My research interests are focused on Cryptography and Network Security. More specifically,  I am interested into the analysis and the design of efficient and provably secure primitives in the field of public-key cryptography. Recently, I was also interested into some theoretical aspects of cryptography, such as the analysis of ideal abstract frameworks in which to prove the security of cryptographic primitives, and the study of the minimal complexity assumptions needed to realize cryptography.

During my activity, I have worked on the following topics: Identity-Based and Certificateless cryptography, digital signatures, commitment schemes, Zero Knowledge Sets, Verifiable Random Functions, Key-Agreement protocols, Pseudo-Free groups, Onion Routing and theoretical foundations of crypto.

Here you can find an updated list of my publications.

Some random talks

• Adaptive Pseudo-Free Groups and Applications. May, 2010 @ 1st CryptoForma Workshop – Paris
• Certificateless Onion Routing. Nov 24, 2009 @ Dept. of Computer Science – University of Bristol, UK
• Certificateless Onion Routing. Nov 10, 2009 @ ACM CCS 2009 – Chicago, IL – USA
• Certificateless Onion Routing. Nov 6, 2009 @ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center – Hawthorne, NY, USA
• Verifiable Random Functions from Identity-Based Key-Encapsulation. Apr 30, 2009 @ EUROCRYPT 2009 – Cologne, Germany
• Zero-Knowledge Sets with Short Proofs. Nov 20, 2008 @ IBM Research Cryptography Seminar – Hawthorne, NY
• Zero-Knowledge Sets with Short Proofs. Oct 29, 2008 @ NYU Cryptography Seminar – New York, NY
• Zero-Knowledge Sets with Short Proofs. Apr 16, 2008 @ EUROCRYPT 2008 – Istanbul, Turkey
• Off-line/On-line Signatures: Theoretical Aspects and Experimental Results. Mar 10, 2008 @ PKC 2008 – Barcelona, Spain