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Overview

Victor Shoup is affiliated with New York University in the United States and specializes in the field of Computer Science. Their research spans several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

Their work primarily focuses on topics such as Cryptography and Data Security, Advanced Authentication Protocols Security, Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption, Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs, User Authentication and Security Systems, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, and Cryptographic Implementations and Security.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Lightweight Asynchronous Verifiable Secret Sharing with Optimal Resilience (2024), Journal of Cryptology
  • The many faces of Schnorr: a toolkit for the modular design of threshold Schnorr signatures (2025), IACR Communications in Cryptology
  • Kudzu: Fast and Simple High-Throughput BFT (2025), arXiv (Cornell University)

Other papers connected to their work include Bootstrapping for HElib (2021), published in the Journal of Cryptology, and A New Broadcast Primitive for BFT Protocols (2024), available on arXiv (Cornell University).

Victor Shoup's frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Cryptology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IACR Communications in Cryptology

They have collaborated with several researchers repeatedly, including Jens Groth, Nigel P. Smart, Shai Halevi, Manu Drijvers, and Tim Gretler.

Best Publications

  • A Practical Public Key Cryptosystem Provably Secure Against Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Attack

    Ronald Cramer;Victor Shoup

  • Lower bounds for discrete logarithms and related problems

    Victor Shoup

  • Practical threshold signatures

    Victor Shoup

  • Design and Analysis of Practical Public-Key Encryption Schemes Secure against Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Attack

    Ronald Cramer;Victor Shoup

  • Advances in Cryptology: CRYPTO 2005

    Victor Shoup

  • A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra

    Victor Shoup

  • Universal hash proofs and a paradigm for adaptive chosen ciphertext secure public-key encryption

    Ronald Cramer;Victor Shoup

  • Sequences of games: a tool for taming complexity in security proofs.

    Victor Shoup

  • Algorithms in HElib

    Shai Halevi;Victor Shoup;Victor Shoup

  • OAEP Reconsidered

    Victor Shoup

  • Practical Verifiable Encryption and Decryption of Discrete Logarithms

    Jan Camenisch;Victor Shoup

  • Signature schemes based on the strong RSA assumption

    Ronald Cramer;Victor Shoup

  • OAEP Reconsidered

    Victor Shoup

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

    Christian Cachin;Klaus Kursawe;Victor Shoup

  • On Formal Models for Secure Key Exchange.

    Victor Shoup

  • Asynchronous protocols for optimistic fair exchange

    N. Asokan;V. Shoup;M. Waidner

  • Optimistic fair exchange of digital signatures

    N. Asokan;V. Shoup;M. Waidner

  • Secure and Efficient Asynchronous Broadcast Protocols

    Christian Cachin;Klaus Kursawe;Frank Petzold;Victor Shoup

  • A Proposal for an ISO Standard for Public Key Encryption.

    Victor Shoup

  • Anonymous Identification in Ad Hoc Groups

    Yevgeniy Dodis;Aggelos Kiayias;Antonio Nicolosi;Victor Shoup

  • Securing Threshold Cryptosystems against Chosen Ciphertext Attack

    Victor Shoup;Rosario Gennaro

  • Universal Hash Proofs and and a Paradigm for Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Secure Public-Key Encryption

    Ronald Cramer;Victor Shoup

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Cachin
Christian Cachin University of Bern
Shai Halevi
Shai Halevi Amazon (United States)
Michael Waidner
Michael Waidner Technical University of Darmstadt
Eike Kiltz
Eike Kiltz Ruhr University Bochum
Rosario Gennaro
Rosario Gennaro City College of New York
Yevgeniy Dodis
Yevgeniy Dodis New York University
Rafail Ostrovsky
Rafail Ostrovsky University of California, Los Angeles
Sandeep K. Singhal
Sandeep K. Singhal Microsoft (United States)
Michael Steiner
Michael Steiner Intel (United States)

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