Theory and Applications of Algorithms

Ass.-Prof. Mag.art. Karen Azari, BSc MSc Ph.D.

Research Group Theory and Applications of Algorithms

Währinger Straße 29
1090 Wien

T: +43-1-4277-78313

karen.azari(at)univie.ac.at

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Courses

Summer term 2026

500500 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Algorithms and Computing

Summer term 2025

051024 VU Algorithms and Data Structures 1
052013 VU Foundations of Cryptography

Publications

Security Amplification of Threshold Signatures in the Standard Model. / Azari, Karen; Boschini, Cecilia; Hostakova, Kristina et al.
23rd Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC). 2025.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

Tighter provable security for TreeKEM. / Azari, Karen; Ellison, Andreas (Corresponding author).
Applied Cryptography and Network Security - 23rd International Conference, ACNS 2025, Proceedings. ed. / Marc Fischlin; Veelasha Moonsamy. Vol. 15825 Cham: Springer, 2025. p. 572-595.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95761-1_20

On the Adaptive Security of Free-XOR-based Garbling Schemes in the Plain Model. / Acharya, Anasuya; Azari, Karen (Corresponding author); Kamath, Chethan.
Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2025 - 44th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Madrid, Spain, May 4-8, 2025, Proceedings, Part VI. ed. / Serge Fehr; Pierre-Alain Fouque. Vol. VI Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. p. 214-244 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 15606).

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91095-1_8

Securely Instantiating 'Half Gates' Garbling in the Standard Model. / Acharya, Anasuya (Corresponding author); Azari, Karen; Baig, Mirza Ahad et al.
Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2025 - 28th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, 2025, Proceedings, Part IV. ed. / Tibor Jager; Jiaxin Pan. Vol. IV Cham: Springer, 2025. p. 37-75 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 15606).

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91829-2_2