Roman Walch
Dipl.-Ing. BScCryptology & Privacy, PhD Student
Roman Walch is currently a second-year Ph.D. student at Know-Center GmbH in cooperation with the Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK) at Graz University of Technology. Before this, he completed his BSc and Dipl.-Ing. (equivalent to MSc) in computer engineering at TU Graz, with a focus on IT-Security. He is advised by Prof. Christian Rechberger. His master’s thesis is the design and implementation of an FPGA-based coprocessor for signature creation and verification of Picnic, a post-quantum secure digital signature scheme.
Research
My research interests include (and are not limited to):
- Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)
- Multiparty Computation (MPC)
- Post-Quantum Signatures
- Efficient Implementations
- Ciphers for MPC and FHE
Teaching
I teach cryptography as part of:
- IT-Security (Practicals: winter term 19/20)
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies (Lecture + Practicals: winter term 20/21)