Ward Beullens

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Security and privacy · 23 · 20 first-author · 15 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Shorter, Tighter, FAESTer: Optimizations and Improved (QROM) Analysis for VOLE-in-the-Head Signatures
Carsten Baum, Ward Beullens, Lennart Braun, Cyprien Delpech de Saint Guilhem, Michael Klooß, Christian Majenz, Shibam Mukherjee, Emmanuela Orsini, Sebastian Ramacher, Christian Rechberger, Lawrence Roy, Peter Scholl
CRYPTO (6)2
2025 Improved Cryptanalysis of SNOVA
Ward Beullens
EUROCRYPT (6)1
2025 The 2Hash OPRF Framework and Efficient Post-quantum Instantiations
Ward Beullens, Lucas Dodgson, Sebastian H. Faller, Julia Hesse
EUROCRYPT (8)1
2024 One Tree to Rule Them All: Optimizing GGM Trees and OWFs for Post-Quantum Signatures
Carsten Baum, Ward Beullens, Shibam Mukherjee, Emmanuela Orsini, Sebastian Ramacher, Christian Rechberger, Lawrence Roy, Peter Scholl
ASIACRYPT (1)2
2024 Multivariate Blind Signatures Revisited
Ward Beullens
SAC (1)1
2023 Lattice-Based Blind Signatures: Short, Efficient, and Round-Optimal
abstract
We propose a 2-round blind signature protocol based on the random oracle heuristic and the hardness of standard lattice problems (Ring/Module-SIS/LWE and NTRU) with a signature size of 20 KB. The protocol is round-optimal and has a transcript size that can be as small as 60 KB. This blind signature is around 4 times shorter than the most compact lattice-based scheme based on standard assumptions of del Pino and Katsumata (Crypto 2022) and around 2 times shorter than the scheme of Agrawal et al. (CCS 2022) based on their newly-proposed one-more-ISIS assumption. We also propose a "keyed-verification'' blind signature scheme in which the verifier and the signer need to share a secret key. This scheme has a smaller signature size of only 48 bytes, but further work is needed to explore the efficiency of its signature generation protocol.
Ward Beullens, Vadim Lyubashevsky, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen 0001, Gregor Seiler
CCS1
2023 Graph-Theoretic Algorithms for the Alternating Trilinear Form Equivalence Problem
Ward Beullens
CRYPTO (3)1
2023 LaBRADOR: Compact Proofs for R1CS from Module-SIS
Ward Beullens, Gregor Seiler
CRYPTO (5)1
2023 Group signatures and more from isogenies and lattices: generic, simple, and efficient
abstract
Abstract We construct an efficient dynamic group signature (or more generally an accountable ring signature) from isogeny and lattice assumptions. Our group signature is based on a simple generic construction that can be instantiated by cryptographically hard group actions such as the CSIDH group action or an MLWE-based group action. The signature is of size $$O(\log N)$$ O ( log N ) , where N is the number of users in the group. Our idea builds on the recent efficient OR-proof by Beullens, Katsumata, and Pintore (Asiacrypt’20), where we efficiently add a proof of valid ciphertext to their OR-proof and further show that the resulting non-interactive zero-knowledge proof system is online extractable . Our group signatures satisfy more ideal security properties compared to previously known constructions, while simultaneously having an attractive signature size. The signature size of our isogeny-based construction is an order of magnitude smaller than all previously known post-quantum group signatures (e.g., 6.6 KB for 64 members). In comparison, our lattice-based construction has a larger signature size (e.g., either 126 KB or 89 KB for 64 members depending on the satisfied security property). However, since the $$O(\cdot )$$ O ( · ) -notation hides a very small constant factor, it remains small even for very large group sizes, say $$2^{20}$$ 2 20 .
Ward Beullens, Samuel Dobson, Shuichi Katsumata, Yi-Fu Lai, Federico Pintore
Des. Codes Cryptogr.1
2023 Proving knowledge of isogenies: a survey
Ward Beullens, Luca De Feo, Steven D. Galbraith, Christophe Petit 0001
Des. Codes Cryptogr.1
2022 Breaking Rainbow Takes a Weekend on a Laptop
Ward Beullens
CRYPTO (2)1
2022 Group Signatures and More from Isogenies and Lattices: Generic, Simple, and Efficient
Ward Beullens, Samuel Dobson, Shuichi Katsumata, Yi-Fu Lai, Federico Pintore
EUROCRYPT (2)1
2021 Improved Cryptanalysis of UOV and Rainbow
Ward Beullens
EUROCRYPT (1)1
2021 CSI-RAShi: Distributed Key Generation for CSIDH
Ward Beullens, Lucas Disson, Robi Pedersen, Frederik Vercauteren
PQCrypto1
2021 MAYO: Practical Post-quantum Signatures from Oil-and-Vinegar Maps
Ward Beullens
SAC1
2020 Calamari and Falafl: Logarithmic (Linkable) Ring Signatures from Isogenies and Lattices
Ward Beullens, Shuichi Katsumata, Federico Pintore
ASIACRYPT (2)1
2020 Sigma Protocols for MQ, PKP and SIS, and Fishy Signature Schemes
Ward Beullens
EUROCRYPT (3)1
2020 LegRoast: Efficient Post-quantum Signatures from the Legendre PRF
Ward Beullens, Cyprien Delpech de Saint Guilhem
PQCrypto1
2020 Not Enough LESS: An Improved Algorithm for Solving Code Equivalence Problems over $\mathbb {F}_q$
Ward Beullens
SAC1
2019 CSI-FiSh: Efficient Isogeny Based Signatures Through Class Group Computations
Ward Beullens, Thorsten Kleinjung, Frederik Vercauteren
ASIACRYPT (1)1
2018 Practical Attacks Against the Walnut Digital Signature Scheme
Ward Beullens, Simon R. Blackburn
ASIACRYPT (1)1
2018 Public Key Compression for Constrained Linear Signature Schemes
Ward Beullens, Bart Preneel, Alan Szepieniec
SAC1
2017 MQ Signatures for PKI
Alan Szepieniec, Ward Beullens, Bart Preneel
PQCrypto2