FAIRFAX, Va., June 2 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:

George Mason University computer science doctoral student Aayush Yadav co-authored a paper that received a Distinguished Paper Award from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, one of the industry's premier conferences in the security field. The conference typically accepts around 13 percent of submissions.

The paper addresses a growing challenge in blockchain technology-how to protect sensitive transaction information before it becomes public, focusing on improving privacy protections within blockchain systems while maintaining the transparency and decentralized structure that define the technology.

His research grew out of an internship last summer ...