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I guess it's time to make it official. I am really excited about moving to Bochum and joining Ruhr-Universität Bochum and CASA - Cluster of Excellence for Cyber Security.

#ePrint Weak Fiat-Shamir Attacks on Modern Proof Systems: Q Dao, J Miller, O Wright, P Grubbs ia.cr/2023/691

1) Happy to announce our paper, joint with Paul Grubbs (is a licensed ham radio operator!!!!) Jim Miller and Opal Wright, to be presented at Oakland'23! In this paper, we give attacks against insecure instantiations of Fiat-Shamir, which could break soundness of several deployed blockchain protocols.

Yeeeehaw!

New paper! "Security Analysis of MongoDB Queryable Encryption" with Zichen Gui and Tianxin Tang (Tianxin) from the Applied Crypto Group at ETH CS Department (1/16)

Congratulations to Paul Grubbs (is a licensed ham radio operator!!!!) and coauthors for winning the Distinguished Paper Award at the recent IEEE S&P conference! Their paper explores security risks in modern zero-knowledge proof systems commonly used in cryptocurrencies. cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/paul-g…

#WAC6 talks: Quang Dao Quang Dao presents weak Fiat-Shamir attacks on modern proof systems. One of the attacks would've allowed printing unlimited money! This is another DPA from Oakland'23 with Jim Miller Opal Wright Paul Grubbs (is a licensed ham radio operator!!!!). More infos: cryptanalysis.fun

Today's my last official day at CMU, making this announcement long overdue: I'm headed to Indiana University IU Luddy this fall as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science! I'm truly thrilled to return to Bloomington as a member of the PL group that introduced me to the area.

We have two schools colocated with Latincrypt: 1. ASCRYPTO with amazing set of speakers such as Arantxa Zapico 🧉 @KBoudgoust Chloe Martindale alexー daniel Christopher Patton Britta Hale, Daniel Escudero, Paul Grubbs (is a licensed ham radio operator!!!!), Leah Rosenbloom. Check the program: ascrypto.org/2023/

Thrilled to share that I will be giving a talk at RWC 2024 on the security and privacy of a new suite of telephone protocols: 'STIR/SHAKEN: A Looming Privacy Disaster'. Deeply grateful to Paul Grubbs (is a licensed ham radio operator!!!!) for his invaluable and ongoing mentorship throughout the research process.

Proud of U Michigan undergraduate and former Cloudflare Research intern Josh Brown on his first RWC talk!

Shout out to Josh Brown and Paul Grubbs (is a licensed ham radio operator!!!!) for their interview on one of my favorite podcasts, @scwpod, where they discuss STIR/SHAKEN securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/04/30/sti…. Also, if you find this interesting and work in telecom, be sure to check out Martini Security—we take this space seriously.

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🏆 Professor Roya Ensafi has received with the University of Michigan Henry Russel Award, the University's highest honor for early- to mid-career faculty, recognizing her outstanding research and teaching contributions. More on this award and her work: cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/roya-e…

We’re happy to announce that Jonathan Ullman will be joining our faculty as an associate professor. ✨Welcome to CSE! Jonathan Ullman More about Jon: jonathan-ullman.github.io

At University of Michigan CSE we have a new program for PhD applicants to apply for an application fee waiver. If you are interested in applying but paying the fee poses a challenge, see here for more info: cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/grad…

“ Efficient Proofs of Possession for Legacy Signatures” eprint.iacr.org/2025/538