IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS-I) : Associate Editor

PQSecure Technologies : Founder and President

Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) : Member

A post-quantum digital signature scheme based on supersingular isogenies

Post-quantum cryptography on FPGA based on isogenies on elliptic curves

Key compression for isogeny-based cryptosystems

Low complexity multiplier architectures for single and hybrid-double multiplications in Gaussian normal bases

Efficient FPGA implementations of point multiplication on binary Edwards and generalized Hessian curves using Gaussian normal basis

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Reza Azarderakhsh is an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University, as well as an I-SENSE research fellow. He received his Ph.D. in computer engineering from Western University. After that, he was an NSERC post-doctorate research fellow at the Center for Applied Cryptographic Research, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, where he is currently an affiliate supervisor member of CryptoWorks21. He is also serving as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS-I) cryptographic engineering track. His research has been supported by NSF, NIST, Florida Center for Cyber Security (FC2), and Texas Instruments.

Azarderakhsh's primary research interests are in cryptography and security, with particular interest in cryptographic engineering, side-channel analysis, elliptic curve cryptography, finite field arithmetic, post-quantum cryptography, and hardware/software implementations.

Cyber Security

Cryptographic Engineering

Quantum-Safe Cryptography

IoT and Embedded Device Security

Blockchain Security

Private AI

Side-channel and Physical Attacks on Cryptography

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Associate Professor, I-SENSE Fellow, Founder of PQSecure

Video gives clear description of cryptography and information on how it affects you. Reza Azarderakhsh, Ph.D., Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering, Florida Atlantic University

Post-Quantum Cryptography @ FAU

It has been widely accepted that quantum computer attacks on today’s security are expected to become a reality within the next decade. We believe it is prudent to plan ahead for future needs as it normally takes many years to change cryptosystem deployments. I will talk about quantum-safe solutions, including post-quantum primitives, encryption algorithms and key exchange mechanisms, that we are currently involved and are feasible to be implemented in small and resource-constrained devices. I mainly will discuss the efficiency of implementing isogeny-based cryptography, which are based on hardness of finding maps between elliptic curves, on various Arm platforms and provide the timing and performance results.

Dr. Reza Azarderakhsh is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. 

This talk was presented at the Arm Research Summit, 17-19 September 2018. Summit 2019 will be taking place in Austin, TX. Visit arm.com/summit for more details!

Post-Quantum Cryptography in IoT world - Dr. Reza Azarderakhsh, PQSecure Technologies

Elliptic curve groups have been a popular choice in the implementation of traditional and post-quantum cryptographic schemes, including Diffie-Hellman type key-exchange protocols and digital signature algorithms. While some of these applications require to perform multidimensional scalar point multiplication (d-Mul), some of the others enjoy extra speed-ups from utilizing d-Mul with some precomputation or efficiently computable endomorphisms. When the underlying scalars in d-Mul are secret, it is crucial to follow a regular pattern of operations in the implementation because otherwise scalars may be recovered through side channel attacks. Therefore, it has been of great interest to design efficient and secure scalar multiplication algorithms. In this talk, I will give a survey of d-Mul algorithms with some recent theoretical and implementation results.

See more at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/sike-in-hardware-for-iot/

SIKE in Hardware for IoT

Kimmo U. Järvinen and Andrea Miele and Reza Azarderakhsh and Patrick Longa, CHES 2016. See http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=27837

FourQ on FPGA  New Hardware Speed Records for Elliptic Curve Cryptography over Large Prime Character

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