R. Pass

Most-cited papers

Analysis of the Blockchain Protocol in Asynchronous Networks
R. Pass, Lior Seeman, Abhi Shelat
2017International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques743 citations
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Hybrid Consensus: Efficient Consensus in the Permissionless Model
R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2016International Symposium on Distributed Computing419 citations
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FruitChains: A Fair Blockchain
R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2017IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive400 citations
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Thunderella: Blockchains with Optimistic Instant Confirmation
R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2018IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive280 citations
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Snow White: Provably Secure Proofs of Stake
Iddo Bentov, R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2016IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive262 citations
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Snow White: Robustly Reconfigurable Consensus and Applications to Provably Secure Proof of Stake
Philip Daian, R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2019Financial Cryptography250 citations
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The Sleepy Model of Consensus
Iddo Bentov, R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2017International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security235 citations
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Communication complexity of byzantine agreement, revisited
Ittai Abraham, T.-H. Hubert Chan, D. Dolev, Kartik Nayak +3 more
2018Distributed computing150 citations Open access
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Formal Abstractions for Attested Execution Secure Processors
R. Pass, Elaine Shi, Florian Tramèr
2017International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques137 citations
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Succinct Randomized Encodings and their Applications
Nir Bitansky, Sanjam Garg, Hui-Jia Lin, R. Pass +1 more
2015IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive105 citations
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On One-way Functions and Kolmogorov Complexity
Yanyi Liu, R. Pass
2020IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science98 citations
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Oblivious Parallel RAM and Applications
Elette Boyle, Kai-Min Chung, R. Pass
2016Theory of Cryptography Conference96 citations Open access
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Indistinguishability obfuscation from circular security
Romain Gay, R. Pass
2021IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive95 citations
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Can We Access a Database Both Locally and Privately?
Elette Boyle, Y. Ishai, R. Pass, Mary K. Wootters
2017Theory of Cryptography Conference95 citations
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Micropayments for Decentralized Currencies
R. Pass, Abhi Shelat
2015IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive94 citations
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Continuous Verifiable Delay Functions
Naomi Ephraim, Cody R. Freitag, Ilan Komargodski, R. Pass
2020IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive91 citations
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PaLa: A Simple Partially Synchronous Blockchain
T.-H. Hubert Chan, R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2018IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive91 citations
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Rethinking Large-Scale Consensus
R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2017IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium77 citations
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Synchronous, with a Chance of Partition Tolerance
Yue Guo, R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2019IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive73 citations
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Socially Optimal Mining Pools
Ben Fisch, R. Pass, Abhi Shelat
2017Workshop on Internet and Network Economics70 citations Open access
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Limits of Extractability Assumptions with Distributional Auxiliary Input
Elette Boyle, R. Pass
2015International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security70 citations Open access
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Large-Scale Secure Computation: Multi-party Computation for (Parallel) RAM Programs
Elette Boyle, Kai-Min Chung, R. Pass
2015Annual International Cryptology Conference69 citations
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C ∅ C ∅ : A Framework for Building Composable Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Ahmed E. Kosba, Zhi-Chao Zhao, Andrew K. Miller, Yi Qian +5 more
201667 citations
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Two-Round and Non-Interactive Concurrent Non-Malleable Commitments from Time-Lock Puzzles
Hui-Jia Lin, R. Pass, Pratik Soni
2017IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science64 citations
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PiLi: An Extremely Simple Synchronous Blockchain
T.-H. Hubert Chan, R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2018IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive61 citations
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Indistinguishability Obfuscation with Non-trivial Efficiency
Hui-Jia Lin, R. Pass, Karn Seth, Sidharth Telang
2016International Conference on Theory and Practice of Public Key Cryptography51 citations
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Output-Compressing Randomized Encodings and Applications
Hui-Jia Lin, R. Pass, Karn Seth, Sidharth Telang
2016Theory of Cryptography Conference50 citations
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Non-Malleable Time-Lock Puzzles and Applications
Naomi Ephraim, Cody R. Freitag, Ilan Komargodski, R. Pass
2020IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive48 citations
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Simplex Consensus: A Simple and Fast Consensus Protocol
Benjamin Y. Chan, R. Pass
2023IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive44 citations Open access
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Bucket Oblivious Sort: An Extremely Simple Oblivious Sort
Gilad Asharov, T.-H. Hubert Chan, Kartik Nayak, R. Pass +2 more
2020SIAM Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms44 citations Open access
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On one-way functions from NP-complete problems
Yanyi Liu, R. Pass
2022Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex.40 citations
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Sublinear-Round Byzantine Agreement Under Corrupt Majority
T.-H. Hubert Chan, R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2020International Conference on Theory and Practice of Public Key Cryptography37 citations
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Incrementally Verifiable Computation via Rate-1 Batch Arguments
Omer Paneth, R. Pass
2022IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science35 citations
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From Weak to Strong Zero-Knowledge and Applications
Kai-Min Chung, Edward Lui, R. Pass
2015Theory of Cryptography Conference34 citations Open access
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Impossibility of VBB Obfuscation with Ideal Constant-Degree Graded Encodings
R. Pass, Abhi Shelat
2016Theory of Cryptography Conference33 citations Open access
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On the Possibility of Basing Cryptography on $\EXP \neq \BPP$
Yanyi Liu, R. Pass
2021Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex.31 citations
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Game Theoretic Notions of Fairness in Multi-party Coin Toss
Kai-Min Chung, Yue Guo, Wei-Kai Lin, R. Pass +1 more
2018Theory of Cryptography Conference24 citations
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Lower Bounds on Assumptions Behind Indistinguishability Obfuscation
Mohammad Mahmoody, Ameer Mohammed, Soheil Nematihaji, R. Pass +1 more
2016Theory of Cryptography Conference23 citations Open access
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A Knowledge-Based Analysis of the Blockchain Protocol
Joseph Y. Halpern, R. Pass
2017Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge22 citations Open access
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Tight Parallel Repetition Theorems for Public-Coin Arguments Using KL-Divergence
Kai-Min Chung, R. Pass
2015Theory of Cryptography Conference22 citations
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One-Way Functions and the Hardness of (Probabilistic) Time-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity w.r.t. Samplable Distributions
Yanyi Liu, R. Pass
2023Annual International Cryptology Conference21 citations
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Consensus through Herding
T.-H. Hubert Chan, R. Pass, Elaine Shi
2019IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive21 citations
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Tight Revenue Bounds With Possibilistic Beliefs and Level‐k Rationality
Jing Chen, S. Micali, R. Pass
201520 citations Open access
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SPARKs: Succinct Parallelizable Arguments of Knowledge
Naomi Ephraim, Cody R. Freitag, Ilan Komargodski, R. Pass
2020International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques19 citations
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On the Security Loss of Unique Signatures
Andrew Morgan, R. Pass
2018IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive19 citations
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Locality-Preserving Oblivious RAM
Gilad Asharov, T.-H. Hubert Chan, Kartik Nayak, R. Pass +2 more
2019Journal of Cryptology18 citations
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Indistinguishability Obfuscation for RAM Programs and Succinct Randomized Encodings
Nir Bitansky, R. Canetti, Sanjam Garg, J. Holmgren +5 more
2018SIAM journal on computing (Print)18 citations Open access
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Characterizing derandomization through hardness of Levin-Kolmogorov complexity
Yanyi Liu, R. Pass
2022Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex.17 citations
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Blind Certificate Authorities
Liang Wang, Gilad Asharov, R. Pass, Thomas Ristenpart +1 more
2019IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy16 citations Open access
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Leakage-Resilient Hardness v.s. Randomness
Yanyi Liu, R. Pass
2022Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex.15 citations
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