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I am a Reader in Information Security at the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
academic interests
My main (current) academic interests:
- Symmetric Key Cryptology: block ciphers and stream ciphers
- Asymmetric Key Cryptology: multivariate cryptosystems and non-commutative cryptography
- Applications of Computational Algebra in Cryptology
- Information Security (various topics)
- Economics of Information Security
teaching
Lecturing and tutoring activities in 2009/2010:
- tutoring on the Introduction to Cryptography and Security Mechanisms (IY5502) module, in the MSc in Information Security course
- co-teaching the Advanced Cipher Systems (MT5462) module in the MSc in Mathematicss of Cryptography and Communications course
phd students
- Martin Albrecht
- Ciaran Mullan
other professional activities
- I am the co-leader of the SymLab Virtual Lab of ECRYPT II – Network of Excellence in Cryptology (ECRYPT II is the successor of ECRYPT, and has officially been launched in August 2008)
- I am member of the Editorial Board of Designs, Codes and Cryptography, a journal focusing mainly on the mathematical aspects of design theory, coding theory and cryptography
- I am member of the SANS/GIAC advisory board, and one of the advisors for the GIAC Gold security certification
- I often work as independent consultant in the areas of cryptology (e.g. algorithm evaluation), network and mobile communications security. For enquiries regarding possible jobs or for information about previous assignments, please contact me via the email
programme committee
- Africacrypt 2010 – 03 May – 06 May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
- Eurocrypt 2010 – 30 May – 03 June 2010, Nice, France
- SCC 2010 – 23 June – 25 June 2010, Egham, UK (I am programme co-chair)
- ACISP 2010 – 05 July – 07 July 2010, Sydney, Australia
- Latincrypt 2010 – 08 Aug – 11 Aug 2010, Puebla, Mexico
news
- We will be hosting at Royal Holloway the Second International Conference on Symbolic Computation and Cryptography (SCC 2010), on 23-25 June 2010. The event aims at providing an interactive forum for researchers to present recent results, exchange ideas, and learn and discuss the latest developments and emerging problems in the area of symbolic computation and cryptography.
- ECRYPT II – Network of Excellence in Cryptology has been officially launched in August 2008. ECRYPT II is the successor of ECRYPT, and is funded for four years under the FP7-IST programme, with nine academic and two industrial partners (Royal Holloway is one of the academic partners).
- I have recently worked with colleagues from the Information Security Group/Smart Card Centre, on a project to carry out a counter expertise analysis of a report into the Dutch OV-Chipkaart transport system. This was in response to some recently published attacks on Mifare Classic smart cards (on which some OV-Chipkaarts are currently based). See here for more detail.