Publications

Xinxin Fan, Teik Guan Tan, Nicholas Ho, Shi Hong Choy (2024). Enabling a Smooth Migration Towards Post-Quantum Security for Ethereum. 2024 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2024).

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Rabimba Karanjai, Sangwon Shin, Wujie Xiong, Xinxin Fan, Lin Chen, Tianwei Zhang, Taeweon Suh, Weidong Shi, Veronika Kuchta, Francesco Sica, Lei Xu (2024). TPU as Cryptographic Accelerator. The 13th International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP 2024).

Ranjith Chodavarapu, Rabimba Karanjai, Xinxin Fan, Weidong Shi, Lei Xu (2024). Adding All Flavors: A Hybrid Random Number Generator for dApps and Web3. The 26th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2024).

Jonathan Heiss, Fernando Castillo, Xinxin Fan (2024). Towards Credential-Based Device Registration in DApps for DePINs with ZKPs. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2024).

Xinxin Fan, Xueping Yang (2024). Enabling Web2-Based User Authentication for Account Abstraction. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2024).

Xinxin Fan, Lei Xu (2023). Towards a Rollup-Centric Scalable Architecture for Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks: A Position Paper. The Fifth ACM International Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (BlockSys'23).

Rabimba Karanjai, Rowan Collier, Zhimin Gao, Lin Chen, Xinxin Fan, Taeweon Suh, Weidong Shi, Lei Xu (2023). Decentralized Translator of Trust: Supporting Heterogeneous TEE for Critical Infrastructure Protection. The 5th ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI 2023).

Mike McBride, Xinxin Fan, David Guzman (2023). BGP Blockchain for Metaverse - A Distributed Consensus System for BGP. IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom 2023).

Mathias Brossard, Guilhem Bryant, Xinxin Fan, Alexandre Ferreira, Edmund Grimley-Evans, Christopher Haster, Derek Miller, Dominic P. Mulligan, Hugo J.M. Vincent, Shale Xiong, Lei Xu (2023). Privacy-Preserving Object Detection with Veracruz. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops).

Mathias Brossard, Guilhem Bryant, Basma El Gaabouri, Xinxin Fan, Alexandre Ferreira, Edmund Grimley-Evans, Christopher Haster, Evan Johnson, Derek Miller, Fan Mo, Dominic P. Mulligan, Nick Spinale, Eric van Hensbergen, Hugo J. M. Vincent, Shale Xiong (2023). Private Delegated Computations Using Strong Isolation. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.

Rabimba Karanjai, Zhimin Gao, Lin Chen, Xinxin Fan, Teweon Suh, Weidong Shi, Lei Xu (2023). DHTee: Decentralized Infrastructure for Heterogeneous TEEs. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2023).

Xinxin Fan, Zhi Zhong, Dong Guo, Qi Chai, Simone Romano (2023). Connecting Smart Devices to Smart Contracts with W3bstream. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2023).

David Guzman, Dirk Trossen, Mike McBride, Xinxin Fan (2022). Insights on Impact of Distributed Ledgers on Provider Networks. 2022 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2022).

Qingji Zheng, Xinxin Fan, Jorge Guajardo Merchan (2022). Searchable Symmetric Encryption System and Method of Processing Inverted Index. United States Patent 11405192.

Xinxin Fan, Qingji Zheng, Jorge Guajardo Merchan (2022). Method for Faster Secure Multiparty Inner Product Computation with SPDZ. United States Patent 11323444.

Xinxin Fan, Qingji Zheng, Lei Yang (2022). Method and System for Dynamic Searchable Symmetric Encryption with Forward Privacy and Delegated Verifiability. United States Patent 11222136.

Xinxin Fan, Zhi Zhong, Qi Chai, Dong Guo, Tian Pan (2021). User-Centric, Blockchain-Based and End-to-End Secure Home IP Camera System. United States Patent Application 20210390533A1.

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Lei Xu, Xinxin Fan, Lucas Hall, Qi Chai (2021). New Gold Mine: Harvesting IoT Data Through DeFi in a Secure Manner. 2021 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2021).

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Xinxin Fan, Qingji Zheng (2021). Method and System for Fuzzy Keyword Search over Encrypted Data. United States Patent 11023477.

Xinxin Fan, Jorge Guajardo Merchan, Daniel Vesenmaier (2021). System and Method for Privacy-Preserving Data Retrieval for Connected Power Tools. United States Patent 10897354.

Lei Xu, Zhimin Gao, Xinxin Fan, Lin Chen, Hanyee Kim, Taeweon Suh, Weidong Shi (2020). Blockchain based End-to-end Tracking System for Distributed IoT Intelligence Application Security Enhancement. The 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2020).

Seoyoung Ko, Xinxin Fan, Zhi Zhong, Qi Chai (2020). EMS: An Extensible and Modular Staking Architecture for Proof-of-Stake Systems. The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020).

Xinxin Fan, Zhi Zhong, Qi Chai, Dong Guo (2020). Ucam: A User-Centric, Blockchain-Based and End-to-End Secure Home IP Camera System. The 16th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2020).

Lei Xu, Lin Chen, Zhimin Gao, Xinxin Fan, Weidong Shi (2020). DL-DP: Improving the Security of Industrial IoT with Decentralized Ledger Defined Perimeter. The 2nd ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI 2020).

Xinxin Fan, Qi Chai, Lei Xu, Dong Guo (2020). DIAM-IoT: A Decentralized Identity and Access Management Framework for Internet of Things. The 2nd ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI 2020).

Xinxin Fan, Qi Chai, Zhi Zhong (2020). MULTAV: A Multi-Chain Token Backed Voting Framework for Decentralized Blockchain Governance. 2020 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2020).

Xinxin Fan, Qi Chai, Zhefeng Li, Tian Pan (2020). Decentralized IoT Data Authorization with Pebble Tracker. IEEE 6th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2020).

Xinxin Fan, Boyang Wang (2020). Method and System for Range Search on Encrypted Data. United States Patent 10664610.

Chenggang Wang, Boyang Wang, Xinxin Fan (2020). EcoBoost: Efficient Bootstrapping for Confidential Transactions. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2020).

Lei Xu, Lin Chen, Zhimin Gao, Larry Carranco, Xinxin Fan, Nolan Shah, Nour Diallo, Weidong Shi (2020). Supporting Blockchain based Cryptocurrency Mobile Payment with Smart Devices. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 9(2).

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Lei Xu, Lin Chen, Zhimin Gao, Xinxin Fan, Taeweon Suh, Weidong Shi (2020). DIoTA: Decentralized Ledger Based Framework for Data Authenticity Protection in IoT Systems. IEEE Network, 34(1).

Lei Xu, Lin Chen, Zhimin Gao, Xinxin Fan, Kimberly Doan, Shouhuai Xu, Weidong Shi (2019). KCRS: A Blockchain-Based Key Compromise Resilient Signature System. The First International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys 2019).

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Shalabh Jain, Jorge Guajardo Merchan, Xinxin Fan (2019). Method and System for Shared Key and Message Authentication over an Insecure Shared Communication Medium. United States Patent 10397195.

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong, Berry Schoenmakers, Francesco Sica, Andrey Sidorenko (2019). Secure Simultaneous Bit Extraction from Koblitz Curves. Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 87(1).

Guang Gong, Xinxin Fan, Bo Zhu (2018). Password-less Authentication System, Method and Device. United States Patent 10136315.

Xinxin Fan, Qi Chai (2018). Roll-DPoS: A Randomized Delegated Proof of Stake Scheme for Scalable Blockchain-Based Internet of Things Systems. The 15th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2018).

Boyang Wang, Xinxin Fan (2018). Search Ranges Efficiently and Compatibly as Keywords over Encrypted Data. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 15(6).

Xinxin Fan (2018). Scalable Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Short-Lived Signature Schemes. The 28th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON 2018).

Shalabh Jain, Jorge Guajardo Merchan, Xinxin Fan (2018). Method and System for Secure Key Generation over an Insecure Shared Communication Medium. United States Patent 10104048.

Boyang Wang, Xinxin Fan (2018). Lightweight Verification for Searchable Encryption. The 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (TrustCom 2018).

Xinxin Fan (2018). Faster Dual-Key Stealth Address for Blockchain-Based Internet of Things Systems. 2018 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2018).

Xinxin Fan, Boyang Wang (2018). Method and System for Verifiable Searchable Symmetric Encryption. United States Patent 9977918.

Lei Yang, Qingji Zheng, Xinxin Fan (2017). RSPP: A Reliable, Searchable and Privacy-Preserving e-Healthcare System for Cloud-Assisted Body Area Networks. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017).

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Xinxin Fan, Adilet Otemissov, Francesco Sica, Andrey Sidorenko (2017). Secure Simultaneous Bit Extraction from Koblitz Curves. Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 83(3).

Kalikinkar Mandal, Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2016). Design and Implementation of Warbler Family of Lightweight Pseudorandom Number Generators for Smart Devices. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 15(1).

Bo Zhu, Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2015). Pleco and Plectron -- Two Provably Secure Password Hashing Algorithms. The 5th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2015).

Guang Gong, Mark Aagaard, Xinxin Fan (2015). Lightweight Stream Cipher Cryptosystems. United States Patent 8953784.

Xinxin Fan, Kalikinkar Mandal, Guang Gong (2015). WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Devices. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety, 2(1).

Kalikinkar Mandal, Guang Gong, Xinxin Fan, Mark Aagaard (2014). On Selection of Optimal Parameters for the WG Stream Cipher Family. Cryptography and Communications, 6(2).

Bo Zhu, Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2014). Loxin -- A Solution to Password-less Universal Login. The 2014 IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Security and Privacy in Big Data (BigSecurity 2014).

Xinxin Fan (2014). Side-Channel Attacks on RFID Systems -- State of the Art. Chapter 9 in Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID): Emerging Technologies, Applications and Improvement Strategies.

Qi Chai, Xinxin Fan (2014). Low-Complexity Attacks on Selected Lightweight Stream Ciphers. Chapter 6 in Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID): Emerging Technologies, Applications and Improvement Strategies.

Kalikinkar Mandal, Xinxin Fan (2014). Lightweight Cryptography for Passive RFID Systems: A Research Survey. Chapter 5 in Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID): Emerging Technologies, Applications and Improvement Strategies.

Xinxin Fan, Teng Wu, Guang Gong (2014). An Efficient Stream Cipher WG-16 and Its Application for Securing 4G-LTE Networks. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 490-491.

Kalikinkar Mandal, Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2013). Warbler: A Lightweight Pseudorandom Number Generator for EPC C1 Gen2 Passive RFID Tags. International Journal of RFID Security and Cryptography, 2(1-4).

Guang Gong, Mark Aagaard, Xinxin Fan (2013). Resilience to Distinguishing Attacks on WG-7 Cipher and Their Generalizations. Cryptography and Communications, 5(4).

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2013). Securing NFC with Elliptic Curve Cryptography -- Challenges and Solutions. The 2013 Workshop on RFID and IoT Security (RFIDSec'13 Asia).

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2013). Securing ZigBee Smart Energy Profile 1.x with OpenECC Library. The First ACM Workshop on Smart Energy Grid Security (SEGS 2013).

Xinxin Fan, Nusa Zidaric, Mark Aagaard, Guang Gong (2013). Efficient Hardware Implementation of the Stream Cipher WG-16 with Composite Field Arithmetic. The 2013 ACM Workshop on Trustworthy Embedded Devices (TrustED 2013).

Gangqiang Yang, Xinxin Fan, Mark Aagaard, Guang Gong (2013). Design Space Exploration of the Lightweight Stream Cipher WG-8 for FPGAs and ASICs. The 8th Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS 2013).

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2013). Security Challenges in Smart-Grid Metering and Control Systems (Invited Paper). Technology Innovation Management Review.

Kalikinkar Mandal, Guang Gong, Xinxin Fan, Mark Aagaard (2013). On Selection of Optimal Parameters for the WG Stream Cipher Family. The 13th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT 2013).

Xinxin Fan, Kalikinkar Mandal, Guang Gong (2013). WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Smart Devices. The 9th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (Qshine 2013).

Kalikinkar Mandal, Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2012). Warbler: A Lightweight Pseudorandom Number Generator For EPC C1 Gen2 Tags. The 2012 Workshop on RFID and IoT Security (RFIDsec'12 Asia).

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2012). LKPM: A Lightweight Polynomial-Based Key Management Protocol for Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks. The 4th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets 2012).

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2012). Accelerating Signature-Based Broadcast Authentication for Wireless Sensor Networks, Ad Hoc Networks. Ad Hoc Networks, 10(4).

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong, Daniel W. Engels, Eric M. Smith (2011). A Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication Protocol for RFID Systems. The 2011 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011).

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong, Honggang Hu (2011). Remedying the Hummingbird Cryptographic Algorithm. The 10th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2011).

Yang Zhan, Haibo Tian, Yumin Wang, Hongyu Shuai, Jianhua Ge, Xinguo Li, Zhengtao Jiang, Xinxin Fan, Shichong Tan, Suchun Yuan (2011). Contents Protection System and Method. China Patent CN1832400B.

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2011). On the Security of Hummingbird-2 Against Side Channel Cube Attacks. The 4th Western European Workshop on Research in Cryptology (WEWoRC 2011).

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2011). A Survey of Key Revocation Schemes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Chapter in Handbook on Security and Networks.

Haibo Tian, Yang Zhan, Yumin Wang, Hongyu Shuai, Jianhua Ge, Suchun Yuan, Zhengtao Jiang, Shichong Tan, Xinxin Fan (2010). Authorization Key, Consultation and Update Method Based on Common Key Credentials between Interface of Electronic Equipment. China Patent CN1832397B.

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2010). Accelerating Signature-Based Broadcast Authentication for Wireless Sensor Networks. The 2nd International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets 2010).

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong, Ken Lauffenburger, Troy Hicks (2010). FPGA Implementations of the Hummingbird Cryptographic Algorithm. The 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST 2010).

Daniel W. Engels, Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong, Honggang Hu, Eric M. Smith (2010). Hummingbird: Ultra-Lightweight Cryptography for Resource-Constrained Devices. Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2010 Workshops, RLCPS, WECSR, and WLC 2010.

Shichong Tan, Yumin Wang, Yang Zhan, Zhengtao Jiang, Haibo Tian, Xinxin Fan, Suchun Yuan, Songliang Yu (2010). Pseudo-random Number Generation Method. China Patent CN100583754C.

Xinxin Fan, Honggang Hu, Guang Gong, Eric M. Smith, Daniel W. Engels (2009). Lightweight Implementation of Hummingbird Cryptographic Algorithm on 4-Bit Microcontrollers. The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST 2009).

Zhengtao Jiang, Yumin Wang, Jianhua Ge, Yang Zhan, Xinguo Li, Haibo Tian, Shichong Tan, Xinxin Fan, Suchun Yuan, Hongyu Shuai (2009). Stream Cipher Generator, Random Digit Generation Method, Encrypting System and Encryption Method. China Patent CN100459493C.

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2008). Key Revocation based on Dirichlet Multinomial Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. The 33rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2008).

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong, David Jao (2008). Speeding Up Pairing Computations on Genus 2 Hyperelliptic Curves with Efficiently Computable Automorphisms. The Second International Conference on Pairing-Based Cryptography (Pairing 2008).

Xinxin Fan, Yumin Wang, Yang Zhan, Zhengtao Jiang, Shichong Tan, Haibo Tian, Suchun Yuan, Songliang Yu (2008). Elliptic Curve Cipher System and Implementing Method. China Patent CN100414492C.

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong, David Jao (2008). Efficient Pairing Computation on Genus 2 Curves in Projective Coordinates. The 15th Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2008).

Xinxin Fan, Guang Gong (2007). Efficient Explicit Formulae for Genus 2 Hyperelliptic Curves over Prime Fields and Their Implementations. The 14th Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2007).

Xinxin Fan, Thomas Wollinger, Guang Gong (2007). Efficient Explicit Formulae for Genus 3 Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystems over Binary Fields. IET Information Security, 1(2).

Xinxin Fan, Thomas Wollinger, Yumin Wang (2006). Improvement of Inversion-Free Group Operations for Genus 3 Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystems. Chapter 7 in New Trends in Cryptographic Systems.

Xinxin Fan, Thomas Wollinger, Yumin Wang (2006). Efficient Doubling on Genus 3 Curves over Binary Fields. The Cryptographer’s Track at the RSA Conference (CT-RSA 2006).

Xinxin Fan, Thomas Wollinger, Yumin Wang (2005). Inversion-Free Arithmetic on Genus 3 Hyperelliptic Curves and Its Implementations. International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC 2005).

Xinxin Fan, Yumin Wang (2005). Simultaneous Divisor Class Addition-Subtraction Algorithm and Its Applications to Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystem. The IEEE 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2005).