Vassilis Zikas

Vassilis Zikas

University of Maryland
Department of Computer Science
3204 A.V. Williams Building
College Park, MD 20742
phone: +1 (301) 405-6762
email: vzikas cs.umd.edu



I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland working with Jonathan Katz in the area of theoretical cryptology. My main research interests include, but are not restricted to, secure computation, cryptographic protocols, and game-theoretic cryptography. I received my PhD from the Information Security and Cryptography research group at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Ueli Maurer.

Publications (for a complete list see my CV)


Peer-reviewed conferences

Joël Alwen, Jonathan Katz, Ueli Maurer, and Vassilis Zikas
Collusion-Preserving Computation
Advances in Cryptology — CRYPTO 2012 (to appear).
Adam Groce, Jonathan Katz, Aishwarya Thiruvengadam, and Vassilis Zikas
Byzantine Agreement with a Rational Adversary
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming — ICALP 2012 (to appear).
Martin Hirt and Vassilis Zikas
Player-Centric Byzantine Agreement
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming — ICALP 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 6755, pp. 281–292, 2011.
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Martin Hirt and Vassilis Zikas
Adaptively Secure Broadcast
Advances in Cryptology — EUROCRYPT 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 6110, pp. 466–485, 2010.
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Vassilis Zikas, Sarah Hauser, and Ueli Maurer
Realistic Failures in Secure Multi-party Computation
Theory of Cryptography Conference — TCC 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 5444, pp. 274-293, 2009.
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Martin Hirt, Ueli Maurer, and Vassilis Zikas
MPC vs. SFE: Unconditional and Computational Security
Advances in Cryptology — ASIACRYPT 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 5350, pp. 1–18, 2008.
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Zuzana Beerliova-Trubiniova, Matthias Fitzi, Martin Hirt, Ueli Maurer, and Vassilis Zikas
MPC vs. SFE: Perfect Security in a Unified Corruption Model
Theory of Cryptography Conference — TCC 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 4948, pp. 231–250, 2008.
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Books

Invited chapter (jointly with Ueli Maurer) for a book on Secure Multiparty Computation
Cryptology and Information Security Series, IOS Press, Amsterdam, expected publication 2012.
Editors: Manoj Prabhakaran (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) and Amit Sahai (University of California, Los Angeles).
Vassilis Zikas
Generalized Corruption Models in Secure Multi-Party Computation
ETH Series in Information Security and Cryptography, Hartung-Gorre Verlag, ISBN 3-86628-338-5, 2010 (PhD thesis).


Pre-prints

Jonathan Katz, Ueli Maurer, Bjoern Tackmann, and Vassilis Zikas
Universally Composable Synchronous Computation
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2011:310, 2011 (in submission).
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