Selected Publications

A selected set based on my current research interests. Check here for a complete list.

Preprint
  • SoK: Blockchain Oracles Between Theory and Practice
    C. Finkbeiner and G. Almashaqbeh   PDF

  • chainScale: Secure Functionality-oriented Scalability for Decentralized Resource Markets
    M. Najd and G. Almashaqbeh   PDF

Published
  • When Does Being Selfish Pay Off? Temporal Composability and Profitability in Selfish Mining. In AFT 2026
    C. Finkbeiner, C. Shaw, and G. Almashaqbeh   PDF

  • Parasol Compiler: Pushing the Boundaries of FHE Program Efficiency. In SP 2026
    R. Weber, R. Orendorff, G. Almashaqbeh, and R. Solomon   PDF

  • Adversary Resilient Learned Bloom Filters. In Asiacrypt 2025
    G. Almashaqbeh, A. Bishop, and H. Tirmazi   PDF

  • AnoFel: Supporting Anonymity for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning. In PETS 2025
    G. Almashaqbeh and Z. Ghodsi   PDF

  • ammBoost: State Growth Control for AMMs. In DSN 2025
    N. Michel, M. Najd, and G. Almashaqbeh   PDF

  • SoK: Time to be Selfless?! Demystifying the Landscape of Selfish Mining Strategies and Models. In ICBC 2025, also presented at SBC 2025
    C. Finkbeiner, M. Najd, J. Guskind, and G. Almashaqbeh   PDF

  • Password-authenticated Cryptography from Consumable Tokens. In CSCML 2024
    G. Almashaqbeh   PDF

  • Anonymous, Timed and Revocable Proxy Signatures. In ISC 2024  Best Paper Award
    G. Almashaqbeh and A. Nitulescu   PDF

  • Competitive Policies for Online Collateral Maintenance. In AFT 2024
    G. Almashaqbeh, S. Chen, and A. Russell   PDF

  • chainBoost: A Secure Performance Booster for Blockchain-based Resource Markets. In EuroS&P 2024
    Z. Motaqy, M. Najd, and G. Almashaqbeh   PDF

  • Unclonable Cryptography: A Tale of Two No-cloning Paradigms. In Secrypt 2023
    G. Almashaqbeh and R. Chatterjee   PDF

  • smartFHE: Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts from Fully Homomorphic Encryption. In EuroS&P 2023
    R. Solomon, R. Weber, and G. Almashaqbeh   PDF

  • Unclonable Polymers and Their Cryptographic Applications. In Eurocrypt 2022
    G. Almashaqbeh, R. Canetti, Y. Erlich, J. Gershoni. T. Malkin, I. Pe’er, A. Roitburd-Berman, and E. Tromer   PDF

  • SoK: Privacy-Preserving Computing in the Blockchain Era. In EuroS&P 2022
    G. Almashaqbeh and R. Solomon   PDF

  • Gage MPC: Bypassing Residual Function Leakage for Non-Interactive MPC. In PETS 2021
    G. Almashaqbeh, F. Benhamouda, S. Han, D. Jaroslawicz, T. Malkin. A. Nicita, T. Rabin, A. Shah, and E. Tromer   PDF

  • Bet and Attack: Incentive Compatible Collaborative Attacks Using Smart Contracts. In GameSec 2021
    Z. Motaqy, G. Almashaqbeh, B. Bahrak, and N. Yazdani   PDF

  • Rethinking Service Systems: A Path Towards Secure and Equitable Resource Markets. In USENIX ;login: Magazine 2021
    G. Almashaqbeh   PDF

  • MicroCash: Practical Concurrent Processing of Micropayments. In FC 2020 (Financial Cryptography and Data Security)
    G. Almashaqbeh, A. Bishop, and J. Cappos   PDF

  • CAPnet: A Defense Against Cache Accounting Attacks on Content Distribution Networks. In IEEE CNS 2019 (Communications and Network Security)
    G. Almashaqbeh, K. Kelley, A. Bishop, and J. Cappos   PDF

  • ABC: A Cryptocurrency-Focused Threat Modeling Framework. In CryBlock 2019
    G. Almashaqbeh, A. Bishop, and J. Cappos   PDF

  • Implementing Support for Pointers to Private Data in a General-Purpose Secure Multi-Party Compiler. In TOPS 2017 (ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security)
    Y. Zhang, M. Blanton, and G. Almashaqbeh   PDF

  • Secure Distributed Genome Analysis for GWAS and Sequence Comparison Computation. In BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015
    Y. Zhang, M. Blanton, and G. Almashaqbeh

Thesis

G. Almashaqbeh, CacheCash: A Cryptocurrency-based Decentralized Content Delivery Network, PhD thesis, Columbia University, 2019   Full version