IACR News item: 14 August 2023
Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway
Job Posting
The position is funded by the Norwegian Research Council in the projects: “Lightweight Cryptography for Future Smart Networks” and “OffPAD - Optimizing balance between high security and usability. An innovative approach to endpoint security”.
The NIST Post Quantum Cryptography Standardization is expected to end in 2024, and post-quantum cryptography will be required to secure all sensitive information in the years to come shortly after, e.g., in protocols such as TLS, SSH, FIDO and other systems. Additionally, NIST have announces a new call for quantum secure digital signature algorithms.
This project aims to conduct research on lightweight post-quantum protocols and primitives, including symmetric key primitives, and improve upon the frameworks used today regarding communication size, computation complexity and secure and efficient implementation of long-term security cryptographic primitives.
The postdoc will be part of the NTNU Applied Cryptology Lab, a multidisciplinary research group consisting of members from the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology and the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NTNU.
A list of possible, but not limited to, post-quantum cryptography research topics for the postdoctoral position are:
Usability of lightweight primitives and protocols
Low communication key exchange and encryption
Lightweight ZKP and digital signatures
Efficient implementations in HW and SW
Side-channel security analysis
Your hosts will be Professor Danilo Gligoroski, Professor Stig Frode Mjølsnes, and/or Associate Professor Tjerand Silde.
The NIST Post Quantum Cryptography Standardization is expected to end in 2024, and post-quantum cryptography will be required to secure all sensitive information in the years to come shortly after, e.g., in protocols such as TLS, SSH, FIDO and other systems. Additionally, NIST have announces a new call for quantum secure digital signature algorithms.
This project aims to conduct research on lightweight post-quantum protocols and primitives, including symmetric key primitives, and improve upon the frameworks used today regarding communication size, computation complexity and secure and efficient implementation of long-term security cryptographic primitives.
The postdoc will be part of the NTNU Applied Cryptology Lab, a multidisciplinary research group consisting of members from the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology and the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NTNU.
A list of possible, but not limited to, post-quantum cryptography research topics for the postdoctoral position are:
Your hosts will be Professor Danilo Gligoroski, Professor Stig Frode Mjølsnes, and/or Associate Professor Tjerand Silde.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Associate Professor Tjerand Silde (tjerand.silde@ntnu.no)
More information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/248833/postdoctoral-fellow-in-lightweight-post-quantum-cryptography
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