On-line papers and talks:  Recent Papers, By topic, Technical  Reports.

All On-Line Papers

·        M. Ajtai, J. Aspnes, M. Naor, Y. Rabani, L. Schulman and O. Waarts, Fairness in Scheduling, J. Algorithms 29(2), 1998, pp. 306-357. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF. Slides for a related lecture: pps.

·        Noga Alon and Moni Naor, Derandomization, witnesses for Boolean matrix multiplication and construction of perfect hash functions, Algorithmica, vol 16, 1996, pp. 434-449. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

PDF,

·        Cuckoo Hashing:

o   Yuriy Arbitman, Moni Naor and Gil Segev, De-amortized Cuckoo Hashing: Provable Worst-Case Performance and Experimental Results, Abstract, PDF.

o   Yuriy Arbitman, Moni Naor and Gil Segev, Backyard Cuckoo Hashing: Constant Worst-Case Operations with a Succinct Representation, Abstract, PDF. Slides: pptx.

o    Slides in Hebrew (Shimon Even Memorial talk)

·        Mihir Bellare, Russell Impagliazzo and Moni Naor, Does Parallel Repetition Lower the Error in Computationally Sound Protocols? FOCS 1997. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF. Slides: Postscript.

·        Matt Blaze, Joan Feigenbaum and Moni Naor, A Formal Treatment of Remotely-Keyed Encryption, Eurocrypt 1998. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, gzipped PDF. Slides: Postscript.

·        Memory Checking

o   Manuel Blum, William S. Evans, Peter Gemmell, Sampath Kannan, Moni Naor, Checking the Correctness of Memories, Algorithmica 12(2/3): 225-244 (1994), Postscript, gzipped Postscript

o   Moni Naor and Guy N. Rothblum, The Complexity of Online Memory Checking, JACM 2009. Abstract, Full Version: Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

o   Moni Naor and Guy N. Rothblum, Simulating Secret Knowledge: The Learnability of Adaptively Changing Distributions, or Learning to Impersonate, ICML 2006. Abstract, Full Version: Postscript, gzipped Postscrip, PDF.

o   Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Guy N. Rothblum and Vinod Vaikuntanathan, How Efficient can Memory Checking be?, TCC 2009. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Dan Boneh and Moni Naor Timed Commitments and Applications, Crypto 2000. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript

·        Zvika Brakerski and Moni Naor, Fast Algorithms for Interactive Coding, SODA 2013, PDF

·        Ran Canetti, Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor and Rafi Ostrovsky, Deniable Encryption, Crypto 97. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Ran Canetti, Uri Feige, Oded Goldreich and Moni Naor, Adaptively Secure Multi-party Computation or Non-Commiting Encryption, STOC 1996, Abstract,   Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Ran Canetti, J. Garay, G. Itkis, D. Micciancio, M. Naor and B. Pinkas, Issues in Multicast Security: A Taxonomy and Efficient Constructions, Proc. of INFOCOM '99, New York, NY, March 1999. Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Danny Dolev, Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor, Non-Malleable Cryptography, Siam J. on Computing 30(2), 2000, pp. 391-437.

·        Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.
A Taxonomy of Encryption Scheme Security - Slides of a talk Postscript, gzipped Postscript.
Non-Malleability: An Introduction and Survey of Recent Developments, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.
(Written circa 2003 for an introduction to the SIAM Review republication of the paper.)

·        Differential Privacy

o   Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor, On the Difficulties of Disclosure Prevention in Statistical Databases or The Case for Differential Privacy. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

o   Cynthia Dwork, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Frank McSherry, Ilya Mironov and Moni Naor, Our Data, Ourselves: Privacy via Distributed Noise Generation, Eurocrypt 2006. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

o   Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Omer Reingold, Guy Rothblum, and Salil Vadhan, On the Complexity of Differentially Private Data Release, STOC 2009, Abstract, PDF.

o   Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Toniann Pitassi, Guy N. Rothblum and Sergey Yekhanin, Pan-Private Streaming Algorithms, in Proceedings of The First Symposium on Innovations in Computer Science (ICS 2010), Abstract, PDF.

o   Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Toniann Pitassi and Guy N. Rothblum, Differential Privacy Under Continual Observation, STOC 2010, Abstract, PDF.

o   Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor and Salil Vadhan, The privacy of the analyst and the power of the state, FOCS 2012, Abstract, PDF.

·        Spam fighting and abuse prevention via pricing functions

o   Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor, Pricing via Processing or Combatting Junk Mail,  Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

o   Cynthia Dwork, Andrew Goldberg and Moni Naor, On Memory-bound Functions for Fighting Spam, Crypto 2003. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

o   Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor and Hoteck Wee, Pebbling and Proofs of Work, CRYPTO 2005,: 37-54. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor, An Efficient Existentially Unforgeable Signature Scheme and Its Applications. J. of Cryptology,Vol 11, Number 2, 1998, pp. 187-208. Postscript, gzipped Postscript

·        Cynthia Dwork and  Moni Naor Zaps and Their Applications, Proc. 41st Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, IEEE, 2000.  Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF. Slides: ppt.

·        Cynthia Dwork, Ravi Kumar, Moni Naor and D. Sivakumar, Rank aggregation methods for the Web, WWW10, 2001. Abstract, HTML .

·        Cynthia Dwork, Jeff Lotspiech and Moni Naor, Digital Signets: Self-Enforcing Protection of Digital Information, Proc. 28th Ann. ACM Symp. on Theory of Computing, 1997. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript

·        Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Omer Reingold, Immunizing Encryption Schemes from Decryption Errors, Proc EUROCRYPT 2004, 342-360 Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF . Slides: ppt.

·        Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Omer Reingold and Larry Stockmeyer, Magic Functions, Journal of the ACM 50(6), (November 2003), 852-921. Postscript , gzipped Postscript

·        Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor and Amit Sahai, Concurrent Zero-Knowledge or The Timing Model for Designing Concurrent Protocols, Journal of the ACM, vol. 51(6), 2004, pp. 851--898 (Prel. version STOC 1998). Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript

·        Ron Fagin, Amnon Lotem and Moni Naor, Optimal aggregation algorithms for middleware.  J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 66(4), 614--656 2003 (PODS 2001 issue). Abstract, full version:  Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF . Slides: ppt.

·        Ron Fagin, Moni Naor and Peter Winkler, Comparing Information Without Leaking It, Communications of the ACM, vol 39, May 1996, pp. 77-85. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Uri Feige, Joe Kilian and Moni Naor, A Minimal Model for Secure Computation, STOC 1994.  Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Amos Fiat and Moni Naor, Rigorous Time/Space Tradeoffs for Inverting Functions, SIAM J. Computing 29(3), 1999, pp. 790-803. Postscript, gzipped Postscript

·        Ronen Gradwohl, Moni Naor, Benny Pinkas and Guy Rothblum, Cryptographic and Physical Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems for Solutions of Sudoku Puzzles, FUN 2007. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Ran Halprin and Moni Naor, Games for Extracting Randomness, Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2009, Abstract, PDF. Slides: ppt.

·        Danny Harnik and Moni Naor, On the Compressibility of NP Instances and Cryptographic Applications, FOCS 2006. Full paper: Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF. Slides: ppt.

·        Danny Harnik and Moni Naor, On Everlasting Security in the Hybrid Bounded Storage Model, ICALP 2006. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Danny Harnik, Joe Kilian, Moni Naor, Omer Reingold and Alon Rosen, On Robust Combiners for Oblivious Transfer and other Primitives, Eurocrypt 2005. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript. Slides: ppt.

·        Danny Harnik, Moni Naor, Omer Reingold and Alon Rosen, Completeness in Two-Party Secure Computation - A Computational View. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript . Slides: ppt.

·        Russell Impagliazzo and Moni Naor, Efficient Cryptographic Schemes Provably as Secure as Subset Sum,  J. of Cryptology  9(4), 1996, pp. 199-216.   Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Eyal Kaplan, Moni Naor and Omer Reingold, Derandomized Constructions of k-Wise (Almost) Independent Permutations, Random 2005, Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF. Slides: ppt.

·        Joe Kilian and Moni Naor, On the Complexity of Statistical Reasoning, Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Gillat Kol and Moni Naor, Games for Exchanging Information, STOC 2008, Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF. Slides: ppt.

·        Gillat Kol and Moni Naor, Cryptography and Game Theory: Designing Protocols for Exchanging Information, TCC 2008, Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Dalia Malkhi, Moni Naor and David Ratajczak, Viceroy: A Scalable and Dynamic Emulation of the Butterfly, Proc. 2002 PODC, Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF

·        Alain Mayer, Moni Naor and Larry Stockmeyer, Local Computations on Static and Dynamic Graphs. PDF, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Ilya Mironov, Moni Naor and Gil Segev, Sketching in Adversarial Environments, STOC 2008. Abstract, PDF.

·        The Scratch-Off papers

o   Tal Moran and Moni Naor, Basing Cryptographic Protocols on Tamper-Evident Seals, ICALP 2005. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

o   Tal Moran and Moni Naor, Polling with Physical Envelopes: A Rigorous Analysis of a Human-Centric Protocol, Eurocrypt 2006. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Voting with Everlasting Privacy:

o   Tal Moran and Moni Naor, Receipt-Free Universally-Verifiable Voting With Everlasting Privacy, Crypto 2006, Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

o   Tal Moran and Moni Naor, Split-Ballot Voting: Everlasting Privacy With Distributed Trust, ACM CCS 2007, PDF.

o   Talk on "Receipt-Free Universally-Verifiable Voting With Everlasting Privacy" by Tal Moran at Harvard

·        Tal Moran, Moni Naor and Gil Segev, Deterministic History-Independent Strategies for Storing Information on Write-Once Memories, ICALP 2007.  Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF. Slides: short talk (ppt), long talk (ppt).

·        Tal Moran, Moni Naor and Gil Segev, An Optimally Fair Coin Toss. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Uri Nadav, Moni Naor, Fault Tolerant Storage in a Dynamic Environment, Proc. Disc 2004. Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Dalit Naor, Moni Naor and Jeff Lotspiech, Revocation and Tracing Schemes for Stateless Receivers, Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF, PDF (no figures) . Slides of talk on the subject: ppt

·        Moni Naor, Evaluation May Be Easier Than Generation, Proc. STOC 1996, Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript

·        Moni Naor, Verification of a human in the loop or Identification via the Turing Test, Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Moni Naor, Deniable Ring Authentication, Crypto 2002. AbstractPostscriptgzipped PostscriptPDF

o   Also see Open Day 2005 talk: Cryptography and Complexity at the Weizmann Institute, Slides: ppt

·        Moni Naor, On Fairness in the Carpool Problem, J of Algorithms 55(1), 2005, pp. 93-98. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF. Slides for a related talk: pps.

·        Moni Naor and Kobbi Nissim, Certificate Revocation and Certificate Update, 7th USENIX Security Symposium, 1998. Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Moni Naor and Kobbi Nissim, Communication Preserving Protocols for Secure Function Evaluation, STOC 2001. Full version: Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Moni Naor, Rafi Ostrovsky, Ramarathnam Venkatesan and Moti Yung, Perfect Zero-Knowledge Arguments for NP Using any One-Way Permutation, J. of Cryptology, 11(2), 1998, pp. 87-108. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas, Secure and Efficient Metering , Eurocrypt 98, Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas, Threshold Traitor Tracing, Crypto 98. Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Benny Chor, Amos Fiat, Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas, Tracing Traitors, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 46(3), pp. 893-910, 2000. Postscript, gzipped Postscript

·        Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas, Trace and Revoke Schemes, Financial Crypto'2000. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Oblivious Transfer and Computation

o   Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas, Computationally Secure Oblivious Transfer, Crypto 99. Postscript, gzipped Postscript

o   Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas, Distributed Oblivious Transfer, ASIACRYPT 2000. Postscript, gzipped Postscript

o   Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas, Oblivious Polynomial Evaluation, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF

o   Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas, Efficient Oblivious Transfer Protocols, Postscript, gzipped Postscript

o   Moni Naor, Benny Pinkas and Reuben Sumner, Privacy preserving auctions and mechanism design, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 1999. Postscript, gzipped Postscript

·        Visual Cryptography

o   Moni Naor and Adi Shamir, Visual Cryptography, Eurocrypt 94. Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

o   Moni Naor and Adi Shamir, Visual Cryptography II, Cambridge Workshop on Security Protocols, LNCS 1189, Springer, pp. 197-202, 1996. Postscript, gzipped Postscript

o   Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas, Visual Authentication, Crypto 97. Postscript, gzipped Postscript

·        Moni Naor, Benny Pinkas and Omer Reingold, Distributed Pseudo-Random Functions and KDC. Eurocrypt'99. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Moni Naor and Omer Reingold, Synthesizers and their application to the parallel construction of pseudo-random functions . J. of Computer and Systems Sciences, vol. 58 (2), April 1999, pp. 336-375. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Moni Naor and Omer Reingold, On the construction of pseudo-random permutations: Luby-Rackoff revisited, J. of Cryptology, vol 12, 1999, pp. 29-66. Extended abstract in: Proc. 29th Ann. ACM Symp. on Theory of Computing, 1997, pp. 189-199. Abstract, PDF, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.
The NR Mode of Operation Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Moni Naor and Omer Reingold, Number-Theoretic constructions of efficient pseudo-random functions,  J. ACM 51(2): 231-262 (2004). Abstract, PDF, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.
Implementation (Mike Langberg)

·        Moni Naor and Omer Reingold, From Unpredictability to Indistinguishability: A Simple Construction of Pseudo-Random Functions from MACs, Crypto'98. Abstract, PDF, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Moni Naor and Omer Reingold,  Constructing Pseudo-Random Permutations with a Prescribed Structure, J. of Cryptology, vol 14, 2001. Abstract, PDF, Postscript, gzipped Postscript. Slides: ppt

·        Moni Naor, Omer Reingold and Alon Rosen, Pseudo-Random Functions and Factoring,  SIAM J. Computing, vol 31(5), 2002, pp. 1383--1404, (STOC 2000), Abstract, PDF, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Moni Naor and Ronny Roth, Optimal File Sharing in Distributed Networks, SIAM J. Computing 24(1), pp. 158-183, 1995. PDF, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Moni Naor and Sitvnit Ruah, On the Decisional Complexity of Problems Over the Reals, Information and Computation, vol 167(1) pp. 27-45, 2001 (special issue of ISTCS 1996). PDF

·        Moni Naor, Leonard J. Schulman and Aravind Srinivasan, Splitters and near-optimal derandomization, Proc. of the 36th IEEE Symp. on Foundations of Computer Science, pp. 182-191. Postscript, gzipped Postscript .

·        Moni Naor and Gil Segev, Public-Key Cryptosystems Resilient to Key Leakage. Abstract, PDF.

·        Moni Naor, Gil Segev and Adam Smith, Tight Bounds for Unconditional Authentication Protocols in the Manual Channel and Shared Key Models, CRYPTO 2006. Abstract, PDF. Slides: ppt

·        Moni Naor, Gil Segev and Udi Wieder, History-Independent Cuckoo Hashing, ICALP 2008. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF. Slides: ppt.

·        Moni Naor and Larry Stockmeyer, What Can be Computed Locally, SIAM J. Comput. 24(6): 1259-1277 (1995). PDF, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Moni Naor and Vanessa Teague,  Anti-persistence: History Independent Data Structures, Proc. 33rd ACM Symp. on Theory of Computing, 2001. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript. Slides: ppt.

·        Moni Naor and Udi Wieder, Novel Architectures for P2P Applications: the Continuous-Discrete Approach, Proc. SPAA 2003. Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Moni Naor and Udi Wieder, A Simple Fault Tolerant Distributed Hash Table, Proc. IPTPS 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2735, Springer, pp. 88-97   Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        Moni Naor and Udi Wieder,  Scalable and Dynamic Quorum Systems, Proc. PODC 2003 Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.

·        G. S. Manku, M. Naor and U. Wieder, Know thy Neighbor's Neighbor: The Power of Lookahead in Randomized P2P Networks, STOC 2004, PDF.

·        Moni Naor and Avishai Wool, The Load Capacity and Availability of Quorum Systems, SIAM J. on Computing, April 1998. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

·        Moni Naor and Avishai Wool, Access Control and Signatures via Quorum Secret Sharing, 5th ACM Conf. on Computer and Communication Security, 1996. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript.

Some Oldies (roughly, pre-Weizmann)...

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Now at: J. of Craptology vol. 0(1), April 1999. Abstract, Postscript, gzipped Postscript, PDF.
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