Bence Soóki-Tóth
MSc @ Aarhus University
NEWS
- 28 Apr 2026: Our paper, "Private Delegation of (Non-)Membership Proof Updates in Cryptographic Accumulators" is now available on eprint.
- 14 Apr 2026: My presentation about trustless consensus manipulation have been accepted to BSides Aarhus 2026.
- 12 Jan 2026: Our paper on trustless consensus manipulation through bribing contracts appeared in the FC'26 preproceedings.
- 21 Sep 2025: Our paper on trustless consensus manipulation through bribing contracts is now available on eprint.
- 28 May - 11 Jun 2025: Achieved 11th at unitaryHACK 2025 with contributions to open-source quantum computing projects.
PUBLICATIONS
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Bribers, Bribers on The Chain, Is Resisting All in Vain? Trustless Consensus Manipulation Through Bribing Contracts
Bence Soóki-Tóth*, István András Seres*, Kamilla Kara, Ábel Nagy, Balázs Pejó, Gergely Biczók (*equal contribution)Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 (FC'26)
PREPRINTS
- Private Delegation of (Non-)Membership Proof Updates in Cryptographic Accumulators
Bence Soóki-Tóth, Botond Glasz, Alireza Kavousi, István András Seres
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & INVITED TALKS
- Bribers, Bribers on The Chain, Is Resisting All in Vain? Trustless Consensus Manipulation Through Bribing Contracts
BSides Aarhus 2026 (June 2026) slides · Aarhus Crypto Seminar (March 2026) slides · Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC'26) slides
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant
Eötvös Loránd University · Budapest, Hungary
May 2025 – July 2025
- Developed the encryptor module for QCIHungary, the Hungarian national contribution to the EU's EuroQCI quantum communication infrastructure (consortium: Pro-M, BME, ELTE, HUN-REN Wigner).
- Implemented encryption endpoints and caching for fault-tolerant recomputation, reducing restart overhead.
Student Research Fellow
ELTE-OTP Cybersecurity Industrial Laboratory · Budapest, Hungary
Feb 2025 – Apr 2025
- Analyzed DLT-based banking use cases: interbank settlement, crypto-asset reserves, and customer crypto services.
TEACHING & ACADEMIC SERVICE
Teaching Assistant
Aarhus University · Aarhus, Denmark
Aug 2026 – Dec 2026
- Teaching assistant for Research Methodology in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Student Mentor
Aarhus University · Aarhus, Denmark
Aug 2026 – Dec 2026
- Mentoring students at the Department of Computer Science.
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Test Automation Trainee
SAP · Budapest, Hungary
July 2023 – May 2024
- Increased SAP Service and Asset Manager automated test coverage by converting manual workflows into Java/Appium test suites.
Full-stack Developer
Coding Sans · Budapest, Hungary
June 2022 – Oct 2022
- Built Node.js/TypeScript backend services for a SaaS form-builder, designed caching and load-balancing for analytics endpoints.
SELECTED PROJECTS
- Cryptography
- crypto-rs: dependency-free cryptographic primitives in Rust, built from scratch
- stark-rs: in-progress, dependency-free implementation of a STARK proof system in Rust, built from scratch
- Bribers, Bribers on The Chain, Is Resisting All in Vain?: trustless consensus manipulation through bribing contracts, paper for FC'26
- Quantum Computing
- Achieved 11th place during unitaryHACK 2025 by contributing to ldpc, rustworkx, and quizx
- Permanent boost: calculates the permanent function about 100% faster than previous state of the art implementations
- QCS: quantum circuit simulator written in C++
- QCBM: implementation of the Differentiable learning of quantum circuit Born machines paper
- Steane: quantum error correction using code concatenation and the Steane code