News (Past)

• 2023

• October

  1. The result of joint research with two students of C&A Lab, Sunpill Kim and Bora Jeong, and researchers of A*STAR has been accepted for presentation at the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2024).
     Title: "Scores Tell Everything about Bob: Non-adaptive Face Reconstruction on Face Recognition Systems"

  2. The following papers won the excellence, encourangement, & special prizes respectively at "National Cryptographic Technology Contest, 2023".

     1. 1. 1. 1. Sunpill Kim, Seunghun Paik, Chanwoo Hwang, Dongsu Kim, Junbum Shin, and Jae Hong Seo
                 IDFace: Efficient and Secure Identification for Face Images

              2. Sunpill Kim, Yong Kiam Tan, Bora Jeong, Soumik Mondal, Khin Mi Mi Aung, and Jae Hong Seo
                 Scores Tell Everything about Bob: Non-adaptive Face Reconstruction on Face Recognition Systems

              3. Hyeonbum Lee, Kyuhwan Lee, Jae Hong Seo, Wenyi Tang, Shankha Shubhra Mukherjee, and Taeho Jung
                 PrivHChain: Monitoring the Supply Chain of Controlled Substances with Privacy-Preserving Hierarchical Blockchain

• August

  1. One paper co-authored with my passionate students, Seunghun Paik and Sunpill Kim, was accepted at the 34th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2023)  (Oral)
     Title: "Security Analysis on Locality-Sensitive Hashing-Based Biometric Template Protection Schemes"

• July

  1. I join the program committee of ICISC 2023.

  2. The result of joint research with Professor Sungwook Kim and two students of C&A Lab, Hyeonbum Lee and Gwangwoon Lee, has been accepted for publication in IEEE TIFS.
     Title: "Leopard: Sublinear Verifier Inner Product Argument under Discrete Logarithm Assumption "

• May

  1. One paper co-authored with my passionate student, Hyeonbum Lee, was accepted at IWSEC 2022.
     It improves our paper on "DLP-based ZKP with sublogarithmic proof or sublinear verifier paper" presented at ASIACRYPT 2022.
     Title: "TENET : Sublogarithmic Proof, Sublinear Verifier Inner Product Argument without a Trusted Setup", 

• April

  1. The result of joint research with Professor Hyung Tae Lee has been accepted for publication in Designs, Codes and Cryptography.
     Title: "On the Security of Functional Encryption in the Generic Group Model", 

  2. I join the program committee of ASIACRYPT 2023.

• March

  1. I join the program committee of PQCrypto 2023.

2022

• November

  • 1. The following paper is  accepted  for publication in  IEEE Access.
       Bora Jeong, Sunpill Kim, Seunghun Paik and Jae Hong Seo*
       Analysis on Secure Triplet Loss

• October

1. I will serve as a program committee member of PKC (Call for Papers).

• September

  • • The following papers won the grand & special prizes respectively at "National Cryptographic Technology Contest, 2022".

      1. Title: Non-Pairing Sublinear Verifiable Zero-Knowledge Arguments in Discrete Logarithm Setting
                       Hyeonbum Lee, Sungwook Kim, and Jae Hong Seo

      2. Title: Deep Face Template Protection in the Wild
                       Sunpill Kim, Hoyong Shin, and Jae Hong Seo

• August

1. The following paper has been accepted for presentation at the ASIACRYPT 2022.
   Sungwook Kim, Hyeonbum Lee, and Jae Hong Seo*; [alphabetical order]
   Efficient Zero-Knowledge Arguments in Discrete Logarithm Setting: Sublogarithmic Proof or Sublinear Verifier

• July

  • 1. My research team (Sunpil Kim, Bora Jeong, Chanwoo Hwang, Dongsu Kim, Seunghun Paik)  will be supported financially by CryptoLab.
       Research Topic: Search on Encrypted Face Templates

• June

1. The following paper has been accepted as a regular paper (acceptance rate=15.8%) for presentation at the IEEE Blockchain 2022.
   Chanyang Ju, Wenyi Tang, Changhao Chenli, Gwangwoon Lee, Jae Hong Seo, and Taeho Jung,
   Monitoring Provenance of Delegated Personal Data With Blockchain 

• Apr.

  • 1. The following paper is  accepted  for publication in  IEEE Access.
       Heewon Chung, Kyoohyung Han, Chanyang Ju, Myungsun Kim, and Jae Hong Seo*; [alphabetical order]
       Bulletproofs+: Shorter Proofs for a Privacy-Enhanced Distributed Ledger.

2. I will serve as a program committee member of PQCrypto (Call for Papers) and ICISC (http://icisc.org/).

• Feb.

1. My research team (Sunpil Kim, Hyeonbum Lee, Chanwoo Hwang, Dongsu Kim, Bora Jeong, Seunghun Paik)  will be supported financially by KIISC.
   Research Topic: Deep Learning-based Face Recognition Protection

2021

• Dec.

  • 1. The following paper is accepted for publication in IEEE ACCESS.
       Chanyang Ju , Hyeonbum Lee , Heewon Chung , Jae Hong Seo, and Sungwook Kim, Efficient Sum-Check Protocol for Convolution

• Sep.

1. I  join in a collaborative research with Prof. Yongsoo Song (SNU) and Prof. Miran Kim (UNIST), which will be  funded by Samsung Science & Technology Foundation for 3 years
   Project Title: Secure Multi-Party Approximate Computation

• May

1. Collaborative research with Prof. Taeho Jung, CSE, University of Notre Dame will be funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea for 1 year.
   Project Title: Blockchain and Zero Knowledge Proof for Searchable and Privacy-preserving Provenance Logging 

• Apr.

1. My collaborators and I will be funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea for 6 years.
   Project Title: Study on Crypto Primitives for SNARK

• Mar.

1. The following paper is accepted for publication in CVPR 2021.
   Sunpill Kim,  Yunseong Jeong, Jinsu Kim, Jungkon Kim, Hyung Tae Lee, and Jae Hong Seo, IronMask: Modular Architecture for Protecting Deep Face Template

2. I will serve as a program committee member of ICISC 2021.

• Feb.

1. The following paper is accepted for publication in Theoretical Computer Science
   Keita Emura, Jae Hong Seo, and Yohei Watanabe, Efficient Revocable Identity-based Encryption with Short Public Parameters

• Jan.

1. In this year, I will serve as a program committee member of several international conferences ASIACRYPT, PQCrypto, IWSEC, and APKC.