Publications

Peer-reviewed papers and recent manuscripts. Patents and short project posts are omitted; see Google Scholar for the broader index.

2026

  • LogVOLE: Succinct and Efficient Chosen-Input VOLE for ZK and Beyond. Lucien K. L. Ng, Peter Rindal, Akash Shah. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2026.

    Chosen-input VOLE with polylogarithmic communication, with applications to designated-verifier zero knowledge and garbled input labels.

  • BTX: Simple and Efficient Batch Threshold Encryption. Amit Agarwal, Sourav Das, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye, Peter Rindal, Victor Shoup. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2026.

    An epochless, collision-free batched threshold encryption scheme for encrypted mempools with compact ciphertexts and fast batch decryption.

  • Weighted Batched Threshold Encryption with Applications to Mempool Privacy. Amit Agarwal, Kushal Babel, Sourav Das, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye, Arup Mondal, Benny Pinkas, Peter Rindal, Aayush Yadav. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2026. Distinguished Paper Award.

    Extends batched threshold encryption to weighted validator committees while improving the concrete cost of encrypted mempool decryption.

  • Block-Accumulate Codes: Accelerated Linear Codes for PCGs and ZK. Vladimir Kolesnikov, Stanislav Peceny, Rahul Rachuri, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Peter Rindal, Harshal Shah. IACR CRYPTO 2026.

    Builds faster linear codes for pseudorandom correlation generators and zero knowledge, with large concrete speedups on CPU and GPU.

2025

2024

  • Distributional Secure Merge. Gayathri Garimella, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Peter Rindal. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2024.

    A concretely efficient near-linear secure merge protocol for random or distributionally similar sorted lists.

  • Improved Multi-Party Fixed-Point Multiplication. Saikrishna Badrinarayanan, Eysa Lee, Peihan Miao, Peter Rindal. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2024.

    More communication-efficient fixed-point multiplication protocols for replicated, Shamir, and additive secret sharing.

  • Logstar: Efficient Linear* Time Secure Merge. Suvradip Chakraborty, Stanislav Peceny, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Peter Rindal. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2024.

    Improves secure merge toward linear-time performance using a small logarithmic overhead in practical regimes.

  • Improved Alternating-Moduli PRFs and Post-Quantum Signatures. Navid Alamati, Guru-Vamsi Policharla, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Peter Rindal. CRYPTO 2024.

    Designs efficient MPC-friendly alternating-moduli PRFs and applies them to compact post-quantum signatures.

  • Compact: Approximating Complex Activation Functions for Secure Computation. Mazharul Islam, Sunpreet S. Arora, Rahul Chatterjee, Peter Rindal, Maliheh Shirvanian. PETS 2024.

    Approximates complex neural-network activations with MPC-friendly piecewise polynomials while preserving model accuracy.

2023

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