Daniel Wichs

About Me:

As of 2011-2012, I am a Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow
at the cryptography group at IBM Research T.J. Watson.

Prior to this, I earned my PhD in Computer Science at New York University (NYU) in 2011.
I was very fortunate to have Yevgeniy Dodis as my advisor.
I completed my Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Master's degree in Computer Science at Stanford University in 2005.

My main interests are in all aspects of modern cryptography.
I'm also interested in computer security, algorithms, complexity theory, coding theory and information theory.

Come for great talks at NY Area CryptoDay!


Program Committees:


Publications (DBLP), (Google Scholar Statistics)

Conference Publications:

    2012
  1. Gilad Asharov, Abhishek Jain and Daniel Wichs
    Multiparty Computation with Low Communication, Computation and Interaction via Threshold FHE
    EUROCRYPT 2012. -- Advances in Cryptology. (Accepted)
    Merging with [LTV11] for Eurocrypt proceedings version.

  2. Yevgeniy Dodis, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Eike Kiltz and Daniel Wichs
    Message Authentication, Revisited
    EUROCRYPT 2012 -- Advances in Cryptology.

  3. Yevgeniy Dodis, Abhishek Jain, Tal Moran and Daniel Wichs
    Counterexamples to Hardness Amplification Beyond Negligible
    TCC 2012 -- Theory of Cryptography Conference.

    2011
  4. Yevgeniy Dodis, Allison Lewko, Brent Waters and Daniel Wichs
    Storing Secrets on Continually Leaky Devices.   [slides]   [Video]
    FOCS 2011 -- Foundations of Computer Science.

  5. Stefan Dziembowski, Tomasz Kazana and Daniel Wichs
    Key-Evolution Schemes Resilient to Space-Bounded Leakage.
    CRYPTO 2011 -- Advances in Cryptology

  6. Craig Gentry and Daniel Wichs
    Seperating Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments From All Falsifiable Assumptions.   [slides] [video]
    STOC 2011 -- Symposium on Theory of Computing.

  7. Elette Boyle, Gil Segev and Daniel Wichs
    Fully Leakage-Resilient Signatures.
    EUROCRYPT 2011 -- Advances in Cryptology.
    (Invited to the Journal of Cryptology)

  8. Stefan Dziembowski, Tomasz Kazana and Daniel Wichs
    One-Time Computable Self-Erasing Functions.
    TCC 2011 -- Theory of Cryptography Conference.

    2010
  9. Yevgeniy Dodis, Kristiyan Haralambiev, Adriana Lopez-Alt and Daniel Wichs
    Efficient Public-Key Cryptography in the Presence of Key Leakage.
    ASIACRYPT 2010 -- Advances in Cryptology
    (Invited to the Journal of Cryptology)

  10. Yevgeniy Dodis, Kristiyan Haralambiev, Adriana Lopez-Alt and Daniel Wichs
    Cryptography Against Continuous Memory Attacks.   [slides]   [video]
    FOCS 2010 -- Foundations of Computer Science

  11. Joel Alwen, Yevgeniy Dodis, Moni Naor, Gil Segev, Shabsi Walfish and Daniel Wichs
    Public-Key Encryption in the Bounded-Retrieval Model.   [slides]
    EUROCRYPT 2010 -- Advances in Cryptology

  12. Ran Canetti, Yael Tauman Kalai, Mayank Varia and Daniel Wichs
    On Symmetric Encryption and Point Obfuscation.   [slides]
    TCC 2010 -- Theory of Cryptography Conference.

  13. Stefan Dziembowski, Krzysztof Pietrzak and Daniel Wichs
    Non-Malleable Codes.   [slides]
    ICS 2010 -- Innovations in Computer Science.

    2009
  14. Juan Garay, Daniel Wichs and Hong-Sheng Zhou
    Somewhat Non-Committing Encryption and Efficient Adaptively Secure Oblivious Transfer.
    CRYPTO 2009 -- Advances in Cryptology.

  15. Joel Alwen, Yevgeniy Dodis and Daniel Wichs
    Leakage-Resilient Public-Key Cryptography in the Bounded-Retrieval Model.   [slides]   [video]
    CRYPTO 2009 -- Advances in Cryptology.

  16. Yevgeniy Dodis and Daniel Wichs
    Non-Malleable Extractors and Symmetric Key Cryptography from Weak Secrets.  [slides]
    STOC 2009 -- Symposium on Theory of Computing.

  17. Yevgeniy Dodis, Salil Vadhan and Daniel Wichs
    Proofs of Retrievability via Hardness Amplification.  [slides]
    TCC 2009 -- Theory of Cryptography Conference.

  18. Ivan Damgård, Jesper Buus Nielsen and Daniel Wichs
    Universally Composable Multiparty Computation with Partially Isolated Parties.  [slides]
    TCC 2009 -- Theory of Cryptography Conference.

    2008
  19. Ivan Damgård, Jesper Buus Nielsen and Daniel Wichs
    Isolated Proofs of Knowledge and Isolated Zero Knowledge.  [slides]
    EUROCRYPT 2008 -- Advances in Cryptology.

  20. Ronald Cramer, Yevgeniy Dodis, Serge Fehr, Carles Padro and Daniel Wichs
    Detection of Algebraic Manipulation with Applications to Robust Secret Sharing and Fuzzy Extractors.  [slides]
    EUROCRYPT 2008 -- Advances in Cryptology.

Thesis, Surveys

  1. Daniel Wichs. PhD Thesis: Cryptographic Resilience to Continual Information Leakage

  2. Joel Alwen, Yevgeniy Dodis and Daniel Wichs
    Survey: Leakage Resilience and the Bounded Retrieval Model
    ICITS 2009 -- International Conference on Information Theoretic Security


Honors and Awards:


Internships and External Research:

I had the wonderful fortune of working with many great people and visiting many great places during my studies so far.