• June 2024: Our paper “An efficient hardware accelerator for NTT-based polynomial multiplication using FPGA” is published in Journal of Cryptographic Engineering. This is a joint work with Raziyeh Salarifard. (Access Link)
• February 2024: Fast Software Encryption (FSE) 2025 Program Committee/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC) Editorial Board Member.
• February 2024 Forth ISC Winter School on Information Security and Cryptology was held virtually between February 28th and 29th, 2024 (I was a member of organizing committee).
• January 2024: The extended version of our paper “Breaking KASLR on Mobile Devices without Any Use of Cache Memory” is published in Journal of Cryptographic Engineering. This is a joint work with Milad Seddigh, Mahdi Esfahani, Sarani Bhattacharya, Mohammad Reza Aref. (Access Link)
• October 2023: It is a great honor for me to be invited to the Prof. Emerita Kaisa Nyberg fest and to present a talk at Aalto University, Finland. The slide is available here.
• October 2023: Our paper “Linked Fault Analysis” is published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. This is a joint work with Ali Asghar Beigizad, Sara Zarei, and Hamed Ramzanipour. (Access Link).
• June 2023: Our paper “Exploiting statistical effective fault attack in a blind setting” is published in IET Information Security. This is a joint work with Navid Vafaei, and Nasour Bagheri. (Access Link).
• February 2023: Third ISC Winter School on Information Security and Cryptology was held virtually between February 28th and March 2nd, 2023 (I was a member of organizing committee).
• October 2022: I am honored to have been elected to the executive board of the Iranian Society for Cryptology (Link).
• September 2022: Our paper “Modified cache template attack on AES” is published in Scientia Iranica. This is a joint work with Mahdi Esfahani, and Mohammad Reza Aref. (Access Link).
• August 2022: Our paper “Breaking KASLR on Mobile Devices without Any Use of Cache Memory” is accepted in Sixth Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES 2022). This is a joint work with Milad Seddigh, Mahdi Esfahani, Sarani Bhattacharya, Mohammad Reza Aref.
• May 2022: Honored to get the Online Teaching Award from SBU for developing online courses during the pandemic (Photo).
• May 2022: Our paper “Statistical Effective Fault Attacks: The other Side of the Coin” is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. This is a joint work with Navid Vafaei, Sara Zarei, Maria Eichlseder, Robert Primas, and Nasour Bagheri. (Early Access Link).
• April 2022: Our paper “SIPFA: Statistical Ineffective Persistent Faults Analysis on Feistel Ciphers” is accepted in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES). This is a joint work with Nasour Bagheri, Sadegh Sadeghi, Prasanna Ravi and Shivam Bhasin (ePrint version).
• February 2022: Fast Software Encryption (FSE) 2023 Program Committee/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC) Editorial Board Member.
• February 2022: The slides (PowerPoint files) and videos of my courses “Cryptography” and “Advanced Cryptography” are now available.
• October 2021: Our paper entitled “Practical Multiple Persistent Faults Analysis” is accepted in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES). This is a joint work with Nasour Bagheri and Hosein Hadipour and Prasanna Ravi and Shivam Bhasin and Sara Mansouri (ePrint version).
• September 2021: Our paper “A Generalized Framework for Accelerating Exhaustive Search Utilizing Deterministic Related-key Differential Characteristics” is accepted in Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques. This is a joint work with my colleague Farokhlagha Moazami.
• August 2021: Our paper “Enhanced cache attack on AES applicable on ARM-based devices with new operating systems” is accepted in Computer Networks. This is a joint work with Mahdi Esfahani and Mohammad Reza Aref (link).
• July 2021: Our paper “Cross-VM cache attacks on Camellia” is accepted in Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques. This is a joint work with my former master’s student Milad Seddigh (link).
• July 2021: Our paper “Flush+Reload Attacks on SEED” is accepted in The Computer Journal. This is a joint work with my former master’s student Milad Seddigh (link).
• July 2021: Our paper entitled “Low-Latency Keccak at any Arbitrary Order” is accepted in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES). This is a Joint work with Sara Zarei, Aein Rezaei, Raziye Salarifard and Amir Moradi (ePrint version).
• February 2021: Second ISC Winter School on Information Security and Cryptology was held virtually between 22 February and 25 February 2021(I was a member of organizing committee).
• February 2021: Fast Software Encryption 2022 Program Committee/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC) Editorial Board Member.
• February 2021: ISC Workshop on Secure Implementation of Cryptographic Primitives was held virtually between 1 February and 4 February 2021 (I was a member of organizing committee).
• July 2020: Our paper entitled “Evict+Time Attack on Intel CPUs without Explicit Knowledge of Address Offsets” is accepted in the ISC International Journal of Information Security (Joint work with Vahid Meraji).
• July 2020: Our paper entitled “Enhanced Flush+Reload Attack on AES” is accepted in the ISC International Journal of Information Security (Joint work with Milad Seddigh). The paper can be found here.
• June 2020: My former student, Nima Mahdion, joined the cybersecurity group at University of Klagenfurt to do his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Elisabeth Oswald. I hope best wishes for his journey.
• February 2020: Fast Software Encryption 2021 Program Committee/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC) Editorial Board Member
• February 2020: First ISC Winter School on Information Security and Cryptology was held at IUST (I was a member of organizing committee)
• January 2019: ISCISC 2020 Program Committee
• December 2019: Our paper entitled “A Framework for Faster Key Search Using Related-key Higher-order Differential Properties: Applications to Agrasta” is accepted in IET Information Security journal (Joint work with Christoph Dobraunig, Farokhlagha Moazami and Christian Rechberger) .
• November 2019: Editorial board of ToSC Special Issue on the NIST Lightweight Standardisation Process (link).
• October 2019: Our paper entitled “New Single-Trace Side-Channel Attacks on a Specific Class of Elgamal Cryptosystem” is accepted in IET Information Security (Online link).
• June 2019: My former student, Alireza Mehrdad, joined the cryptography group at Radboud University Nijmegen to do his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Joan Daemen. Congratulations Alireza! And best wishes for your journey.
• March 2019: I presented our paper entitled “Cryptanalysis of Low-Data Instances of Full LowMCv2” at FSE 2019 in Paris, France. (Slides, Recording).
• February 2019
• February 2019: ISCISC 2019 Program Committee
• July 2018: Our paper entitled “Impossible Differential Cryptanalysis on Deoxys-BC-256” is accepted in
• September 2018: I presented our poster entitled “Enhanced Simple Power Analysis Attack on a Specific Class of ElGamal Cryptosystem” at CHES 2018 in Amsterdam (joint work with
• September 2018: Our paper is accepted at FSE 2019 (ToSC): Cryptanalysis of Low-Data Instances of Full LowMCv2 (joint work with Christian Rechberger and Tyge
• March 2018: “Security Evaluation of Implemented Cryptographic Algorithms Laboratory” started to work (formally).
• January 2018: FSE 2019 Program Committee
