2021W

• Bachelor Thesis / 192.061 / PR
• Cryptocurrencies / 192.065 / VU
• Project in Computer Science 1 / 192.075 / PR
• Project in Computer Science 2 / 192.076 / PR
• Seminar for PhD Students / 192.069 / SE

• Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things
  2020 – 2022 / Christian Doppler Research Association (CDG)
• Security and Privacy Foundations of Blockchain Technologies
  2020 – 2022 / SBA Research gemeinnützige GmbH
• Vienna Cybersecurity and Privacy Research Center
  2019 – 2023 / Vienna Business Agency (WAW)
• Cryptographic Foundations for Future-proof Internet Security
  2019 – 2023 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• Foundations and Tools for Client-Side Web Security
  2018 – 2024 / European Research Council (ERC)
• Privacy-Preserving Regulatory Technologies for Distributed Ledger Technologies
  2018 – 2021 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
• Scalability for Lightning Networks
  2018 – 2020 / Chaincode Labs Inc
• Ethertrust - Trustworthy smart contracts
  2018 – 2019 / netidee.at

• Can I Take Your Subdomain? Exploring Same-Site Attacks in the Modern Web / M. Squarcina, M. Tempesta, L. Veronese, S. Calzavara, M. Maffei / accepted as talk for: 30th USENIX Security Symposium, Online; 2021-08-11 - 2021-08-13; in: "30th USENIX Security Symposium", (2021)
• Blitz: Secure Multi-Hop Payments Without Two-Phase Commits / L. Aumayr, P. Moreno-Sanchez, A. Kate, M. Maffei / accepted as talk for: Usenix Security Symposium, Vancouver, B.C., Canada; 2021-08-11 - 2021-08-13; in: "30th USENIX Security Symposium", USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association, (2021), https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/176.pdf
• The Remote on the Local: Exacerbating Web Attacks Via Service Workers Caches / M. Squarcina, S. Calzavara, M. Maffei / Talk: 15th IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies, San Francisco, CA, USA; 2021-05-27; in: "IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops", (2021), 432 - 443
• Bitcoin-Compatible Virtual Channels / L. Aumayr, O. Ersoy, A. Erwig, S. Faust, K. Hostáková, M. Maffei, P. Moreno-Sanchez, S. Riahi / accepted as talk for: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, USA; 2021-05-23 - 2021-05-27; in: "42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy", IEEE Computer Society, (2021), https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/554.pdf
• A2L: Anonymous Atomic Locks for Scalability in Payment Channel Hubs / E. Tairi, P. Moreno-Sanchez, M. Maffei / Talk: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, USA; 2021-05-23 - 2021-05-27; in: "42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy", (2021)
• Post-Quantum Adaptor Signature for Privacy-Preserving Off-Chain Payments / E. Tairi, P. Moreno-Sanchez, M. Maffei / Talk: International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), Grenada; 2021-03-01 - 2021-03-05; in: "Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security", (2021)
• eThor: Practical and Provably Sound Static Analysis of Ethereum Smart Contracts / C. Schneidewind, I. Grishchenko, M. Scherer, M. Maffei / Talk: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Orlando; 2020-11-09 - 2020-11-13; in: "CCS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security", Association for Computing Machinery ACM, (2020), ISBN: 978-1-4503-7089-9; 621 - 640
• A Quantitative Analysis of Security, Anonymity and Scalability for the Lightning Network / S. Tikhomirov, P. Moreno-Sanchez, M. Maffei / Talk: IEEE Security & Privacy On The Blockchain, Genova; 2020-11-07 - 2020-11-11; in: "2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW)", IEEE, (2020), ISBN: 978-1-7281-8598-9; 387 - 396
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Pitfalls and Best Practices in Automated Sound Static Analysis of Ethereum Smart Contracts / C. Schneidewind, M. Scherer, M. Maffei / accepted as talk for: International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods (ISoLA), Rhodes; 2020-10-20 - 2020-10-30; in: "International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation", Springer, 7609 (2020), ISBN: 978-3-642-34025-3
• The Remote on the Local: Exacerbating Web Attacks Via Service Workers Caches in Progressive Web Applications / D. Somé, M. Squarcina, S. Calzavara, M. Maffei / Talk: EuroS&P 2020 SecWeb Workshop, Genova, IT; 2020-09-11
• Language-Based Web Session Integrity / S. Calzavara, R. Focardi, N. Grimm, M. Maffei, M. Tempesta / Talk: IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, New York; 2020-06-22 - 2020-06-25; in: "33rd IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium", IEEE Computer Society, Washington DC (2020), ISBN: 978-1-5386-3217-8; 107 - 122
• Generalized Bitcoin-Compatible Channels / L. Aumayr, O. Ersoy, A. Erwig, S. Faust, K. Hostáková, M. Maffei, P. Moreno-Sanchez, S. Riahi / Report for Cryptology ePrint Archive; Report No. 2020/476, 2020; 35 pages
• Atomic Multi-Channel Updates with Constant Collateral in Bitcoin-Compatible Payment-Channel Networks / C. Egger, M. Maffei, P. Moreno-Sanchez / Talk: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), London; 2019-11-11 - 2019-11-15; in: "ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security", ACM (ed.); ACM, (2019), 801 - 815
• Verifying Relational Properties using Trace Logic / G. Barthe, R. Eilers, P. Georgiou, B. Gleiss, L. Kovacs, M. Maffei / Talk: International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design (FMCAD) 2019, San Jose, US; 2019-10-22 - 2019-10-25; in: "Proceedings of Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design (FMCAD)", B. Clark, J. Yang (ed.); IEEE, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8891869/proceeding (2019), ISBN: 978-0-9835678-9-9; 170 - 178
• Trace Reasoning for Formal Verification using the First-Order Superposition Calculus / P. Georgiou, B. Gleiss, L. Kovacs, M. Maffei / Poster: FMCAD 2019 Student Forum, San Jose, US; 2019-10-22 - 2019-10-25
• Anonymous Multi-Hop Locks for Blockchain Scalability and Interoperability / G. Malavolta, P. Moreno-Sanchez, C. Schneidewind, A. Kate, M. Maffei / Talk: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, US; 2019-02-24 - 2019-02-27; in: "Proceedings of 2019 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium", Reston (2019), ISBN: 1-891562-55-x; 1 - 15
• Group ORAM for Privacy and AccessControl in Outsourced Personal Records / M. Maffei, G. Malavolta, M. Reinert, D. Schröder / Journal of Computer Security, vol. 27 (2019), no. 1; 1 - 47
• Simple Password Hardened Encryption Services / M. Maffei, M. Reinert, R. Lai, C. Egger, S. Chow, D. Schröder / in: "Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium", 27th; issued by: USENIX Association Berkley, CA, USA; USENIX, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-931971-46-1, 1405 - 1421
• Functional Credentials / D. Deuber, M. Maffei, G. Malavolta, M. Rabkin, D. Schröder, M. Simkin / in: "Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies", Volume 2018: Issue 2; issued by: De Gruyter Open; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, 2018, 64 - 84
• A Monadic Framework for Relational Verification: Applied to Information Security, Program Equivalence, and Optimization. / N. Grimm, K. Maillard, C. Fournet, C. Hritcu, M. Maffei, J. Protzenko, T. Ramananandro, N. Swamy, S. Zanella-Béguelin / in: "Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs", ACM Digital Library, New York, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-4503-5586-5, 130 - 145
• Foundations and Tools for the Static Analysis of Ethereum Smart Contracts / I. Gishchenko, M. Maffei, C. Schneidewind / in: "Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification", LNCS 10981; G. Weissenbacher, H. Chockler (ed.); issued by: Springer, Cham; Springer Open, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-319-96145-3, 51 - 78
• UniTraX: Protecting Data Privacy with Discoverable Biases / M. Maffei, R. Munz, F. Eigner, P. Francis, D. Garg / in: "Principles of Security and Trust", LNCS 10804; Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Schwitzerland, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-319-89721-9, 278 - 299
• Equivalence Properties by Typing in Cryptographic Branching Protocols / V. Cortier, N. Grimm, J. Lallemand, M. Maffei / in: "Principles of Security and Trust", LNCS 10804; issued by: Springer, Cham; Springer LNCS, Schwitzerland, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-319-89721-9, 160 - 187
• A Semantic Framework for the Security Analysis of Ethereum smart contracts. / I. Grishchenko, C. Schneidewind, M. Maffei / in: "Principles of Security and Trust", LNCS 10804; issued by: Springer Link; Springer Open, Schwitzerland, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-319-89721-9, 243 - 269
• WPSE: Fortifying Web Protocols via Browser-Side Security Monitoring / S. Calzavara, M. Maffei, C. Schneidewind, M. Tempesta, M. Squarcina / in: "Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium", 27th; issued by: USENIX Association Berkley, CA, USA; USENIX, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-931971-46-1, 1493 - 1510