Viet Tung Hoang

Research

My research area is cryptography, with a practice-oriented theme. I am interested in broadening the theory of cryptography to understand the exact security of real-world schemes and narrow the performance gap between provable-security designs and heuristic ones. The results of my research have yielded tangible impacts on cryptographic practices. For example, ideas in my work were adopted in Google’s streaming encryption and Android encryption; my Swap-or-Not shuffle is a major component in the validator-selection protocol of Ethereum 2.0; and my attacks on the NIST standards of credit-card encryption led to a revision of the standards.