About me
I am a PhD student at IBM Research Zürich and University of Potsdam, supervised by Dr. Vadim Lyubashevksy and Prof. Dr. Anja Lehmann. My main research interests include lattice-based cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs.
Previously, I was a Cryptography Researcher at Bitdefender, Romania. I obtained both my Bachelor and Master degrees in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest.
Contact: madalinabolboceanu ‘at’ gmail ‘dot’ com.
Papers
- Designs for practical SHE schemes based on Ring-LWR, with Anamaria Costache, Erin Hales, Rachel Player, Miruna Rosca and Radu Titiu. Talk accepted at fhe.org 2024. IACR Communications in Cryptology. Volume 2, No.2, 2025.
- On algebraic embedding for unstructured lattices, with Zvika Brakerski and Devika Sharma. In the proceedings of PKC 2024.
- Order-LWE and the Hardness of Ring-LWE with Entropic Secrets, with Zvika Brakerski, Renen Perlman and Devika Sharma. In the proceedings of ASIACRYPT 2019.
- Relating different Polynomial-LWE problems. In the proceedings of SecITC 2018.
Talks
- 16/04/2024: On algebraic embedding for unstructured lattices, PKC, Sydney, Australia. Slides
- 22/03/2023: Algorand, RV/ILDS Blockchain Workshop, Bucharest, Romania. Slides
- 23/03/2022: Private Set Intersection, Workshop on Selected Topics in Cryptography, Sinaia, Romania. Slides
- 2/07/2019: Lattices in the context of post-quantum crypto, The Ninth Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, Galati, Romania. Slides
- 9/11/2018: Relating different Polynomial-LWE problems, SecITC 2018, Bucharest, Romania. Slides
More
Together with my colleagues from Bitdefender, we wrote two blogposts: