Programmable Payment Channels
R. Kumaresan, D. Le, M. Minaei, S. Raghuraman, Y. Yang, M. Zamani
ACNS, 2024 [PDF]
Publications by Research Area
Below are my publications organized by research theme. For a chronological listing, see Publications.
Research Areas
Payment Channels and Networks
Research on scalable payment solutions, state channels, and blockchain-based payment networks
Unlinkability and Interoperability in Account-Based Universal Payment Channels
M. Minaei, P. Chatzigiannis, S. Jin, S. Raghuraman, R. Kumaresan, M. Zamani, P. Moreno-Sanchez
Financial Cryptography Workshop, 2023 [PDF]
Sprites and State Channels: Payment Networks that Go Faster Than Lightning
A. Miller, I. Bentov, S. Bakshi, R. Kumaresan, P. McCorry
Financial Cryptography, 2019 [PDF]
Secure Computation with Penalties
Protocols ensuring fair exchange of digital assets and secure computation with enforcement mechanisms
Synchronizable Fair Exchange
R. Kumaresan, S. Raghuraman, A. Sealfon
Theory of Cryptography Conference, 2023 [PDF]
LucidiTEE: Scalable policy-based multiparty computation with fairness
S. Gaddam, R. Kumaresan, S. Raghuraman, R. Sinha
CANS, 2023 [PDF]
Amortizing Secure Computation with Penalties
R. Kumaresan, I. Bentov
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2016 [PDF]
Improvements to Secure Computation with Penalties
R. Kumaresan, V. Vaikuntanathan, P. Vasudevan
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2016 [PDF]
How to Use Bitcoin to Design Fair Protocols
I. Bentov, R. Kumaresan
Advances in Cryptology—Crypto, 2014 [PDF]
How to Use Bitcoin to Incentivize Correct Computations
R. Kumaresan, I. Bentov
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2014 [PDF]
Blockchain Applications and Privacy
Applications of blockchain technology for privacy, gaming, and other use cases
DTL: Data Tumbling Layer. A Composable Unlinkability for Smart Contracts
M. Minaei, P. Moreno-Sanchez, Z. Fang, S. Raghuraman, N. Alamati, P. Chatzigiannis, R. Kumaresan, D. Le
AsiaCCS, 2025 [PDF]
A Plug-and-Play Long-Range Defense System for Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
L. Ng, P. Chatzigiannis, D. Le, M. Minaei, R. Kumaresan, M. Zamani
ESORICS, 2024 [PDF]
Instantaneous Decentralized Poker
I. Bentov, R. Kumaresan, A. Miller
Advances in Cryptology—Asiacrypt, 2017 [PDF]
How to Use Bitcoin to Play Decentralized Poker
R. Kumaresan, T. Moran, I. Bentov
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2015 [PDF]
Multiparty Computation and Secure Protocols
Fundamental research on multiparty computation protocols, secure function evaluation, and cryptographic primitives
Secure Computation with Minimal Interaction, Revisited
Y. Ishai, R. Kumaresan, E. Kushilevitz, A. Paskin-Cherniavsky
Advances in Cryptology—Crypto, 2015 [PDF]
Amortizing Garbled Circuits
Y. Huang, J. Katz, V. Kolesnikov, R. Kumaresan, A. Malozemoff
Advances in Cryptology—Crypto, 2014 [PDF]
On the Complexity of UC Commitments
J.A. Garay, Y. Ishai, R. Kumaresan, H. Wee
Advances in Cryptology—Eurocrypt, 2014 [PDF]
On the Cryptographic Complexity of the Worst Functions
A. Beimel, Y. Ishai, R. Kumaresan, E. Kushilevitz
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC), 2014 [PDF]
Improved Secure Two-Party Computation via Information-Theoretic Garbled Circuits
V. Kolesnikov, R. Kumaresan
Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN), 2012 [PDF]
On the Security of the 'Free-XOR' Technique
S.G. Choi, J. Katz, R. Kumaresan, H.-S. Zhou
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC), 2012 [PDF]
Multi-Client Non-interactive Verifiable Computation
S.G. Choi, J. Katz, R. Kumaresan, C. Cid
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC), 2013 [PDF]
Efficient Verification of Input Consistency in Server-Assisted Secure Function Evaluation
V. Kolesnikov, R. Kumaresan, A. Shikfa
Cryptology and Network Security (CANS), 2012 [PDF]
Oblivious Transfer and Privacy-Preserving Techniques
Privacy-preserving cryptographic techniques including oblivious transfer protocols and private set intersection
A plug-n-play framework for scaling private set intersection to billion-sized sets
S. Badrinarayanan, R. Kumaresan, M. Christodorescu, V. Nagaraja, K. Patel, S. Raghuraman, P. Rindal, W. Sun, M. Xu
CANS, 2023 [PDF]
Efficient Batched Oblivious PRF with Applications to Private Set Intersection
V. Kolesnikov, R. Kumaresan, M. Rosulek, N. Trieu
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2016 [PDF]
Network Oblivious Transfer
R. Kumaresan, S. Raghuraman, A. Sealfon
Advances in Cryptology—Crypto, 2016 [PDF]
On Cut-and-Choose Oblivious Transfer and Its Variants
V. Kolesnikov, R. Kumaresan
Advances in Cryptology—Asiacrypt, 2015 [PDF]
Improved OT Extension for Transferring Short Secrets
V. Kolesnikov, R. Kumaresan
Advances in Cryptology—Crypto, 2013 [PDF]
Broadcast Protocols and Secret Sharing
Research on secure broadcast protocols, verifiable secret sharing, and distributed consensus
Adaptively Secure Broadcast, Revisited
J.A. Garay, J. Katz, R. Kumaresan, H.-S. Zhou
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), 2011 [PDF]
The Round Complexity of Verifiable Secret Sharing: The Statistical Case
R. Kumaresan, A. Patra, C.P. Rangan
Advances in Cryptology—Asiacrypt, 2010 [PDF]
Authenticated Broadcast with a Partially Compromised Public Key Infrastructure
S.D. Gordon, J. Katz, R. Kumaresan, A. Yerukhimovich
Intl. Symp. on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS), 2010 [PDF]
Improving the Round Complexity of VSS in Point-to-Point Networks
J. Katz, C.-Y. Koo, R. Kumaresan
Intl. Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), 2008 [PDF]
On Exponential Lower Bound for Protocols for Reliable Communication in Networks
K. Srinathan, C.P. Rangan, R. Kumaresan
Intl. Conf. on Information Theoretic Security (ICITS), 2007 [PDF]