
Overview
Background
Veronika Kuchta received her Diploma degree in Mathematics at the Heidelberg University in Germany in 2010. She reseived her PhD in applied cryptography at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom in 2016. She worked as a postdoc at the Universite libre de Bruxelles in Belgium from 2016-2018. From 2018 till 2020 she has been a Research Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. FromDecember 2020 to July 2022 she was employed by The University of Queensland, School of Mathematics and Physics as a lecturer in mathematical cryptography. From November 2022 she is Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, USA), department of mathematical sciences. Her research interst focus on the different areas of mathematical cryptography, post-quantum cryptography and its applications to the real-world.
Availability
- Dr Veronika Kuchta is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Surrey
Research interests
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Cryptography
My main research interest is in the construction of post-quantum cryptographic primitives which are resistant to quantum-attacks. I am also interested in their applications to the real world such as blockchain.
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Mathematics
I am interested in the foundational and applied aspects of mathematics in relation to cryptography.
Works
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2024
Conference Publication
LUNA: Quasi-Optimally Succinct Designated-Verifier Zero-Knowledge Arguments from Lattices
Steinfeld, Ron, Sakzad, Amin, Esgin, Muhammed F., Kuchta, Veronika, Yassi, Mert and Zhao, Raymond K. (2024). LUNA: Quasi-Optimally Succinct Designated-Verifier Zero-Knowledge Arguments from Lattices. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3658644.3670345
2024
Conference Publication
TPU as Cryptographic Accelerator
Karanjai, Rabimba, Shin, Sangwon, Xiong, Wujie, Fan, Xinxin, Chen, Lin, Zhang, Tianwei, Suh, Taeweon, Shi, Weidong, Kuchta, Veronika, Sica, Francesco and Xu, Lei (2024). TPU as Cryptographic Accelerator. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3696843.3696844
2024
Conference Publication
Formal verification techniques for post-quantum cryptography: a systematic review
Xu, Yuexi, Li, Zhenyuan, Dong, Naipeng, Kuchta, Veronika, Hou, Zhe and Liu, Dongxi (2024). Formal verification techniques for post-quantum cryptography: a systematic review. 28th International Conference, ICECCS 2024, Limassol, Cyprus, 19-21 June 2024. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-66456-4_19
2023
Conference Publication
A new look at blockchain leader election: simple, efficient, sustainable and post-quantum
Esgin, Muhammed F., Ersoy, Oguzhan, Kuchta, Veronika, Loss, Julian, Sakzad, Amin, Steinfeld, Ron, Yang, Xiangwen and Zhao, Raymond K. (2023). A new look at blockchain leader election: simple, efficient, sustainable and post-quantum. 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 10-14 July 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3579856.3595792
2022
Journal Article
A survey on exotic signatures for post-quantum blockchain: challenges and research directions
Buser, Maxime, Dowsley, Rafael, Esgin, Muhammed F., Gritti, Clémentine, Kermanshahi, Shabnam Kasra, Kuchta, Veronika, LeGrow, Jason T., Liu, Joseph K., Phan, Raphaël C.-W., Sakzad, Amin, Steinfeld, Ron and Yu, Jiangshan (2022). A survey on exotic signatures for post-quantum blockchain: challenges and research directions. ACM Computing Surveys, 55 (12) 251, 1-32. doi: 10.1145/3572771
2022
Conference Publication
Lattice-Based Inner Product Argument
Kuchta, Veronika, Sahu, Rajeev Anand and Sharma, Gaurav (2022). Lattice-Based Inner Product Argument. 13th International Conference on Cryptology in Africa AFRICACRYPT 2022, Fes, Morocco, 18–20 July 2022. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-17433-9_11
2022
Conference Publication
Post-Quantum Verifiable Random Function from Symmetric Primitives in PoS Blockchain
Buser, Maxime, Dowsley, Rafael, Esgin, Muhammed F., Kasra Kermanshahi, Shabnam, Kuchta, Veronika, Liu, Joseph K., Phan, Raphaël C.-W. and Zhang, Zhenfei (2022). Post-Quantum Verifiable Random Function from Symmetric Primitives in PoS Blockchain. 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-30 September 2022. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-17140-6_2
2022
Journal Article
Improving unlinkability of attribute-based authentication through game theory
Yevhen Zolotavkin, Jongkil Jay Jeong, Veronika Kuchta, Maksym Slavnenko and Robin Doss (2022). Improving unlinkability of attribute-based authentication through game theory. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 25 (2). doi: 10.1145/3501260
2021
Other Outputs
Post-quantum verifiable random function from symmetric primitives in PoS Blockchain
Buser, Maxime, Dowsley, Rafael, Esgin, Muhammed F., Kermanshahi, Shabnam Kasra, Kuchta, Veronika, Liu, Joseph K., Phan, Raphael and Zhang, Zhenfei (2021). Post-quantum verifiable random function from symmetric primitives in PoS Blockchain.
2021
Conference Publication
Efficient lattice-based polynomial evaluation and batch ZK arguments
Kuchta, Veronika, Sakzad, Amin, Steinfeld, Ron and Liu, Joseph K. (2021). Efficient lattice-based polynomial evaluation and batch ZK arguments. 27th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2020, Halifax, NS, Canada, 21-23 October 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-81652-0_1
2021
Journal Article
Lattice-based zero-knowledge arguments for additive and multiplicative relations
Kuchta, Veronika, Sakzad, Amin, Steinfeld, Ron and Liu, Joseph K. (2021). Lattice-based zero-knowledge arguments for additive and multiplicative relations. Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 89 (5), 925-963. doi: 10.1007/s10623-021-00851-1
2021
Conference Publication
Practical post-quantum few-time verifiable random function with applications to algorand
Esgin, Muhammed F., Kuchta, Veronika, Sakzad, Amin, Steinfeld, Ron, Zhang, Zhenfei, Sun, Shifeng and Chu, Shumo (2021). Practical post-quantum few-time verifiable random function with applications to algorand. 25th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), Virtual, 1-5 March 2021. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-64331-0_29
2021
Conference Publication
Enhancing privacy through DMMA: decision-making method for authentication
Slavnenko, Maksym, Zolotavkin, Yevhen, Jeong, Jay, Kuchta, Veronika and Doss, Robin (2021). Enhancing privacy through DMMA: decision-making method for authentication. 20th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom), Shenyang, Peoples Republic of China, 20-22 October 2021. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/TrustCom53373.2021.00055
2020
Journal Article
Post-quantum linkable ring signature enabling distributed authorised ring confidential transactions in blockchain
Torres, Wilson Abel Alberto, Steinfeld, Ron, Sakzad, Amin and Kuchta, Veronika (2020). Post-quantum linkable ring signature enabling distributed authorised ring confidential transactions in blockchain.
2020
Other Outputs
Practical post-quantum few-time verifiable random function with applications to algorand
Esgin, Muhammed F., Kuchta, Veronika, Sakzad, Amin, Steinfeld, Ron, Zhang, Zhenfei, Sun, Shifeng and Chu, Shumo (2020). Practical post-quantum few-time verifiable random function with applications to algorand.
2020
Conference Publication
Measure-rewind-measure: tighter quantum random oracle model proofs for one-way to hiding and CCA security
Kuchta, Veronika, Sakzad, Amin, Stehle, Damien, Steinfeld, Ron and Sun, Shifeng (2020). Measure-rewind-measure: tighter quantum random oracle model proofs for one-way to hiding and CCA security. Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Zagreb, Croatia, 10-14 May 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-45727-3_24
2019
Conference Publication
Revocable and linkable ring signature
Zhang, Xinyu, Liu, Joseph K., Steinfeld, Ron, Kuchta, Veronika and Yu, Jiangshan (2019). Revocable and linkable ring signature. International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Nanjing, China, 6-8 December 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-42921-8_1
2019
Conference Publication
Incentives for harvesting attack in proof of work mining pools
Zolotavkin, Yevhen and Kuchta, Veronika (2019). Incentives for harvesting attack in proof of work mining pools. 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2019, Luxembourg, 23-27 September 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-29959-0_34
2019
Journal Article
A twofold group key agreement protocol for NoC‐based MPSoCs
Sharma, Gaurav, Kuchta, Veronika, Anand Sahu, Rajeev, Ellinidou, Soultana, Bala, Suman, Markowitch, Olivier and Dricot, Jean‐Michel (2019). A twofold group key agreement protocol for NoC‐based MPSoCs. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 30 (6) e3633, 1-18. doi: 10.1002/ett.3633
2019
Journal Article
Public-key encryption with integrated keyword search
Saraswat, Vishal, Sahu, Rajeev Anand, Sharma, Gaurav, Kuchta, Veronika and Markowitch, Olivier (2019). Public-key encryption with integrated keyword search. Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, 3 (1), 12-25. doi: 10.1007/s41635-019-00066-w
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