Octavio Pérez Kempner

Octavio Pérez Kempner

Researcher in Cryptography

NTT Musashino R&D Center

Welcome to my page

I am a researcher specializing in Cryptography, currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at NTT Social Informatics Laboratories under the mentorship of Masayuki Abe. I earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from École Normale Supérieure in 2022. My thesis, entitled "Malleable Cryptography: Advances and Applications to Privacy-enhancing Technologies", was supervised by David Naccache and Pascal Lafourcade. I also earned an engineering degree (Ing.) in Computer Science from Universidad de la República, which I have obtained in 2018 (ranked 12/599). During my Ph.D. studies, I was a CIFRE fellow working at be-ys Research, where I focused on blockchain and privacy. Prior to that, I was a teaching assistant (Ayudante, Gr. 1) at Universidad de la República, Uruguay from 2015 to 2018. My current research centers on the design and analysis of provably secure and practical public-key cryptographic primitives, with a particular focus on digital identity. I am dedicated to advancing privacy-enhancing technologies that meet the challenges of our increasingly digital world. I am a member of the Latin Americans in Cryptography community and the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

My full (academic) CV is available upon request. In case you would like to know more about me, other information related to my interests outside academia can be found on this page. I also share some photos from my life in Japan on this other page. If you are a student, you may find useful to check a list of learning resources that I provide here.

SERVICE

I generally set aside time to serve as a reviewer for venues focused on Cryptography, and I am always happy to contribute to the community. If you believe I can assist, feel free to reach out — just ensure your message is specific, as generic or suspicious emails are automatically filtered as spam.

PUBLICATIONS

A list of my publications appears below; see also my DBLP and Google Scholar pages. All of them should become available at some point in open access format (most likely on the ePrint archive). Please let me know if you have trouble accessing any of them so that I can help you to get a copy. Authors are listed alphabetically by last name.

My legal surname is "Perez Kempner". However, the correct spelling is "Pérez Kempner" and no hyphen should be used between the two last names. Sometimes I use a hyphen and no accent to avoid confusion/encoding issues. It's always me, though.

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Selected Conference Papers
2025 A Certified-Input Mixnet from Two-Party Mercurial Signatures on Randomizable Ciphertexts
Joint work with Masayuki Abe, Masaya Nanri, Miyako Ohkubo, Daniel Slamanig and Mehdi Tibouchi.
30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security - ESORICS 2025.
2025 Privacy-Preserving Multi-Signatures: Generic Techniques and Constructions Without Pairings
Joint work with Calvin Abou Haidar, Dipayan Das, Anja Lehmann and Cavit Özbay.
28th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography - PKC 2025.
2024 Delegatable Anonymous Credentials From Mercurial Signatures With Stronger Privacy
Joint work with Scott Griffy, Anna Lysyanskaya, Omid Mir and Daniel Slamanig.
30th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security - ASIACRYPT 2024.
2024 Interactive Threshold Mercurial Signatures and Applications
Joint work with Masayuki Abe, Masaya Nanri and Mehdi Tibouchi.
30th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security - ASIACRYPT 2024.
2024 SoK: Signature With Randomizable Keys
Joint work with Sofía Celi, Scott Griffy, Lucjan Hanzlik and Daniel Slamanig.
28th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security - FC 2024.
2022 Protego: Efficient, Revocable and Auditable Anonymous Credentials with Applications to Hyperledger Fabric
Joint work with Aisling Connolly, Jerome Deschamps and Pascal Lafourcade.
23rd International Conference on Cryptology in India - INDOCRYPT 2022.
2022 Improved Constructions of Anonymous Credentials From Structure-Preserving Signatures on Equivalence Classes
Joint work with Aisling Connolly and Pascal Lafourcade.
25th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography - PKC 2022.
2021 Generic Plaintext Equality and Inequality Proofs
Joint work with Olivier Blazy, Xavier Bultel and Pascal Lafourcade.
25th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security - FC 2021.
Ph.D. Thesis
2022 Malleable Cryptography: Advances and Applications to Privacy-enhancing Technologies
Octavio Pérez Kempner.
École Normale Supérieure - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres.