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How light is lightweight crypto?

Lejla Batina ( Rad Boud University )

With the expansion of versatile privacy-sensitive RFID applications a clear need for new identification schemes has been established. In the past few years a plentitude of identification protocols has been proposed addressing different real-life scenarios and relying on both symmetric-key and asymmetric-key cryptography.

In this talk we first survey some prominent solutions for privacy-sensitive RFID identification protocols and discuss their properties and hardware requirements. In the second part of this talk we discuss hardware requirements for the public-key founded protocols i.e. an ECC-based processor enabling the new solutions.

Speaker bio

Lejla Batina received her Ph.D. degree in 2005 from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and the M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Zagreb Croatia (1995). Since 2009, she is an assistant professor in the Digital Security group of the Radboud University, Nijmegen and a member of the COSIC group of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Before starting her PhD at KU Leuven, she worked as a cryptographer for a hardware company in The Netherlands (2001-2003).

After obtaining her Ph.D. she was a postdoctoral researcher at the COSIC group, at K.U. Leuven 2006-2009. Her research interests are in applied cryptography and side-channel analysis and countermeasures. She has published over 80 refereed papers in these areas and served at 60+ program committees. She has chaired RFIDSec09 and CHES 2012 (as general co-chair) and she was the general chair of RFIDSec12 in Nijmegen. This year she's a program co-chair of CHES, the IACR flagship conference on cryptographic hardware. She is involved in several european and national projects, some of which are carried out in close collaboration with industry.

 

 

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