Ren Zhang

According to our database, Ren Zhang authored at least 21 papers between 2011 and 2025.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
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2025

Selfish Mining Time-Averaged Analysis in Bitcoin: Is Orphan Reporting an Effective Countermeasure?

Roozbeh Sarenche, Ren Zhang, Svetla Nikova, Bart Preneel

IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., 2025

2024

Time-Averaged Analysis of Selfish Mining in Bitcoin.

Roozbeh Sarenche, Ren Zhang, Svetla Nikova, Bart Preneel

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024

2023

Crystal: Enhancing Blockchain Mining Transparency With Quorum Certificate.

Jianyu Niu, Fangyu Gai, Runchao Han, Ren Zhang, Yinqian Zhang, Chen Feng

IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput., 2023

Polynomial IOPs for Memory Consistency Checks in Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machines.

Yuncong Zhang, Shi-Feng Sun, Ren Zhang, Dawu Gu

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023

Security-Performance Tradeoff in DAG-based Proof-of-Work Blockchain Protocols.

Shichen Wu, Puwen Wei, Ren Zhang, Bowen Jiang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023

When is Slower Block Propagation More Profitable for Large Miners?

Zhichun Lu, Ren Zhang

Proceedings of the Computer Security - ESORICS 2023, 2023

2022

NC-Max: Breaking the Security-Performance Tradeoff in Nakamoto Consensus.

Ren Zhang, Dingwei Zhang, Quake Wang, Shichen Wu, Jan Xie, Bart Preneel

Proceedings of the 29th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2022

VOProof: Efficient zkSNARKs from Vector Oracle Compilers.

Yuncong Zhang, Alan Szepieniec, Ren Zhang, Shifeng Sun, Geng Wang, Dawu Gu

Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2022

2021

VCProof: Constructing Shorter and Faster-to-Verify zkSNARKs with Vector Oracles.

Yuncong Zhang, Ren Zhang, Geng Wang, Dawu Gu

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021

Ghost in the Binder: Binder Transaction Redirection Attacks in Android System Services.

Xiaobo Xiang, Ren Zhang, Hanxiang Wen, Xiaorui Gong, Baoxu Liu

Proceedings of the CCS '21: 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Virtual Event, Republic of Korea, November 15, 2021

2020

NC-Max: Breaking the Throughput Limit of Nakamoto Consensus.

Ren Zhang, Dingwei Zhang, Quake Wang, Jan Xie, Bart Preneel

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020

Analysing and Improving Shard Allocation Protocols for Sharded Blockchains.

Runchao Han, Jiangshan Yu, Ren Zhang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020

Authenticated and auditable data sharing via smart contract.

Vincent Reniers, Yuan Gao, Ren Zhang, Paolo Viviani, Akash Madhusudan, Bert Lagaisse, Svetla Nikova, Dimitri Van Landuyt, Riccardo Lombardi, Bart Preneel, Wouter Joosen

Proceedings of the SAC '20: The 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, online event, [Brno, Czech Republic], March 30, 2020

2019

Lay Down the Common Metrics: Evaluating Proof-of-Work Consensus Protocols' Security.

Ren Zhang, Bart Preneel

Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2019

SC2Share: Smart Contract for Secure Car Sharing.

Akash Madhusudan, Iraklis Symeonidis, Mustafa A. Mustafa, Ren Zhang, Bart Preneel

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, 2019

2017

On the Necessity of a Prescribed Block Validity Consensus: Analyzing Bitcoin Unlimited Mining Protocol.

Ren Zhang, Bart Preneel

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2017

A Voucher-Based Security Middleware for Secure Business Process Outsourcing.

Emad Heydari Beni, Bert Lagaisse, Ren Zhang, Danny De Cock, Filipe Beato, Wouter Joosen

Proceedings of the Engineering Secure Software and Systems - 9th International Symposium, 2017

Publish or Perish: A Backward-Compatible Defense Against Selfish Mining in Bitcoin.

Ren Zhang, Bart Preneel

Proceedings of the Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2017, 2017

2015

Broadcasting Intermediate Blocks as a Defense Mechanism Against Selfish-Mine in Bitcoin.

Ren Zhang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2015

2014

Censorship-resistant and privacy-preserving distributed web search.

Michael Herrmann, Ren Zhang, Kai-Chun Ning, Claudia Díaz, Bart Preneel

Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2014

2011

Making eclipse attacks computationally infeasible in large-scale DHTs.

Ren Zhang, Jianyu Zhang, Yu Chen, Nanhao Qin, Bingshuang Liu, Yuan Zhang

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, 2011