Eli Goldin

Eli is a third year PhD student studying cryptography at NYU advised by Marshall Ball and Yevgeniy Dodis.

His research mainly aims to answer the question: "how do you do cryptography when the cryptographers are out to get you?" Security practitioners often use cryptographic primitives in a black-box manner. But sometimes, these black-boxes are themselves malicious. This may be caused by a backdoor inserted by some third party or just an unseen attack. Eli's research helps practitioners stuck in such a hopeless situation recover some security.

His research also focuses on the foundations of quantum cryptography. In particular, he is concerned with the necessary and sufficient assumptions to achieve cryptography utilizing quantum computers.