Dr Behzad Abdolmaleki

School of Computer Science

Lecturer in Cybersecurity

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Dr Behzad Abdolmaleki
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
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Behzad Abdolmaleki is a Lecturer at the (Cybersecurity) at the . He is broadly interested in constructing cryptographic schemes in post-quantum and quantum settings and the intersections with other disciplines, e.g., zero-knowledge proofs, MPC, cryptocurrencies, and concurrent systems.

From Nov. 2020 to April 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Cryptography at the , Germany, where he was working with . Prior to joining MPI-SP, he was a senior researcher in Cryptography at the University of Tartu (from August to December 2020). He finished his Ph.D. at the University of Tartu on September 2020, under the supervision of . In August and November 2019, he visited the , Vienna, Austria, hosted by .

Publications

Journal articles

  • Abdolmaleki B, Clark J, Foroutani M, Khazaei S & Nasirzadeh S (2025) A Generic Framework for Practical Lattice-Based Non-interactive Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025, 901-901.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Fauzi P, Krips T & Siim J (2024) Shuffle Arguments Based on Subset-Checking.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024, 1056-1056.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Blümel H, Fenzi G, Khajeh H, Köpsell S & Zarezadeh M (2024) Post-Quantum Access Control with Application to Secure Data Retrieval.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024, 1160-1160.
  • Rabaninejad R, Abdolmaleki B, Ramacher S, Slamanig D & Michalas A (2024) Attribute-Based Threshold Issuance Anonymous Counting Tokens and Its Application to Sybil-Resistant Self-Sovereign Identity.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024, 1024-1024.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Chevalier C, Ebrahimi E, Malavolta G & Vu Q-H (2024) On Quantum Simulation-Soundness.. IACR Commun. Cryptol., 1, 18-18.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Glaeser N, Ramacher S & Slamanig D (2023) Universally Composable NIZKs: Circuit-Succinct, Non-Malleable and CRS-Updatable.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023, 97-97.
  • Rabaninejad R, Abdolmaleki B, Malavolta G, Michalas A & Nabizadeh A (2023) stoRNA: Stateless Transparent Proofs of Storage-time.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023, 515-515.
  • Abdolmaleki B & Slamanig D (2022) CRS-Updatable Asymmetric Quasi-Adaptive NIZK Arguments.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022, 1756-1756.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Fleischhacker N, Goyal V, Jain A & Malavolta G (2022) Steganography-Free Zero-Knowledge.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022, 1263-1263.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Badrinarayanan S, Fernando R, Malavolta G, Rahimi A & Sahai A (2022) Two-Round Concurrent 2PC from Sub-Exponential LWE.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022, 1719-1719.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Lipmaa H, Siim J & ZajÄ…c M (2021) . Journal of Cryptology, 34(3).
  • Abdolmaleki B & Slamanig D (2021) Updatable Trapdoor SPHFs: Modular Construction of Updatable Zero-Knowledge Arguments and More.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021, 1360-1360.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Khoshakhlagh H & Lipmaa H (2021) Smooth Zero-Knowledge Hash Functions.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021, 653-653.
  • Abdolmaleki B & Slamanig D (2020) Unbounded Simulation-Sound Subversion Resistant Quasi-Adaptive NIZK Proofs and Applications to Modular zk-SNARKs.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020, 364-364.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Ramacher S & Slamanig D (2020) Lift-and-Shift: Obtaining Simulation Extractable Subversion and Updatable SNARKs Generically.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020, 62-62.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Lipmaa H, Siim J & Zajac M (2020) On Subversion-Resistant SNARKs.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020, 668-668.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Khoshakhlagh H & Slamanig D (2019) A Framework for UC-Secure Commitments from Publicly Computable Smooth Projective Hashing.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2019, 1063-1063.
  • Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B, Khazaei S & Aref MR (2019) Breaking Anonymity of Some Recent Lightweight RFID Authentication Protocols.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2019, 1125-1125.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Lipmaa H, Siim J & Zajac M (2019) DL-Extractable UC-Commitment Schemes.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2019, 201-201.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Lipmaa H, Siim J & Zajac M (2019) UC-Secure CRS Generation for SNARKs.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2019, 471-471.
  • Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B, Khazaei S & Aref MR (2019) . Wireless Networks, 25(3), 1235-1252.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Lipmaa H, Siim J & Zajac M (2018) On QA-NIZK in the BPK Model.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2018, 877-877.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Khazaei S & Aref MR (2017) . Wireless Personal Communications, 95(4), 5057-5080.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Lipmaa H & Zajac M (2017) A Subversion-Resistant SNARK.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2017, 599-599.
  • Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B & Emadi MJ (2016) Game-Based Cryptanalysis of a Lightweight CRC-Based Authentication Protocol for EPC Tags.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2016, 387-387.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Khazaei S & Aref MR (2016) Game-Based Privacy Analysis of RFID Security Schemes for Confident Au-thentication in IoT.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2016, 649-649.
  • Alavi SM, Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B & Aref MR (2015) . Wireless Personal Communications, 83(3), 1663-1682.
  • Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B, Akhbari B & Aref MR (2015) Enhancing Privacy of Recent Authentication Schemes for Low-Cost RFID Systems. ISECURE-ISC INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SECURITY, 7(2), 135-149.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Bakhshi H, Baghery K & Aref MR (2015) Analysis of an RFID Authentication Protocol in Accordance with EPC Standards.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2015, 980-980.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Chevalier C, Ebrahimi E, Malavolta G & Vu Q-H () . IACR Communications in Cryptology, 1(4).

Book chapters

  • Abdolmaleki B, Fauzi P, Krips T & Siim J (2024) In Galdi C & Phan DH (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 345-366). Springer Nature Switzerland
  • Rabaninejad R, Abdolmaleki B, Malavolta G, Michalas A & Nabizadeh A (2024) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 389-410). Springer Nature Switzerland
  • Abdolmaleki B, Badrinarayanan S, Fernando R, Malavolta G, Rahimi A & Sahai A (2023) , Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2023 (pp. 71-105). Springer Nature Singapore

Conference proceedings

  • Yang Y, Shi Q, Gope P, Abdolmaleki B & Sikdar B (2025) . 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) (pp 1140-1158), 12 May 2025 - 15 May 2025.
  • Alnashwan R, Yang Y, Dong Y, Gope P, Abdolmaleki B & Hussain SR (2024) . CCS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp 2057-2071). Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 14 October 2024 - 14 October 2024.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Glaeser N, Ramacher S & Slamanig D (2024) . 2024 IEEE 37th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) (pp 527-542), 8 July 2024 - 12 July 2024.
  • Alnashwan R, Yang Y, Dong Y, Gope P, Abdolmaleki B & Hussain SR (2024) Strong Privacy-Preserving Universally Composable AKA Protocol with Seamless Handover Support for Mobile Virtual Network Operator.. CCS (pp 2057-2071)
  • Abdolmaleki B & Slamanig D (2022) (pp 3-25)
  • Abdolmaleki B, Fleischhacker N, Goyal V, Jain A & Malavolta G (2022) (pp 143-172)
  • Abdolmaleki B, Khoshakhlagh H & Lipmaa H (2021) (pp 510-535)
  • Abdolmaleki B & Slamanig D (2021) (pp 492-512)
  • Abdolmaleki B & Slamanig D (2021) (pp 46-67)
  • Abdolmaleki B, Ramacher S & Slamanig D (2020) . Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp 1987-2005)
  • Abdolmaleki B, Lipmaa H, Siim J & ZajÄ…c M (2020) (pp 590-620)
  • Abdolmaleki B, Khoshakhlagh H & Slamanig D (2019) (pp 1-21)
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Lipmaa H, Siim J & ZajÄ…c M (2019) (pp 99-117)
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Lipmaa H, Siim J & ZajÄ…c M (2019) (pp 385-405)
  • Baghery K & Abdolmaleki B (2017) . 2017 Advances in Wireless and Optical Communications (RTUWO) (pp 208-213), 2 November 2017 - 3 November 2017.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Lipmaa H & ZajÄ…c M (2017) (pp 3-33)
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Akhbari B & Aref MR (2016) . 2016 8th International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST) (pp 111-116), 27 September 2016 - 28 September 2016.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Akhbari B, Alavi SM & Aref MR (2016) . 2016 24th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE) (pp 1475-1480), 10 May 2016 - 12 May 2016.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Akhbari B & Aref MR (2015) . 2015 12th International Iranian Society of Cryptology Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC) (pp 116-121), 8 September 2015 - 10 September 2015.
  • Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B, Akhbari B & Aref MR (2015) . 2015 23rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (pp 426-431), 10 May 2015 - 14 May 2015.
  • Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B & Seyfe B (2014) . 7'th International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST'2014) (pp 1172-1177), 9 September 2014 - 11 September 2014.
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Akhbari B & Aref MR (2014) . 7'th International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST'2014) (pp 895-900), 9 September 2014 - 11 September 2014.
  • Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B, Akhbari B & Aref MR (2014) . 2014 11th International ISC Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (pp 137-142), 3 September 2014 - 4 September 2014.
  • Nouri M, Zeinolabedini Z, Abdolmaleki B & Farhangian N (2012) . 2012 6th International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT) (pp 1-6), 17 October 2012 - 19 October 2012.

Preprints

  • Alnashwan R, Yang Y, Dong Y, Gope P, Abdolmaleki B & Hussain SR (2024) , arXiv.
Research group

Security of Advanced Systems research group

Grants
  • DIDShield: A Privacy-Centric Approach to Digital Wallet Security, Innovate UK, 04/2025 - 07/2025, £22,757, as PI

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