Contact Information:
- Phone: +972-4-828-8447 (internal: 8447)
- Fax: +972-4-824-9331 (internal: 3331)
- Email: orrd (at sign) cs (dot sign) haifa (dot sign) ac (dot sign) il
- Office: Amir Building (the city campus), office 410
- Google Scholar profile: Google Scholar
- DBLP profile: DBLP profile
- ORCID profile: My ORCID
- CV: PDF format
- Mailing address:
Computer Science Department
University of Haifa
31905, Haifa
Israel
Professional Background
- I am a full professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Haifa.
- I was a post-doc researcher in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
- I was a post-doc researcher in the Cryptography Research Group in the Departement d'Informatique of Ecole Normale Superieure.
- I was a post-doc researcher in the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
- I have done my Ph.D. studies under Prof. Eli Biham at the Computer Science Department in the Technion. My dissertation is named "Techniques for Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers", and its abstract is available online here. Due to technical reasons the dissertation itself is no longer available on-line, but the Haiku based on it, is.
In addition to my professional activities, I am also a co-founder of the Privacy Israel, a new Israeli NGO for promoting privacy in Israel.
Research Interests
- Cryptanalysis of symmetric key primitives
- Cryptanalytic methods
- Design methodologies for symmetric key cryptography
- Privacy in the digital world
- Computer Security
For my DBLP profile or my Google Scholar profile. Recently, I am also available on ArXiV.
A few interesting research projects I am involved in:
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Biometric Data (15.1.15)
- TCE's 3rd Summer School (7.9.14-11.9.14)
- The Lightweight Crypto Day (University of Haifa, 2.2.14)
- Privacy-Preserving Biometric Database
- The KATAN/KTANTAN families of block ciphers
- The SHAvite-3 hash function
- Breaking KeeLoq
For a (more) complete list of publications, committees, etc.: My Complete Research Webpage
Students interested in M.Sc./Ph.D./projects/internships
University of Haifa students interested in taking a project with me - I am very sorry, but I do not offer projects at the moment. I also do not offer reading courses for undergraduate students.
If you are interested in doing M.Sc. under my supervision - you first need to take one of my courses - computer security or introduction to cryptography. After that, you are invited to contact me for a list of research topics. In case you have studied similar courses in other universities, you can contact me as well. Please note: In case you haven't taken these courses, I will ask you to first take them, so there is little point in contacing me before that.
If you are interested in doing Ph.D. with me - I currently take only students who have a proven research-track record (namely, have published in international venues in topics related to my research interests). Please contact me by email in case you are interested.
Internships: At the moment I do not offer any internships.
Teaching
- Computer and Network Security (203.3448/203.4448): Winter 2019/20 Winter 2018/9 Winter 2017/8 Winter 2016/7 Winter 2015/6 Winter 2014/5 Winter 2013/4 Winter 2012/3
- Computer Security Seminar (203.3365): Winter 2019/20 Spring 2017 Spring 2016 Spring 2015 Spring 2014 Winter 2013
- Introduction to Cryptography (203.3444/203.4444): Springer 2019 Summer 2018 Winter 2016/7 Winter 2015/6 Winter 2014/5 Winter 2013/4 Spring 2011
- Computer Networks (203.3210): Spring 2019 Spring 2018 Spring 2017 Spring 2016 Spring 2015 Spring 2014 Spring 2013
- Block Cipher Cryptanalysis Seminar (203.4325): Spring 2013
- Discrete Mathematics (203.1850): Spring 2012
- Hash Function Cryptanalysis Seminar (203.4485): Spring 2012
Scientific Outreach
I strongly believe that science should be accessible to more than just colleagues and students. A few of these outreach actions:
- Keeping Secrets event as part of the World Science Festival. (video available here)
- An article at digital whisper about the SHA-3 competition.
- Researchers' Night 2012, 2016
- Science from the mountain event - Why elections are hard (11.6.2020), available on youtube
- Cybersecurity attacks - popular talk at Hebraica Sao Paulo.