Daniel Collins' Website

About Me:

I am a PhD Student at EPFL, Switzerland under the supervision of Serge Vaudenay working in cryptography; I have been working at EPFL since September, 2019.
Previously, I studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Sydney, where I spent time under the supervision of Vincent Gramoli in distributed computing which culminated in an Honours thesis.
So far, I work on or have worked on the following topics:

I am graduating from EPFL in early 2024 and starting a postdoc in June at Purdue University with Vassilis Zikas. Please feel free to get in touch if you would like to collaborate.

Publications:

  1. K-Waay: Fast and Deniable Post-Quantum X3DH without Ring Signatures
    Daniel Collins, Loïs Huguenin-Dumittan, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen, Nicolas Rolin, Serge Vaudenay
    USENIX Security 2024
    [preprint]
  2. WhatsUpp with Sender Keys? Analysis, Improvements and Security Proofs
    David Balbás, Daniel Collins, Phillip Gajland
    ASIACRYPT 2023, Poster at USENIX Security 2023
    [preprint] [poster]
    [preliminary version] (Best Paper Runner-Up at RECSI 2022)
  3. Network-Agnostic Security Comes (Almost) for Free in DKG and MPC
    Renas Bacho, Daniel Collins, Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Julian Loss
    CRYPTO 2023
    [preprint] [talk] [slides]
  4. On Active Attack Detection in Messaging with Immediate Decryption
    Khashayar Barooti, Daniel Collins, Simone Colombo, Loïs Huguenin-Dumittan, Serge Vaudenay
    CRYPTO 2023
    [preprint] [talk] [slides]
  5. Cryptographic Administration for Secure Group Messaging
    David Balbás, Daniel Collins, Serge Vaudenay
    USENIX Security 2023
    [preprint]
  6. Near Collision Attack Against Grain v1
    Subhadeep Banik, Daniel Collins, Willi Meier
    ACNS 2023
    [preprint]
  7. A Small GIFT-COFB: Lightweight Bit-Serial Architectures
    Andrea Caforio, Daniel Collins, Subhadeep Banik, Francesco Regazzoni
    AFRICACRYPT 2022
    [preprint]
  8. Optimal Symmetric Ratcheting for Secure Communication
    Hailun Yan, Serge Vaudenay, Daniel Collins, Andrea Caforio
    The Computer Journal (2022)
  9. Improving First-Order Threshold Implementations of SKINNY
    Andrea Caforio, Daniel Collins, Ognjen Glamocanin, Subhadeep Banik
    INDOCRYPT 2021
    [preprint]
  10. Online Payments by Merely Broadcasting Messages
    Daniel Collins, Rachid Guerraoui, Jovan Komatovic, Petr Kuznetsov, Matteo Monti, Matej Pavlovic, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Andrei Tonkikh, Athanasios Xygkis
    DSN 2020 (Best Paper Runner-Up)
    [preprint]
  11. Anonymity Preserving Byzantine Vector Consensus
    Christian Cachin, Daniel Collins, Tyler Crain, Vincent Gramoli
    ESORICS 2020
    [preprint] [talk]

Selected talks:

Selected research visits:

Where I can be found: