Peter Rindal
Senior Researcher, Category Labs
I work on cryptography and secure computation, with a focus on practical protocols for computing on encrypted data. My research spans private set intersection, encrypted database joins, oblivious transfer, threshold cryptography, and privacy-preserving machine learning.
Before joining Category Labs, I was a Staff Research Scientist at Visa Research. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oregon State University, advised by Mike Rosulek.
Research
My work is driven by the gap between provable security and deployable systems. I design, analyze, and implement cryptographic protocols with attention to concrete efficiency, deployment constraints, and real applications.
Selected Publications
- Amit Agarwal, Kushal Babel, Sourav Das, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye, Arup Mondal, Benny Pinkas, Peter Rindal, Aayush Yadav. Weighted Batched Threshold Encryption with Applications to Mempool Privacy. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2026. Distinguished Paper Award.
- Amit Agarwal, Sourav Das, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye, Peter Rindal, Victor Shoup. BTX: Simple and Efficient Batch Threshold Encryption. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 2026.
- Vladimir Kolesnikov, Stanislav Peceny, Rahul Rachuri, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Peter Rindal, Harshal Shah. Block-Accumulate Codes: Accelerated Linear Codes for PCGs and ZK. IACR CRYPTO 2026.
- Srinivasan Raghuraman, Peter Rindal, Titouan Tanguy. Expand-Convolute Codes for Pseudorandom Correlation Generators from LPN. CRYPTO 2023.
- Peter Rindal, Phillipp Schoppmann. VOLE-PSI: Fast OPRF and Circuit-PSI from Vector-OLE. EUROCRYPT 2021.
- Peter Rindal, Mike Rosulek. Improved Private Set Intersection against Malicious Adversaries. EUROCRYPT 2017.