Alessandro Budroni
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Senior Cryptography Engineer, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi |
About me
I received the B.S. degree at University of Cagliari in pure Mathematics and the M.Sc. degree at University of Trento in Coding Theory and Cryptography. I got my Ph.D. degree in Computer Security at Univeristy of Bergen, Norway, under the supervision of professor Igor Semaev. Since February 2022, I work at the Cryptography Research Center of the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi.
I am always interested in hearing from colleagues, other cryptography fans, or just interesting creative folk, so feel free to contact me.
Hobbies: photography, skiing (downhill and cross-country), hiking, surfing (when I can), climbing. Also, I have been a semi-professional juggler and performed in international juggling conventions and festivals.
Research Interests
> Cryptoanalysis on LWE
> Lattice-Based Cryptography
> Pairing-Based Cryptography
> Secure Implementations
Publications
Conference Publications:
Alessandro Budroni, Erik Mårtensson, "Improved Estimation of Key Enumeration with Applications to Solving LWE", ISIT 2023.
Alessandro Budroni, Qian Guo, Thomas Johansson, Erik Mårtensson, Paul Stankovski Wagner, "Making the BKW Algorithm Practical for LWE", IndoCrypt 2020.
Alessandro Budroni, Benjamin Chetioui, Ermes Franch, "Attacks on Integer-RLWE", ICICS 2020.
Alessandro Budroni, Andrea Tenti, "The Mersenne Low Hamming Combination Search Problem can be reduced to an ILP Problem", AfricaCrypt 2019.
Quoc-Tin Phan, Alessandro Budroni, Cecilia Pasquini, Francesco G. B. De Natale, "A Hybrid Approach for Multimedia Use Verification", MediaEval 2016.
Journal Publications:
Alessandro Budroni, Qian Guo, Thomas Johansson, Erik Mårtensson, Paul Stankovski Wagner, "Improvements on Making BKW Practical for Solving LWE", Special Issue “Public-Key Cryptography in the Post-quantum Era” of Cryptography, MDPI, 2021.
Alessandro Budroni, Federico Pintore, "Efficient hash maps to G2 on BLS curves", Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing 2020.
Drafts:
Najwa Aaraj, Slim Bettaieb, Loïc Bidoux, Alessandro Budroni, Victor Dyseryn, Andre Esser, Philippe Gaborit, Mukul Kulkarni, Victor Mateu, Marco Palumbi, Lucas Perin, Jean-Pierre Tillich, "PERK", Tech. rep., National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2023.
Alessandro Budroni, Jesús-Javier Chi-Domínguez, Mukul Kulkarni, "Lattice Isomorphism as a Group Action and Hard Problems on Quadratic Forms", ePrint 2023
Alessandro Budroni, Igor Semaev, "New Public-Key Crypto-System EHT", Arxiv 2021.
Alessandro Budroni, Kealan McCusker, "Milagro TLS: Pairing-Based Cryptography for Transport Layer Security", Internet-Draft, 2016.
Coding
I am a member of the PERK signature submission team to the NIST post-quantum signatures standardization process, and I have contributed to the implementation.
EHT-C is my PoC of the public-key cryptosystem EHT on github.
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 mantain 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.
I have been mantaining the Apache milagro-crypto-c and milagro-crypto-js libraries.
Teaching (University of Bergen)
Teaching Assistant - Cryptology - spring 2018
Teaching Assistant - Web Security - fall 2018
Teaching Assistant - Computer Networks - spring 2019
Teaching Assistant - Applied Cryptography - fall 2019
Teaching Assistant - Introduction to Cybersecurity - spring 2020
Teaching Assistant - Introduction to Cybersecurity - fall 2020
Blog
In collaboration with the blog MathIsInTheAir, the following articles: