About
Hello! I am an applied cryptographer working on the design and analysis of cryptographic protocols, especially in the context of blockchains. My current research is on threshold signatures/wallets and secure off-chain protocols such as payment channels and rollups. I am also getting interested in post-quantum cryptography and anonymous credentials.
I am currently a postdoc in the Applied Cryptography Group at TU Darmstadt. Before that, I completed my PhD in Computer Science in December 2024, advised by Jonathan Katz at the University of Maryland (UMD) and Giulio Malavolta at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) via the Maryland-Max Planck Program. My dissertation was entitled “Practical Cryptography for Blockchains: Secure Protocols with Minimal Trust”. In summer 2023, I was a research intern at a16z crypto, and in summer 2022, I was at NTT Research. I was also a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
My Name
My last name in German is officially Gläser, but I publish under the international spelling Glaeser. My first name is Italian. For English speakers, a good approximation for how to pronounce my full name is “No-Amy Glay-zer” (with a soft Z). The “true” pronounciation (using the International Phonetic Alphabet) is noˈeːmi ˈɡlɛːzɐ.
News
- 2026-06-06: Our paper on How to Back Up High-Value Secret Keys has been accepted to CCS 2026!
- 2026-01-15: I started as a postdoc in the Applied Cryptography Group at TU Darmstadt.
- 2025-01-28: In writing my dissertation, I significantly reworked the formalism of naysayer proofs and clarified details in our main theorem and example constructions. The eprint version has now been updated with these improvements! Go check it out :)