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most citedTowards a Two-Tier Hierarchical Infrastructure: An Offline Payment System for Central Bank Digital Currencies

5 citations · 13 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.AI2026

Can LLM Agents Price Competitively? A Dynamic Multi-Attribute Auction Benchmark for Agentic Commerce

Shimaa Ahmed, Yiwei Cai, Mohsen Minaei +1

Agentic commerce is moving from concept to deployed infrastructure: payment networks, retailers, and AI platforms are setting the stage for agents to transact on behalf of merchant…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

Lite-PoT: Practical Powers-of-Tau Setup Ceremony

Lucien K. L. Ng, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Mohsen Minaei +3

Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge (zk-SNARK) schemes have gained significant adoption in privacy-preserving applications, decentralized systems (e.g., b…

cs.CR2025

DTL: Data Tumbling Layer. A Composable Unlinkability for Smart Contracts

Mohsen Minaei, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Zhiyong Fang +5

We propose Data Tumbling Layer (DTL), a cryptographic scheme for non-interactive data tumbling. The core concept is to enable users to commit to specific data and subsequently re-u…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

How Interactions Influence Users' Security Perception of Virtual Reality Authentication?

Jingjie Li, Sunpreet Singh Arora, Kassem Fawaz +6

Users readily embrace the rapid advancements in virtual reality (VR) technology within various everyday contexts, such as gaming, social interactions, shopping, and commerce. In or…

cs.CR2021★ 1 cited

Universal Payment Channels: An Interoperability Platform for Digital Currencies

Mihai Christodorescu, Erin English, Wanyun Catherine Gu +7

With the innovation of distributed ledger technology (DLT), often known as blockchain technology, there has been significant growth of digital tokens in the form of cryptocurrencie…

cs.CR2020★ 5 cited

Towards a Two-Tier Hierarchical Infrastructure: An Offline Payment System for Central Bank Digital Currencies

Mihai Christodorescu, Wanyun Catherine Gu, Ranjit Kumaresan +8

Digital payments traditionally rely on online communications with several intermediaries such as banks, payment networks, and payment processors in order to authorize and process p…

cs.CR2020★ 2 cited

Empirical Understanding of Deletion Privacy: Experiences, Expectations, and Measures

Mohsen Minaei, Mainack Mondal, Aniket Kate

Social platforms are heavily used by individuals to share their thoughts and personal information. However, due to regret over time about posting inappropriate social content, emba…

cs.CR2020

Towards Overcoming the Undercutting Problem

Tiantian Gong, Mohsen Minaei, Wenhai Sun +1

Mining processes of Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies are currently incentivized with voluntary transaction fees and fixed block rewards which will halve gradually to zero. In t…

cs.SI2020★ 1 cited

Deceptive Deletions for Protecting Withdrawn Posts on Social Platforms

Mohsen Minaei, S Chandra Mouli, Mainack Mondal +2

Over-sharing poorly-worded thoughts and personal information is prevalent on online social platforms. In many of these cases, users regret posting such content. To retrospectively…

cs.CR2019

A Tale of Two Trees: One Writes, and Other Reads. Optimized Oblivious Accesses to Large-Scale Blockchains

Duc V. Le, Lizzy Tengana Hurtado, Adil Ahmad +3

The Bitcoin network has offered a new way of securely performing financial transactions over the insecure network. Nevertheless, this ability comes with the cost of storing a large…

cs.CR2017★ 2 cited

Forgetting the Forgotten with Letheia, Concealing Content Deletion from Persistent Observers

Mohsen Minaei, Mainack Mondal, Patrick Loiseau +2

Most social platforms offer mechanisms allowing users to delete their posts, and a significant fraction of users exercise this right to be forgotten. However, ironically, users' at…