Robert Primas
Dipl.-Ing. BScSecure Systems, Postdoctoral Researcher
Research
My research interests include practical aspects of information security such as designing and attacking cryptographic implementations, as well as more theoretic aspects such as mode-level security or formal verification. I am a co-author of ISAP, a lightweight authenticated encryption scheme that gives strong guarantees against various kinds of physical attacks based on fault injection and power analysis. ISAP reached the final round of the NIST standardization process for lightweight cryptography.
Teaching
- Side-Channel Security (course overview)
Service
Program committee member
Conference refereeing
- 2023: CHES, CRYPTO, CT-RSA
- 2022: CHES, SAC
- 2021: ASIACRYPT, CHES, COSADE, SAC
- 2020: CHES, CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT
- 2019: AFRICACRYPT, CHES
- 2018: AFRICACRYPT, CHES, EuroS&P
Journal refereeing
- ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
- The Computer Journal (COMJNL)
- Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design (MICPRO)
- Cryptography and Communications Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and Sequences (CCDS)
- IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)
Publications
A Fast and Compact RISC-V Accelerator for Ascon and Friends
Steinegger S., Primas R.
Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications - 19th International Conference, CARDIS 2020, Revised Selected Papers, 19th International Conference, CARDIS 2020, Virtual Event, November 18–19, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, CARDIS 2020, 53-67, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 12609 LNCS)
Coco: Co-Design and Co-Verification of Masked Software Implementations on CPUs
Gigerl B., Hadzic V., Primas R., Mangard S., Bloem R.
Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, 30th USENIX Security Symposium
ISAP v2.0
Dobraunig C., Eichlseder M., Mangard S., Mendel F., Mennink B., Primas R., Unterluggauer T.
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Vol. 2020(Special Issue 1), 390-416
Protecting against Statistical Ineffective Fault Attacks
Daemen J., Dobraunig C., Eichlseder M., Groß H., Mendel F., Primas R.
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2020(3), 508-543
Fault Attacks on Nonce-based Authenticated Encryption: Application to Keyak and Ketje
Dobraunig C., Mangard S., Mendel F., Primas R.
Selected Areas in Cryptography – SAC 2018, The 33rd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, 257-277, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 11349)