I am an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at NCSU, and a member of the Wolfpack Security and Privacy Research Lab. My research interests are in Cryptography. I received my PhD from University of Salerno supervised by Ivan Visconti. Subsequently, I had two PostDoc appointments at UCLA and BU/NEU supervised by Rafail Ostrovsky, Ran Canetti, Daniel Wichs .
Support. My research is supported by NSF, Horizen, Protocol Labs and Cisco & Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Recent Program Committees
EUROCRYPT 2024, S&P 2024
CRYPTO 2023, EUROCRYPT 2022, CRYPTO 2022, SCN 2022
CCS 2021, AFT 2021, CFail 2021, IEEE DAAPS
EUROCRYPT 2020, CRYPTO 2020, AFT 2020, AFRICACRYPT 2020, SBC 2020
Pre-prints
PriFHEte: Achieving Full-Privacy in Account-based Cryptocurrencies is Possible. Varun Madathil , Alessandra Scafuro. Eprint 2023/710
How to Recover a Cryptographic Secret From the Cloud. Chris Orsini, Alessandra Scafuro and Tanner Verber. Eprint 2023/1308
Publications
Black-box Anonymous Commit-and-Prove. Alessandra Scafuro. Security and Cryptography for Networks SCN 2022
Private Signaling. Varun Madathil , Alessandra Scafuro, Istvan Andras Seres, Omer Shlomovits, Denis Varlakov. To appear USENIX Security Symposium 2022
From Privacy-Only to Simulatable OT: Black-Box, Round-Optimal, Information-theoretic. Varun Madathil and Chris Orsini and Alessandra Scafuro and Daniele Venturi. Information-Theoretic Cryptography ITC 2022
Mutual Accountability Layer: Accountable Anonymity within Accountable Trust. Vanesa Daza and Abida Haque and Alessandra Scafuro and Alexandros Zacharakis and Arantxa Zapico. Cyber Security, Cryptology, and Machine Learning, CSCML 2022
On the Anonymity Guarantees of AnonymousProof-of-Stake Protocols. Markulf Kohlweiss, Varun Madathil, Kartik Nayak and Alessandra Scafuro. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021
Anonymous Device Authorization for Cellular Networks. Abida Haque, Varun Madathil, Bradley Reaves, Alessandra Scafuro. WiSec 2021
One-time Traceable Ring Signatures. Alessandra Scafuro and Bihan Zhang. ESORICS 2021
Publicly Verifiable Zero Knowledge from (Collapsing) Blockchains. Alessandra Scafuro, Luisa Siniscalchi, Ivan Visconti. PKC 2021
Anonymous Lottery in the Proof-of-Stake Setting. Foteini Baldimtsi, Varun Madathil, Alessandra Scafuro, Linfeng Zhou. Computer Security Foundations Symposium, CSF 2020.
Threshold Ring Signatures: New Definitions and Post-quantum Security. Abida Haque, Alessandra Scafuro. Public Key Cryptography , PKC 2020
Break-glass Encryption. Alessandra Scafuro. PKC 2019
Publicly Verifiable Proofs from Blockchains. Alessandra Scafuro and Luisa Siniscalchi and Ivan Visconti. PKC 2019
Population stability: regulating size in the presence of an adversary. Shafi Goldwasser, Rafail Ostrovsky, Alessandra Scafuro, Adam Sealfon. PODC 2018
Adaptively Indistinguishable Garbled Circuits. Zahra Jafargholi, Alessandra Scafuro, Daniel Wichs. TCC 2017
Server-Aided Secure Computation with Off-line Parties. Foteini Baldimtsi, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Stavros Papadopoulos, Alessandra Scafuro, Nikos Triandopoulos. ESORICS 2017
Sublinear Zero-Knowledge Arguments for RAM Programs. Payman Mohassel, Mike Rosulek, Alessandra Scafuro EUROCRYPT 2017
Tumblebit: An untrusted tumbler for bitcoin-compatible anonymous payments. Ethan Heilman, Foteini Baldimtsi, Leen Alshenibr, Alessandra Scafuro, and Sharon Goldberg. NDSS 2017
When “Trusted” Parameters Aren’t: Subversion-Resistant Zero Knowledge. Mihir Bellare, Georg Fuchsbauer, Alessandra Scafuro ASIACRYPT 2016
Adaptively Secure Garbled Circuits from One-way functions. Brett Hemenway, Zahra Jafargholi, Rafail Ostrovsky Alessandra Scafuro, Daniel Wichs. CRYPTO 2016
Online/Offline OR Composition of Sigma Protocols Michele Ciampi, Giuseppe Persiano, Alessandra Scafuro, Luisa Siniscalchi, Ivan Visconti Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2016
Improved OR Composition of Sigma-Protocols. Michele Ciampi, Giuseppe Persiano, Alessandra Scafuro, Luisa Siniscalchi, Ivan Visconti. TCC 2016
Round-Optimal Black-Box Two-Party Computation. Rafail Ostrovsky, Silas Richelson, Alessandra Scafuro. Advances in Cryptology. CRYPTO 2015
Garbled RAM From One-Way Functions. Sanjam Garg, Steve Lu, Rafail Ostrovsky, Alessandra Scafuro. STOC 2015
Resettably Sound Zero-Knoweldge Arguments from OWFs - the (semi) Black-Box way. Rafail Ostrovsky, Alessandra Scafuro,Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam. TCC 2015
Practical UC security with a Global Random Oracle. Ran Canetti, Abhishek Jain, Alessandra Scafuro. CCS 2014
Black-box Non-black-box Zero Knowledge. Vipul Goyal, Rafail Ostrovsky, Alessandra Scafuro, Ivan Visconti. STOC 2014
Universally Composable Secure Computation with (Malicious) Physically Uncloneable Functions. Rafail Ostrovsky, Alessandra Scafuro, Ivan Visconti, Akshay Wadia. EUROCRYPT 2013
Unconditionally Secure and Universally Composable Commitments from Physical Assumptions. Ivan Damgård, Alessandra Scafuro. ASIACRYPT 2013
Revisiting Lower and Upper Bounds for Selective Decommitments. Rafail Ostrovsky, Vanishree Rao, Alessandra Scafuro, Ivan Visconti IACR Theory of Cryptography Conference - TCC 2013
On Round-Optimal Zero Knowledge in the Bare Public-Key Model Alessandra Scafuro, Ivan Visconti. EUROCRYPT 2012
Simultaneously Resettable Arguments of Knowledge. Chongwon Cho, Rafail Ostrovsky, Alessandra Scafuro, Ivan Visconti IACR Theory of Cryptography Conference - TCC 2012
Impossibility Results for RFID Privacy Notions. F. Armknecht, A. Sadeghi, A. Scafuro, I. Visconti, C. Wachsmann. Transactions on Computational Science 2010
Revisiting DoS Attacks and Privacy in RFID-Enabled Networks Paolo D’Arco, Alessandra Scafuro, Ivan Visconti. Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks - ALGOSENSOR 2009