Matteo Scarlata

About me

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ps
    PID TTY          TIME CMD
      1 pts/0  9490-0:23:44 life
3100542 pts/0  1095-0:13:14 phd

ls papers/ | wc -l
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papers/todo.txtdoctoral_thesis.pdfmsc_thesis.pdfcv.pdf

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matteo tty0 Mon Aug 3 2026 19:00

Recent publications

  1. 2026
    Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers
    Matteo Scarlata, Giovanni Torrisi, Matilda Backendal and Kenneth G. Paterson. USENIX Security 2026.
  2. 2025
    Breaking and Fixing Content-Defined Chunking
    Kien Tuong Truong, Simon-Philipp Merz, Matteo Scarlata, Felix Günther and Kenneth G. Paterson. ACM CCS 2025.
  3. 2024
    MFKDF: Multiple Factors Knocked Down Flat
    Matteo Scarlata, Matilda Backendal and Miro Haller. USENIX Security 2024.
  4. 2023
    When Messages Are Keys: Is HMAC a Dual-PRF?
    Matilda Backendal, Mihir Bellare, Felix Günther and Matteo Scarlata. CRYPTO 2023.
  5. 2023
    Three Lessons From Threema: Analysis of a Secure Messenger
    Kenneth G. Paterson, Matteo Scarlata and Kien T. Truong. USENIX Security 2023.