We are observing an unprecedented growth of decentralized crypto-currencies (e.g., Bitcoin), payment networks (e.g., Ripple), and commercial blockchain solutions (e.g., Hyperledger). It is now clear that these technologies are here to stay.

Through our several projects, we are not only improving security, privacy, and reliability of these inherently decentralized systems, but also exploring applications of these technologies to supply chain systems, smart contracts and beyond.

Our work has been supported by NSF SaTC, Northrop Grumman, Ford Motors, Intel and the German Universities Excellence Initiative.

Works

Publications

2018

  • Mind Your Credit: Assessing the Health of the Ripple Credit Network.
    Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Navin Modi, Raghuvir Songhela, Aniket Kate and Sonia Fahmy.
    WWW ‘18. [PDF]
  • Settling Payments Fast and Private: Efficient Decentralized Routing for Path-Based Transactions.
    Stefanie Roos, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate and Ian Goldberg.
    NDSS ‘18. [PDF]

2017

  • Concurrency and Privacy with Payment-Channel Networks.
    Giulio Malavolta, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate, Matteo Maffei and Srivatsan Ravi.
    CCS ‘17. [PDF]
  • PathShuffle: Mixing Credit Paths for Anonymous Transactions in Ripple.
    Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Tim Ruffing and Aniket Kate.
    PETS ‘17. [PDF]
  • Mixing Confidential Transactions: Comprehensive Transaction Privacy for Bitcoin.
    Tim Ruffing and Pedro Moreno-Sanchez.
    BITCOIN ‘17. [PDF]
  • Switch Commitments: A Safety Switch for Confidential Transactions.
    Tim Ruffing and Giulio Malavolta.
    BITCOIN ‘17. [PDF]
  • P2P Mixing and Unlinkable Bitcoin Transactions.
    Tim Ruffing, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Aniket Kate.
    NDSS ‘17. [PDF]
  • SilentWhispers: Enforcing Security and Privacy in Decentralized Credit Networks.
    Giulio Malavolta, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate and Matteo Maffei.
    NDSS ‘17. [PDF]

Until 2016

  • Listening to Whispers of Ripple: Linking Wallets and Deanonymizing Payments in the Ripple Network.
    Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Muhammad Bilal Zafar and Aniket Kate.
    PETS ‘16. [PDF]
  • Liar, Liar, Coins on Fire!.
    Tim Ruffing, Aniket Kate and Dominique Schroeder.
    CCS ‘15. [PDF]
  • Privacy Preserving Payments in Credit Networks.
    Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate, Matteo Maffei and Kim Pecina.
    NDSS ‘15. [PDF]
  • CoinShuffle: Practical Decentralized Coin Mixing for Bitcoin.
    Tim Ruffing, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Aniket Kate.
    ESORICS ‘14. [PDF]

Posters

  • SmartNDA: Realizing Non-Disclosure Agreement using Bitcoin Penalty
    Aniket Kate, Easwar Vivek Mangipudi and Krutarth Rao.
    CERIAS Security Symposium ‘17. 2nd Best Poster Award [Poster]
  • DUST-BT: Preventing Supply Chain Tampering using Blockchain Technology
    Aniket Kate, Mahimna Kelkar, Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Krutarth Rao.
    CERIAS Security Symposium ‘17. [Poster]
  • Linking Wallets and Deanonymizing Payments in the Ripple Network
    Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Muhammad Bilal Zafar and Aniket Kate.
    COSN ‘15. [Poster]