sanketh

Hi there! 👋🏽

I'm a cryptographer, currently a final-year PhD student at Cornell Tech, advised by the inimitable Tom Ristenpart.

I use they/them pronouns. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Contact

The best way to reach me is to email at .

Talks

Building the Next Generation of AEAD
Mihir Bellare, Shay Gueron, Viet Tung Hoang, Julia Len, Sanketh Menda, and Thomas Ristenpart
Real World Crypto 2024   [video]   [slides]

Flexible Authenticated Encryption
Sanketh Menda, Julia Len, Viet Tung Hoang, Mihir Bellare, and Thomas Ristenpart
The Third NIST Workshop on Block Cipher Modes of Operation 2023   [video]   [slides]

Ask Your Cryptographer if Context-Committing AEAD Is Right for You
Mihir Bellare, John Chan, Paul Grubbs, Viet Tung Hoang, Julia Len, Sanketh Menda, Thomas Ristenpart, and Phillip Rogaway
Real World Crypto 2023   [video]   [slides]

Papers

Robust AE With Committing Security
Viet Tung Hoang and Sanketh Menda
Asiacrypt 2024   [eprint]

Private Hierarchical Governance for Encrypted Messaging
Armin Namavari, Barry Wang, Sanketh Menda, Ben Nassi, Nirvan Tyagi, James Grimmelmann, Amy Zhang, and Thomas Ristenpart
IEEE S&P 2024   [arxiv]   [published]   [rwc2024 talk video]

"Is Reporting Worth the Sacrifice of Revealing What I Have Sent?": Privacy Considerations When Reporting on End-to-End Encrypted Platforms
Leijie Wang, Ruotong Wang, Sterling Williams-Ceci, Sanketh Menda, and Amy X. Zhang
SOUPS 2023   [published]   [talk video]

Context Discovery and Commitment Attacks: How to Break CCM, EAX, SIV, and More
Sanketh Menda, Julia Len, Paul Grubbs, and Thomas Ristenpart
Eurocrypt 2023   [eprint]   [published]   [talk video]

Computations with Greater Quantum Depth Are Strictly More Powerful (Relative to an Oracle)
Matthew Coudron and Sanketh Menda
STOC 2020   [arxiv]   [published]

Oracle Separations for Quantum Statistical Zero-Knowledge
Sanketh Menda and John Watrous
arXiv:1801.08967   [arxiv]

Blog

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Socials

I am @initsecret on GitHub and LinkedIn.

On the Fediverse, I am @initsecret@bratt.ing, @sanketh@bratt.ing, and @initsecret@threads.net.

On Bluesky, I am @sanketh.bsky.social.

Previously on...

Before grad school, I was an undergrad at the University of Waterloo, where I spent lots of time at the Institute for Quantum Computing—some of it officially—where I drank lots of espresso and learnt a little quantum computing.