Ariel Nof

Postdoc Researcher

Department of Computer Science
Technion

Email: ariel.nof@cs.technion.ac.il

I am a postdoc in the Department of Computer Science at the Technion, hosted by Prof. Yuval Yishai
I completed my Ph.D. in 2019 working in the Applied Cryptography and Cyber Security Research Center at Bar-Ilan University, under the supervision of Prof. Yehuda Lindell.
I received my M.Sc. from the Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, under the supervision of Prof. Yehuda Lindell.

My research interests are in cryptography, with a focus on secure multiparty computation.

Publications

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Generalized Pseudorandom Secret Sharing and Efficient Straggler-Resilient Secure Computation.
F. Benhamouda, E. Boyle, N. Gilboa, S. Halevi, Y. Ishai and A. Nof.
TCC 2021 (Theory of Cryptography Conference).
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Sublinear GMW-Style Compiler for MPC with Preprocessing.
E. Boyle, N. Gilboa, Y. Ishai and A. Nof.
CRYPTO 2021 (International Conference on Cryptology).

An Efficient Passive-to-Active Compiler for Honest-Majority MPC over Rings.
M. Abspoel, A. Dalskov, D. Escudero and A. Nof.
ACNS 2021 (International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security).
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Efficient Fully Secure Computation via Distributed Zero-Knowledge Proofs.
E. Boyle, N. Gilboa, Y. Ishai and A. Nof.
ASIACRYPT 2020 (International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security).
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Concretely-Efficient Zero-Knowledge Arguments for Arithmetic Circuits and Their Application to Lattice-Based Cryptography.
C. Baum and A. Nof.
PKC 2020 (International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography).
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Practical Fully Secure Three-Party Computation via Sublinear Distributed Zero-Knowledge Proofs.
E. Boyle, N. Gilboa, Y. Ishai and A. Nof.
CCS 2019 (ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security).
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Fast Secure Multiparty ECDSA with Practical Distributed Key Generation and Applications to Cryptocurrency Custody.
Y. Lindell and A. Nof.
CCS 2018 (ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security).
The full version of this paper, with optimizations, is co-authored with Samuel Ranellucci.
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Fast Large-Scale Honest-Majority MPC for Malicious Adversaries.
K. China, D. Genkin, K. Hamada, D. Ikarashi, R. Kikuchi, Y. Lindell and A. Nof.
CRYPTO 2018 (International Conference on Cryptology).
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A Framework for Constructing Fast MPC over Arithmetic Circuits with Malicious Adversaries and an Honest-Majority.
Y. Lindell and A. Nof.
CCS 2017 (ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security).
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Optimized Honest-Majority MPC for Malicious Adversaries - Breaking the 1 Billion-Gate Per Second Barrier.
T. Araki, A. Barak, J. Furukawa, T. Lichter, Y. Lindell, A. Nof, K. Ohara, A. Watzman, and O. Weinstein.
IEEE Security and Privacy Conference 2017.
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High-Throughput Secure Three-Party Computation for Malicious Adversaries and an Honest Majority.
J. Furukawa, Y. Lindell, A. Nof and O. Weinstein.
EUROCRYPT 2017 (International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques).
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High-Throughput Semi-Honest Secure Three-Party Computation with an Honest Majority.
T. Araki, J. Furukawa, Y. Lindell, A. Nof and K. Ohara.
CCS 2016 (ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security).
Recipient of the best-paper award.
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Fast Garbling of Circuits Under Standard Assumptions.
S. Gueron, Y. Lindell, A. Nof and B. Pinkas.
CCS 2015 (ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security).
The full version appeared in the Journal of Cryptology.
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Program Committees

ACNS 2022
ACISP 2021, CSCML 2021
ACM CCS 2020, CSCML 2020

Teaching

Data Structures (371-1-0341) (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University): 2021 (The course material is available on Moodle for registred users).

Seminar: Topics in Applied Cryptography (89-4371) (Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University): 2019

Introduction to Cryptography (83-458) (Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University): 2019

I was a teaching assistant in the following courses:

Discrete Mathematics (89-198) (Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University): 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018