Elena Pagnin

Assistant Professor at Information Security

Elena Pagnin’s PhD focuses on data authentication in constrained settings.
She has been working on biometric authentication, distance-bounding protocols and attribute-based encryption.
Her research directions also include (multi-key) homomorphic encryption, signature schemes and verifiable computations.
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Publications (18)
Projects (1)

Showing 18 publications

2023

PAPR: Publicly Auditable Privacy Revocation for Anonymous Credentials

Joakim Brorsson, Bernardo David, Lorenzo Gentile et al

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 13871 LNCS, p. 163-190

Paper in proceeding

2022

Outsourcing MPC Precomputation for Location Privacy

Ivan Oleinikov, Elena Pagnin, Andrei Sabelfeld

Proceedings - 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Euro S and PW 2022, p. 504-513

Paper in proceeding

2020

Where are you bob? privacy-preserving proximity testing with a napping party

Ivan Oleinikov, Elena Pagnin, Andrei Sabelfeld

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 12308 LNCS, p. 677-697

Paper in proceeding

2019

Anonymous Single-Round Server-Aided Verification

Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Elena Pagnin, Keisuke Tanaka

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 11368, p. 23-43

Paper in proceeding

2019

Multi-key homomorphic authenticators

Dario Fiore, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Luca Nizzardo et al

IET Information Security. Vol. 13 (6), p. 618-638

Journal article

2018

Be More and be Merry: Enhancing Data and User Authentication in Collaborative Settings

Elena Pagnin

Doctoral thesis

2018

Matrioska: A Compiler for Multi-Key Homomorphic Signatures

Dario Fiore, Elena Pagnin

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), p. 43-62

Paper in proceeding

2018

HB+DB: Distance bounding meets human based authentication

Elena Pagnin, Anjia Yang, Qiao Hu et al

Future Generation Computer Systems. Vol. 80, p. 627-639

Journal article

2018

Revisiting Yasuda et al.’s Biometric Authentication Protocol: Are you Private Enough?

Elena Pagnin, Jing Liu, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 11261, p. 161-178

Paper in proceeding

2018

Two-Hop Distance-Bounding Protocols: Keep Your Friends Close

Anjia Yang, Elena Pagnin, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa et al

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Vol. 17 (7), p. 1723-1736

Journal article

2018

HIKE: Walking the Privacy Trail

Elena Pagnin, Carlo Brunetta, Pablo Picazo-Sanchez

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 11124 LNCS, p. 43-66

Paper in proceeding

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2017

Privacy-Preserving Biometric Authentication: Challenges and Directions

Elena Pagnin, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa

Security and Communication Networks. Vol. 2017

Review article

2016

Multi-Key Homomorphic Authenticators

Dario Fiore, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Luca Nizzardo et al

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 10032 (2), p. 499-530

Paper in proceeding

2016

Authentication under Constraints

Elena Pagnin

Licentiate thesis

2015

HB+DB: Mitigating Man-in-the-Middle Attacks against HB+ with Distance Bounding.

Elena Pagnin, Anjia Yang, G. Hancke et al

Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec 2015), New York, United States, 22-26 June, p. 1-6

Paper in proceeding

2015

Using Distance-Bounding Protocols to Securely Verify the Proximity of Two-Hop Neighbours

Elena Pagnin, G. Hancke, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa

IEEE Communications Letters. Vol. 19 (7), p. 1173-1176

Journal article

2014

Attacks on Privacy-Preserving Biometric Authentication

Aysajan Abidin, Elena Pagnin, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 8788 (2014), p. 293-294

Paper in proceeding

2014

On the Leakage of Information in Biometric Authentication

Elena Pagnin, Christos Dimitrakakis, Aysajan Abidin et al

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), p. 265-280

Paper in proceeding

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2023–2026

Progressive verification for cryptographic schemes

Elena Pagnin Information Security

Swedish Research Council (VR)

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