Dr. Daniel Page

Address:     Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Room 3.42a, 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/

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 a post-doctoral researcher 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 and Information Security group ...

... I've got a non-University web-page which is home to non-University content.

Research

Vacancies: Please note, I have no funds available to provide short-term summer internships to students or researchers from outside the UK; applications for all PhD positions should go via the Departmental admissions procedure.

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, efficient algorithms for arithmetic).
• 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).

I am also interested in the design of (general-purpose) processors, compilers and programming languages. Some people would call this inter-disciplinary research, other people call it hedging your bets.

• Publications
  • Google Scholar
  • DBLP
  • IACR ePrint Archive
  • UoB research database
• Staff
  • Current
    • RA: Philipp Grabher, Stefan Tillich
    • PhD: Simon Hoerder, Marcin Wojcik
  • Previous
    • RA: Johann Großschädl, Andrew Moss
    • PhD: Philipp Grabher
• Projects (not including EPSRC grants)
  • Current
    • Journal of Craptology
  • Previous
    • Computer Aided Cryptography Engineering (CACE)
    • ECC2K-130
    • NFSNET

Teaching

• Books on
  • undergraduate computer architecture
  • introductory information security
• UG Tutorials
• UG/MSc Projects
  • Available
  • Completed
• UG/MSc Units (supported by a slew of teaching material)
  • Current
    • COMS12500 - Computer Networks
    • COMS12700 - Introduction to Micro-electronics
    • COMS30901 - Applied Security
    • COMSM2500 - Applied Security
    • COMSM0111 - Individual Project: Implementation
  • Previous
    • COMS12200 - Introduction to Computer Architecture
    • COMS21102 - Software Engineering
    • COMS21103 - Data Structures and Algorithms
    • COMS30124 - Introduction to Cryptography
    • COMSM2004 - Advanced Cryptography
    • COMSM0109 - Advanced Computer Architecture