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Alessandro Budroni

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Senior Cryptography Engineer, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi
e-mail: alessandro [DOT] budroni [@] tii [DOT] ae
e-mail: budroni [DOT] alessandro [@] gmail [DOT] com
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About me

I received the B.S. degree in Pure Mathematics from the University of Cagliari and the M.Sc. degree in Coding Theory and Cryptography from the University of Trento. I got my PhD degree in Computer Security at the University of Bergen, Norway, under the supervision of Professor Igor Semaev. Before my PhD, I worked at MIRACL Ltd in London for one year as a Cryptography Engineer. Since February 2022, I have been working at the Cryptography Research Center of the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi.

Hobbies: wildlife photography, outdoor sports (skiing, hiking, surfing, …). Also, I have been a semi-professional juggler and I performed in international juggling conventions and festivals (I also wrote a blog post about Math and Juggling).

Research Interests

  • Cryptanalysis

  • Code/Lattice-Based Cryptography

  • Algorithms for Cryptography

  • Secure Implementations

Publications

Conference Publications:

  • A. Budroni, J.J. Chi-Domínguez, G. D'Alconzo, A. J. Di Scala, M. Kulkarni, Don’t Use It Twice! Solving Relaxed Linear Code Equivalence Problems, AsiaCrypt 2024.

  • S. Bettaieb, L. Bidoux, A. Budroni, M. Palumbi, L. P. Perin, Enabling PERK and other MPC-in-the-Head Signatures on Resource-Constrained Devices, TCHES 2024.

  • S. Bettaieb, A. Budroni, M. Palumbi, D. L. Gazzoni Filho, Quasi-Optimal Permutation Ranking and Applications to PERK, best paper award at AfricaCrypt 2024.

  • B. Benčina, A. Budroni, J.J. Chi-Domínguez, M. Kulkarni, Properties of Lattice Isomorphism as a Cryptographic Group Action, PQCrypto 2024.

  • A. Budroni, E. Mårtensson, Improved Estimation of Key Enumeration with Applications to Solving LWE, ISIT 2023.

  • A. Budroni, Q. Guo, T. Johansson, E. Mårtensson, P. Stankovski Wagner, Making the BKW Algorithm Practical for LWE, IndoCrypt 2020.

  • A. Budroni, B. Chetioui, E. Franch, Attacks on Integer-RLWE, ICICS 2020.

  • A. Budroni, A. Tenti, The Mersenne Low Hamming Combination Search Problem can be reduced to an ILP Problem, AfricaCrypt 2019.

  • Q.T. Phan, A. Budroni, C. Pasquini, F. De Natale, A Hybrid Approach for Multimedia Use Verification, MediaEval 2016.

Journal Publications:

  • A. Budroni, J.J. Chi-Domínguez, E. Franch, Don’t Use It Twice: Reloaded! On the Lattice Isomorphism Group Action, Communications in Cryptology, IACR, 2025.

  • A. Budroni, A. Natale, On the Sample Complexity of Linear Code Equivalence for all Code Rates, Cryptography and Communications, LNCS, 2025.

  • A. Budroni, E. Mårtensson, Further Improvements of the Estimation of Key Enumeration with Applications to Solving LWE, Cryptography and Communications, LNCS, 2024.

  • A. Budroni, Q. Guo, T. Johansson, E. Mårtensson, P. Stankovski Wagner, Improvements on Making BKW Practical for Solving LWE, Special Issue “Public-Key Cryptography in the Post-quantum Era” of Cryptography, MDPI, 2021.

  • A. Budroni, F. Pintore, Efficient hash maps to G2 on BLS curves, Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing, 2020.

Drafts and others:

  • D. L. Gazzoni Filho, G. Adj, A. Budroni, J Chávez-Saab, F. Rodríguez-Henríquez, Sota Voce: Low-Noise Sampling of Sparse Fixed-Weight Vectors, eprint 2025.

  • A. Budroni, A. Esser, E. Franch, A. Natale, Two Is All It Takes: Asymptotic and Concrete Improvements for Solving Code Equivalence, eprint, 2025.

  • A. Budroni, I. A. Canales-Martínez, L. P. Perin, SoK: Methods for Sampling Random Permutations in Post-Quantum Cryptography, eprint, 2024.

  • N. Aaraj, S. Bettaieb, L. Bidoux, A. Budroni, V. Dyseryn, A. Esser, P. Gaborit, M. Kulkarni, V. Mateu, M. Palumbi, L. Perin, J.P. Tillich, PERK, Tech. rep., National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2023.

  • A. Budroni, I. Semaev, New Public-Key Crypto-System EHT, Arxiv, 2021.

  • A. Budroni, K. McCusker, Milagro TLS: Pairing-Based Cryptography for Transport Layer Security, Internet-Draft, 2016.

Open Source Coding

  • You can find here a library that benchmarks and compares different algorithms to sample random permutations.

  • I am the creator of the rbbl (RAM-Based BKW for LWE) library: a fast and parallelized library written in C to solve LWE instances.

  • I am one of the creators of the fbbl (File-Based BKW for LWE) library. This is the first implementation of the BKW algorithm for LWE able to solve relatively large LWE instances.

  • In the past, I have been mantaining the Apache milagro-crypto-c and milagro-crypto-js libraries.