Background

Address:     Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Room 3.10, Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UB. United Kingdom. Phone:     +44 (0)117 3315146 Fax:     +44 (0)117 9545208 Email:     page@cs.bris.ac.uk WWW:     http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/page/ GPG:     8142 C0CF 9DBD 7243 2CDE C903 60D5 911F A7BE 257C

A long time ago I used to be a PhD student researching cache systems with James Irwin within what was then called the Languages and Architecture group; my supervisors were David May and Henk Muller. Then I jumped ship into the Cryptography group and worked as an RA on aspects of cryptographic hardware from the point of view of performance and side-channel security; my supervisor was Nigel Smart. Now I'm a lecturer affiliated to the Cryptography group.

Research

I am interested mainly in practical aspects of cryptography; roughly speaking this covers implementation of cryptographic primitives (in hardware and/or software) and physical security (side-channel and fault attacks). My previous work has focussed on:

• Implementation using novel processors and/or hardware (e.g., implementation of cryptography on GPUs, multi-core and SIMD implementation of pairings).
• Novel side-channel attacks and countermeasures (e.g., non-deterministic processor designs, attacks using cache memory as a side-channel).
• Domain specific compiler/language support for cryptography (e.g., optimisation of ECC, automatic countermeasures against side-channel attack).

• Publication List.
• Research Staff
  Current
  • RA: Andrew Moss.
  • PhD: Philipp Grabher, Simon Hoerder , Marcin Wojcik .
  Previous
  • RA: Johann Großschädl.
  • PhD:
• Research Projects
  • NFSNET : Large Scale Distributed Factoring.
  • CACE : Computer Aided Cryptography Engineering.
• Craptology
  • Journal of Craptology.
  • The ESP-RNG Says: YES.

Teaching

• "What is Computer Science ?".
• "A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture".
• Student Project Ideas
  • Available Student Projects.
  • Completed Student Projects.
• Units
  • Current
    • [maintenance] COMS12200 - Introduction to Computer Architecture.
    • [maintenance] COMS21103 - Data Structures and Algorithms .
    • [maintenance] COMS30124 - Introduction to Cryptography .
    • [maintenance] COMSM2004 - Advanced Cryptography .
    • [maintenance] COMSM0111 - Individual Project: Implementation .
  • Previous
    • [maintenance] COMS21102 - Software Engineering .
    • [maintenance] COMSM0109 - Advanced Computer Architecture .

Admin

• Moss Launcher.