Tjerand Silde

Tjerand Silde

Associate Professor in Cryptology

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PhD Students

Bachelor’s and Master’s Students

  1. Jakob Severin Gundersen – “Cryptology and Social Life – Privacy in Digital Identity Wallets”
    (Master’s thesis 2027, co-supervised with Katrien De Moor)
  2. Aksel Sundt Wilhelmsen and Eirik Slettan – “Quantum-Safe Messaging Layer Security for Drone Networks: Integration and Performance Trade-offs”
    (Master’s thesis 2027, co-supervised with Martin Strand)
  3. Aleksander Thornes Vestlund – “Post-Quantum Privacy-Preserving Credentials in the European Digital Identity Wallet: Schemes for Selective Disclosure”
    (Master’s thesis 2027, co-supervised with Srini Devadas)
  4. Jo Vassbotn Remvik – “Practical Lattice-Based Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems”
    (Master’s thesis 2027)
  5. Sindre Holbek Sørbye – “Practical Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems from Hash-Based Assumptions and Applications”
    (Master’s thesis 2027, co-supervised with Arne Tobias Malkenes Ødegaard)
  6. Kasthuri Nair – “Domino vs ProofFrog: A Comparative Study Based on Formally Verifying the GMW Protocol”
    (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Christopher Brzuska)
  7. Prateek Sharma – “Formally Verified Reduction Proof for the Half-Gates Garbling Scheme”
    (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Christopher Brzuska and Russell W. F. Lai)
  8. Nora Mosand Viken – “Power-Based Side-Channel Evaluation of MAYO and Masking Countermeasures”
    (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Andreas Sandø Krogen and Ella Moe Wolff)
  9. Amund Fredrik Strømsnes – “Enabling independent audits through verifier specifications”
    (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Audhild Høgåsen)
  10. Jonatan Kifle Assefa Aalen – “The Monodromy Leak: Analysis of a New Side-Channel Attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography”
    (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Caroline Sandsbråten and Jonathan Komada Eriksen)
  11. Noah Krogh Anderson – “Implementing Distributed MLS for UAV Swarms”
    (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Martin Strand)
  12. Eirik Gjerde Buset – “Cryptographic Evidence in Norwegian Courts”
    (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Katrien De Moor)
  13. Harald Haaland Paaske – “Investigating the new post-quantum key encapsulation mechanism HQC”
    (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Emil August Hovd Olaisen)
  14. Michaela Kralova – “Post-Quantum Password-Authenticated Key Exchange”
    (Master’s thesis 2025)
  15. Paulina Wesolowska – “Quantum Computing and Cryptographic Risk: A Threat Assessment for Norway”
    (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Hans Heum)
  16. Noah Starckjohann – “Trusted Execution Environments for Privacy-Preserving Statistical Computation in the Cloud”
    (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Xeni Kristine Dimakos and Li Chun Zhang)
  17. Henrik Hansen Stormyhr – “A comparative analysis of MOS-LQO algorithms for perceptual transparency testing in audio steganography”
    (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Bor de Kock and Emil August Hovd Olaisen)
  18. Javier García – “Threshold Signatures for FIDO Authentication”
    (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Trond Peder Hagen and Magnus Ringerud)
  19. Sunniva Engan – “Constructing Compressed Σ-Protocols from Different Underlying Assumptions”
    (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Kristian Gjøsteen)
  20. Emil Bragstad and Marius Andreas Arder – “Improving Messaging Layer Security in a Military UAV Swarm”
    (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Martin Strand)
  21. Carl Ludvig Digné – “Towards Quantum-Resilient Authentication: Implementing Hybrid Signatures in FIDO2 Authenticators”
    (Master’s thesis 2024, co-supervised with Trond Peder Hagen and Magnus Ringerud)
  22. Sondre Rishøi and Jonatan Såstad Østgaard – “Unbiased Distributed Key Generation”
    (Master’s thesis 2024, co-supervised with Audhild Høgåsen)
  23. Emil Marstrander – “Use of Messaging Layer Security in a Military UAV Swarm”
    (Master’s thesis 2023, co-supervised with Martin Strand)
  24. Matej Poljuha – “Benchmarking Post-Quantum Secure Biometric Resilient Authenticated Key Exchange”
    (Master’s thesis 2023, co-supervised with Pia Bauspieß)
  25. Audhild Høgåsen – “Return Codes from Lattice Assumptions”
    (Master’s thesis 2022)
  26. Alejandro Rodriguez – “Implementing Lattice-Based Cryptography”
    (Bachelor’s thesis 2022)
  27. Guro Rio Berge – “Cryptographic Protocols from Lattice Assumptions”
    (Bachelor’s thesis 2022)

Supervisors

I am grateful to Kristian Gjøsteen for supervising my Bachelor’s thesis (2015), Master’s thesis (2020), and PhD thesis (2022), and to Colin Boyd for co-supervising my PhD thesis. I am also grateful to Carsten Baum and Diego F. Aranha at Aarhus University and Jonathan Katz at the University of Maryland for hosting and mentoring me during my PhD.

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