publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2026

  1. LeOPaRd: Towards Practical Post-Quantum Oblivious PRFs via 2HashDH Paradigm
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Ron Steinfeld, Erkan Tairi, and Jie Xu
    In CRYPTO, 2026
  2. Lether: Practical Post-Quantum Account-Based Private Blockchain Payments
    Hongxiao Wang, Muhammed F. Esgin, Ron Steinfeld, and Siu-Ming Yiu
    In ACM CCS, 2026
  3. mmCipher: Batching Post-Quantum Public Key Encryption Made Bandwidth-Optimal
    Hongxiao Wang, Ron Steinfeld, Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen, Muhammed F. Esgin, and Siu-Ming Yiu
    In USENIX Security, 2026
  4. MAGNET: MAsked Gaussian Now Efficient and Table-less
    Mert Yassi, Soundes Marzougui, Raymond K. Zhao, Muhammed F. Esgin, Amin Sakzad, and Ron Steinfeld
    IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. (TCHES), 2026
  5. A Practical Neighborhood Search Attack on Oracle MLWE
    Hongxiao Wang, Muhammed F. Esgin, Ron Steinfeld, Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen, and Siu-Ming Yiu
    IACR Commun. Cryptol., 2026
  6. PQCIP: A Post-Quantum Cryptography Educational Program for Cybersecurity Professionals
    Ron Steinfeld, Muhammed F. Esgin, Nikai Jagganath, Amin Sakzad, Carsten Rudolph, and James Boorman
    In The Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS), 2026

2025

  1. BulletCT: Towards More Scalable Ring Confidential Transactions With Transparent Setup
    Nan Wang, Qianhui Wang, Dongxi Liu, Muhammed F. Esgin, and Alsharif Abuadbba
    In USENIX Security, 2025

2024

  1. LUNA: Quasi-Optimally Succinct Designated-Verifier Zero-Knowledge Arguments from Lattices
    Ron Steinfeld, Amin Sakzad, Muhammed F. Esgin, Veronika Kuchta, Mert Yassi, and Raymond K. Zhao
    In ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024
  2. Loquat: A SNARK-Friendly Post-Quantum Signature based on the Legendre PRF with Applications in Ring and Aggregate Signatures
    Xinyu Zhang, Ron Steinfeld, Muhammed F. Esgin, Joseph K. Liu, Dongxi Liu, and Sushmita Ruj
    In CRYPTO, 2024
  3. DualRing-PRF: Post-Quantum (Linkable) Ring Signatures from Legendre and Power Residue PRFs
    Xinyu Zhang, Ron Steinfeld, Joseph K. Liu, Muhammed F. Esgin, Dongxi Liu, and Sushmita Ruj
    In Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP), 2024
  4. Plover: Masking-Friendly Hash-and-Sign Lattice Signatures
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Thomas Espitau, Guilhem Niot, Thomas Prest, Amin Sakzad, and Ron Steinfeld
    In EUROCRYPT, 2024

2023

  1. BlindHub: Bitcoin-Compatible Privacy-Preserving Payment Channel Hubs Supporting Variable Amounts
    Xianrui Qin, Shimin Pan, Arash Mirzaei, Zhimei Sui, Oğuzhan Ersoy, Amin Sakzad, Muhammed F. Esgin, Joseph K. Liu, Jiangshan Yu, and Tsz Hon Yuen
    In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2023
  2. Efficient Hybrid Exact/Relaxed Lattice Proofs and Applications to Rounding and VRFs
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Ron Steinfeld, Dongxi Liu, and Sushmita Ruj
    In CRYPTO, 2023
  3. A New Look at Blockchain Leader Election: Simple, Efficient, Sustainable and Post-Quantum
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Oguzhan Ersoy, Veronika Kuchta, Julian Loss, Amin Sakzad, Ron Steinfeld, Wayne Yang, and Raymond K. Zhao
    In ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM AsiaCCS), 2023

2022

  1. A Survey on Exotic Signatures for Post-Quantum Blockchain: Challenges & Research Directions
    Maxime Buser, Rafael Dowsley, Muhammed F. Esgin, Clémentine Gritti, Shabnam Kasra Kermanshahi, Veronika Kuchta, Jason T. LeGrow, Joseph K. Liu, Raphael C.-W. Phan, Amin Sakzad, Ron Steinfeld, and Jiangshan Yu
    ACM Computing Surveys, 2022
  2. An Injectivity Analysis of Crystals-Kyber and Implications on Quantum Security
    Xiaohui Ding, Muhammed F. Esgin, Amin Sakzad, and Ron Steinfeld
    In Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP), 2022
  3. MatRiCT\(^+\): More Efficient Post-Quantum Private Blockchain Payments
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Ron Steinfeld, and Raymond K. Zhao
    In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2022
  4. Efficient Verifiable Partially-Decryptable Commitments from Lattices and Applications
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Ron Steinfeld, and Raymond K. Zhao
    In Public Key Cryptography (PKC) (1), 2022
  5. Post-Quantum Verifiable Random Function from Symmetric Primitives in PoS Blockchain
    Maxime Buser, Rafael Dowsley, Muhammed F. Esgin, Shabnam Kasra Kermanshahi, Veronika Kuchta, Joseph K. Liu, Raphael Phan, and Zhenfei Zhang
    In ESORICS, 2022

2021

  1. Practical Post-quantum Few-Time Verifiable Random Function with Applications to Algorand
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Veronika Kuchta, Amin Sakzad, Ron Steinfeld, Zhenfei Zhang, Shifeng Sun, and Shumo Chu
    In Financial Cryptography (FC) (2), 2021
  2. DualRing: Generic Construction of Ring Signatures with Efficient Instantiations
    Tsz Hon Yuen, Muhammed F. Esgin, Joseph K. Liu, Man Ho Au, and Zhimin Ding
    In CRYPTO (1), 2021

2020

  1. RingCT 3.0 for Blockchain Confidential Transaction: Shorter Size and Stronger Security
    Tsz Hon Yuen, Shi-Feng Sun, Joseph K. Liu, Man Ho Au, Muhammed F. Esgin, Qingzhao Zhang, and Dawu Gu
    In Financial Cryptography (FC), 2020
  2. Post-Quantum Adaptor Signatures and Payment Channel Networks
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Oğuzhan Ersoy, and Zekeriya Erkin
    In ESORICS (2), 2020
  3. Practical Exact Proofs from Lattices: New Techniques to Exploit Fully-Splitting Rings
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen, and Gregor Seiler
    In ASIACRYPT (2), 2020

2019

  1. Lattice-Based Zero-Knowledge Proofs: New Techniques for Shorter and Faster Constructions and Applications
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Ron Steinfeld, Joseph K. Liu, and Dongxi Liu
    In CRYPTO (1), 2019
  2. MatRiCT: Efficient, Scalable and Post-Quantum Blockchain Confidential Transactions Protocol
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Raymond K. Zhao, Ron Steinfeld, Joseph K. Liu, and Dongxi Liu
    In ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2019
  3. Short Lattice-Based One-out-of-Many Proofs and Applications to Ring Signatures
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Ron Steinfeld, Amin Sakzad, Joseph K. Liu, and Dongxi Liu
    In Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2019
  4. On Analysis of Lightweight Stream Ciphers with Keyed Update
    Orhun Kara, and Muhammed F. Esgin
    IEEE Trans. Computers, 2019

2015

  1. Practical Cryptanalysis of Full Sprout with TMD Tradeoff Attacks
    Muhammed F. Esgin, and Orhun Kara
    In Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC), 2015
  2. A New Partial Key Exposure Attack on Multi-power RSA
    Muhammed F. Esgin, Mehmet Sabir Kiraz, and Osmanbey Uzunkol
    In Conference on Algebraic Informatics (CAI), 2015