Publications
Conferences
Constrained Verifiable Random Functions Without Obfuscation and Friends
Nicholas Brandt, Miguel Cueto Noval, Christoph U. Günther, Akin Ünal, Stella Wohnig
TCC 2025, Part IV, pp. 478–511
On the Soundness of Algebraic Attacks Against Code-Based Assumptions
Miguel Cueto Noval, Simon-Philipp Merz, Patrick Stählin, Akin Ünal
EUROCRYPT 2025, Part VI, pp. 385–415
Evasive LWE Assumptions: Definitions, Classes, and Counterexamples
Chris Brzuska, Akin Ünal, Ivy K. Y. Woo
ASIACRYPT 2024, Part IV, pp. 418–449
Lower Bounds for Lattice-Based Compact Functional Encryption
Erkan Tairi, Akin Ünal
EUROCRYPT 2024, Part II, pp. 249–279
Compact Selective Opening Security from LWE
Dennis Hofheinz, Kristina Hostáková, Julia Kastner, Karen Klein, Akin Ünal
PKC 2024, Part IV, pp. 127–160
Worst-Case Subexponential Attacks on PRGs of Constant Degree or Constant Locality
Akin Ünal
EUROCRYPT 2023, Part I, pp. 25–54
Early Career Best Paper Award at EUROCRYPT 2023
The Price of Verifiability: Lower Bounds for Verifiable Random Functions
Nicholas Brandt, Dennis Hofheinz, Julia Kastner, Akin Ünal
TCC 2022, Part II, pp. 747–776
Impossibility Results for Lattice-Based Functional Encryption Schemes
Akin Ünal
EUROCRYPT 2020, Part I, pp. 169–199
Thesis
Cryptanalysis by Algebraic Relations
Akin Ünal
PhD thesis, ETH Zurich, 2024
Preprints
Decoding LTFs in the Generic Group Model
Dennis Hofheinz, Julia Kastner, Akin Ünal, Bogdan Ursu
Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/866
New Baselines for Local Pseudorandom Number Generators by Field Extensions
Akin Ünal
Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/550