Publications

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• Paper: Baxos: Backing off for Robust and Efficient Consensus, P. Tennage, C. Basescu, E. Kokoris Kogias, E. Syta, P. Jovanovic, B. Ford, ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2023), Abstract PDF


• Technical Report (under submission): H. Leibowitz, H. Ghalwash, E. Syta and A. Herzberg, CTng: Secure Certificate and Revocation Transparency, Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2021/818 Abstract PDF


• Technical Report (under submission): Provably Secure PKI Schemes, H. Leibowitz, A. Herzberg and E. Syta, Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2019/807 Abstract PDF

Journal Papers

• E. Syta, A. Johnson, H. Corrigan-Gibbs, S. Weng, D. Wolinsky, and B. Ford, Security Analysis of Accountable Anonymous Group Communication in Dissent, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Volume 17 Issue 1 Article No. 4, August 2014. Abstract PDF (extended version) Journal version


• S. Kurkovsky and E. Syta, Continuous RFID-based Authentication and its Privacy Implications, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Summer 2011 (extended version of S. Kurkovsky and E. Syta, Continuous RFID-based Authentication and its Privacy Implications, IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society: Social Implications of Emerging Technologies)

Conference and Workshop Papers

• Baxos: Backing off for Robust and Efficient Consensus, P. Tennage, C. Basescu, E. Kokoris Kogias, E. Syta, P. Jovanovic, B. Ford, ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2023), Abstract PDF


• H. Leibowitz, A. Herzberg, E. Syta and S. Wrotniak, MoSS: Modular Specifications Security Framework, Annual International Cryptology Conference, August 2021 (CRYPTO 2021) Abstract PDF


• E. Kokoris-Kogias, E. Ceyhun Alp, L. Gasser, P. Jovanovic, E. Syta and B. Ford, Calypso: Private Data Management for Decentralized Ledgers, 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2021), August 2021 Abstract PDF


• E. Kokoris-Kogias, P. Jovanovic, L. Gasser, N. Gailly, E. Syta and B. Ford. OmniLedger: A Secure, Scale-Out, Decentralized Ledger via Sharding, 39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SSP 2018), May 2018. Abstract PDF


• E. Kokoris-Kogias, P. Jovanovic, L. Gasser, N. Gailly, E. Syta, B. Ford, Scalable and Efficient Distributed Ledgers, 1st Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC 2017), UC Berkeley, October 2017 (no proceedings)


• E. Syta, P. Jovanovic, E. Kokoris Kogias, N. Gailly, L. Gasser, I. Khoffi, M. Fischer, and B. Ford, Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness, 1st Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC 2017), UC Berkeley, October 2017 (no proceedings)


• E. Syta, P. Jovanovic, E. Kokoris Kogias, N. Gailly, L. Gasser, I. Khoffi, M. Fischer, and B. Ford, Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness 38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SSP 2017), May 2017. Abstract PDF


• E. Syta, I. Tamas, D. Visher, D. Wolinsky, L. Gasser, N. Gailly and B. Ford, Keeping Authorities "Honest or Bust'' with Decentralized Witness Cosigning, 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SSP 2016), May 2016. Abstract PDF


• E. Zhai, D. Wolinsky, R. Chen, E. Syta, C. Teng and B. Ford, AnonRep: Towards Tracking-Resistant Anonymous Reputation, 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2016), March 2016. Abstract PDF


• E. Syta, M. Fischer, D. Wolinsky, A. Silberschatz, G. Gallegos Garcia and B. Ford, Private Eyes: Secure Remote Biometric Authentication, 12th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2015), July 2015. PDF


• E. Syta, I. Tamas, D. Visher, D. Wolinsky, and B. Ford, Certificate Cothority: Towards Trustworthy Collective CAs, 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs 2015), July 2015. PDF


• D. Wolinsky, E. Syta, and B. Ford, Hang With Your Buddies to Resist Intersection Attacks, 20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2013), Berlin, Germany, November 2013. Abstract PDF


• S. Kurkovsky and E. Syta, Monitoring of Electronic Communications at Universities: Policies and Perceptions of Privacy, 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii, January 2010.


• S. Kurkovsky and E. Syta, Approaches and Issues in Location-Aware Continuous Authentication, IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Hong Kong, China, December 2010.


• S. Kurkovsky and E. Syta, Continuous RFID-based Authentication and its Privacy Implications, IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society: Social Implications of Emerging Technologies, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, June 2010. IEEE Xplore Digital Library, DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS.2010.5514648


• S. Kurkovsky and E. Syta, Digital Natives and Mobile Phones: A Survey of Practices and Attitudes about Privacy and Security, IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society: Social Implications of Emerging Technologies, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, June 2010. IEEE Xplore Digital Library, DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS.2010.5514610


• E. Syta, S. Kurkovsky and B. Casano, RFID-based Authentication Middleware for Mobile Devices, 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii, January 2010. IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.320

Posters and Talks

• Talk: E. Syta, CALYPSO: Private Data Management for Decentralized Ledgers, Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Irvine, CA, June 2021


• Talk: E. Syta, CALYPSO: Private Data Management for Decentralized Ledgers, Carnegie Mellon University Distinguished Blockchain Seminar Series, April 2021


• Talk: E. Syta, Scaling Decentralized Ledgers via Sharding, EPFL, ETHZ and IC3 Swiss Blockchain Winter School, Interlaken, Switzerland, February 2019


• Talk: E. Syta, Scaling Blockchains via Public Randomness, Blockchain Workshop Series, Master Workshop Amsterdam, Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2018


• Talk: E. Syta, Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, March 2018


• Talk: E. Syta, Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, March 2018


• Talk: E. Syta, Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness, University of Connecticut, March 2018


• Talk: E. Syta, Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness, 2017 Summer Research Institute: Security and Privacy, \'Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, June 2017


• Talk: E. Syta, Certificate Cothority: Towards Trustworthy Collective CAs, Trinity College, February 2016


• Poster: E. Syta, Certificate Cothority: Towards Trustworthy Collective CAs, Rising Stars in EECS Workshop, MIT, November 2015


• Talk: E. Syta, Decentralizing Authorities into Scalable Strongest-Link Cothorities, Yale University, April 2015


• Talk: E. Syta, Collective Co-Signing for Scalable Decentralized Services, Mini-Workshop on Ongoing Research Activities Related to Privacy and Security, EPFL, Switzerland, March 2015


• Poster: E. Syta and B. Ford, Deniable Anonymous Group Authentication, 2013 IEEE Symposium Security and Privacy, May 2013


• Poster: E. Syta and S. Kurkovsky, RFID-Based Continuous Authentication Framework, Submitted to the IEEE-CT Computing in Connecticut and Beyond Symposium, April 2011.


• Presentation: E. Syta, RFID-based Authentication Middleware for Mobile Device, 13th Annual Faculty Research Conference "Looking Towards the Future of CSUS Research", Central Connecticut State University, April 17, 2010.


• Poster: E. Syta, Authentication Methods for Mobile Devices, Graduate Research and Creative Presentation Day at Central Connecticut State University, May, 2009.


• Poster: E. Syta, Constraint Satisfaction Problem: An Overview and Applications in Artificial Intelligence and Cryptology, Graduate Research and Creative Presentation Day at Central Connecticut State University, May 2008.


• Presentation: An Application of Zero Knowledge Proofs in the Process of Authentication, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, April 2007. More information:www.impan.pl/Kryptologia