(Those marked with * have been picked.)

[Secure Outsourced Database]
*Encrypted Databases for Differential Privacy.
Archita Agarwal, Maurice Herlihy, Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/860

*IntegriDB: Verifiable SQL for Outsourced Databases.
Yupeng Zhang, Jonathan Katz, Charalampos Papamanthou.
CCS 2015.
http://www.ece.umd.edu/~cpap/published/IntegriDB.pdf

[Secure Machine Learning]
*Turning Your Weakness Into a Strength: Watermarking Deep Neural Networks 
by Backdooring.
Yossi Adi, Carsten Baum, Moustapha Cisse, Benny Pinkas, Joseph Keshet.
Usenix Security 2018.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04633

*Oblivious Multi-Party Machine Learning on Trusted Processors.
Olga Ohrimenko, Felix Schuster, Cedric Fournet, Aastha Mehta, Sebastian 
Nowozin, Kapil Vaswani, Manuel Costa.
Usenix Security 2016.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/paper.pdf

[Secure Multiparty Computation]
*Efficient Batched Oblivious PRF with Applications to Private Set 
Intersection.
Vladimir Kolesnikov, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mike Rosulek, Ni Trieu.
CCS 2016.
https://ia.cr/2016/799

*Efficient and Secure Comparison for On-Line Auctions.
Ivan Damgard, Martin Geisler, Mikkel Krigaard.
ACISP 2007.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73458-1_30

[Applied Cryptography]
*PASTA: PASsword-based Threshold Authentication.
Shashank Agrawal, Peihan Miao, Payman Mohassel, Pratyay Mukherjee.
CCS 2018.
https://ia.cr/2018/885

*Privacy-Preserving Network Provenance.
Yuankai Zhang, Adam O'Neill, Micah Sherr, Wenchao Zhou.
VLDB 2017.
http://people.cs.georgetown.edu/~adam/ppnp.pdf

*Stadium: A Distributed Metadata-Private Messaging System.
Nirvan Tyagi, Yossi Gilad, Derek Leung, Matei Zaharia, Nickolai Zeldovich.
SOSP 2017.
https://ia.cr/2016/943

[Bitcoin / Blockchain]
*RingCT 2.0: A Compact Accumulator-Based (Linkable Ring Signature) 
Protocol for Blockchain Cryptocurrency Monero.
Shi-Feng Sun, Man Ho Au, Joseph K. Liu, Tsz Hon Yuen, Dawu Gu.
ESORICS 2017.
https://ia.cr/2017/921

*SoK: A Consensus Taxonomy in the Blockchain Era.
Juan Garay, Aggelos Kiayias.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/754

[Secure Deletion]
Feng Hao, Dylan Clarke, Avelino Francisco Zorzo.
*Deleting Secret Data with Public Verifiability.
IEEE TPDS 2015.
http://ia.cr/2014/364

*BurnBox: Self-Revocable Encryption in a World Of Compelled Access.
Nirvan Tyagi, Muhammad Haris Mughees, Thomas Ristenpart, Ian Miers.
Usenix Security 2018.
https://ia.cr/2018/638

[Blockchain / Cryptocurrency]
Aggregate Cash Systems: A Cryptographic Investigation of Mimblewimble.
Georg Fuchsbauer, Michele Orr, Yannick Seurin.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1039

Edrax: A Cryptocurrency with Stateless Transaction Validation.
Alexander Chepurnoy, Charalampos Papamanthou, Yupeng Zhang.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/968

A Survey of Two Verifiable Delay Functions.
Dan Boneh, Benedikt Bnz, Ben Fisch.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/712

Compact Multi-Signatures for Smaller Blockchains.
Dan Boneh, Manu Drijvers, Gregory Neven.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/483

Privacy-preserving Multi-hop Locks for Blockchain Scalability and 
Interoperability.
Giulio Malavolta, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Clara Schneidewind, Aniket Kate, 
Matteo Maffei.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/472

A Treasury System for Cryptocurrencies: Enabling Better Collaborative 
Intelligence.
Bingsheng Zhang, Roman Oliynykov, Hamed Balogun.
NDSS 2019.
https://ia.cr/2018/435

[Elections]
BeleniosRF: A Non-interactive Receipt-Free Electronic Voting Scheme.
Pyrros Chaidos, Vronique Cortier, Georg Fuchsbauer, David Galindo.
CCS 2016.
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01377917

SoK: A comprehensive analysis of game-based ballot privacy definitions.
David Bernhard, Veronique Cortier, David Galindo, Olivier Pereira, Bogdan 
Warinschi.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2015.
https://oaklandsok.github.io/papers/bernhard2014.pdf

SoK: Verifiability Notions for E-Voting Protocols.
Veronique Cortier, David Galindo, Ralf Kusters, Johannes Muller, Tomasz 
Truderung.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2016.
https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2016/papers/0824a779.pdf

Security Proofs for Participation Privacy, Receipt-Freeness and Ballot 
Privacy for the Helios Voting Scheme.
David Bernhard, Oksana Kulyk, Melanie Volkamer.
ACM Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) 2017
https://ia.cr/2016/431

[Encrypted Storage]
(Un)linkable Pseudonyms for Governmental Databases.
Jan Camenisch, Anja Lehmann.
ACM CCS 2015.
http://www.zurich.ibm.com/pdf/csc/pseudonyms_paper.pdf

[Group/Ring Signatures]
Highly-Efficient Fully-Anonymous Dynamic Group Signatures.
David Derler, Daniel Slamanig.
AsiaCCS 2018.
https://ia.cr/2016/154

Group Signatures with Probabilistic Revocation: A Computationally-Scalable 
Approach for Providing Privacy-Preserving Authentication.
Vireshwar Kumar, He Li, Jung-Min (Jerry) Park, Kaigui Bian, Yaling Yang.
ACM CCS 2015.
https://winser.ece.vt.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/group_signatures.pdf

Short Group Signatures via Structure-Preserving Signatures: Standard Model 
Security from Simple Assumptions.
Benoit Libert, Thomas Peters, Moti Yung.
Crypto 2015.
http://ia.cr/2015/743

Post-Quantum EPID Group Signatures from Symmetric Primitives.
Dan Boneh, Saba Eskandarian, Ben Fisch.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/261

[Hardware-Assited Cryptography]
Secure Multiparty Computation from SGX.
Raad Bahmani, Manuel Barbosa, Ferdinand Brasser, Bernardo Portela, 
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Guillaume Scerri, Bogdan Warinschi.
FC 2017.
https://ia.cr/2016/1057

Hardware-Supported ORAM in Effect: Practical Oblivious Search and Update 
on Very Large Dataset.
Thang Hoang, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Yeongjin Jang, Attila A. Yavuz.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2019.
https://ia.cr/2018/247.

[Identity/Attribute-Based Encryption]
Match Me if You Can: Matchmaking Encryption and its Applications
Giuseppe Ateniese, Danilo Francati, David Nuez, Daniele Venturi.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1094

Registration-Based Encryption from Standard Assumptions.
Sanjam Garg, Mohammad Hajiabadi, Mohammad Mahmoody, Ahmadreza Rahimi, 
Sruthi Sekar.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1030

Registration-Based Encryption: Removing Private-Key Generator from IBE.
Sanjam Garg, Mohammad Hajiabadi, Mohammad Mahmoody, Ahmadreza Rahimi.
TCC 2018.
https://ia.cr/2018/919

Access Control Encryption for Equality, Comparison, and More.
PKC 2017.
https://ia.cr/2017/009.

Attribute-Based Encryption in the Generic Group Model: Automated Proofs 
and New Constructions.
Miguel Ambrona, Gilles Barthe, Romain Gay, Hoeteck Wee.
CCS 2017.
https://ia.cr/2017/983

FAME: Fast Attribute-based Message Encryption.
Shashank Agrawal, Melissa Chase.
CCS 2017.
https://ia.cr/2017/807

[Order-Revealing Encryption]
Parameter-Hiding Order Revealing Encryption.
David Cash, Feng-Hao Liu, Adam O'Neill, Mark Zhandry, Cong Zhang.
AsiaCrypt 2018.
https://ia.cr/2018/698

[Key Exchange]
Understanding and Constructing AKE via Double-key Key Encapsulation 
Mechanism.
Haiyang Xue, Xianhui Lu, Bao Li, Bei Liang, Jingnan He.
AsiaCrypt 2018.
https://ia.cr/2018/817

[Pseudorandom Functions]
A Generic Approach to Constructing and Proving Verifiable Random 
Functions.
Rishab Goyal, Susan Hohenberger, Venkata Koppula, Brent Waters.
TCC 2017.
https://ia.cr/2017/021

Adaptively Secure Puncturable Pseudorandom Functions in the Standard 
Model.
Susan Hohenberger, Venkata Koppula, Brent Waters.
AsiaCrypt 2015.
http://ia.cr/2014/521

Relation between Verifiable Random Functions and Convertible Undeniable 
Signatures, and New Constructions.
Kaoru Kurosawa, Ryo Nojima, Le Trieu Phong.
ACISP 2012.
https://ia.cr/2012/213

[Real World Crypto]
The Double Ratchet: Security Notions, Proofs, and Modularization for the 
Signal Protocol
Jol Alwen, Sandro Coretti, Yevgeniy Dodis
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1037

[Secure Multi-Party Computation (more)]
Two Halves Make a Whole: Reducing Data Transfer in Garbled Circuits using 
Half Gates.
Samee Zahur, Mike Rosulek, David Evans.
Eurocrypt 2015.
https://ia.cr/2014/756

A Framework for Constructing Fast MPC over Arithmetic Circuits with 
Malicious Adversaries and an Honest-Majority.
Yehuda Lindell, Ariel Nof.
CCS 2017.
https://ia.cr/2017/816

[Searchable Encryption]
Searchable Symmetric Encryption: Optimal Locality in Linear Space via 
Two-Dimensional Balanced Allocations.
Gilad Asharov, Moni Naor, Gil Segev, Ido Shahaf.
STOC 2016.
https://ia.cr/2016/251

Strengthening the Security of Encrypted Databases: Non-Transitive JOINs.
Ilya Mironov, Gil Segev, Ido Shahaf.
TCC 2017.
https://ia.cr/2017/883

Structured Encryption and Leakage Suppression.
Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz, Olga Ohrimenko.
Crypto 2018.
https://ia.cr/2018/551

SQL on Structurally-Encrypted Databases.
Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz.
AsiaCrypt 2018.
https://ia.cr/2016/453

Pattern Matching on Encrypted Streams.
Nicolas Desmoulins, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Cristina Onete, Olivier Sanders.
AsiaCrypt 2018.
https://ia.cr/2017148

Encrypted Multi-Maps with Computationally-Secure Leakage.
Seny Kamara, Tarik Moataz.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/978

[Signatures]
Surnaming Schemes, Fast Verification, and Applications to SGX Technology.
Dan Boneh, Shay Gueron.
CT-RSA 2017.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52153-4_9

Structure-Preserving Signatures from Standard Assumptions, Revisited.
Eike Kiltz, Jiaxin Pan, Hoeteck Wee.
Crypto 2015.
http://ia.cr/2015/604

Subversion-Resilient Signature Schemes.
Giuseppe Ateniese, Bernardo Magri, Daniele Venturi.
ACM CCS 2015.
http://ia.cr/2015/517

EUF-CMA-Secure Structure-Preserving Signatures on Equivalence Classes.
Georg Fuchsbauer, Christian Hanser, Daniel Slamanig.
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive.
http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/944

[Symmetric-Key Encryption]
KEM Combiners.
Federico Giacon, Felix Heuer, Bertram Poettering.
PKC 2018.
https://ia.cr/2018/024

DiSE: Distributed Symmetric-key Encryption.
Shashank Agrawal, Payman Mohassel, Pratyay Mukherjee, Peter Rindal.
CCS 2018.
https://ia.cr/2018/727

[TLS]
Zero Round-Trip Time for the Extended Access Control Protocol.
Jacqueline Brendel, Marc Fischlin.
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
https://ia.cr/2017/060

0-RTT Key Exchange with Full Forward Secrecy.
Felix Gnther, Britta Hale, Tibor Jager, Sebastian Lauer.
Eurocrypt 2017.
https://ia.cr/2017/223

[Zero-Knowledge Proofs]
Bulletproofs: Efficient Range Proofs for Confidential Transactions.
Benedikt Bunz, Jonathan Bootle, Dan Boneh, Andrew Poelstra, Pieter Wuille, 
Greg Maxwell
IEEE Security & Privacy 2018.
http://web.stanford.edu/~buenz/pubs/bulletproofs.pdf

An Expressive (Zero-Knowledge) Set Accumulator.
Yupeng Zhang, Jonathan Katz, Charalampos Papamanthou.
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) 2017.
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~zhangyp/papers/accum.pdf

DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof System.
Howard Wu, Wenting Zheng, Alessandro Chiesa, Raluca Ada Popa, Ion Stoica.
USENIX Security 2018.
https://ia.cr/2018/691

[Anonymous Credential]
Delegatable Anonymous Credentials from Mercurial Signatures.
Elizabeth C. Crites, Anna Lysyanskaya.
CT-RSA 2019. To appear.
https://ia.cr/2018/923

Accumulators with Applications to Anonymity-Preserving Revocation.
Foteini Baldimtsi, Jan Camenisch, Maria Dubovitskaya, Anna Lysyanskaya, 
Leonid Reyzin, Kai Samelin, Sophia Yakoubov.
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2017.
https://ia.cr/2017/043

Anonymous Attestation with Subverted TPMs.
Jan Camenisch, Manu Drijvers, Anja Lehmann.
Crypto 2017.
https://ia.cr/2017/200

One TPM to Bind Them All: Fixing TPM 2.0 for Provably Secure Anonymous 
Attestation.
Jan Camenisch, Liqun Chen, Manu Drijvers, Anja Lehmann, David Novick, 
Rainer Urian.
IEEE Security & Privacy 2017.
https://ia.cr/2017/639