Prof. Dr. Gregor Leander
Research Group Symmetric Cryptography
Horst Görtz Institut für IT-Sicherheit
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150
D-44780 Bochum
NA 5/30
Tel.: +49 (0)234 32 28402
Fax.: +49 (0)234 32 14430
E-Mail: gregor.leander(at)ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Sprechstunde:
Research Interests
- Symmetric Cryptography
- Block Ciphers
- Lightweight Cryptography
- Boolean Functions
- see Google Scholar
Program Committees
- ASIACRYPT 2014
- CRYPTO: 2015
- ASIACRYPT: 2014
- EUROCRYPT: 2013, 2014, 2015
- FSE: 2012, 2013, 2014
- CHES: 2013, 2014
- SAC: 2008,2012,2013,2014, 2015
- and many more.
Recent Publications
- Christof Beierle, Philipp Jovanovic, Martin M. Lauridsen, Gregor Leander, Christian Rechberger
"Analyzing Permutations for AES-like Ciphers: Understanding ShiftRows" , CT-RSA 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 20-24, 2015. - Martin R. Albrecht, Benedikt Driessen, Elif Bilge Kavun, Gregor Leander, Christof Paar, Tolga Yalcin
"Block Ciphers – Focus On The Linear Layer (feat. PRIDE)" , In Proceedings of the 34th International Cryptology Conference 2014 (CRYPTO’14), volume 8616 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 57-76. Springer, Santa Barbara, CA, US, August 17-21, 2014. - Elif Bilge Kavun, Gregor Leander, Tolga Yalcin
"A Reconfigurable Architecture For Searching Optimal Software Code To Implement Block Cipher Permutation Matrices" , In International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs 2013 (ReConFig'13), IEEE Computer Society, Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 9-11, 2013. - Pawel Swierczynski, Gregor Leander, Christof Paar
"Keccak und der SHA-2" , DuD - Datenschutz und Datensicherheit Ausgabe 11/2013.
Conferences
- Fast Software Encryption (FSE) 2015: Program Chair
- Fast Software Encryption (FSE) 2016: General Chair
- EUROCRYPT 2014: General co-Chair
- Fast Software Encryption (FSE) 2016: General co-Chair
Invited Talks
- SantaCrypt 2014
- LightSec 2013
- BalkanCrypt 2013
- WCC 2013
- Latincrypt 2012
Awards and Recognition
- DHL Innovation Award 2013, together with Christof Paar and Axel Poschmann
- German IT-Security prize 2010 for the block cipher PRESENT (100K EUR), together with Christof Paar and Axel Poschmann
- PRESENT is ISO standard (ISO/IEC 29192-2) for Lightweight Cryptography
- Award for the best master thesis at the University Bremen, 2001