I am a sixth year Ph.D Student at Purdue University in the Computer Science department.
My broad research interests are in Theoretical Cryptography.
More specifically, my interests lie in error-correcting codes and their applications to cryptography, as well as efficient proof and argument systems.
I am a member of the Cryptography Group and the Theory Group at Purdue.
Publications
Private and Resource-Bounded Locally Decodable Codes for Insertions and Deletions
Alexander R. Block and Jeremiah Blocki in submission
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Secure Computation with Constant Communication Overhead using Multiplication Embeddings
Alexander R. Block, Hemanta K. Maji, and Hai H. Nguyen in INDOCRYPT 2018 [pdf]
Secure Computation based on Leaky Correlations: High Resilience Setting
Alexander R. Block, Hemanta K. Maji, and Hai H. Nguyen. in CRYPTO 2017
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Projects and Presentations
A Sublinear Upper Bound on Our Combinatorial Problem talk given at Purdue TCS Reading Group
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Modeling and Analysis of Simple Market Strategies final report for CS 523 Social, Economic, and Legal Aspects of Security in Spring 2017 withProfessor Mikhail Atallah.
[pdf] [slides]
Embedding Multiplications for poster session at Midwest Theory Day 2017.
[poster]
Hardness of Computing the Biclique Partition Number talk given at Purdue Crypto Reading Group.
[slides]
Randomness Extraction talk given at Purdue Crypto Reading Group.
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Combined Games
Alexander R. Block and Boao Huang (UC Irvine), advised by Dr. Sarah Eichhorn (UC Irvine).
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