission

    Danny Dolev;Cynthia Dwork;Orli Waarts;Moti Yung

  • Multi-authority secret-ballot elections with linear work

    Ronald Cramer;Matthew Franklin;Berry Schoenmakers;Moti Yung

  • On the Security of ElGamal Based Encryption

    Yiannis Tsiounis;Moti Yung

  • Scalable Protocols for Authenticated Group Key Exchange

    Jonathan Katz;Moti Yung

  • How to share a function securely

    Alfredo De Santis;Yvo Desmedt;Yair Frankel;Moti Yung

  • Non-interactive cryptocomputing for NC/sup 1/

    T. Sander;A. Young;Moti Yung

  • Proactive public key and signature systems

    Amir Herzberg;Markus Jakobsson;Stanislław Jarecki;Hugo Krawczyk

  • A New Randomness Extraction Paradigm for Hybrid Encryption

    Eike Kiltz;Krzysztof Pietrzak;Martijn Stam;Moti Yung

  • Fourth-factor authentication: somebody you know

    John Brainard;Ari Juels;Ronald L. Rivest;Michael Szydlo

  • Scalable Protocols for Authenticated Group Key Exchange

    Jonathan Katz;Moti Yung

Frequent Co-Authors

Benoît Libert
Benoît Libert École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Aggelos Kiayias
Aggelos Kiayias University of Edinburgh
Rafail Ostrovsky
Rafail Ostrovsky University of California, Los Angeles
Shouhuai Xu
Shouhuai Xu University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Jonathan Katz
Jonathan Katz University of Maryland, College Park
Zvi Galil
Zvi Galil Georgia Institute of Technology
Angelos D. Keromytis
Angelos D. Keromytis Georgia Institute of Technology
Tal Malkin
Tal Malkin Columbia University
Jean-Jacques Quisquater
Jean-Jacques Quisquater Université Catholique de Louvain

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