Tjerand Silde

Tjerand Silde

Associate Professor

Service

I believe it is important to contribute to the community by organizing seminars and conferences for members to meet and discuss joint interests, and be on program committees to promote and support the progress of open scientific research.

Organization

I was the general chair for IACR PKC 2025 in Røros together with Bor de Kock which was organised May 12.-15., 2025.

I organized the workshop on “Foundations and Applications of Zero-Knowledge Proofs” together with Elizabeth Crites, Markulf Kohlweiss, and Akira Takahashi at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh in 2024.

I was on the organizing committee for IACR Eurocrypt 2022 in Trondheim. Colin Boyd was the General Chair.

I organized Norwegian Crypto Seminar 2020 with Kristian Gjøsteen and Martin Strand, Norwegian Crypto Seminar 2021 with Lise Millerjord and Martin Strand, and Norwegian Crypto Seminar 2024 with Slobodan Petrovic.

I previously organized the NTNU Post-Quantum Cryptography Reading Group together with Anamaria Costache.

External Assignments

I have testified as an expert witness on the encryption used and the data collection performed via a Man-in-the-Middle attack conducted by Europol against the E2EE service SKY ECC at 1) Borgarting Court of Appeal in Oslo in April 2025, 2) Oslo District Court in Oslo in May 2025, and 3) Gulating Court of Appeal in Bergen in June 2025.

Program Committees and Editoral Boards

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