Research

The paper „Assessing Anonymity Techniques Employed in German Court Decisions: A De-Anonymization Experiment“ has been accepted to 32nd USENIX Security Symposium. This is a joint work of Dominic Deuber, Michael Keuchen and Nicolas Christin. Democracy requires transparency. Consequently, courts of ...

The paper „Verifiable Timed Linkable Ring Signatures For Scalable Payments for Monero“ has been accepted to 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. This is a joint work of Sri Aravindakrishnan Thyagarajan, Giulio Malavolta, Fritz Schmidt and Dominique Schröder. Decentralized cry...

The paper „On Defeating Graph Analysis of Anonymous Transactions“ has been accepted to 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. This is a joint work of Christoph Egger, Russell W. F. Lai, Viktoria Ronge, Ivy K. Y. Woo, and Hoover H. F. Yin. In a ring-signature-based anonymous cryptocurrency...

The paper „ROAST: Robust Asynchronous Schnorr Threshold Signatures“ has been accepted to  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2022. This is a joint work of Tim Ruffing, Viktoria Ronge, Elliott Jin, Jonas Schneider-Bensch, and Dominique Schröder. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrenci...

The paper „SoK: Assumptions Underlying Cryptocurrency Deanonymizations“ has been accepted to 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. This is a joint work of Dominic Deuber, Viktoria Ronge and Christian Rückert. In recent years, cryptocurrencies have increasingly been used in cybercrime and...

The paper “Polynomial-Time Construction of Two-Channel Prefix-Free Codes with Given Codeword Lengths” has been accepted to the IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2021. This is a joint work of Hoover H. F. Yin, Ka Hei Ng, Yu Ting Shing, Russell W. F. Lai and Xishi Wang. Although n-channel prefix-fre...

The paper “A Security Framework for Distributed Ledgers” has been accepted to the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2021. This is a joint work of Mike Graf, Daniel Rausch, Viktoria Ronge, Christoph Egger, Ralf Küsters and Dominique Schröder. A pre-print is available at IACR ...

The following two papers have been accepted to ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2021: „OpenSquare: Decentralized Repeated Modular Squaring Service” Authors: Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Adithya Bhat, Tiantian Gong, Aniket Kate and Dominique Schröder Abstract: R...

The paper "CoinJoin in the Wild: An Empirical Analysis in Dash" has been accepted to the 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. This is a joint work of Dominic Deuber and Dominique Schröder. Below you will find the abstract of the paper. CoinJoin is the predominant means to ...

Dominique Schröder receives the renowned Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This fellowship will allow him to attend extensive research visits at University of Maryland in the next three years. Humboldt Foundation's mission statement reads as follows: To use...