Dr Behzad Abdolmaleki

School of Computer Science

Lecturer in Cybersecurity

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Dr Behzad Abdolmaleki
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Security of Advanced Systems research group at the University of Sheffield, UK. 

My research broadly focuses on the construction of cryptographic schemes in Post-Quantum and Quantum settings, as well as their intersections with other disciplines, including Zero-Knowledge proofs, Cryptocurrencies, and Secure, Transparent AI and ML systems.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Ahmadi MS, Eghlidos T, Abdolmaleki B & Nguyen NK (2025) A Lattice-based Designated Verifier zkSNARK from Standard Assumptions.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025, 2099-2099. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Campanelli M, Dao Q & Khoshakhlagh H (2025) On the Simulation-Extractability of Proof-Carrying Data.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025, 2037-2037. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Clark J, Foroutani M, Khazaei S & Nasirzadeh S (2025) A Generic Framework for Practical Lattice-Based Non-interactive Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025, 901-901. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baecker R, Gerhart P, Graf M, Khalili M, Rausch D & Schröder D (2025) Universally Composable Password-Hardened Encryption.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025, 1647-1647. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Blümel H, Dai T, Fenzi G, Khajeh H, Köpsell S & Zarezadeh M (2025) Post-Quantum Access Control with Application to Secure Data Retrieval.. IACR Commun. Cryptol., 2, 20-20. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Fauzi P, Krips T & Siim J (2024) Shuffle Arguments Based on Subset-Checking.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024, 1056-1056. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Blümel H, Fenzi G, Khajeh H, Köpsell S & Zarezadeh M (2024) Post-Quantum Access Control with Application to Secure Data Retrieval.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024, 1160-1160. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rabaninejad R, Abdolmaleki B, Ramacher S, Slamanig D & Michalas A (2024) Attribute-Based Threshold Issuance Anonymous Counting Tokens and Its Application to Sybil-Resistant Self-Sovereign Identity.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024, 1024-1024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Chevalier C, Ebrahimi E, Malavolta G & Vu Q-H (2024) On Quantum Simulation-Soundness.. IACR Commun. Cryptol., 1, 18-18. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Glaeser N, Ramacher S & Slamanig D (2023) Universally Composable NIZKs: Circuit-Succinct, Non-Malleable and CRS-Updatable.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023, 97-97. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rabaninejad R, Abdolmaleki B, Malavolta G, Michalas A & Nabizadeh A (2023) stoRNA: Stateless Transparent Proofs of Storage-time.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023, 515-515. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B & Slamanig D (2022) CRS-Updatable Asymmetric Quasi-Adaptive NIZK Arguments.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022, 1756-1756. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Fleischhacker N, Goyal V, Jain A & Malavolta G (2022) Steganography-Free Zero-Knowledge.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022, 1263-1263. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Badrinarayanan S, Fernando R, Malavolta G, Rahimi A & Sahai A (2022) Two-Round Concurrent 2PC from Sub-Exponential LWE.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022, 1719-1719. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Lipmaa H, Siim J & Zając M (2021) On Subversion-Resistant SNARKs. Journal of Cryptology, 34(3). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B & Slamanig D (2021) Updatable Trapdoor SPHFs: Modular Construction of Updatable Zero-Knowledge Arguments and More.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021, 1360-1360. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Khoshakhlagh H & Lipmaa H (2021) Smooth Zero-Knowledge Hash Functions.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021, 653-653. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B & Slamanig D (2020) Unbounded Simulation-Sound Subversion Resistant Quasi-Adaptive NIZK Proofs and Applications to Modular zk-SNARKs.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020, 364-364. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Ramacher S & Slamanig D (2020) Lift-and-Shift: Obtaining Simulation Extractable Subversion and Updatable SNARKs Generically.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020, 62-62. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Lipmaa H, Siim J & Zajac M (2020) On Subversion-Resistant SNARKs.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020, 668-668. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Khoshakhlagh H & Slamanig D (2019) A Framework for UC-Secure Commitments from Publicly Computable Smooth Projective Hashing.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2019, 1063-1063. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B, Khazaei S & Aref MR (2019) Breaking Anonymity of Some Recent Lightweight RFID Authentication Protocols.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2019, 1125-1125. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Lipmaa H, Siim J & Zajac M (2019) DL-Extractable UC-Commitment Schemes.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2019, 201-201. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Lipmaa H, Siim J & Zajac M (2019) UC-Secure CRS Generation for SNARKs.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2019, 471-471. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B, Khazaei S & Aref MR (2019) Breaking anonymity of some recent lightweight RFID authentication protocols. Wireless Networks, 25(3), 1235-1252. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Lipmaa H, Siim J & Zajac M (2018) On QA-NIZK in the BPK Model.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2018, 877-877. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Khazaei S & Aref MR (2017) Game-Based Privacy Analysis of RFID Security Schemes for Confident Authentication in IoT. Wireless Personal Communications, 95(4), 5057-5080. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Lipmaa H & Zajac M (2017) A Subversion-Resistant SNARK.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2017, 599-599. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B & Emadi MJ (2016) Game-Based Cryptanalysis of a Lightweight CRC-Based Authentication Protocol for EPC Tags.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2016, 387-387. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Baghery K, Khazaei S & Aref MR (2016) Game-Based Privacy Analysis of RFID Security Schemes for Confident Au-thentication in IoT.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2016, 649-649. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alavi SM, Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B & Aref MR (2015) Traceability Analysis of Recent RFID Authentication Protocols. Wireless Personal Communications, 83(3), 1663-1682. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Baghery K, Abdolmaleki B, Akhbari B & Aref MR (2015) Enhancing Privacy of Recent Authentication Schemes for Low-Cost RFID Systems. ISECURE-ISC INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SECURITY, 7(2), 135-149. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Bakhshi H, Baghery K & Aref MR (2015) Analysis of an RFID Authentication Protocol in Accordance with EPC Standards.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2015, 980-980. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdolmaleki B, Chevalier C, Ebrahimi E, Malavolta G & Vu Q-H () On Quantum Simulation-Soundness. IACR Communications in Cryptology, 1(4). RIS download Bibtex download

Book chapters

Conference proceedings

Preprints

Research group

Security of Advanced Systems research group

Grants
  • zkHealth: Zero Knowledge (Minimal-Disclosure) Verification for NHS Service Access, Innovate UK, 04/2026 - 07/2026, £27,996, as PI
  • AEGIS - Auditable Eligibility Governance & Integrity Service, Innovate UK, 04/2026 - 07/2026, £15,443, as PI
  • DIDShield: A Privacy-Centric Approach to Digital Wallet Security, Innovate UK, 04/2025 - 07/2025, £22,757, as PI