Two papers have been accepted at the IEEE Conference on Federated Learning Technologies and Applications (FLTA) 2025 (Aug 2025).
His new project that aims to deal with online "financial fraud" will be funded by KFAS (July 2025).
"Scalable Time-Lock Puzzle"
"Functional Oblivious Transfer with Applications in Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning"
"ICT: Insured Cryptocurrency Transactions"
Aydin Abadi, Amirreza Sarencheh, Henry Skeoch, Thomas Zacharias
"Scalable Post-Quantum Oblivious Transfers for Resource-Constrained Receivers"
Aydin Abadi and Yvo Desmedt
"Privacy-Preserving Data Deduplication for Enhancing Federated Learning of Language Models"
Aydin Abadi, Vishnu Asutosh Dasu, and Sumanta Sarkar
"Byzantine Discrepancy Attacks Against Calendar, Set-Intersection, and Nations"
Yvo Desmedt, Alireza Kavousi, Aydin Abadi
"Verifiable Homomorphic Linear Combinations in Multi-Instance Time-Lock Puzzles"
Aydin Abadi
"Timed Secret Sharing"
Alireza Kavousi, Aydin Abadi, and Philipp Jovanovic
"Tempora-Fusion: Time-Lock Puzzle with Efficient Verifiable Homomorphic Linear Combination"
Aydin Abadi
It is available through this link.
"Supersonic OT: Fast Unconditionally Secure Oblivious Transfer"
Aydin Abadi and Yvo Desmedt
It is available through this link.
"Delegated-Query Oblivious Transfer and its Practical Applications"
Yvo Desmedt and Aydin Abadi
It is available through this link.
"Starlit: Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning to Enhance Financial Fraud Detection"
Aydin Abadi, Mohammad Naseri, George Theodorakopoulos, Sasi Kumar Murakonda, Suzanne Weller, et al.
It is available via this link.
It has been organised by the British Embassy in Kuwait
"Decentralised Repeated Modular Squaring Service Revisited: Attack and Mitigation''
Aydin Abadi
It is available here
"Delegated Time-Lock Puzzle''
Aydin Abadi, et al.
It is available here
University of Oxford, on the topic of "Time-Release Encryption/Puzzle" (in June 2023)
Royal Holloway University, on the topic of "Private Set Intersection with Reward Mechanisms", in London Crypto Day (in June 2023)
"Safeguarding Physical Sneaker Sale Through a Decentralized Medium''
Marwan Zeggari, Aydin Abadi, Renaud Lambiotte, and Mohamad Kassab
It is available here
"Payment with Dispute Resolution: a Protocol for Reimbursing Frauds Victims''
"Recurring Contingent Service Payment''
His team from UCL Computer Science, led by him, Privitar, and Cardiff University, has been awarded the joint FIRST PRIZE of the UK-US Privacy Enhancing Technology (PETs) Prize Challenge (March 2023).
"STARLIT" aims to advance the use of PETs in financial fraud prevention.
The UCL press release can be fine here.
"Protecting (Young) Victims of Cryptocurrency Fraud"
