Publications

• Outside Looking In: Approaches to Content Moderation in End-to-End Encrypted Systems
  Seny Kamara, Mallory Knodel, Emma Llansó, Greg Nojeim, Lucy Qin, Dhanaraj Thakur, Caitlin Vogus
  Report for Center for Democracy and Technology ‘21
  (report pdf)

• Cryptanalysis of Encrypted Search with LEAKER: A framework for LEakage AttacK Evaluation on Real-world data
  Seny Kamara, Abdelkarim Kati, Tarik Moataz, Thomas Schneider, Amos Treiber, Michael Yonli
  IACR ePrint
  (full pdf)

• Structured Encryption and Dynamic Leakage Suppression
  Marilyn George, Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz
  Eurocrypt ‘21
  (proceedings pdf)

• A Decentralized and Encrypted National Gun Registry
  Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz, Andrew Park, Lucy Qin
  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) ‘21
  (full pdf)

• Encrypted Databases: From Theory to Practice
  Zheguang Zhao, Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz, Stan Zdonik
  Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) ‘21
  (proceedings pdf)

• Adversarial Level Agreements for Two-Party Protocols
  Marilyn George, Seny Kamara
  IACR ePrint
  (full pdf)

• Encrypted Key Value Stores
  Archita Agarwal, Seny Kamara Indocrypt ‘20
  (proceedings pdf)

• Encrypted Blockchain Databases
  Daniel Adkins, Archita Agarwal, Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz
  IACR ePrint
  (full pdf)

• An Optimal Relational Database Encryption Scheme
  Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz, Stan Zdonik, Zheguang Zhao
  IACR ePrint
  (full pdf)

• Revisiting Leakage-Abuse Attacks
  Laura Blackstone, Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz
  IACR ePrint
  (full pdf)

• Encrypted Distributed Hash Tables
  Archita Agarwal, Seny Kamara
  IACR ePrint
  (full pdf)

• Computationally Volume-Hiding Structured Encryption
  Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz
  Eurocrypt ‘19
  (full pdf)

• Forward and Backward Private Searchable Encryption with SGX
  Ghous Amjad, Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz
  Eurosec ‘19
  (proceedings pdf)

• Encrypted Databases for Differential Privacy
  Archita Agarwal, Maurice Herlihy, Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz
  PETS ‘19
  (full pdf)

• Breach-Resistant Structured Encryption
  Ghous Amjad, Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz
  PETS ‘19
  (full pdf)

• SQL on Structurally-Encrypted Databases
  Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz
  Asiacrypt ‘18
  (full pdf)

• Structured Encryption and Leakage Suppression
  Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz, Olya Ohrimenko
  CRYPTO ‘18
  (proceedings pdf)

• Boolean Searchable Symmetric Encryption with Worst-Case Sub-Linear Complexity
  Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz
  Eurocrypt ‘17
  (proceedings pdf)

• Inference Attacks Against Property-Preserving Encrypted Databases
  Muhammad Naveed, Seny Kamara, Charles Wright
  Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ‘15)
  Invited to Real-World Crypto, 2016
  (proceedings pdf)

• GRECS: Graph Encryption for Approximate Shortest Distance Queries
  Xianrui Meng, Seny Kamara, Kobbi Nissim, George Kollios
  Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ‘15)
  (full version pdf)

• Encrypted Search
  Seny Kamara
  ACM XRDS
  (tech report pdf)

• Restructuring the NSA Metadata Program
  Seny Kamara
  Workshop on Applied Homomorphic Cryptography (WAHC ‘14)
  (proceedings pdf)

• Scaling Private Set Intersection to Billion Element Sets
  Seny Kamara, Payman Mohassel, Mariana Raykova and Saeed Sadeghian
  Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC'14)
  (tech report pdf)

• Garbled Circuits via Structured Encryption
  Seny Kamara and Lei Wei
  Workshop on Applied Homomorphic Cryptography (WAHC ‘13)
  (proceedings pdf)

• Parallel Homomorphic Encryption (or MapReduce/Hadoop on Encrypted Data)
  Seny Kamara and Mariana Raykova
  Workshop on Applied Homomorphic Cryptography (WAHC ‘13)
  (proceedings pdf; full pdf)

• Parallel and Dynamic Searchable Symmetric Encryption
  Seny Kamara and Charalampos Papamanthou
  Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC ‘13)
  (full pdf)

• Salus: A System for Server-Aided Secure Function Evaluation
  Seny Kamara, Payman Mohassel and Ben Riva
  Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ‘12)
  (full pdf)

• Dynamic Searchable Symmetric Encryption
  Seny Kamara, Charalampos Papamanthou and Tom Roeder
  Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ‘12)
  (full pdf)

• Cryptographic Cloud Storage
  Seny Kamara and Kristin Lauter
  Workshop on Real-Life Cryptographic Protocols and Standardization, 2010
  (proceedings pdf)

• Structured Encryption and Controlled Disclosure
  Melissa Chase and Seny Kamara
  Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT ‘10
  (full pdf)

• Searchable Symmetric Encryption: Improved Definitions and Efficient Constructions
  Reza Curtmola, Juan Garay, Seny Kamara and Rafail Ostrovsky.
  Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ‘06)
  Journal of Computer Security
  (full pdf)