Ian Miers

Publications
Influence

Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin

E. Ben-Sasson, A. Chiesa, +4 authors M. Virza
Computer Science
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
18 May 2014

We construct a full-fledged ledger-based digital currency with strong privacy guarantees, comparable with plain Bit coin. Expand

Zerocoin: Anonymous Distributed E-Cash from Bitcoin

Ian Miers, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, A. Rubin
Computer Science
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
19 May 2013

In this paper we propose Zerocoin, a cryptographic extension to Bitcoin that augments the protocol to allow for fully anonymous currency transactions. Expand

Charm: a framework for rapidly prototyping cryptosystems

Joseph A. Akinyele, Christina Garman, +4 authors A. Rubin
Computer Science
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
7 March 2013

We describe Charm, an extensible framework for rapidly prototyping cryptographic systems, including some new ones that, to our knowledge, have never been built in practice. Expand

Bolt: Anonymous Payment Channels for Decentralized Currencies

Matthew Green, Ian Miers
Computer Science, Business
CCS
30 October 2017

We introduce techniques for constructing anonymous payment channels, including a technique that allows payments via untrusted intermediaries. Expand

Forward Secure Asynchronous Messaging from Puncturable Encryption

Matthew Green, Ian Miers
Computer Science
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
17 May 2015

In this paper we investigate new mechanisms for achieving forward secure encryption in store and forward messaging systems. Expand

Accountable Privacy for Decentralized Anonymous Payments

Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers
Computer Science, Business
Financial Cryptography
22 February 2016

We propose an initial approach to addressing this issue by adding privacy preserving policy-enforcement mechanisms that guarantee regulatory compliance, allow selective user tracing, and admit tracing of tainted coins. Expand

Fairness in an Unfair World: Fair Multiparty Computation from Public Bulletin Boards

A. R. Choudhuri, Matthew Green, A. Jain, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Ian Miers
Computer Science
CCS
30 October 2017

We present a new model for achieving fairness in MPC against dishonest majority by using public bulletin boards implemented via existing infrastructure such as blockchains or Google's certificate transparency logs. Expand

Decentralized Anonymous Credentials

Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers
Business, Computer Science
NDSS
2014

We propose a novel anonymous credential scheme that eliminates the need for a trusted credential issuer and provides a proof of security for a basic anonymous credential system that allows users to make flexible identity assertions with strong privacy guarantees without relying on trusted parties. Expand

Updatable and Universal Common Reference Strings with Applications to zk-SNARKs

Jens Groth, Markulf Kohlweiss, M. Maller, S. Meiklejohn, Ian Miers
Computer Science
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
19 August 2018

Zk-SNARKs embed a secret trapdoor in a relation-dependent common reference strings (CRS). Expand

ZEXE: Enabling Decentralized Private Computation

Sean Bowe, A. Chiesa, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, P. Mishra, H. Wu
Computer Science
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
1 May 2020

We design, implement, and evaluate ZEXE, a ledger-based system where users can execute offline computations and subsequently produce transactions, attesting to the correctness of these computations, that satisfy two main properties. Expand

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