Sujoy Sinha Roy

Dr. Sujoy Sinha Roy is renowned for his expertise in the secure and efficient implementation of cryptographic algorithms across both hardware and software platforms. He possesses a unique talent for comprehending the intricate mathematics behind novel cryptographic algorithms while simultaneously developing original hardware architectures for their execution. Dr. Sinha Roy's research has primarily focused on the field of post-quantum cryptography. Among his notable contributions in this area is the design of the SABER key encapsulation mechanism, which achieved recognition as one of the top four finalists in the NIST's Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standardization project. He has also proposed comprehensive implementations of PQC, encompassing hardware, software, embedded systems, and measures to protect against side-channel vulnerabilities. In addition to his work in post-quantum cryptography, Dr. Sinha Roy has devoted his research efforts to the development of hardware acceleration techniques for accelerating the speed of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). He has co-authored several papers on this subject, which have been presented at prestigious venues. His contributions to the field continue to be highly regarded by his peers and colleagues. He received the PhD degree in 2017 with 'Summa cum laude with congratulations from the examination committee' from COSIC, KU Leuven, Belgium. His doctoral thesis was awarded the 'IBM Innovation Award 2018' that recognizes an outstanding doctoral thesis in informatics. Before joining TU Graz, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Birmingham's Security and Privacy group, from Sep 2018 to Nov 2020. He received the habilitation in January, 2024.    

Bachelors and Masters project topics Master projects Bachelors projects

News  Florian Krieger's master thesis has been awarded the prestigious WKO Research Grant. This prize is awarded by the Styrian Economic Chamber to exceptional master theses with strong business reference. Florian's master thesis develops novel design approaches to improving the efficiency of client-side FHE. It further adds valuable design source codes and knowledge to the community. Congratulations to Florian!

News  Aikata's master thesis, titled "Efficient Polynomial Arithmetic Architecture for Saber and Dilithium" received the 1st prize in the TU Graz Forum Technology and Society 2022. Congratulations to Aikata!

Ongoing third-party funded projects

• Secure and efficient implementation of Post-quantum Cryptography
• Hardware acceleration of Homomorphic encryption

Postdoctoral researchers

• Ahmet Can Mert

Current PhD researchers

• Aikata
• Anisha Mukherjee
• David Jacqemin
• Florian Hirner

Current MSc project researchers

• Ian Khodachenko
• Florian Krieger
• Michael Streibl
• Daniel Sanz Sobrino
• Constantin Piber
• Slaven Vidaković

Reviewer in Conference Program Committees (2024) TCHES 2024, DAC 2024, DATE 2024, SAC 2024, CT-RSA 2024

Publications in 2021-24

• “REPQC: Reverse Engineering and Backdooring Hardware Accelerators for Post-quantum Cryptography” Samuel Pagliarini, Aikata Aikata, Malik Imran, and Sujoy Sinha Roy. Accepted in AsiaCCS 2024.
• Florian Hirner and Ahmet Can Mert and Sujoy Sinha Roy: PROTEUS: A Tool to generate pipelined Number Theoretic Transform Architectures for FHE and ZKP applications. IEEE Transaction on VLSI 2024.
• Anisha Mukherjee, Aikata, Ahmet Can Mert, Yongwoo Lee, Sunmin Kwon, Maxim Deryabin, Sujoy Sinha Roy: ModHE: Modular Homomorphic Encryption Using Module Lattices: Potentials and Limitations. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2024(1).
• Florian Krieger, Florian Hirner, Ahmet Can Mert, and Sujoy Sinha Roy: Aloha-HE: A Low-Area Hardware Accelerator for Client-Side Operations in Homomorphic Encryption. In Design Automation and Test (DATE) 2024.
• Malik Imran, Aikata Aikata, Sujoy Sinha Roy, Samuel Pagliarini: High-speed Design of Post Quantum Cryptography with Optimized Hashing and Multiplication. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs ( Volume: 71, Issue: 2, February 2024).
• Aikata, Ahmet Can Mert, Sunmin Kwon, Maxim Deryabin, Sujoy Sinha Roy: REED: Chiplet-Based Scalable Hardware Accelerator for Fully Homomorphic Encryption. CoRR abs/2308.02885 (2023)
• David Jacquemin, Anisha Mukherjee, Sujoy Sinha Roy, Péter Kutas: Towards a constant-time implementation of isogeny-based signature, SQISign. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2023: 807 (2023)
• Florian Hirner, Michael Streibl, Ahmet Can Mert, Sujoy Sinha Roy: A Hardware Implementation of MAYO Signature Scheme. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2023: 1267 (2023)
• David Jacquemin, Anisha Mukherjee, Ahmet Can Mert, Sujoy Sinha Roy: Parallel Hardware for Isogeny-based VDF: Attacker's Perspective. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2023: 1396 (2023)
• Aikata Aikata and Andrea Basso and Gaetan Cassiers and Ahmet Can Mert and Sujoy Sinha Roy: Kavach: Lightweight masking techniques for polynomial arithmetic in lattice-based cryptography. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2023(3).
• Ahmet Can Mert and Aikata and Sunmin Kwon and Youngsam Shin and Donghoon Yoo and Yongwoo Lee and Sujoy Sinha Roy: Medha: Microcoded Hardware Accelerator for computing on Encrypted Data. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2023(1).
• Aikata Aikata and Ahmet Can Mert and Malik Imran and Samuel Pagliarini and Sujoy Sinha Roy: KaLi: A Crystal for Post-Quantum Security Using Kyber and Dilithium. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1 (2023).
• Aikata Aikata, Ahmet Can Mert, David Jacquemin, Amitabh Das, Donald Matthews, Santosh Ghosh, Sujoy Sinha Roy: A Unified Cryptoprocessor for Lattice-based Signature and Key-exchange. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Computers (2023).
• Malik Imran, Felipe Almeida, Andrea Basso, Sujoy Sinha Roy, Samuel Pagliarini: High-speed SABER Key Encapsulation Mechanism in 65nm CMOS. Journal of Cryptographic Engineering 2023.
• Sujoy Sinha Roy and Utsav Banerjee: Preventing a Crypto-Apocalypse -- From Mathematics to Circuits for Post-Quantum Cryptography. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine ( Volume: 15, Issue: 1, winter 2023)
• Prasanna Ravi, Shivam Bhasin, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Aikata, Sujoy Sinha Roy: Backdooring Post-Quantum Cryptography: Kleptographic Attacks on Lattice-based KEMs. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2022: 1681 (2022).
• David Jacquemin and Ahmet Can Mert and Sujoy Sinha Roy: Exploring RNS for Isogeny-based Cryptography. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2022: 1289 (2022)
• Jipeng Zhang and Junhao Huang and Zhe Liu and Sujoy Sinha Roy: Time-memory Trade-offs for Saber+ on Memory-constrained RISC-V. IEEE Transactions on Computers 2022.
• Prasanna Ravi, Martianus Frederic Ezerman, Shivam Bhasin, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Sujoy Sinha Roy: Will You Cross the Threshold for Me? Generic Side-Channel Assisted Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks on NTRU-based KEMs. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2022(1): 722-761 (2022).
• Prasanna Ravi, Shivam Bhasin, Sujoy Sinha Roy, Anupam Chattopadhyay: On Exploiting Message Leakage in (few) NIST PQC Candidates for Practical Message Recovery and Key Recovery Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2021.
• Sujoy Sinha Roy, Ahmet Can Mert, Aikata, Sunmin Kwon, Youngsam Shin, Donghoon Yoo: Accelerator for Computing on Encrypted Data. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2021: 1555 (2021)
• Zhuang Xu, Owen Pemberton, Sujoy Sinha Roy, David F. Oswald: Magnifying Side-Channel Leakage of Lattice-Based Cryptosystems with Chosen Ciphertexts: The Case Study of Kyber. IEEE Transactions on Computers 2021.
• Malik Imran, Felipe Almeida, Jaan Raik, Andrea Basso, Sujoy Sinha Roy, Samuel Pagliarini: Design Space Exploration of SABER in 65nm ASIC. ASHES@CCS 2021: 85-90
• Andrea Basso, Sujoy Sinha Roy: Optimized Polynomial Multiplier Architectures for Post-Quantum KEM Saber. DAC 2021: 1285-1290