Kartik Nayak

Duke University — United States

Computer Science · Physical Sciences

21h-index2.5kcitations97works4.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Cryptography and Data Security(46), Distributed systems and fault tolerance(44), Blockchain Technology Applications and Security(19), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data(19), Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs(18)

Publications97 total

Communication and Round Efficient Parallel Broadcast Protocols
Lecture notes in computer science·2026
Context-Dependent Threshold Decryption and Its Applications
Lecture notes in computer science·2025Open Access
Optimistic, Signature-Free Reliable Broadcast and Its Applications
2025
QScale: Probabilistic Chained Consensus for Moderate-Scale Systems
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Sailfish: Towards Improving the Latency of DAG-Based BFT
2025· 10 cited
Optimistic, Signature-Free Reliable Broadcast and Its Applications
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Incentive Compatibility of Ethereum’s PoS Consensus Protocol
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025· 20 citedOpen Access
Data Independent Order Policy Enforcement: Limitations and Solutions
2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Synchronous Distributed Key Generation without Broadcasts
IACR Communications in Cryptology·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Lumiere: Making Optimal BFT for Partial Synchrony Practical
2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Attacking and Improving the Tor Directory Protocol
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Player-Replaceability and Forensic Support Are Two Sides of the Same (Crypto) Coin
Lecture notes in computer science·2023· 2 cited
Abraxas: Throughput-Efficient Hybrid Asynchronous Consensus
2023· 11 citedOpen Access
TrustBoost: Boosting Trust among Interoperable Blockchains
2023· 11 cited
Lumiere: Making Optimal BFT for Partial Synchrony Practical
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023Open Access
Longshot: Indexing Growing Databases Using MPC and Differential Privacy
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment·2023· 11 cited
Transparent Batchable Time-lock Puzzles and Applications to Byzantine Consensus
Lecture notes in computer science·2023· 13 citedOpen Access
OptRand: Optimistically Responsive Reconfigurable Distributed Randomness
2023· 15 cited
He-HTLC: Revisiting Incentives in HTLC
2023· 13 cited
On the Limitations of Logic Locking the Approximate Circuits
2022· 3 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Ling Ren(23), Elaine Shi(17), Ittai Abraham(16), T-H. Hubert Chan(8), Dahlia Malkhi(7), Zhuolun Xiang(7), Gilad Asharov(5), Rafael Pass(5), Xiao Wang(3), Danny Dolev(3), Tudor Dumitraş(3), Srinivas Devadas(3), Nibesh Shrestha(3), Jonathan Katz(3), Julian Loss(3), Srijan Kumar(2), Andrew Miller(2), Chang Liu(2), Yan Huang(2), Ilan Komargodski(2)