Research Area
Communication Systems, Cryptography, Cryptanalysis.
You can read my Ph.D. thesis: Cryptanalysis of Ciphers and Protocols.
Rigorous Bounds on Cryptanalytic Time/Memory Tradeoffs
Proceedings of CRYPTO2005, to appear, 2006.
On the Security of the GSM Cellular Network
Security and Embedded Systems, NATO Security through Science Series, Vol.2.D, IOS Press, pp. 188-195, 2006.
Conditional Estimators: An Effective Attack on A5/1
Proceedings of Selected Areas in Crypotgraphy (SAC) 2005, LNCS 3897, pp. 1-19, 2006.
Instant Ciphertext-Only Cryptanalysis of GSM Encrypted Communication
Proceedings of CRYPTO2003, LNCS 2729, pp. 600-616, 2003.
In How Many Ways Can You Write Rijndael
Proceedings of ASIACRYPT2002, LNCS 2501, pp. 160-175, 2002.
Third NESSIE workshop, Munich, Germany, November 6-7, 2002.
Also presented in the rump session of: FSE2002, EUROCRYPT2002.
Main Achievements
March 2006 - I've completed my Ph.D. in the Computer
Science Faculty of the Technion.
2001 - I've completed my B.Sc. Summa Cum Laude, in Computer Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, as a member of the Technion's Excellence Program.
1993 - I've achieved the second place in Israel's
Physics Olympics for the youth.
Teaching
I've taught the following courses in the past:
Spring
2005 - Modern Cryptology - CS236506
Fall
2004 - Computer Security - CS236350
Spring
2004 - Digital Systems - CS234145
Fall
2003 - Modern Cryptology - CS236506
Spring
2003 - Computer Security - CS236350
Fall
2002 - Computer Security - CS236350
Spring
2002 - Computer Security - CS236350
Fall
2001 - Introduction to Computer Networks - CS236334
Spring
2001 - Internet Networking - CS236341
I've lead a project on distributed Time/Memory tradeoffs in CS distributed systems lab.
I've lead a break-through access-control related project in EE software lab.
I've participated in:
NATO Advanced Research Workshop - Security and Embedded Systems (22-26 August 2005) - Patras, Greece.
CRYPTO2005 - Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) 2005 - Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
CRYPTO2004 - Santa Barbara, California, USA.
CRYPTO2003 - Santa Barbara, California, USA.
ASIACRYPT2002 - Queenstown, New Zealand.
Third NESSIE Workshop (November 6-7, 2002) - Munich, Germany.
EUROCRYPT2002 - Amsterdam, Holland.
FSE2002 - Leuven, Belgium.
Special projects
I've
participated the European Union project "NESSIE".