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. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Building the Next Generation of AEAD
Real World Crypto 2024
[video]
[slides]
Flexible Authenticated Encryption
The Third NIST Workshop on Block Cipher Modes of Operation 2023
[video]
[slides]
[abstract]
Ask Your Cryptographer if Context-Committing AEAD Is Right for You
Real World Crypto 2023
[video]
[slides]
Robust AE With Committing Security
Asiacrypt 2024
[eprint]
[published]
[talk video]
Private Hierarchical Governance for Encrypted Messaging
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
SOUPS 2023
[published]
[talk video]
Context Discovery and Commitment Attacks: How to Break CCM, EAX, SIV, and More
Eurocrypt 2023
[eprint]
[published]
[talk video]
Computations with Greater Quantum Depth Are Strictly More Powerful (Relative to an Oracle)
STOC 2020
[arxiv]
[published]
Oracle Separations for Quantum Statistical Zero-Knowledge
arXiv:1801.08967
[arxiv]
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I am @initsecret on Github, @initsecret on LinkedIn, @initsecret@bratt.ing on the Fediverse, and @sanketh.bsky.social on Bluesky.
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.