de.ci.phe.red Labs

Onwards and upwards! Dr. K. Sowjanya contributed three TDocs at the recent 3GPP e-meeting in Washington, DC. Her contributions focused on SUPI privacy, digital identity authentication, and security aspects of user-sensitive information exposure. Congratulations to her!

Announcing the winners of our 3rd annual CTF! 1st Prize - Kind Pandas 2nd Prize - RTFM 3rd Prize - Team !Flag A blog from the winning team: tusharblogs.vercel.app/blog/deciphere… Special thanks to our alumni for the goodies: - Ahaan Dabholkar - Aikata - Harshvardhan Patel - Satyam Sachan

A developer social-engineered his way to release manager rights of liblzma, an lzma compression-decompression library, and sneaked in some critical backdoors! This Akamai blog paints the full picture: akamai.com/blog/security-… Check the CVE out here: cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvenam…

🔒💻 Exciting new paper alert! Tired of slow and inefficient automatic side-channel hardening methods? Check out this work using Lookup Tables for enhanced efficiency and security against cache side-channel attacks in block ciphers! Read more: eprint.iacr.org/2024/533

Sahiba Suryawanshi, a Ph.D. student in our lab, was recently invited by ACM India to present her poster at the ARCS Symposium, ACM India-W Annual Summit for Women in Computing, and ACM India Annual Event 2024, hosted at NISER Bhubaneshwar. Event: event.india.acm.org/arcs/home/

What is the overhead of post-quantum protocols? Is it fair to measure extra header-latency alone? Is this overhead amortized just enough over large data transfers? Amazon Researchers have done their measurements! Blog: amazon.science/blog/delays-fr… Full paper: eprint.iacr.org/2024/176.pdf

“Life is frighteningly random”, says Michel Talagrand, winner of the 2024 Abel prize. The award is for his contributions to probability theory and work on describing randomness, over a four-decade long career. Read about his work, life, and more here: michel.talagrand.net/longbio.pdf

Our proposal got approved! Dr. K. Sowjanya, Post Doctoral Fellow in our lab, represented us at the recent 3GPP meeting in Athens, Greece. We submitted a pCR related to SUPI privacy in the PLMN hosting NPN scenario. Draft: TR 33.757 TDoc: S3-241007 portal.3gpp.org/Home.aspx#/mee…

Dr. Dhiman Saha (@theCryptanalyst) presented our work and progress at the 5g and Beyond Conference, on 07-03-2024, at BSTTM IIT Delhi. #OnwardAndBeyond #Beyond5G

Happy Women's Day! Here's a tribute to the female researchers we've had the privilege of working with! #WomensDay #WomenInCrypto

Pic of the Day #infosec #cybersecurity #cybersecuritytips #pentesting #cybersecurityawareness #informationsecurity

Okay, who did this? nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CV…

#Job Project Associate - I: Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, Raipur, INDIA iacr.org/jobs/item/3409

#NIST will host the sixth #lightweight #cryptography workshop on June 21,22. Papers due: May 1, 2023. csrc.nist.gov/events/2023/li…

ssresearch2023.github.io/cfp.html - call for papers is out, deadline coming. Submit your papers on security standardisation research!

Attention: 48-bit Fcatoring with 10 superconducting qubits. New integer factoring record with quantum computers. arxiv.org/abs/2212.12372

Attention: 48-bit Fcatoring with 10 superconducting qubits. New integer factoring record with quantum computers. arxiv.org/abs/2212.12372

unexpected use of the RSA problem

The future of symmetric cryptography: modes built on deck functions instead of block ciphers! keccak.team/2022/refactori…

The five stages of g̶r̶i̶e̶f̶ debugging. (comic credit: Sourcecode)