Tjerand Silde

Hi! I am an Associate Professor in Cryptology at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
in Trondheim, where I am the Research Group Leader of the NTNU Applied Cryptology Lab.

I am leading the Post-Quantum Cryptography work package in the OFFPAD project, the Cryptology and Social Life project, and the ToppForsk@IE:Cryptography research group.
I am coordinating the “Cryptographic Engineering” profile in the Cyber Security and Data Communication master of science in engineering program at NTNU.

I am also a Security and Cryptography Expert at the cybersecurity company Pone Biometrics.

My main foci of research are lattice-based cryptography and zero-knowledge protocols. My interests generally span the areas of post-quantum cryptography, anonymous communication, multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption, electronic voting and secure implementation.

I am a member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

News:

• I gave a talk on “Challenges and Opportunities from Quantum-Safe Cryptography” (PDF)
  at the NDC Security conference in Oslo on January 23rd, 2025.
• I will be on sabbatical leave from January 15th to July 15th during spring 2025.
• More Efficient Lattice-Based Electronic Voting from NTRU is accepted to IACR Communications in Cryptology! Joint work with Patrick Hough and Caroline Sandsbråten.
• We recently opened the CRYPTO-LAB for theoretical and practical cryptographic research and education, currently used in TTM4205 Secure Cryptographic Implementations.
• I was the general chair of IACR PKC 2025 in Røros together with Bor de Kock.
• I started as an Associate Professor in Cryptology at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at NTNU on September 1st, 2022.

I support the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Tor Project and the Signal Foundation.