Hello! This is a (minimalistic) academic homepage of

Sherman S.M. Chow

 NYU Waterloo C&O
I am done with my postdoc and I just joined the
Chinese University of Hong Kong in November, 2012.

I got my PhD in Computer Science (Cryptography)
at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU ('10),
advised by Yevgeniy Dodis and Victor Shoup.
Now I am a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mathematics.
Alfred Menezes and David Jao are my mentors. I am a member of
Cryptography, Security, & Privacy (CrySP) Research Group,
Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR).

Recently I am working on searchable encryption,
(multi-authority) attribute-based encryption,
(practical) leakage resilient cryptography,
privacy-enhancing technologies, such as
(blacklistable) anonymous authentication
and cloud cryptography/security.

You may also want to check my other online presences.
  1. My NYU Page (thesis, internships, courses)
  2. My HKU Page (many old papers)
  3. My DBLP Entry (a long list without the latest)
  4. You can also find me on LinkedIn, Academia, G+, Face...
My email: [username]@[domain] (no "www")
(or you may find my email addresses in most cases from
the first free-to-preview page of my papers like this and that.)

My mail address:
University of Waterloo
Department of Combinatorics & Optimization
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

My Erdös Number: 3
(Victor K. Wei -> Peter C. Fishburn) |
(Yevgeniy Dodis -> Joel Spencer | Peter Winkler)

My teaching: just further developed.


Invited Talks ('11-'12)

(abstracts can be found at here, conference presentations are not listed)


External Reviewers (Selected)
  • Eurocrypt (13, 11, 06); Infocom 13; PKC 13; RSA (13-09); Asiacrypt (12-09, 05); ESORICS 12;
    Milcom 12; ACSAC 11; AsiaCCS 11; CCS (11, 10); Crypto (11, 07); ICALP 11; IMACC 11;
    SAC 11; ICDCS 10; Pairing (10, 07); PETS 10; SCN 10; TCC (10, 08); FC 09; FOCS 08; Ecom 07; ...
  • J. Crypto., JSAC, ACM TISSEC, IEEE Info. Theory, TC, TDSC, TIFS, TMC, TPDS, TSC;
    Intl. J. Info. Sec., IET Info. Sec., Designs, Codes & Crypto., J. Math. Crypto.,
    Data & Knowledge Eng., E.L., Fund. Info., Info. Sci., IPL, JCST, J. Sys. & Software, JUCS, TCS, ...
Recent Papers ('11-'12, presenter in italics)
  1. Kin Ying Yu, Tsz Hon Yuen, Sherman S. M. Chow, Siu Ming Yiu, and Lucas C. K. Hui.
    PE(AR)2: Privacy-Enhanced Anonymous Authentication with Reputation and Revocation.
    ESORICS 2012.
  2. Sherman S. M. Chow, Yi-Jun He, Lucas C. K. Hui, and Siu Ming Yiu.
    SPICE -- Simple Privacy-Preserving Identity-Management for Cloud Environment.
    ACNS 2012.
  3. Tsz Hon Yuen, Sherman S. M. Chow, Ye Zhang, and Siu Ming Yiu.
    Identity-Based Encryption Resilient to Continual Auxiliary Leakage.
    Eurocrypt 2012.
  4. Sherman S. M. Chow, Changshe Ma, and Jian Weng.
    Zero-Knowledge Argument for Simultaneous Discrete Logarithms.
    Algorithmica.
  5. Sherman S. M. Chow, Cheng-Kang Chu, Xinyi Huang, Jianying Zhou, and Robert H. Deng.
    Dynamic Secure Cloud Storage with Provenance.
    Festschrift Jean-Jacques Quisquater.
  6. Masayuki Abe, Sherman S. M. Chow, Kristiyan Haralambiev, and Miyako Ohkubo.
    Double-Trapdoor Anonymous Tags for Traceable Signatures.
    ACNS 2011.
  7. Sherman S. M. Chow, Joseph K. Liu, and Jianying Zhou.
    Identity-Based Online/Offline Key Encapsulation and Encryption.
    AsiaCCS 2011.
  8. Cheng-Kang Chu, Wen Tao Zhu, Sherman S. M. Chow, Jianying Zhou, and Robert H. Deng.
    Secure Mobile Subscription of Sensor-Encrypted Data.
    AsiaCCS 2011.
  9. Sherman S. M. Chow, Man Ho Au, and Willy Susilo.
    Server-Aided Signatures Verification Secure against Collusion Attack.
    AsiaCCS 2011.
  10. Jin Li, Qiong Huang, Xiaofeng Chen, Sherman S. M. Chow, Duncan S. Wong, and Dongqing Xie.
    Multi-Authority Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption with Accountability.
    AsiaCCS 2011.
  11. Nguyen Tran, Jinyang Li, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, and Sherman S. M. Chow.
    Optimal Sybil-Resilient Node Admission Control.
    INFOCOM 2011. Preliminary version appeared in PODC 2010.
  12. Sherman S. M. Chow, and Siu Ming Yiu
    Exclusion-Intersection Encryption.
    Intl. J. of Security & Networks (IJSN), 2011 Vol. 6, No. 2/3
    Preliminary version appeared in an INFOCOM workshop SCNC 2011.
  13. Sherman S. M. Chow, and Kristiyan Haralambiev.
    Non-Interactive Confirmer Signatures.
    CT-RSA 2011.
  14. Ching-Hua Yu, Sherman S. M. Chow, Kai-Min Chung, and Feng-Hao Liu.
    Efficient Secure Two-Party Exponentiation.
    CT-RSA 2011.
  15. Sherman S. M. Chow, Yevgeniy Dodis, Yannis Rouselakis, and Brent Waters.
    Practical Leakage-Resilient Identity-Based Encryption from Simple Assumptions.
    ACM CCS 2010.
  16. (For older papers, please check DBLP)

Last update: May 10th, 2013


Program Committees and Session Chairs ('10-'13)
  1. IEEE Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing (SPCC '13) (held with CNS)
    Deadline: Jul 1st, 2013
  2. First IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS '13)
    Notification: Jun 14th, 2013
  3. European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS '13)
    Notification: Jun 10th, 2013
  4. International Conference on Digital Forensics and Investigation (ICDFI '13)
    Deadline: Jun 7th, 2013
  5. Intl. Conf. on Information and Communications Security (ICICS '13)
    Deadline: Jun 5th, 2013
  6. Provable Security (ProvSec '13)
    Deadline: Jun 5th, 2013
  7. European Workshop on Public Key Infrastructures, Services, and Applications (EuroPKI '13)
    Deadline: Jun 2nd, 2013
  8. IEEE Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS '13)
    Deadline: May 31st, 2013
  9. IACR Advances in Cryptology (AsiaCrypt '13)
    Deadline: May 20th, 2013
  10. IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom '13)
    Review Deadline: May 24th, 2013
  11. Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS '13)
    Notification: Apr 4th, 2013
  12. International Conference on Cryptology in Africa (AfricaCrypt '13)
    Notification: Mar 25th, 2013
  13. ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS '13)
    PC, and Session Chair of Applied Cryptography II (Shepherded 1 paper)
  14. ACM Asia Public-Key Cryptography Workshop (AsiaPKC '13) (Shepherded 1 paper)
  15. ACM Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (AsiaCCS-SCC '13)
    PC, and Session Chair of Technical Session I
  16. Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC '13) [Accepted Papers]
  17. Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC '13)
    PC, and Session Chair of Secure Computation.
  18. Australasian Information Security Conference (ACSW-AISC '13) (Shepherded 1 paper)
  19. Cryptology And Network Security (CANS '12) (Shepherded 1 paper)
  20. IEEE Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom '12)
  21. IACR Advances in Cryptology (AsiaCrypt '12)
    PC, and Session Chair of Cryptographic Protocols I.
  22. China Intl' Conf. on Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt '12)
  23. Intl. Conf. on Information and Communications Security (ICICS '12)
    PC, and Session Chair of Privacy (III).
  24. Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES '12)
  25. Information Security Conference (ISC '12)
  26. IEEE Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS '12)
  27. European Ws. on Public Key Infrastructures (EuroPKI '12)
  28. Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS '12)
    PC, and Session Chair of Cryptographic Primitives (I)
  29. IEEE Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing (SPCC '12) (held with ICDCS)
  30. Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC '12) (Shepherded 2 papers)
  31. IEEE Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '12)
  32. IEEE Consumer Comm. & Networking (CCNC '12) Security & Content Protection Track
  33. Progress in Cryptology (IndoCrypt '11)
  34. IEEE Intl. Conf. for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST '11)
  35. Cryptology And Network Security (CANS '11) (Shepherded 2 papers)
  36. Information and Communications Security (ICICS '11)
  37. Information Security (ISC '11)
  38. Provable Security (ProvSec '11)
  39. European Ws. on Public Key Infrastructures (EuroPKI '11)
  40. Australasian Conf. on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP '11)
  41. ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS '11)
    Session Chair of Applied Cryptography II (but not a PC)
  42. Security in Computers, Networking and Communications (SCNC '11)
    PC, and Session Chair of Secure Algorithm (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM '11)
  43. Progress in Cryptology (IndoCrypt '10)
  44. Cryptology And Network Security (CANS '10)