Symmetric Cryptography MC 1.40
Faculty of Computer Science
Ruhr-University of Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum, Germany
ashwin.jha@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
I am a CASA Jump.Start postdoc in Prof. Gregor Leander's group at RUB since January 2024. Previously, I was a postdoc at CISPA from January 2021 to December 2023.
I received my PhD in Computer Science from ISI Kolkata in June 2020, where I worked on the provable security of symmetric-key cryptographic schemes under the supervision of Prof. Mridul Nandi. Before that, I completed my masters in Computer Science at ISI Kolkata, focusing on the cryptanalysis of iterated hash function and its variants. I received my bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Delhi.
My research interests lie primarily in cryptography, particularly in the analysis of symmetric-key modes of operations. I study their provable security against classical and post-quantum adversaries. My CV is available here.
I am one of the designers of the winner and runner-up AEAD candidates submitted in the lightweight cipher challenge 2020 organized by DSCI and the ministry of the electronics and information technology, government of India.
I am one of the designers of several AEAD candidates submitted in the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization project.