Alireza
Mehrdad
Ph.D. Student
Digital Security Group
Radboud University, Nijmegen
Digital Security Group
Radboud University, Nijmegen
Since June 2019, I have been working as a Ph.D. student under the supervision of prof. Joan Daemen in the Digital Security group at Radboud University in Nijmegen. The current focus of my research is on the design and analysis of symmetric cryptography, which specifically covers differential and linear cryptanalysis of Permutation Based Crypto (PBC) schemes.
I did my master's degree under the supervision of Dr. Farokhlagha Moazami and Dr. Hadi Soleimany in the Network Security and Cryptography group at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. I mostly worked on cryptanalysis of Authenticated Encryption (AE) schemes and more specifically candidates of CAESAR (Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness).
Ph.D. (2019 to present)
Digital security
Institute for Computing and Information Sciences
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Gelderland, NL
Master of science (2015 to 2018)
Network Security and Cryptography
Cyberspace Research Institute
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Tehran, IR
Bachelor of science (2011 to 2015)
Electrical Engineering
Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Mazandaran, IR
Daemen, J., Massolino, P. M. C., Mehrdad, A., & Rotella, Y. (2020). The Subterranean 2.0 Cipher Suite. IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 262-294.
Mehrdad, A., Moazami, F., & Soleimany, H. (2018). Impossible Differential Cryptanalysis on Deoxys-BC-256. ISeCure, 10(2).
2020-2021: Teaching assistant for Security course ( NWI-IPC021) by Joan Daemen, Simona Samardjiska and Katharina Kohls.
2019-2020: Teaching assistant for Security course ( NWI-IPC021) by Joan Daemen and Zekeriya Erkin.