Sanketh Menda

Hello! 👋

I am a third year PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell Tech where I do research in computer security, privacy, and trust & safety. I am advised by Thomas Ristenpart.

Previously, I was an undergraduate student in Computer Science at Waterloo, where I spent lots of time hanging out at the Institute for Quantum Computing, some of it officially, where I drank lots of ☕ and learnt a little quantum computing.

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📫 Contact

The best way to reach me is to email at . 💬

I use they/them pronouns and dislike titles. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Flexible Authenticated Encryption

Sanketh Menda, Julia Len, Viet Tung Hoang, Mihir Bellare, and Thomas Ristenpart

NIST Workshop on Block Cipher Modes of Operation 2023

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Context Discovery and Commitment Attacks: How to Break CCM, EAX, SIV, and More

Sanketh Menda, Julia Len, Paul Grubbs, and Thomas Ristenpart

Eurocrypt 2023

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Ask Your Cryptographer if Context-Committing AEAD Is Right for You

Mihir Bellare, John Chan, Paul Grubbs, Viet Tung Hoang, Sanketh Menda, Julia Len, Thomas Ristenpart, and Phillip Rogaway

Real World Crypto 2023

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I blog at ciphertext.blog and used to write a weekly digest of ePrint papers.

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🏙️ Blueskysanketh.bsky.social
🐘 Mastodonsanketh@moth.social
🧵 Threads@init.secret
🐙 Github@sgmenda
🏃 Strava@snkth
🧑‍💼 Linkedin@sgmenda
One of these days, I will uniformize my handles.
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