Danilo Francati

Danilo Francati

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) @ RHUL

You can also find my articles on Google Scholar and dblp.
The list of authors is sorted alphabetically. Exceptions are 13, 11, 6, 4, and 3 (sorted by contribution).

Conference Proceedings

  1. Registered Matchmaking Encryption
    Danilo Francati, Valeria Huang, and Daniele Venturi
    International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, 2025. To appear.

  2. Evolving Secret Sharing Made Short
    Danilo Francati and Daniele Venturi
    Advances in Cryptology–ASIACRYPT 2024: International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security. To appear.
    https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1534

  3. Advancing Scalability in Decentralized Storage: A Novel Approach to Proof-of-Replication via Polynomial Evaluation
    Giuseppe Ateniese, Foteini Baldimtsi, Matteo Campanelli, Danilo Francati, and Ioanna Karantaidou
    Advances in Cryptology–CRYPTO 2024: 44th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 18–22, 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14921. Springer, Cham. 2024. ISBN: 978-3-031-68379-4.
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-68379-4_1

  4. Watermarks in the Sand: Impossibility of Strong Watermarking for Language Models
    Hanlin Zhang, Benjamin L. Edelman *, Danilo Francati *, Daniele Venturi, Giuseppe Ateniese, and Boaz Barak
    The 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 21–24, 2024. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Volume 235. ISSN: 2640-3498.
    https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/zhang24o.html
    *= Equal contribution

    Conference version of Watermarks in the Sand: Impossibility of Strong Watermarking for Generative Models
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04378

  5. Non-malleable Fuzzy Extractors
    Danilo Francati and Daniele Venturi
    International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, pp. 135-155. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, ISBN: 978-3-031-54770-6.
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-54770-6_6

  6. Breach Extraction Attacks: Exposing and Addressing the Leakage in Second Generation Compromised Credential Checking Services
    Dario Pasquini *, Danilo Francati *, Giuseppe Ateniese, and Evgenios M. Kornaropoulos
    2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2024 pp. 114-114.
    https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/sp/2024/313000a114/1Ub23nm5zGM
    *= Equal contribution

  7. Registered (Inner-Product) Functional Encryption
    Danilo Francati, Daniele Friolo, Monosij Maitra, Giulio Malavolta, Ahmadreza Rahimi, and Daniele Venturi
    Advances in Cryptology–ASIACRYPT 2023: International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Proceedings (pp. 99-133). Springer Nature Singapore, 2024, ISBN:978-981-99-8733-7
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-8733-7_4

  8. Multi-key and Multi-input Predicate encryption from Learning with Errors
    Danilo Francati, Daniele Friolo, Giulio Malavolta, and Daniele Venturi
    Advances in Cryptology–EUROCRYPT 2023: 42nd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Proceedings, Part III. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, ISBN: 978-3-031-30620-4
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-30620-4_19

  9. Structure-Preserving Compilers from New Notions of Obfuscations
    Matteo Campanelli, Danilo Francati, and Claudio Orlandi
    26th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, ISBN: 978-3-031-31371-4
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-31371-4_23

  10. Verifiable Capacity-bound Functions: A New Primitive from Kolmogorov Complexity (Revisiting space-based security in the adaptive setting)
    Giuseppe Ateniese, Long Chen, Danilo Francati, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, and Qiang Tang
    26th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, ISBN: 978-3-031-31371-4
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-31371-4_3

  11. Eluding Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning via Model Inconsistency
    Dario Pasquini, Danilo Francati, and Giuseppe Ateniese
    Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2022, pp. 2429-2443, ISBN 978-1-4503-9450-5
    https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3548606.3560557

  12. Identity-Based Matchmaking Encryption without Random Oracles
    Danilo Francati, Alessio Guidi, Luigi Russo, and Daniele Venturi
    International Conference on Cryptology in India. Springer, Cham. 2021, pp. 415-435, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13143, ISBN 978-3-030-92518-8
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-92518-5_19

  13. Audita: A Blockchain-based Auditing Framework for Off-chain Storage
    Danilo Francati, Giuseppe Ateniese, Abdoulaye Faye, Andrea Maria Milazzo, Angelo Massimo Perillo, Luca Schiatti, and Giuseppe Giordano
    Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security in Blockchain and Cloud Computing. 2021. ISBN 978-1-4503-8405-6
    https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3457977.3460293

  14. Arcula: A secure hierarchical deterministic wallet for multi-asset blockchains
    Adriano Di Luzio, Danilo Francati, and Giuseppe Ateniese
    International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security. Springer, Cham, 2020. pp. 323-343, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12579, ISBN 978-3-030-65410-8
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-65411-5_16

  15. Public immunization against complete subversion without random oracles.
    Giuseppe Ateniese, Danilo Francati, Bernardo Magri, and Daniele Venturi
    International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security. Springer. 2019, pp. 465–485, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11464, ISBN 978-3-030-21567-5
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-21568-2_23

  16. Match me if you can: Matchmaking encryption and its applications
    Giuseppe Ateniese, Danilo Francati, David Nuñez, and Daniele Venturi
    Annual International Cryptology Conference. Springer, Cham. 2019, pp. 701–731, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11693, ISBN 978-3-030-26950-0
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-26951-7_24

Journals

  1. Multi-key and Multi-input Predicate encryption (for Conjunctions) from Learning with Errors
    Danilo Francati, Daniele Friolo, Giulio Malavolta, and Daniele Venturi
    Journal of Cryptology, 37.24, (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s00145-024-09504-7
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00145-024-09504-7

  2. Match me if you can: Matchmaking encryption and its applications
    Giuseppe Ateniese, Danilo Francati, David Nuñez, and Daniele Venturi
    Journal of Cryptology, 34.16, (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s00145-021-09381-4
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00145-021-09381-4

  3. Immunization against complete subversion without random oracles
    Giuseppe Ateniese, Danilo Francati, Bernardo Magri, and Daniele Venturi
    Theoretical Computer Science. 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2021.01.002
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304397521000190

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