Karim Eldefrawy

Cryptography, Cybersecurity, Privacy

Co-founder and CTO at Confidencial.io
2017-2021: SRI
2011-2016: HRL Laboratories
2006-2010: PhD@UC Irvine

Scientific curiosity

Scientific knowledge map · Paper #72

Challenges in Timed Cryptography: A Position Paper (Full Paper)

Karim Eldefrawy, Ben Terner, and Moti Yung

2025 · Cryptography and Communications special issue

  • Theory
  • Perspective

What does the paper try to establish?

How should a full treatment of timed cryptography replace idealized time-lock analyses with realistic models of computation time, leakage, simulators, and composition?

What is the proposed answer?

The curated editorial summary cautiously states that the listed full version appears to expand the earlier position paper's critique, while also warning that no distinct public full-paper record was found.

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Epistemic evidence Low

Only curated metadata and an editorial summary support this draft; no public manuscript is represented, so the proposed method, claims, and evidence have not been source-audited.

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Auditability Low

No paper-specific official publication record, public archive, or author-hosted copy is represented; full-text assumptions, evidence, artifacts, and version identity cannot presently be audited from this map. Auditability is therefore low.

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Production provenance Medium

The record documents named authorship and the publication or review status of the paper, establishing a baseline human and lifecycle provenance trail. Contributor roles, revision and effort history, AI or tool use, artifact-version lineage, and explicit final approval have not yet been audited, so this provisional medium rating should not be read as complete production provenance.

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External scrutiny Low

The item is listed as under review or otherwise lacks a represented completed review outcome; no independent scrutiny evidence was audited.

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Reception Low

A dated exact-title search located no distinct full-paper record or citation; results referred to the short paper or ePrint instead. Under the author-defined corpus rule, 0 through 8 located citations is Low. This is not a claim that no private review or unindexed reference exists.

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Contribution significance Not assessed

Only a bibliographic listing and editorially inferred relationship to an earlier position paper are available; this full version's distinct contribution, novelty, priority, and impact cannot yet be assessed.

Curated metadata and editorial summary

Assessment: Ai draft author review pending · 2026-07-11 · rubric 0.2. These dimensions describe documented support and process, not truth, correctness, or a universal ranking. No composite score is calculated.

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Challenges in Timed Cryptography: A Position Paper (Full Paper)

The listed full version appears to expand the position paper's critique of idealized time-lock analyses, unbounded simulators, and missing composition guarantees. No distinct public full-paper record was found, and the linked ePrint may instead correspond to the shorter published version.

Curated metadata and editorial summary
  1. question

    Research question

    editorial synthesis pending source audit

    How should a full treatment of timed cryptography replace idealized time-lock analyses with realistic models of computation time, leakage, simulators, and composition?

    Curated metadata and editorial summary
  2. contribution

    Proposed contribution

    reported not independently audited

    The curated editorial summary cautiously states that the listed full version appears to expand the earlier position paper's critique, while also warning that no distinct public full-paper record was found.

    Curated metadata and editorial summary
  3. method

    Method or construction

    reported not independently audited

    The represented method is an editorially inferred expansion of a position-paper analysis; no distinct manuscript is linked, so its actual definitions, arguments, and organization are unknown.

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  4. claim group

    Principal reported claims

    reported not independently audited

    The only supported claim at this stage is bibliographic and provisional: a full version is listed as under review and is described as extending the critique of idealized timed-cryptography models.

    Curated metadata and editorial summary
  5. evidence group

    Reported evidence

    reported not independently audited

    No distinct public full paper or resource is represented. The draft relies solely on the local metadata and editorial summary, which explicitly records uncertainty about the work's public identity.

    Curated metadata and editorial summary
  6. limitation group

    Scope and limitations

    editorial synthesis pending source audit

    The manuscript identity, relationship to the published short paper, submission status, formal content, examples, results, and any previously linked ePrint correspondence all require author verification.

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  7. artifact group

    Artifacts and resources

    editorial synthesis pending source audit

    The resource data contains no official, archive, or author-hosted link for this item, so this draft cannot expose a manuscript or artifact audit path.

    Curated metadata and editorial summary
  8. scrutiny

    Scrutiny and status

    editorial synthesis pending source audit

    The curated record gives the status Full version · under review. No completed external review outcome, public review report, independent reproduction, correction, or adversarial analysis is represented.

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  1. Curated metadata and editorial summary Website publication record. The summary is editorial and has not been checked against full text.
  2. Dated exact-title citation search Search located no distinct full-paper publication or citing work; results referred to the short paper or IACR ePrint version