Publications

Year Publication details
2026 Yini Lin, Muhammed F. Esgin, Amin Sakzad, Ron Steinfeld, and Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen. "Lemur: Scalable Post-Quantum Synchronized Multi-Signatures." ACM CCS. Available at https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1161.pdf
ICORE rank: A*
2026Nikai Jagganath, Muhammed F. Esgin, Ron Steinfeld, Amin Sakzad, Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen, and Dongxi Liu. "LoTRS: Practical Post-Quantum Structured Threshold Ring Signatures from Lattices." ACM CCS. Available at https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/974.pdf
ICORE rank: A*
2026Hongxiao Wang, Muhammed F. Esgin, Ron Steinfeld, and Siu-Ming Yiu. "Lether: Practical Post-Quantum Account-Based Private Blockchain Payments." ACM CCS. Available at https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/076.pdf
ICORE rank: A*
2026Muhammed F. Esgin, Ron Steinfeld, Erkan Tairi, and Jie Xu. "LeOPaRd: Towards Practical Post-Quantum Oblivious PRFs via 2HashDH Paradigm." CRYPTO. Available at https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1615.pdf
ICORE rank: A*
2026Hongxiao Wang, Ron Steinfeld, Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen, Muhammed F. Esgin and Siu-Ming Yiu. "mmCipher: Batching Post-Quantum Public Key Encryption Made Bandwidth-Optimal." USENIX Security. Available at https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1000.pdf
ICORE rank: A*
2026 Yuki Kume, Ron Steinfeld, Amin Sakzad and Mert Yassi. "LUNA+: More Succinct Post-Quantum ZK-SNARGs from Computational Privacy." ACM CCS.
Available soon at IACR's ePrint.
ICORE rank: A*
2026 Amin Sakzad, Judithe Sheard, Tahmine Ghorbaniandehkordi, Mikaela Elizabeth Milesi, Monica T. Whitty. “Scaffolding genAI for Critical Reflection: A Transformative Approach to Diverging Assessments in IT Forensics.” ACM SIGCSE TS (1) 2026: 971-977
ICORE rank: A
2026Mert Yassi, Soundes Marzougui, Raymond K. Zhao, Muhammed F. Esgin, Amin Sakzad, and Ron Steinfeld. "MAGNET: MAsked Gaussian Now Efficient and Table-less." TCHES. Available at https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/728.pdf
ICORE rank: A
2026Ron Steinfeld, Muhammed F. Esgin, Nikai Jagganath, Amin Sakzad, Carsten Rudolph, and James Boorman. “PQCIP: A Post-Quantum Cryptography Educational Program for Cybersecurity Professionals.” ACM SIGCSE TS (1) 2026: 1026-1032
ICORE rank: A
2025Shuiyin Liu, and Amin Sakzad: Compact Lattice-Coded (Multi-recipient) Kyber Without CLT Independence Assumption. IACR ASIACRYPT 2025.
ICORE rank: A
2025Nan Wang, Qianhui Wang, Dongxi Liu, Muhammed F. Esgin, and Alsharif Abuadbba. "BulletCT: Towards More Scalable Ring Confidential Transactions With Transparent Setup." USENIX Security. Available at https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/188.pdf
ICORE rank: A*
2025Huixin Wang, Amin Sakzad, and Stuart W. Hall. “Deep Learning-Based Attacks on Traditional Watermarking Systems in Real-Time Live Video Streams.” RAID 2025: 378-390
ICORE rank: A