Making eclipse attacks computationally infeasible in large-scale DHTs. - Ren Zhang 003; Jianyu Zhang; Yu Chen; Nanhao Qin; Bingshuang Liu; Yuan Zhang (IPCCC, 2011)

Censorship-resistant and privacy-preserving distributed web search. - Michael Herrmann 003; Ren Zhang 003; Kai-Chun Ning; Claudia Díaz; Bart Preneel (P2P, 2014)

Broadcasting Intermediate Blocks as a Defense Mechanism Against Selfish-Mine in Bitcoin. - Ren Zhang 003 (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2015)

Publish or Perish: A Backward-Compatible Defense Against Selfish Mining in Bitcoin. - Ren Zhang 003; Bart Preneel (CT-RSA, 2017)

A Voucher-Based Security Middleware for Secure Business Process Outsourcing. - Emad Heydari Beni; Bert Lagaisse; Ren Zhang 003; Danny De Cock; Filipe Beato; Wouter Joosen (ESSoS, 2017)

On the Necessity of a Prescribed Block Validity Consensus: Analyzing Bitcoin Unlimited Mining Protocol. - Ren Zhang 003; Bart Preneel (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2017)

SC2Share: Smart Contract for Secure Car Sharing. - Akash Madhusudan; Iraklis Symeonidis; Mustafa A. Mustafa; Ren Zhang 003; Bart Preneel (ICISSP, 2019)

Lay Down the Common Metrics: Evaluating Proof-of-Work Consensus Protocols' Security. - Ren Zhang 003; Bart Preneel (IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2019)

Authenticated and auditable data sharing via smart contract. - Vincent Reniers; Yuan Gao; Ren Zhang 003; Paolo Viviani 001; Akash Madhusudan; Bert Lagaisse; Svetla Nikova; Dimitri Van Landuyt; Riccardo Lombardi; Bart Preneel; Wouter Joosen (SAC, 2020)

Analysing and Improving Shard Allocation Protocols for Sharded Blockchains. - Runchao Han; Jiangshan Yu; Ren Zhang 003 (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020)

NC-Max: Breaking the Throughput Limit of Nakamoto Consensus. - Ren Zhang 003; Dingwei Zhang; Quake Wang; Jan Xie; Bart Preneel (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020)

Ghost in the Binder: Binder Transaction Redirection Attacks in Android System Services. - Xiaobo Xiang; Ren Zhang 003; Hanxiang Wen; Xiaorui Gong; Baoxu Liu (CCS, 2021)

VCProof: Constructing Shorter and Faster-to-Verify zkSNARKs with Vector Oracles. - Yuncong Zhang; Ren Zhang 003; Geng Wang; Dawu Gu (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021)

VOProof: Efficient zkSNARKs from Vector Oracle Compilers. - Yuncong Zhang; Alan Szepieniec; Ren Zhang 003; Shifeng Sun 001; Geng Wang; Dawu Gu (CCS, 2022)

NC-Max: Breaking the Security-Performance Tradeoff in Nakamoto Consensus. - Ren Zhang 003; Dingwei Zhang; Quake Wang; Shichen Wu; Jan Xie; Bart Preneel (NDSS, 2022)

When is Slower Block Propagation More Profitable for Large Miners? - Zhichun Lu; Ren Zhang 003 (ESORICS (3), 2023)

Security-Performance Tradeoff in DAG-based Proof-of-Work Blockchain Protocols. - Shichen Wu; Puwen Wei; Ren Zhang 003; Bowen Jiang (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023)

Polynomial IOPs for Memory Consistency Checks in Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machines. - Yuncong Zhang; Shi-Feng Sun 001; Ren Zhang 003; Dawu Gu (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023)

Crystal: Enhancing Blockchain Mining Transparency With Quorum Certificate. - Jianyu Niu; Fangyu Gai; Runchao Han; Ren Zhang 003; Yinqian Zhang; Chen Feng 001 (IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput., 2023)

Time-Averaged Analysis of Selfish Mining in Bitcoin. - Roozbeh Sarenche; Ren Zhang 003; Svetla Nikova; Bart Preneel (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024)

Selfish Mining Time-Averaged Analysis in Bitcoin: Is Orphan Reporting an Effective Countermeasure? - Roozbeh Sarenche; Ren Zhang 003; Svetla Nikova; Bart Preneel (IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., 2025)