Bhargav Annem

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none

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Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Network and information security
1 paper
Network security · 50% Cryptographic protocols and secure computation · 50%
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Distributed systems · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Network security
anonymity networks
0.912025
Myco: Unlocking Polylogarithmic Accesses in Metadata-Private Messaging · SP 2025
Network security › anonymity networks
metadata-private messaging
0.912025
Myco: Unlocking Polylogarithmic Accesses in Metadata-Private Messaging · SP 2025
Cryptographic protocols and secure computation
oblivious data structures
0.912025
Myco: Unlocking Polylogarithmic Accesses in Metadata-Private Messaging · SP 2025
Cryptographic protocols and secure computation
private information retrieval
0.912025
Myco: Unlocking Polylogarithmic Accesses in Metadata-Private Messaging · SP 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

private information retrieval · 1.7oblivious data structure · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Myco: Unlocking Polylogarithmic Accesses in Metadata-Private Messaging
abstract
As billions of people rely on end-to-end encrypted messaging, the exposure of metadata, such as communication timing and participant relationships, continues to deanonymize users. Asynchronous metadata-hiding solutions with strong cryptographic guarantees have historically been bottlenecked by quadratic$O(N^{2})$server computation in the number of users$N$due to reliance on private information retrieval (PIR). We present Myco, a metadata-private messaging system that preserves strong cryptographic guarantees while achieving$O(N\log^{2}N)$efficiency. To achieve this, we depart from PIR and instead introduce an oblivious data structure through which senders and receivers privately communicate. To unlink reads and writes, we instantiate Myco in an asymmetric two-server distributed-trust model where clients write messages to one server tasked with obliviously transmitting these messages to another server, from which clients read. Myco achieves throughput improvements of up to 302x over multi-server and 2,219x over single-server state-of-the-art systems based on PIR.
Darya Kaviani, Deevashwer Rathee, Bhargav Annem, Raluca A. Popa
SP3