We are a group of researchers at Yale working on applied cryptography.
Updates
Five papers by YACL members Hadas Zeilberger, Zeyu Liu, Zihan Yu, and Fatima Elsheimy were accepted to Crypto 2026
- Khatam: Proximity Gaps in Multilinear IOPs for All Linear Codes
- New Techniques for Fast and Shallow FHEW/TFHE Bootstrapping
- On the Fiat–Shamir Security of Succinct Arguments from Functional Commitments
- Optimal Best-of-Both-Worlds Consensus
- SIMD HSS and aHMAC from Interval Encoding with Application to One-Bit-Per-Gate Garbling
Six papers by YACL members were accepted to ACM CCS 2026 (including papers accepted with shepherding):
- Censorship Resistance vs Throughput in Multi-Proposer BFT Protocols
- Designated-Verifier Dynamic zk-SNARKs with Applications to Dynamic Proofs of Index
- Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts
- TACITA: Threshold Aggregation without Client Interaction
- Relect: Single Secret Leader Election via FHE with Reduced Computation and Communication and Transparent Setup
- UnifOMR: Oblivious Message Retrieval with Near-optimal Concrete Efficiency
Congratulations to YACL PhD student William Hu who has just been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
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Two papers by YACL members were accepted to Eurocrypt ‘26:
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One paper by YACL members was accepted to ACM SIGMETRICS ‘26:
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Congratulations to Arthur Lazzaretti on a successful PhD journey, culminating in an excellent defense, and on his new position at xAI!
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Check out our two newly accepted papers:
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Congratulations to Aviv Yaish for several accomplishments:
- Inequality in the Age of Pseudonymity accepted to AAAI ‘26
- Receiving three grants from the Ethereum Foundation and the Columbia Business School Digital Future Initiative
- Inclusion in the CBER Forum’s Rising Stars and the Hebrew University’s 40 Under 40 Young Leaders of ‘25 lists
We are proud of group member Kaihua Qin’s acceptance as an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick!
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Several exciting papers (co-)led by our group members have been accepted or published this summer:
- Multi-Server Doubly Efficient PIR in the Classical Model and Beyond (TCC ‘25)
- Lattice-based Multi-message Multi-recipient KEM/PKE with Malicious Security (Asiacrypt ‘25)
- PriFHEte: Achieving Full-Privacy in Account-based Cryptocurrencies is Possible (Asiacrypt ‘25)
- IND-CPA-D of Relaxed Functional Bootstrapping: A New Attack, A General Fix, and A Stronger Model (CCS ‘25)
- Maximal Extractable Value in Batch Auctions (EC ‘25)
- Scalable Private Signaling (CSF ‘25)
We congratulate Georgios (Giorgos) Tsimos for successfully defending his excellent PhD and joining Pod Network as a scientist!
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Do join us on April 11 for the 2nd PAVE blockchain symposium!
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Several YACL members have joined IC3: Tiantian Gong, Giannis Kaklamanis, Kaihua Qin, Wenhao Wang, Yunhao Wang, Aviv Yaish, Sen Yang, Fan Zhang, and Mengqian Zhang.
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Three papers by YACL members were accepted to IEEE S&P ‘25:
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Two YACL papers were accepted to USENIX Security ‘25:
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Several interesting papers by lab members were accepted to Eurocrypt ‘25:
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We welcome Jiasun Li (George Mason University, Costello College of Business), who is joining us this semester as a visiting professor!
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Be sure to check our lab members’ recent batch of FC ‘25 papers:
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