publications | Lisa Masserova

2026

Game Theory Does Not Always Help: The Case of Statistical Multi-Party Coin Tossing

Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Elisaweta Masserova, Joao Ribeiro, and Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan

Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (EUROCRYPT), 2026

@article{gametheory,
  title = {Game Theory Does Not Always Help: The Case of Statistical Multi-Party Coin Tossing},
  author = {Liu-Zhang, Chen-Da and Masserova, Elisaweta and Ribeiro, Joao and Thyagarajan, Sri AravindaKrishnan},
  journal = {Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (EUROCRYPT)},
  year = {2026}
}

2025

workshop

Data Forging Attacks on Cryptographic Model Certification

Carter Luck, Olive Franzese, Elisaweta Masserova, Akira Takahashi, and Antigoni Polychroniadou

Regulatable ML workshop at the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025

Bib

@article{dataforging,
  title = {Data Forging Attacks on Cryptographic Model Certification},
  author = {Luck, Carter and Franzese, Olive and Masserova, Elisaweta and Takahashi, Akira and Polychroniadou, Antigoni},
  journal = {Regulatable ML workshop at the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/130217}
}

conference

Towards Scalable YOSO MPC via Packed Secret-Sharing

Daniel Escudero, Elisaweta Masserova, and Antigoni Polychroniadou

ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (ASIACRYPT), 2025

Bib

@article{yosompc,
  title = {Towards Scalable YOSO MPC via Packed Secret-Sharing},
  author = {Escudero, Daniel and Masserova, Elisaweta and Polychroniadou, Antigoni},
  journal = {ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (ASIACRYPT)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/635}
}

conference

Brief announcement: Towards Scalable YOSO MPC via Packed Secret-Sharing

Daniel Escudero, Elisaweta Masserova, and Antigoni Polychroniadou

ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), 2025

Bib

@article{yosompd,
  title = {Brief announcement: Towards Scalable YOSO MPC via Packed Secret-Sharing},
  author = {Escudero, Daniel and Masserova, Elisaweta and Polychroniadou, Antigoni},
  journal = {ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/635}
}

conference

Efficient Distributed Randomness Generation from Minimal Assumptions where PArties Speak Sequentially Once

Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Elisaweta Masserova, Joao Ribeiro, Pratik Soni, and Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan

Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (EUROCRYPT), 2025

Bib

@article{passo,
  title = {Efficient Distributed Randomness Generation from Minimal Assumptions where PArties Speak Sequentially Once},
  author = {Liu-Zhang, Chen-Da and Masserova, Elisaweta and Ribeiro, Joao and Soni, Pratik and Thyagarajan, Sri AravindaKrishnan},
  journal = {Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (EUROCRYPT)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/349}
}

conference

Rapidash: Atomic Swaps Secure under User-Miner Collusion

Hao Chung, Elisaweta Masserova, Elaine Shi, and Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan

Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), 2025

Bib

@article{chung2022rapidash,
  title = {Rapidash: Atomic Swaps Secure under User-Miner Collusion},
  author = {Chung, Hao and Masserova, Elisaweta and Shi, Elaine and Thyagarajan, Sri AravindaKrishnan},
  journal = {Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1063}
}

2024

workshop

Non-Interactive and Publicly Verifiable Zero-Knowledge Proof for Fair Decision Trees

Akira Takahashi Elisaweta Masserova

Regulatable ML workshop at the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

Bib

@article{zkml,
  title = {Non-Interactive and Publicly Verifiable Zero-Knowledge Proof for Fair Decision Trees},
  author = {Elisaweta Masserova, Antigoni Polychroniadou, Akira Takahashi},
  journal = {Regulatable ML workshop at the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/106937}
}

conference

Improved YOSO Randomness Generation with Worst-Case Corruptions

Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Elisaweta Masserova, Joao Ribeiro, Pratik Soni, and Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan

Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), 2024

Bib

@article{chen2024improved,
  title = {Improved YOSO Randomness Generation with Worst-Case Corruptions},
  author = {Liu-Zhang, Chen-Da and Masserova, Elisaweta and Ribeiro, Joao and Soni, Pratik and Thyagarajan, Sri AravindaKrishnan},
  journal = {Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)},
  volume = {116},
  pages = {129--161},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1268}
}

2022

conference

Storing and Retrieving Secrets on a Blockchain

Vipul Goyal, Abhiram Kothapalli, Elisaweta Masserova, Bryan Parno, and Yifan Song

In Public-Key Cryptography - PKC 2022 - 25th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, Virtual Event, March 8-11, 2022, Proceedings, Part I, 2022

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/pkc/GoyalKMPS22,
  author = {Goyal, Vipul and Kothapalli, Abhiram and Masserova, Elisaweta and Parno, Bryan and Song, Yifan},
  editor = {Hanaoka, Goichiro and Shikata, Junji and Watanabe, Yohei},
  title = {Storing and Retrieving Secrets on a Blockchain},
  booktitle = {Public-Key Cryptography - {PKC} 2022 - 25th {IACR} International Conference
                    on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, Virtual Event,
                    March 8-11, 2022, Proceedings, Part {I}},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = {13177},
  pages = {252--282},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/504},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-97121-2\_10},
  timestamp = {Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:36:43 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/pkc/GoyalKMPS22.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

manuscript

Logic Locking - Connecting Theory and Practice

Elisaweta Masserova, Deepali Garg, Ken Mai, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Vipul Goyal, and Bryan Parno

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022

Bib

@article{DBLP:journals/iacr/MasserovaGMPGP22,
  author = {Masserova, Elisaweta and Garg, Deepali and Mai, Ken and Pileggi, Lawrence T. and Goyal, Vipul and Parno, Bryan},
  title = {Logic Locking - Connecting Theory and Practice},
  journal = {{IACR} Cryptol. ePrint Arch.},
  pages = {545},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/545},
  timestamp = {Mon, 16 May 2022 15:32:46 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/iacr/MasserovaGMPGP22.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

manuscript

Ponyta: Foundations of Side-Contract-Resilient Fair Exchange

Hao Chung, Elisaweta Masserova, Elaine Shi, and Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022

Bib

@article{DBLP:journals/iacr/ChungMST22,
  author = {Chung, Hao and Masserova, Elisaweta and Shi, Elaine and Thyagarajan, Sri Aravinda Krishnan},
  title = {Ponyta: Foundations of Side-Contract-Resilient Fair Exchange},
  journal = {{IACR} Cryptol. ePrint Arch.},
  pages = {582},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/582},
  timestamp = {Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:38:52 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/iacr/ChungMST22.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

2021

conference

Blockchains Enable Non-interactive MPC

Vipul Goyal, Elisaweta Masserova, Bryan Parno, and Yifan Song

In Theory of Cryptography - 19th International Conference, TCC 2021, Raleigh, NC, USA, November 8-11, 2021, Proceedings, Part II, 2021

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/tcc/GoyalMPS21,
  author = {Goyal, Vipul and Masserova, Elisaweta and Parno, Bryan and Song, Yifan},
  editor = {Nissim, Kobbi and Waters, Brent},
  title = {Blockchains Enable Non-interactive {MPC}},
  booktitle = {Theory of Cryptography - 19th International Conference, {TCC} 2021,
                    Raleigh, NC, USA, November 8-11, 2021, Proceedings, Part {II}},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = {13043},
  pages = {162--193},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1233},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-90453-1\_6},
  timestamp = {Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:36:43 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/tcc/GoyalMPS21.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

2020

conference

Talek: Private Group Messaging with Hidden Access Patterns

Raymond Cheng, William Scott, Elisaweta Masserova, Irene Zhang, Vipul Goyal, Thomas E. Anderson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Bryan Parno

In ACSAC ’20: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Virtual Event / Austin, TX, USA, 7-11 December, 2020, 2020

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/acsac/0001SMZGAKP20,
  author = {Cheng, Raymond and Scott, William and Masserova, Elisaweta and Zhang, Irene and Goyal, Vipul and Anderson, Thomas E. and Krishnamurthy, Arvind and Parno, Bryan},
  title = {Talek: Private Group Messaging with Hidden Access Patterns},
  booktitle = {{ACSAC} '20: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Virtual
                    Event / Austin, TX, USA, 7-11 December, 2020},
  pages = {84--99},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3427228.3427231},
  doi = {10.1145/3427228.3427231},
  timestamp = {Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:14:56 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/acsac/0001SMZGAKP20.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

manuscript

Poppins: A direct construction for asymptotically optimal zkSNARKs

Abhiram Kothapalli, Elisaweta Masserova, and Bryan Parno

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020

Bib

@article{DBLP:journals/iacr/KothapalliMP20,
  author = {Kothapalli, Abhiram and Masserova, Elisaweta and Parno, Bryan},
  title = {Poppins: A direct construction for asymptotically optimal zkSNARKs},
  journal = {{IACR} Cryptol. ePrint Arch.},
  pages = {1318},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1318},
  timestamp = {Fri, 30 Oct 2020 16:40:33 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/iacr/KothapalliMP20.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

2014

poster

sGrid: Centralized management of BOINC-based research projects - Summary

Emanuel Jöbstl, Jérôme Urhausen, Elisaweta Masserova, and Ainara Askar

In INFORMATIK, 2014

Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/gi/JobstlUMA14,
  author = {J{\"{o}}bstl, Emanuel and Urhausen, J{\'{e}}r{\{o}}me and Masserova, Elisaweta and Askar, Ainara},
  editor = {Pl{\"{o}}dereder, Erhard and Grunske, Lars and Schneider, Eric and Ull, Dominik},
  title = {sGrid: Centralized management of BOINC-based research projects - Summary},
  booktitle = {{INFORMATIK}},
  series = {{LNI}},
  volume = {{P-232}},
  pages = {2487},
  publisher = {{GI}},
  year = {2014},
  url = {https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/2887},
  timestamp = {Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:07:54 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/gi/JobstlUMA14.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}