See also my DBLP and Google Scholar pages.
Preprint
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White-Box Watermarking Signatures against Quantum Adversaries and Its Applications 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki
 » eprint
 Under submission to journal
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Laconic Pre-Constrained Encryption 
 Shweta Agrawal, Simran Kumari, Ryo Nishimaki
 » eprint
Refereed International Conferences
2025
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Untelegraphable Encryption and Its Applications 
 Jeffrey Champion, Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Takashi Yamakawa
 TCC 2025 (to appear)
 » arXiv
 acceptance rate = 70/243 (28.8%)
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MicroCrypt Assumptions with Quantum Input Sampling and Pseudodeterminism: Constructions and Separations 
 Mohammed Barhoush, Ryo Nishimaki, Takashi Yamakawa
 Asiacrypt 2025 (to appear)
 » eprint
 acceptance rate = 144/533 (27.0%)
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PKE and ABE with Collusion-Resistant Secure Key Leasing 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, [Nikhil Pappu]
 CRYPTO 2025 (to appear) » eprint
 acceptance rate = 154/658 (23.4%)
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Non-Committing Identity Based Encryption: Constructions and Applications 
 Rishab Goyal, Fuyuki Kitagawa, Venkata Koppula Ryo Nishimaki, Mahesh Sreekumar Rajasree, Takashi Yamakawa
 PKC 2025 (LNCS 15674)
 acceptance rate = 60/201 (29.9%)
2024
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Robust Combiners and Universal Constructions for Quantum Cryptography 
 Taiga Hiroka, Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Takashi Yamakawa
 TCC 2024 (LNCS 15365) » eprint » arXiv
 acceptance rate = 66/172 (38.4%)
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Quantum Public-Key Encryption with Tamper-Resilient Public Keys from One-Way Functions 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Tomoyuki Morimae, Ryo Nishimaki, Takashi Yamakawa
 CRYPTO 2024 (LNCS 14926) » arXiv » eprint
 acceptance rate = 143/519 (27.6%)
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Certified Everlasting Secure Collusion-Resistant Functional Encryption, and More 
 Taiga Hiroka, Fuyuki Kitagawa, Tomoyuki Morimae, Ryo Nishimaki, Tapas Pal, Takashi Yamakawa
 Eurocrypt 2024 (LNCS 14653) » arXiv » eprint
 acceptance rate = 105/482 (21.8%)
2023
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Publicly Verifiable Deletion from Minimal Assumptions 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Takashi Yamakawa
 TCC 2023 (LNCS 14372) » arXiv » eprint
 acceptance rate = 68/169 (40.2%)
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One-out-of-Many Unclonable Cryptography: Definitions, Constructions, and More 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki
 TCC 2023 (LNCS 14372) » arXiv » eprint
 acceptance rate = 68/169 (40.2%)
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Obfuscation of Pseudo-Deterministic Quantum Circuits 
 James Bartusek, Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Takashi Yamakawa
 ACM STOC 2023 » eprint » arXiv
 acceptance rate = 155/479 (32.4%)
 Contributed talk at QCRYPT 2023
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Public Key Encryption with Secure Key Leasing 
 Shweta Agrawal, Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 Eurocrypt 2023 (LNCS 14004) » eprint » arXiv » live video (by Ryo)
 acceptance rate = 111/415 (26.7%)
2022
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Bounded Functional Encryption for Turing Machines: Adaptive Security from General Assumptions 
 Shweta Agrawal, Fuyuki Kitagawa, Anuja Modi, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 TCC 2022 (LNCS 13747) » eprint » live video (by Anuja)
 acceptacne rate = 60/139 (43.2%)
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Functional Encryption with Secure Key Leasing 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki
 Asiacrypt 2022 (LNCS 13794) » eprint » arXiv » live video (by Ryo)
 acceptance rate = 98/360 (27.2%)
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Certified Everlasting Zero-Knowledge Proof for QMA 
 Taiga Hiroka, Tomoyuki Morimae, Ryo Nishimaki , Takashi Yamakawa
 CRYPTO 2022 (LNCS 13507) » arXiv » eprint » live video (by Taiga) acceptance rate = 100/452 (22.1%)
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Watermarking PRFs against Quantum Adversaries 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki
 Eurocrypt 2022 (LNCS 13277) » eprint » arXiv » live video (by Fuyuki)
 acceptance rate = 85/369 (23.0%)
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KDM Security for the Fujisaki-Okamoto Transformations in the QROM 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki
 PKC 2022 (LNCS 13178) » eprint » video (by Fuyuki)
 acceptance rate = 39/137 (28.5%)
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The Direction of Updatable Encryption Does Matter 
 Ryo Nishimaki
 PKC 2022 (LNCS 13178) » eprint » video (by Ryo)
 acceptance rate = 39/137 (28.5%)
2021
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Secure Software Leasing from Standard Assumptions 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Takashi Yamakawa
 TCC 2021 (LNCS 13042) » eprint » arXiv » video (by Ryo)
 acceptance rate = 66/161 (41.0%)
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Quantum Encryption with Certified Deletion, Revisited: Public Key, Attribute-Based, and Classical Communication 
 Taiga Hiroka, Tomoyuki Morimae, Ryo Nishimaki , Takashi Yamakawa
 Asiacrypt 2021 (LNCS 13090) » arXiv » eprint » video (by Taiga)
 Contributed talk at QCRYPT 2021 and short plenary talk (merged) at QIP 2022
 acceptance rate = 95/341 (27.9%)
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Universal Proxy Re-Encryption 
 Nico Döttling, Ryo Nishimaki
 PKC 2021 (LNCS 12710) » eprint » video (by Ryo)
 acceptance rate = 52/156 (33.3%)
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Round-Optimal Blind Signatures in the Plain Model from Classical and Quantum Standard Assumptions 
 Shuichi Katsumata, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 Eurocrypt 2021 (LNCS 12696) » eprint » video (by Ryo)
 acceptance rate = 78/400 (19.5%)
2020
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Equipping Public-Key Cryptographic Primitives with Watermarking (or: A Hole Is to Watermark) 
 Ryo Nishimaki
 TCC 2020 (LNCS 12550) » eprint » video (by Ryo)
 acceptance rate = 71/167 (42.5%)
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Adaptively Secure Inner Product Encryption from LWE 
 Shuichi Katsumata, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 Asiacrypt 2020 (LNCS 12493) » eprint » video (by Shota)
 acceptance rate = 85/316 (26.9%)
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Adaptively Secure Constrained Pseudorandom Functions in the Standard Model 
 Alex Davidson, Shuichi Katsumata, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 CRYPTO 2020 (LNCS 12170) » eprint » video (by Takashi)
 This is a major update version of eprint:DKNY18 with additional results.
 acceptance rate = 85/371 (22.9%)
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Compact NIZKs from Standard Assumptions on Bilinear Maps 
 Shuichi Katsumata, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 Eurocrypt 2020 (LNCS 12107) » eprint » video (by Shu)
 acceptance rate = 81/375 (21.6%)
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Fast, Compact, and Expressive Attribute-Based Encryption 
 Junichi Tomida, Yuto Kawahara, Ryo Nishimaki (non-alphabetical order)
 PKC 2020 (LNCS 12110) » eprint » video (by Junichi)
 acceptance rate = 44/180 (24.4%)
2019
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Exploring Constructions of Compact NIZKs from Various Assumptions 
 Shuichi Katsumata, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 CRYPTO 2019 (LNCS 11694) » eprint » video (by Shu)
 acceptance rate = 81/378 (21.4%)
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Adaptively Secure and Succinct Functional Encryption: Improving Security and Efficiency, Simultaneously 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Keisuke Tanaka, Takashi Yamakawa
 CRYPTO 2019 (LNCS 11694) » eprint
 acceptance rate = 81/378 (21.4%)
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Designated Verifier/Prover and Preprocessing NIZKs from Diffie-Hellman Assumptions 
 Shuichi Katsumata, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 Eurocrypt 2019 (LNCS 11477) » eprint » video (by Shu)
 acceptace rate = 76/327 (23.2%)
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Adaptively Single-Key Secure Constrained PRF for NC1 
 Nuttapong Attrapadung, Takahiro Matsuda, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 PKC 2019 (LNCS 11443) » eprint
 acceptacnce rate = 42/173 (24.3%)
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Leakage-Resilient Identity-Based Encryption in Bounded Retrieval Model with Nearly Optimal Leakage-Ratio 
 Ryo Nishimaki, Takashi Yamakawa
 PKC 2019 (LNCS 11443) » eprint
 acceptacnce rate = 42/173 (24.3%)
2018
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Constrained PRF for NC1 in Traditional Groups 
 Nuttapong Attrapadung, Takahiro Matsuda, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 CRYPTO 2018 (LNCS 10992) » eprint » video (by Takashi)
 acceptacnce rate = 79/351 (22.5%)
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Obfustopia Built on Secret-Key Functional Encryption 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Keisuke Tanaka
 Eurocrypt 2018 (LNCS 10821) » proceedings ver » eprint » video (by Fuyuki)
 Note: This is a hard merge version of eprint:KNT17b and eprintLKNT17c
 acceptacnce rate = 69/294 (23.5%)
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Simple and Generic Constructions of Succinct Functional Encryption 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Keisuke Tanaka
 PKC 2018 (LNCS 10770) » eprint
 acceptacnce rate = 49/186 (26.3%)
2017
- Compact Structure-preserving Signatures with Almost Tight Security
 Masayuki Abe, Dennis Hofheinz, Ryo Nishimaki, Miyako Ohkubo, Jiaxin Pan
 CRYPTO 2017 (LNCS 10402) » eprint » video (by Ryo)
 acceptance rate = 72/311 (23.2%)
2016
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From Cryptomania to Obfustopia through Secret-Key Functional Encryption 
 Nir Bitansky, Ryo Nishimaki, Alain Passeègue, Daniel Wichs
 TCC 2016 (LNCS 9986) » eprint
 acceptance rate = 45/113 (39.8%)
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Watermarking Cryptographic Capabilities 
 Aloni Cohen, Justin Holmgren, Ryo Nishimaki, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Daniel Wichs
 ACM STOC 2016 » eprint
 This is a merged version of eprint:NW15 and eprint:CHV15 with additional results.
 acceptance rate = 92/370 (24.9%)
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Anonymous Traitor Tracing: How to Embed Arbitrary Information in a Key 
 Ryo Nishimaki, Daniel Wichs, Mark Zhandry
 Eurocrypt 2016 (LNCS 9666) » eprint » video (by Ryo)
 acceptance rate = 62/274 (22.6%)
2015
- Generalizing Efficient Multiparty Computation
 Bernardo David, Ryo Nishimaki, Samuel Ranellucci, Alain Tapp
 ICITS 2015 (LNCS 9063) » eprint
 acceptance rate = unknown
2014
- Re-Encryption, Functional Re-Encryption, and Multi-Hop Re-Encryption: A Framework for Achieving Obfuscation-Based Security and Instantiations from Lattices
 Nishanth Chandran, Melissa Chase, Feng-Hao Liu, Ryo Nishimaki, Keita Xagawa
 PKC 2014 (LNCS 8383) » eprint
 acceptance rate = 38/145 (26.2%)
2013
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Universally Composable Adaptive Oblivious Transfer with Access Control from Standard Assumptions 
 Masayuki Abe, Jan Camenisch, Maria Dubovitskaya, Ryo Nishimaki
 ACM Digital Identity Management 2013
 acceptance rate = unknown
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How to Watermark Cryptographic Functions 
 Ryo Nishimaki
 Eurocrypt 2013 (LNCS 7881) » eprint
 acceptance rate = 41/202 (20%)
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Verifiably Encrypted Signatures with Short Keys based on the Decisional Linear Problem and Obfuscation for Encrypted VES 
 Ryo Nishimaki, Keita Xagawa
 PKC 2013 (LNCS 7778) » IACR ver
 acceptance rate = 28/97 (29%)
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Tagged One-Time Signatures: Tight Security and Optimal Tag Size 
 Masayuki Abe, Bernardo David, Markulf Kohlweiss, Ryo Nishimaki, Miyako Ohkubo
 PKC 2013 (LNCS 7778) » IACR ver
 acceptance rate = 28/97 (29%)
2012
- Constant-Size Structure-Preserving Signatures: Generic Constructions and Simple Assumptions
 Masayuki Abe, Melissa Chase, Bernardo David, Markulf Kohlweiss, Ryo Nishimaki, Miyako Ohkubo
 Asiacrypt 2012 (LNCS 7658) » eprint
 acceptance rate = 43/247 (17%)
 Invited to Journal of Cryptology
2010
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A Multi-trapdoor Commitment Scheme from the RSA Assumption 
 Ryo Nishimaki, Eiichiro Fujisaki, Keisuke Tanaka (non-alphabetical order)
 ACISP 2010 (LNCS 6168)
 acceptance rate = unknown
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CCA Proxy Re-Encryption without Bilinear Maps in the Standard Model 
 Toshihide Matsuda, Ryo Nishimaki, Keisuke Tanaka
 PKC 2010 (LNCS 6056)
 acceptance rate = unknown
 Subsequent to the publication of the above work, it was pointed out that the security proof is incorrect. See “On the Security of a Bidirectional Proxy Re-encryption Scheme from PKC 2010” in PKC 2011 for details.
2009
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On the Insecurity of the Fiat-Shamir Signatures with Iterative Hash Functions 
 Eiichiro Fujisaki, Ryo Nishimaki, Keisuke Tanaka (non-alphabetical order)
 ProvSec 2009 (LNCS 5848)
 acceptance rate = unknown
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Efficient Non-interactive Universally Composable String-Commitment Schemes 
 Ryo Nishimaki, Eiichiro Fujisaki, Keisuke Tanaka (non-alphabetical order)
 ProvSec 2009 (LNCS 5848)
 acceptance rate = unknown
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Security on Hybrid Encryption with the Tag-KEM/DEM Framework 
 Toshihide Matsuda, Ryo Nishimaki, Akira Numayama, Keisuke Tanaka
 ACISP 2009 (LNCS 5594)
 acceptance rate = unknown
2006
- Universally Composable Identity-Based Encryption
Ryo Nishimaki, Yoshifumi Manabe, Tatsuaki Okamoto (non-alphabetical order)
 VIETCRYPT 2006 (LNCS 4341)
 acceptance rate = unknown
Journal Articles
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Compact NIZKs from Standard Assumptions on Bilinear Maps 
 Shuichi Katsumata, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 Journal of Cryptology, 37(3)
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Watermarking PRFs and PKE against Quantum Adversaries 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki
 Jounral of Cryptology, 37(3)
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Compact Structure-preserving Signatures with Almost Tight Security 
 Masayuki Abe, Dennis Hofheinz, Ryo Nishimaki, Miyako Ohkubo, Jiaxin Pan
 Journal of Cryptology, 36(4)
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Cryptanalysis of Boyen’s Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme in TCC 2013 
 Shweta Agrawal, Rajarshi Biswas, Ryo Nishimaki , Keita Xagawa, Xiang Xie, Shota Yamada
 Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 90(10): 2301-2318
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Obfustopia Built on Secret-Key Functional Encryption 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Keisuke Tanaka
 Journal of Cryptology, 35(3)
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Fast, Compact, and Expressive Attribute-Based Encryption 
 Junichi Tomida, Yuto Kawahara, Ryo Nishimaki (non-alphabetical order)
 Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 89(11): 2577-2626
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Compact Designated Verifier NIZKs from the CDH Assumption without Pairings 
 Shuichi Katsumata, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada, Takashi Yamakawa
 Journal of Cryptology, 34(4)
 This is the merged and revised version of eprint:KNYY19a and eprint:KNYY19b
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Simple and Generic Constructions of Succinct Functional Encryption 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Keisuke Tanaka
 Journal of Cryptology, 34(3)
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From Cryptomania to Obfustopia through Secret-Key Functional Encryption 
 Nir Bitansky, Ryo Nishimaki, Alain Passeègue, Daniel Wichs
 Journal of Cryptology, 33(2): 357-405
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Watermarking Cryptographic Capabilities 
 Aloni Cohen, Justin Holmgren, Ryo Nishimaki, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Daniel Wichs
 SIAM Journal on Computing, 47(6): 2157–2202
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How to Watermark Cryptographic Functions by Bilinear Maps 
 Ryo Nishimaki
 IEICE Transactions E102-A(1)
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Constant-Size Structure-Preserving Signatures: Generic Constructions and Simple Assumptions 
 Masayuki Abe, Melissa Chase, Bernardo David, Markulf Kohlweiss, Ryo Nishimaki, Miyako Ohkubo
 Journal of Cryptology, 29(4): 833-878
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Verifiably Encrypted Signatures with Short Keys based on the Decisional Linear Problem and Obfuscation for Encrypted VES 
 Ryo Nishimaki, Keita Xagawa
 Designs, Codes and Cryptography 77(1): 61-98
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Post-Challenge Leakage Resilient Public-Key Cryptosystem in Split State Model 
 Eiichiro Fujisaki, Akinori Kawachi, Ryo Nishimaki, Keisuke Tanaka, Kenji Yasunaga
 IEICE Transactions E98-A(3)
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Key-Private Proxy Re-Encryption from Lattices, Revisited 
 Ryo Nishimaki, Keita Xagawa
 IEICE Transactions E98-A(1)
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An Efficient Non-interactive Universally Composable String-Commitment Scheme 
 Ryo Nishimaki, Eiichiro Fujisaki, Keisuke Tanaka (non-alphabetical order)
 IEICE Transactions E95-A(1)
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A Multi-Trapdoor Commitment Scheme from the RSA Assumption 
 Ryo Nishimaki, Eiichiro Fujisaki, Keisuke Tanaka (non-alphabetical order)
 IEICE Transactions E95-A(1)
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Universally Composable Identity-Based Encryption 
 Ryo Nishimaki, Yoshifumi Manabe, Tatsuaki Okamoto (non-alphabetical order)
 IEICE Transactions E91-A(1)
Invited Papers
- Watermarking Cryptographic Programs (Survey paper)
 Ryo Nishimaki
 Mycrypt 2016 (LNCS 10311) » proceedings ver
PhD Thesis
Constructions for Commitment with Non-Malleability and Universal Composability
Supervised by Keisuke Tanaka at Tokyo Institute of Technilogy
Unpublished manuscript
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A Note on Security Definitions for Secret Sharing with Certified Deletion Dominique Bazin, Ryo Nishimaki 
 » eprint
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Certified Everlasting Functional Encryption 
 Taiga Hiroka, Tomoyuki Morimae, Ryo Nishimaki , Takashi Yamakawa
 » arXiv » eprint
 This work was superseded by EPRINT:HKMNPY23
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Quantum Encryption with Certified Deletion: Public Key and Attribute-Based 
 Ryo Nishimaki , Takashi Yamakawa
 » eprint
 This work was superseded by arXiv:HMNY21.
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Constrained PRFs for Bit-fixing (and More) from OWFs with Adaptive Security and Constant Collusion-Resistance 
 Alex Davidson, Shuichi Katsumata, Ryo Nishimaki, Shota Yamada
 » eprint
 This work was superseded by eprint:DKNYY20. This is a merged version of eprint:DavNis18 and eprint:KatYam18 with additional results.
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A Bit-fixing PRF with O(1) Collusion-Resistance from LWE 
 Alex Davidson, Ryo Nishimaki
 » eprint
 This work was superseded by eprint:DKNY18.
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From Single-Key to Collusion-Resistant Secret-Key Functional Encryption by Leveraging Succinctness 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Keisuke Tanaka
 » eprint
 This work was merged into eprint:KNT21.
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Indistinguishability Obfuscation for All Circuits from Secret-Key Functional Encryption 
 Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Keisuke Tanaka
 » eprint
 This work was merged into eprint:KNT21.
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Watermarking Cryptographic Programs Against Arbitrary Removal Strategies 
 Ryo Nishimaki, Daniel Wichs
 » eprint
 Most of the results in this paper are superseded by STOC:CHN+16
Books
Theory of Public-Key Cryptography (in Japanese) » Errata
Moriyama Daisuke, Ryo Nishimaki, Tatsuaki Okamoto
The Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (JSAIM) (Editor)
KYORITSU SHUPPAN CO., LTD. (Publisher)
Mar. 2011.