Publications

• PriFHEte: Achieving Full-Privacy in Account-based Cryptocurrencies is Possible.    Varun Madathil , Alessandra Scafuro. Asiacrypt 2025

• How to Recover a Cryptographic Secret From the Cloud.  David Adei, Chris Orsini, Alessandra Scafuro, Tanner Verber. ACM CCS 2025 

• Jager: Automated Telephone Call Traceback.  David Adei, Varun Madathil, Sathvik Prasad, Bradley Reaves, Alessandra Scafuro.    ACM CCS 2024 

• Round-Optimal Compiler for Semi-Honest to Malicious Oblivious Transfer via CIH.  Varun Madathil, Alessandra Scafuro, Tanner Verber.   Communications in Cryptology,  2024 Volume 1, Issue 4. 

• A New Paradigm for Server-Aided MPC.  Alessandra Scafuro, Tanner Verber.   Communications in Cryptology 2024 Volume 1, Issue 4.

•  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