Contact Information:
- Phone: +972-4-828-8447 (internal: 8447)
- Fax: +972-4-824-9331 (internal: 3331)
- Email: orrd (at sign) cs (dot sign) haifa (dot sign) ac (dot sign) il
- Office: Jacobs building, office 408
- CV: PDF format
- Mailing address:
Computer Science Department
University of Haifa
31905, Haifa
Israel
Professional Background
- I am a lecturer at the Computer Science Department of the University of Haifa.
- I was a post-doc researcher in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
- I was a post-doc researcher in the Cryptography Research Group in the Departement d'Informatique of Ecole Normale Superieure.
- I was a post-doc researcher in the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
- I have done my Ph.D. studies under Prof. Eli Biham at the Computer Science Department in the Technion. My dissertation is named "Techniques for Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers", and its abstract is available online here. Due to technical reasons the dissertation itself is no longer available on-line, but the Haiku based on it, is.
Research Interests
- Cryptanalysis of symmetric key primitives
- Cryptanalytic methods
- Design methodologies for symmetric key cryptography
- Privacy in the digital world
- Computer Security
A few interesting research projects I am involved in:
- Privacy-Preserving Biometric Database
- The KATAN/KTANTAN families of block ciphers
- The SHAvite-3 hash function
- Breaking KeeLoq
In case you are interested in doing your Ph.D./M.Sc. studies with me, contact me for a list of possible problems.
For a complete list of publications, committees, etc.: My Complete Research Webpage
Teaching
- Computer Networks (203.3210): Spring 2013
- Block Cipher Cryptanalysis Seminar (203.4325): Spring 2013
- Introduction to Cryptography (203.3444/203.4444): Winter 2013 Spring 2011
- Computer Security Seminar (203.3365): Winter 2013
- Computer and Network Security (203.3448/203.4448): Winter 2013 Winter 2012
- Discrete Mathematics (203.1850): Spring 2012
- Hash Function Cryptanalysis Seminar (203.4485): Spring 2012
Scientific Outreach
I strongly believe that science should be accessible to more than just colleagues and students. A few of these outreach actions:
- Keeping Secrets event as part of the World Science Festival. (video available here)
- An article at digital whisper about the SHA-3 competition.